Stepney and Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)
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Stepney and Poplar | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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February 1974–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Bethnal Green and Stepney |
Created from | Poplar and Stepney |
Stepney and Poplar was a parliamentary constituency in London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the February 1974 general election, largely replacing the old Stepney constituency, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Bethnal Green and Stepney constituency.
Boundaries
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets wards of Limehouse, Poplar East, Poplar Millwall, Poplar South, Poplar West, Redcoat, St Dunstan's, St Katharine's, St Mary's, and Shadwell.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Peter Shore | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green and Stepney |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Shore | 19,576 | 62.6 | ||
Conservative | Robert Gurth Hughes | 6,561 | 21.0 | ||
Liberal | Rif Winfield | 2,234 | 7.2 | ||
National Front | Victor Clarke | 1,571 | 5.0 | N/A | |
Independent Labour | Ted Johns | 672 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Communist | Kevin Halpin | 413 | 1.3 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | Peter Chappell | 235 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,015 | 41.6 | |||
Turnout | 58,637 | 53.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Shore | 24,159 | 77.6 | ||
Conservative | Harry Greenway | 3,183 | 10.2 | ||
Liberal | F. W. Alexander | 3,181 | 10.2 | N/A | |
Communist | Kevin Halpin | 617 | 2.0 | ||
Majority | 20,976 | 67.4 | |||
Turnout | 60,458 | 51.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Shore | 28,869 | 80.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Harry Greenway | 5,539 | 15.5 | N/A | |
Communist | Kevin Halpin | 1,278 | 3.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 23,330 | 65.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 60,045 | 59.4 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
References
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1974
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- Stepney
- Poplar, London