Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)
Stoke Newington | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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1918–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Hackney North |
Replaced by | Stoke Newington and Hackney North |
Stoke Newington was a borough constituency in the parliamentary county of London from 1918 – 1950. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Boundaries
[edit]The constituency was identical in area to the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Stoke_Newington_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg/220px-Stoke_Newington_Met._B_Ward_Map_1916.svg.png)
History
[edit]The seat was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election, and abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1948 for the 1950 general election, and largely replaced by the newly created Hackney North & Stoke Newington constituency.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | George Jones | Conservative | |
1923 | Ernest Spero | Liberal | |
1924 | George Jones (knighted in 1928) | Conservative | |
1945 | David Weitzman | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Hackney North & Stoke Newington |
Elections
[edit]Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | *George Jones | 5,918 | 54.1 | ||
Independent | H J Ormond | 2,829 | 25.9 | ||
Liberal | Percy Holt Heffer | 2,181 | 20.0 | ||
Majority | 3,089 | 28.2 | |||
Turnout | 10,928 | 54.4 | |||
Unionist win (new seat) |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/1922_George_Jones.jpg/120px-1922_George_Jones.jpg)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Jones | 9,753 | 63.0 | +8.9 | |
Liberal | Percy Holt Heffer | 5,737 | 37.0 | +17.0 | |
Majority | 4,016 | 26.0 | −2.2 | ||
Turnout | 15,490 | 65.0 | +10.6 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -4.0 |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d0/George_Ernest_Spero.jpg/120px-George_Ernest_Spero.jpg)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Ernest Spero | 8,365 | 53.5 | +16.5 | |
Unionist | George Jones | 7,264 | 46.5 | −16.5 | |
Majority | 1,101 | 7.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 15,629 | 63.5 | −1.5 | ||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +16.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Jones | 10,688 | 56.7 | +10.2 | |
Liberal | Ernest Spero | 4,758 | 25.2 | −28.3 | |
Labour | Lewis Silkin | 3,420 | 18.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,930 | 31.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 18,866 | 78.0 | +14.5 | ||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | George Jones | 9,030 | 38.0 | −18.7 | |
Liberal | Frederick William Norwood | 7,958 | 33.6 | +8.4 | |
Labour | F. L. Kerran | 6,723 | 28.4 | +10.3 | |
Majority | 1,072 | 4.4 | −27.1 | ||
Turnout | 23,711 | 70.0 | −8.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -13.1 |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Jones | 16,035 | 73.3 | +35.3 | |
Labour | F. L. Kerran | 5,837 | 26.7 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 10,198 | 46.6 | +42.2 | ||
Turnout | 21,872 | 63.2 | −6.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Jones | 11,213 | 53.3 | −20.0 | |
Labour | David Weitzman | 7,448 | 35.4 | +8.7 | |
Liberal | John Howard Whitehouse | 2,364 | 11.2 | New | |
Majority | 3,765 | 17.9 | −28.7 | ||
Turnout | 21,025 | 61.5 | −1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]General Election 1939–40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: George Jones
- Labour: David Weitzman
- Liberal: Harold Gordon[3]
- British Union: Edward Whinfield
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Weitzman | 9,356 | 51.5 | +16.1 | |
Conservative | George Jones | 5,155 | 28.4 | −24.9 | |
Liberal | Hubert Herbert Creemer Blake | 3,651 | 20.1 | +8.9 | |
Majority | 4,201 | 23.1 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 18,162 | 67.3 | +5.8 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |