Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)
Islington East was a constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885, until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Islington East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–February 1974 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Islington Central and Islington North |
Created from | Finsbury |
Boundaries
1885–1918
The seat was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as one of four divisions of the new parliamentary borough of Islington. The parliamentary borough was coterminous with the civil parish of Islington and each of the four divisions consisted of a number of parish wards used for the election of vestrymen to the incorporated vestry, the local authority for the area.
The East Division consisted of two wards: Canonbury and Highbury.[1]
1918–1974
Constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland were reorganised by the Representation of the People Act 1918. In London, seats were realigned to the boundaries of the metropolitan boroughs that had been created in 1900. The Metropolitan Borough of Islington was divided into four constituencies with the Islington, East seat consisting of three wards as they existed in 1918: Canonbury, Highbury and Mildmay. At the next parliamentary redistribution, prior to the 1950 general election, the seat was unchanged.[1]
The seat was last contested at the 1970 general election. By the time of the next election in 1974 new constituencies had been drawn based on the London boroughs created in 1965. The London Borough of Islington was divided between three constituencies, with the area of the abolished East seat mostly falling in the new Islington Central constituency.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Henry Bret Ince | Liberal | |
1886 | Isaac Cowley Lambert | Conservative | |
1892 | Sir Benjamin Cohen | Conservative | |
1906 | Sir George Radford | Liberal | |
1917 by-election | Edward Smallwood | Liberal | |
1918 | Alfred Raper | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Austin Hudson | Conservative | |
1923 | Arthur Comyns Carr | Liberal | |
1924 | Robert Tasker | Conservative | |
1929 | Ethel Bentham | Labour | |
1931 by-election | Leah Manning | Labour | |
1931 | Thelma Cazalet, later Cazalet-Keir | Conservative | |
1945 | Sir Eric Fletcher | Labour | |
1970 | John Grant | Labour | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Henry Bret Ince | 3,296 | 50.3 | ||
Conservative | Isaac Lambert | 3,262 | 49.7 | ||
Majority | 34 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 6,558 | 81.0 | |||
Registered electors | 8,092 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Isaac Lambert | 3,732 | 61.5 | +11.8 | |
Liberal | Henry Bret Ince | 2,336 | 38.5 | -11.8 | |
Majority | 1,396 | 23.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,608 | 75.0 | −6.0 | ||
Registered electors | 8,092 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +11.8 | |||
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Benjamin Cohen | 3,975 | 53.1 | -8.4 | |
Liberal | Percy Bunting[3] | 3,510 | 46.9 | +8.4 | |
Majority | 465 | 6.2 | −16.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,485 | 75.8 | +0.8 | ||
Registered electors | 9,872 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Benjamin Cohen | 4,383 | 58.1 | +5.0 | |
Liberal | McKinnon Wood | 3,159 | 41.9 | -5.0 | |
Majority | 1,224 | 16.2 | +10.0 | ||
Turnout | 7,542 | 74.0 | −1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 10,191 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.0 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Benjamin Cohen | 4,205 | 61.9 | +3.8 | |
Liberal | Andrew Mitchell Torrance | 2,586 | 38.1 | −3.8 | |
Majority | 1,619 | 23.8 | +7.6 | ||
Turnout | 6,791 | 65.3 | −8.7 | ||
Registered electors | 10,395 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Radford | 4,477 | 54.7 | +16.6 | |
Conservative | Benjamin Cohen | 3,710 | 45.3 | −16.6 | |
Majority | 767 | 9.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,187 | 75.9 | +10.6 | ||
Registered electors | 10,786 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +16.6 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Radford | 5,001 | 51.7 | -3.0 | |
Conservative | J.H.T. Keeves | 4,671 | 48.3 | +3.0 | |
Majority | 330 | 2.4 | -7.0 | ||
Turnout | 11,118 | 87.0 | +11.1 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Radford | 4,503 | 50.7 | -1.0 | |
Conservative | Philip Pilditch | 4,378 | 49.3 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 125 | 1.4 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 11,118 | 79.9 | -7.1 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Edward Smallwood
- Unionist: Philip Pilditch
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edward Smallwood | 2,709 | 57.0 | +6.3 | |
Independent | Alfred Baker | 1,532 | 32.2 | New | |
National | Edmund Broughton Barnard | 513 | 10.8 | New | |
Majority | 1,177 | 24.8 | +23.4 | ||
Turnout | 12,874 | 36.9 | -43.0 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Alfred Raper | 9,352 | 48.8 | −0.5 |
Liberal | Edward Smallwood | 5,968 | 31.1 | −19.6 | |
Labour | Arthur John Lewer | 3,122 | 16.3 | New | |
National | Charles Edward Copplestone | 575 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Frederick Alfred Wickhart | 147 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 3,384 | 17.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 19,164 | 51.7 | −28.2 | ||
Registered electors | 37,078 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.6 | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Austin Hudson | 11,954 | 46.1 | −2.7 | |
Liberal | Godfrey Baring | 8,107 | 31.2 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Ethel Bentham | 5,900 | 22.7 | +6.4 | |
Majority | 3,847 | 14.9 | −2.8 | ||
Turnout | 25,961 | 59.4 | +7.7 | ||
Registered electors | 43,676 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Arthur Comyns Carr | 10,670 | 40.1 | +8.9 | |
Unionist | Austin Hudson | 9,038 | 33.9 | −12.2 | |
Labour | Ethel Bentham | 6,941 | 26.0 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 1,632 | 6.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,649 | 60.0 | +0.6 | ||
Registered electors | 44,402 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +10.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Robert Tasker | 14,174 | 44.5 | +10.6 | |
Labour | Ethel Bentham | 10,280 | 32.3 | +6.3 | |
Liberal | Arthur Comyns Carr | 7,406 | 23.2 | −16.9 | |
Majority | 3,894 | 12.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,860 | 70.8 | +10.8 | ||
Registered electors | 44,978 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | −2.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ethel Bentham | 15,199 | 38.0 | +5.7 | |
Unionist | Robert Tasker | 13,641 | 34.1 | −10.4 | |
Liberal | Edgar Middleton | 11,136 | 27.9 | +4.7 | |
Majority | 1,558 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,976 | 66.4 | −4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 60,202 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +8.1 | |||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Leah Manning | 10,591 | 34.7 | −3.3 | |
Empire Crusade | Alfred Critchley | 8,314 | 27.2 | New | |
Conservative | Thelma Cazalet | 7,182 | 23.5 | −10.6 | |
Liberal | Horace Crawfurd | 4,450 | 14.6 | −13.3 | |
Majority | 2,277 | 7.5 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 30,537 | 50.0 | −16.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thelma Cazalet | 27,221 | 67.5 | +44.0 | |
Labour | Leah Manning | 13,111 | 32.5 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 14,110 | 35.0 | +27.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,332 | 65.4 | +15.4 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +23.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thelma Cazalet | 18,248 | 52.5 | −15.0 | |
Labour | Gwyn D. Jones | 13,810 | 39.8 | +7.3 | |
Liberal | Cyril Harry Blackburn | 2,670 | 7.7 | New | |
Majority | 4,438 | 12.7 | −22.3 | ||
Turnout | 34,728 | 57.8 | −7.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −11.2 |
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Thelma Cazalet
- Labour: H C Boyde [5]
- Liberal: Cyril Blackburn[6]
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 18,936 | 65.5 | +25.7 | |
Conservative | Thelma Cazalet-Keir | 9,960 | 34.5 | −18.0 | |
Majority | 14,110 | 35.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,896 | 66.2 | +8.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +22.4 | |||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 22,477 | 55.96 | ||
Conservative | Katherine Wilmot | 14,385 | 35.82 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Herbert Coss Billson | 3,301 | 8.22 | ||
Majority | 8,062 | 20.14 | |||
Turnout | 40,163 | 79.30 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 23,896 | 59.9 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Katherine Wilmot | 16,000 | 40.1 | +4.3 | |
Majority | 7,896 | 19.79 | -0.3 | ||
Turnout | 39,896 | 78.23 | -0.97 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 19,612 | 60.3 | +0.4 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Finsberg | 12,910 | 39.7 | -0.4 | |
Majority | 6,702 | 20.61 | +0.82 | ||
Turnout | 32,522 | 66.06 | -12.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 17,776 | 57.56 | -2.74 | |
Conservative | Kenneth C Burden | 13,097 | 42.44 | +2.74 | |
Majority | 4,669 | 15.12 | -5.47 | ||
Turnout | 30,683 | 63.49 | -2.57 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 14,192 | 52.48 | -5.08 | |
Conservative | Kenneth C Burden | 7,715 | 28.53 | -13.91 | |
Liberal | Joel Freedman | 3,081 | 11.39 | New | |
Independent Liberal | Alan E Lomas | 2,053 | 7.59 | New | |
Majority | 6,477 | 23.95 | +8.83 | ||
Turnout | 27,041 | 57.11 | -6.38 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Fletcher | 15,009 | 57.92 | +5.44 | |
Conservative | John B W Holderness | 7,490 | 28.90 | +0.37 | |
Liberal | Joel Freedman | 2,288 | 8.83 | -2.56 | |
Independent Liberal | Alan E Lomas | 1,127 | 4.35 | -3.24 | |
Majority | 7,519 | 29.02 | +5.07 | ||
Turnout | 25,914 | 57.06 | +0.95 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Grant | 13,980 | 61.75 | +3.83 | |
Conservative | Richard Devonald-Lewis | 8,660 | 38.25 | +9.35 | |
Majority | 5,320 | 23.50 | -5.52 | ||
Turnout | 22,350 | 51.80 | -5.26 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
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