Limehouse was a borough constituency centred on the Limehouse district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Limehouse | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Tower Hamlets |
Replaced by | Stepney |
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Its most prominent MP was Labour's Clement Attlee, party leader from 1935 to 1955, and Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.
In 1885 the area was administered as part of the county of Middlesex. It was located in the Tower division, in the east of the historic county. The neighbourhood of Limehouse formed a division of the parliamentary boroughofTower Hamlets. The parliamentary division was part of the East End of London.
In 1889 the Tower division of Middlesex was severed from the county, for administrative purposes. It became part of the County of London. In 1900 the lower tier of local government in London was re-modelled. Limehouse became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
When a re-distribution of parliamentary seats took place in 1918, the constituency became a division of Stepney. It comprised the wards of Limehouse North, Limehouse South, Mile End Old Town North East, Mile End Old Town South East, and Ratcliffe.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Edward Samuel Norris | Conservative | |
1892 | John Wallace | Liberal | |
1895 | Harry Samuel | Conservative | |
1906 | William Pearce | Liberal | |
1922 | Clement Attlee | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Samuel Norris | 2,566 | 60.5 | ||
Liberal | James George Cotton Minchin | 1,676 | 39.5 | ||
Majority | 890 | 21.0 | |||
Turnout | 4,242 | 71.2 | |||
Registered electors | 5,954 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Samuel Norris | 2,230 | 61.0 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | Thomas Edward Scrutton | 1,428 | 39.0 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 802 | 22.0 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 3,658 | 61.4 | −9.8 | ||
Registered electors | 5,954 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Stewart Wallace | 2,475 | 51.8 | +12.8 | |
Conservative | Harry Samuel | 2,305 | 48.2 | −12.8 | |
Majority | 170 | 3.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,780 | 74.0 | +12.6 | ||
Registered electors | 6,456 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +12.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harry Samuel | 2,661 | 56.2 | +8.0 | |
Lib-Lab | William Marcus Thompson[2] | 2,071 | 43.8 | −8.0 | |
Majority | 590 | 12.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,732 | 75.0 | +1.0 | ||
Registered electors | 6,309 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harry Samuel | 2,608 | 55.8 | −0.4 | |
Liberal | William Pearce | 2,070 | 44.2 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 538 | 11.6 | −0.8 | ||
Turnout | 4,678 | 68.4 | −6.6 | ||
Registered electors | 6,835 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Pearce | 2,981 | 59.8 | +15.6 | |
Conservative | Harry Samuel | 2,007 | 40.2 | −15.6 | |
Majority | 974 | 19.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,988 | 80.0 | +11.6 | ||
Registered electors | 6,234 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +15.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Pearce | 2,826 | 54.1 | −5.7 | |
Conservative | George Borwick | 2,395 | 45.9 | +5.7 | |
Majority | 431 | 8.2 | −11.4 | ||
Turnout | 5,221 | 81.5 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 6,405 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -5.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Pearce | 2,557 | 54.6 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | Patrick Rose-Innes | 2,126 | 45.4 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 431 | 9.2 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 4,683 | 73.1 | −8.4 | ||
Registered electors | 6,405 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Liberal | William Pearce | 5,860 | 59.9 | +5.3 |
Labour | D. D. Sheehan | 2,470 | 25.2 | New | |
National | Charles Herbert Roswell | 1,455 | 14.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,390 | 34.7 | +25.5 | ||
Turnout | 29,275 | 33.4 | −39.7 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 9,688 | 55.4 | +30.2 | |
National Liberal | William Pearce | 7,789 | 44.6 | −15.3 | |
Majority | 1,899 | 10.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 17,477 | 57.8 | +24.4 | ||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | +22.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 11,473 | 68.5 | +13.1 | |
Unionist | Thomas Miller-Jones | 5,288 | 31.5 | New | |
Majority | 6,185 | 37.0 | +26.2 | ||
Turnout | 30,452 | 55.0 | −2.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 11,713 | 57.7 | −8.8 | |
Unionist | Thomas Miller-Jones | 5,692 | 28.1 | −3.4 | |
Liberal | Henry Bryant Marks | 2,869 | 14.2 | New | |
Majority | 6,021 | 29.6 | −7.4 | ||
Turnout | 30,927 | 65.6 | +10.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 13,872 | 55.9 | −1.8 | |
Unionist | Evan Morgan | 6,584 | 26.5 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Jasper Addis | 4,116 | 16.6 | +2.4 | |
Communist | Wally Tapsell | 245 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 7,288 | 29.4 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 38,440 | 64.6 | −1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 11,354 | 50.5 | −5.4 | |
Conservative | R. Girouard | 10,803 | 48.1 | +21.6 | |
New Party | Herbert L. Hodge | 307 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 551 | 2.4 | −27.0 | ||
Turnout | 38,682 | 58.1 | −6.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -13.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 14,600 | 66.5 | +16.0 | |
Conservative | Charles John Busby | 7,355 | 33.5 | −14.6 | |
Majority | 7,245 | 33.0 | +30.6 | ||
Turnout | 37,020 | 59.3 | +1.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +15.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clement Attlee | 8,398 | 83.8 | +17.3 | |
Conservative | Alfred N Peter Woodard | 1,618 | 16.2 | −17.3 | |
Majority | 6,780 | 67.6 | +34.6 | ||
Turnout | 16,367 | 61.2 | +1.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +17.3 |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Constituency represented by the prime minister 1945–1950 |
Succeeded by |