Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bethnal Green and Stepney
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Bethnal Green and Stepney 2023 Constituency.svg
Boundary of Bethnal Green and Stepney in Greater Londonfor the 2024 general election
County Greater London
Current constituency
Created 2024
Member of Parliament TBC (TBC)
Created from Bethnal Green and Bow (the most part) & Poplar and Limehouse (smaller part)
19831997
SeatsOne
Created from Bethnal Green & Bow and Stepney & Poplar
Replaced by Bethnal Green and Bow (the most part)
Poplar and Canning Town (small parts)

Bethnal Green and Stepney is a parliamentary constituency in Greater London, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

Contents

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election, largely based on the existing seat of Bethnal Green and Bow.

History

The constituency was only ever represented by the former cabinet minister Peter Shore, who held the seat for the Labour Party from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997.

Boundaries

1983–1997

The constituency was made up of nine electoral wards of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Holy Trinity, Redcoat, St Dunstan's, St James', St Katharine's, St Mary's, St Peter's, Spitalfields, and Weavers. It was abolished in 1997, and largely replaced by the larger Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, in line with the Boundary Commission's recommendation that one seat should be lost in the paired boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. 297 electors moved to the new Cities of London and Westminster constituency.

Current

Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries from 2024

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

Apart from Shadwell and a small part of Whitechapel ward, previously part of Poplar and Limehouse, the constituency replaced Bethnal Green and Bow - excluding Bow, which was included in the newly created seat of Stratford and Bow.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [1] Party
1983 Peter Shore Labour
1997 constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green and Bow

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Bethnal Green and Stepney [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Reggie Adams
Independent Md Somon Ahmed
Labour Rushanara Ali
Green Phoebe Gill
Animal Welfare Vanessa Hudson
Liberal Democrats Rabina Khan
SDP Jon Mabbutt
Independent Ajmal Masroor
Conservative Oscar Reaney
Reform UK Peter Sceats
Independent Sham Uddin
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Bethnal Green and Stepney [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Shore 20,350 55.8 +7.5
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Shaw8,12022.3−9.5
Conservative Jane E. Emmerson6,50717.9−1.3
BNP Richard Edmonds 1,3103.6New
Communist (PCC) Stanley E. Kelsey1560.4−0.3
Majority12,23033.5+17.0
Turnout 36,44365.5+7.9
Labour hold Swing +8.6

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Bethnal Green and Stepney [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Shore 15,490 48.3 −2.7
Liberal Jeremy Shaw10,20631.8+1.4
Conservative Olga Maitland 6,17619.2+5.2
Communist Sarah Gasquoine2320.7−0.1
Majority5,28416.5-4.1
Turnout 32,10457.6+1.9
Labour hold Swing
General election 1983: Bethnal Green and Stepney [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Shore 15,740 51.0
Liberal Stephen Charters9,38230.4
Conservative Demitri Argyropulo4,32314.0
National Front Victor Clark8002.6
Communist J. Rees2430.8
Independent B. N. Chaudhuri2140.7
Independent P. J. Mahoney1360.4
Majority6,35820.6
Turnout 30,83855.7
Labour win (new seat)

See also

Notes

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