Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Islington East
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1885–February 1974
Seatsone
Created from Finsbury
Replaced by Islington Central and Islington North

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.

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Islington East in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used 1885-1918 IslingtonEast1885.png
Islington East in the Metropolitan area, showing boundaries used 1885–1918
Islington East in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used 1918-50 IslingtonEast1918.png
Islington East in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used 1918–50
Islington East in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used 1950-74 IslingtonEast1950.png
Islington East in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used 1950–74
A map showing the wards of Islington Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. Islington Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg
A map showing the wards of Islington Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.

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

ElectionMemberParty
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

General election 1885: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Henry Bret Ince 3,296 50.3
Conservative Isaac Lambert 3,26249.7
Majority 340.6
Turnout 6,55881.0
Registered electors 8,092
Liberal win (new seat)
General election 1886: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Isaac Lambert 3,732 61.5 +11.8
Liberal Henry Bret Ince 2,33638.5−11.8
Majority 1,39623.0N/A
Turnout 6,60875.0−6.0
Registered electors 8,092
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +11.8

Elections in the 1890s

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Benjamin Cohen
General election 1892: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Benjamin Cohen 3,975 53.1 −8.4
Liberal Percy Bunting [3] 3,51046.9+8.4
Majority 4656.2−16.8
Turnout 7,48575.8+0.8
Registered electors 9,872
Conservative hold Swing −8.4
General election 1895: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Benjamin Cohen 4,383 58.1 +5.0
Liberal McKinnon Wood 3,15941.9−5.0
Majority 1,22416.2+10.0
Turnout 7,54274.0−1.8
Registered electors 10,191
Conservative hold Swing +5.0

Elections in the 1900s

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Andrew Torrance
General election 1900: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Benjamin Cohen 4,205 61.9 +3.8
Liberal Andrew Mitchell Torrance 2,58638.1−3.8
Majority 1,61923.8+7.6
Turnout 6,79165.3−8.7
Registered electors 10,395
Conservative hold Swing +3.8
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G.H. Radford
General election 1906: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal George Radford 4,477 54.7 +16.6
Conservative Benjamin Cohen 3,71045.3−16.6
Majority 7679.4N/A
Turnout 8,18775.9+10.6
Registered electors 10,786
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +16.6

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal George Radford 5,001 51.7 −3.0
Conservative J.H.T. Keeves4,67148.3+3.0
Majority 3302.4−7.0
Turnout 11,11887.0+11.1
Liberal hold Swing
General election December 1910: Islington, East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal George Radford 4,503 50.7 −1.0
Conservative Philip Pilditch 4,37849.3+1.0
Majority 1251.4−1.0
Turnout 11,11879.9−7.1
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;

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E. Smallwood
1917 Islington East by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Edward Smallwood 2,709 57.0 +6.3
Independent Alfred Baker1,53232.2New
National Edmund Broughton Barnard51310.8New
Majority 1,17724.8+23.4
Turnout 4,75436.9−43.0
Liberal hold Swing
General election 1918: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Alfred Raper 9,35248.8−0.5
Liberal Edward Smallwood 5,96831.1−19.6
Labour Arthur John Lewer3,12216.3New
National Charles Edward Copplestone5753.0N/A
Independent Frederick Alfred Wickhart1470.8New
Majority 3,38417.7N/A
Turnout 19,16451.7−28.2
Registered electors 37,078
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +9.6
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

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Sir G. Baring
General election 1922: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Austin Hudson 11,954 46.1 −2.7
Liberal Godfrey Baring 8,10731.2+0.1
Labour Ethel Bentham 5,90022.7+6.4
Majority 3,84714.9−2.8
Turnout 25,96159.4+7.7
Registered electors 43,676
Unionist hold Swing −1.4
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A. Comyns Carr
General election 1923: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Arthur Comyns Carr 10,670 40.1 +8.9
Unionist Austin Hudson 9,03833.9−12.2
Labour Ethel Bentham 6,94126.0+3.3
Majority 1,6326.2N/A
Turnout 26,64960.0+0.6
Registered electors 44,402
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +10.6
General election 1924: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Robert Tasker 14,174 44.5 +10.6
Labour Ethel Bentham 10,28032.3+6.3
Liberal Arthur Comyns Carr 7,40623.2−16.9
Majority 3,89412.2N/A
Turnout 31,86070.8+10.8
Registered electors 44,978
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing −2.2
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Ethel Bentham
General election 1929: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ethel Bentham 15,199 38.0 +5.7
Unionist Robert Tasker 13,64134.1−10.4
Liberal Edgar Middleton 11,13627.9+4.7
Majority 1,5583.9N/A
Turnout 39,97666.4−4.4
Registered electors 60,202
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +8.1

Elections in the 1930s

Islington East by-election, 19 February 1931
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Leah Manning 10,591 34.7 −3.3
Empire Crusade Alfred Critchley 8,31427.2New
Conservative Thelma Cazalet 7,18223.5−10.6
Liberal Horace Crawfurd 4,45014.6−13.3
Majority 2,2777.5+3.6
Turnout 30,53750.0−16.4
Labour hold Swing
General election 1931: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thelma Cazalet 27,221 67.5 +44.0
Labour Leah Manning 13,11132.5−2.2
Majority 14,11035.0+27.5
Turnout 40,33265.4+15.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +23.1
General election 1935: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thelma Cazalet 18,248 52.5 −15.0
Labour Gwyn D. Jones13,81039.8+7.3
Liberal Cyril Harry Blackburn2,6707.7New
Majority 4,43812.7−22.3
Turnout 34,72857.8−7.6
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 the following candidates had been selected by the Autumn of 1939:

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Islington East [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 18,936 65.5 +25.7
Conservative Thelma Cazalet-Keir 9,96034.5−18.0
Majority 14,11035.0N/A
Turnout 28,89666.2+8.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +22.4

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Islington East [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 22,477 55.96
Conservative Katherine Wilmot14,38535.82
Liberal Thomas Herbert Coss Billson3,3018.22New
Majority 8,06220.14
Turnout 40,16379.30
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Islington East [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 23,896 59.9 +3.9
Conservative Katherine Wilmot16,00040.1+4.3
Majority 7,89619.79−0.3
Turnout 39,89678.23−0.97
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Islington East [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 19,612 60.3 +0.4
Conservative Geoffrey Finsberg 12,91039.7−0.4
Majority 6,70220.61+0.82
Turnout 32,52266.06−12.1
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Islington East [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 17,776 57.56 −2.74
Conservative Kenneth C Burden13,09742.44+2.74
Majority 4,66915.12−5.47
Turnout 30,68363.49−2.57
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Islington East [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 14,192 52.48 −5.08
Conservative Kenneth C Burden7,71528.53−13.91
Liberal Joel Freedman3,08111.39New
New Liberal Alan Ernest Lomas 2,0537.59New
Majority 6,47723.95+8.83
Turnout 27,04157.11−6.38
Labour hold Swing
General election 1966: Islington East [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eric Fletcher 15,009 57.92 +5.44
Conservative John B W Holderness7,49028.90+0.37
Liberal Joel Freedman2,2888.83−2.56
New Liberal Alan Ernest Lomas 1,1274.35−3.24
Majority 7,51929.02+5.07
Turnout 25,91457.06+0.95
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Islington East [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Grant 13,980 61.75 +3.83
Conservative Richard Devonald-Lewis8,66038.25+9.35
Majority 5,32023.50−5.52
Turnout 22,35051.80−5.26
Labour hold Swing

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Youngs, Frederic A Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 742–748. ISBN   0-901050-67-9.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 British parliamentary election results, 1885–1918 (Craig)
  3. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Bunting, Percy William"  . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
  5. ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  6. ↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 British parliamentary election results, 1950–1973 by FWS Craig
  8. 1 2 F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950–1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
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