Islington East (London County Council constituency)

Islington East
Former constituency for the London County Council
Former constituency
Created	1889
Abolished	1965
Member(s)	2 (to 1949) 3 (from 1949)

Islington East was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1889 and the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name.

Councillors

Year	Name	Party		Name	Party		Name	Party
1889	Andrew Mitchell Torrance		Progressive	Charles Horsley		Moderate	Two seats until 1949
1892				James Galloway Weir		Progressive
1895				James Laughland		Progressive
1904				Arthur Augustus Thomas		Progressive
1907	Anderson Montague-Barlow		Municipal Reform	Philip Pilditch		Municipal Reform
1910	Edward Smallwood		Progressive	Arthur Augustus Thomas		Progressive
1913				William Lace Clague		Progressive
1917	Arthur Christopher Denham		Progressive
1919	J. P. Blake		Progressive
1925	Thelma Cazalet		Municipal Reform	Edward Cobb		Municipal Reform
1931	Charles Robertson		Labour
1934	Norman Hulbert		Municipal Reform	Guy Neumann		Municipal Reform
1937	Day Kimball		Municipal Reform	Ronald Storrs		Municipal Reform
1940	Leslie Walker		Municipal Reform
1945				Hugh Quennell		Municipal Reform
1946	Edwin Bayliss		Labour	Irene Chaplin		Labour
1949							Bernard Bagnari		Labour

Election results

1889 London County Council election: Islington East ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Mitchell Torrance	2,388
	Moderate	Charles Horsley	2,066
	Independent Liberal	Hugh Robert Taylor	512
	Independent Liberal	Thomas Francis Stonelake	371
	Social Democratic Federation	Amelia Varley	226
	Moderate	E. J. Wilson	2,223
	Progressive win (new seat)
	Moderate win (new seat)

1892 London County Council election: Islington East ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Mitchell Torrance	2,989
	Progressive	James Galloway Weir	2,857
	Moderate	William Thornthwaite	2,274
	Moderate	E. J. Wilson	2,223
	Progressive gain from Moderate		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1895 London County Council election: Islington East ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Mitchell Torrance	2,863
	Progressive	James Laughland	2,791
	Moderate	H. Legge	2,539
	Moderate	J. Wilson	2,519
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1898 London County Council election: Islington East ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Mitchell Torrance	3,015
	Progressive	James Laughland	2,717
	Conservative	George Frederick Lloyd Mortimer	2,495
	Conservative	Alt	2,306
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1901 London County Council election: Islington East ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Mitchell Torrance	3,992	32.6	+4.0
	Progressive	James Laughland	3,751	30.6	+4.8
	Conservative	George Frederick Lloyd Mortimer	2,254	18.4	-5.3
	Conservative	William Beale	2,249	18.4	-3.5
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing	+4.4

1904 London County Council election: Islington East ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Andrew Mitchell Torrance	4,413
	Progressive	Arthur Augustus Thomas	3,914
	Conservative	A. H. Caesar	2,416
Majority
	Progressive hold		Swing

1907 London County Council election: Islington East ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Anderson Montague-Barlow	4,430
	Municipal Reform	Philip Pilditch	4,402
	Progressive	Edward Smallwood	4,292
	Progressive	Arthur Augustus Thomas	4,257
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

1910 London County Council election: Islington East ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Edward Smallwood	4,031	26.2
	Progressive	Arthur Augustus Thomas	3,949	25.7
	Municipal Reform	Charles Crole-Rees	3,715	24.2
	Municipal Reform	Percy Simner	3,685	24.0
Majority
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Progressive gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

1913 London County Council election: Islington East ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	Edward Smallwood	4,545	26.1	-0.1
	Progressive	William Lace Clague	4,453	25.6	-0.1
	Municipal Reform	David Hazel	4,226	24.3	+0.1
	Municipal Reform	John Foster Vesey-FitzGerald	4,170	24.0	0.0
Majority			227	1.3	-0.2
	Progressive hold		Swing	-0.1

1919 London County Council election: Islington East ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William Lace Clague	3,438	35.3
	Progressive	J. P. Blake	3,289	33.8
	Municipal Reform	George King Naylor	1,514	15.6
	Municipal Reform	Henry Myers	1,490	15.3
Majority			1,775	18.2
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1922 London County Council election: Islington East ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive	William Lace Clague	6,877	41.2	+5.9
	Progressive	J. P. Blake	6,767	40.5	+6.7
	Independent	George King Naylor	3,065	18.3	+2.7
Majority			3,702	22.2
	Progressive hold		Swing
	Progressive hold		Swing

1925 London County Council election: Islington East ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Edward Cobb	4,914
	Municipal Reform	Thelma Cazalet	4,832
	Labour	W. Macrae Gibson	3,502
	Labour	S. Presbury	3,196
	Progressive	Frank Raffety	2,590
	Progressive	Frank Dilnot	2,505
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing
	Municipal Reform gain from Progressive		Swing

1928 London County Council election: Islington East ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Edward Cobb	5,630
	Municipal Reform	Thelma Cazalet	5,549
	Liberal	William James Pincombe	3,671
	Liberal	William Nichols Marcy	3,665
	Labour	Santo Jeger	3,375
	Labour	Francis Douglas	3,326
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1931 London County Council election: Islington East ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Edward Cobb	5,204
	Labour	Charles Robertson	3,897
	Labour	H. Sykes	3,825
	Municipal Reform	Eric Hall	3,746
	Independent	Sidney Charles Harper	2,603
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1934 London County Council election: Islington East ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Norman Hulbert	6,172
	Municipal Reform	Guy Neumann	6,028
	Labour	Florence Harrison Bell	5,361
	Labour	Charles Robertson	5,319
Majority
	Municipal Reform gain from Labour		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1937 London County Council election: Islington East ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Municipal Reform	Day Kimball	8,833
	Municipal Reform	Ronald Storrs	8,656
	Labour	D. C. N. Moss	8,496
	Labour	Garry Allighan	8,479
Majority
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing
	Municipal Reform hold		Swing

1946 London County Council election: Islington East ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Bayliss	6,572
	Labour	Irene Marcousé	6,434
	Conservative	Lady Elveden	3,992
	Conservative	Hugh Quennell	3,954
Majority
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing
	Labour gain from Municipal Reform		Swing

1949 London County Council election: Islington East ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Bayliss	10,102
	Labour	Bernard Bagnari	9,798
	Labour	Irene Marcousé	9,757
	Conservative	K. E. Fowler	8,992
	Conservative	F. C. Harper	8,814
	Conservative	R. A. Percival	8,658
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1952 London County Council election: Islington East ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Bayliss	12,770
	Labour	Bernard Bagnari	12,569
	Labour	Irene Chaplin	12,542
	Conservative	M. R. Clark	7,448
	Conservative	R. A. Craigie	7,350
	Conservative	A. G. Morkill	7,232
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1955 London County Council election: Islington East ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Bayliss	7,530
	Labour	Bernard Bagnari	7,363
	Labour	Irene Chaplin	7,346
	Conservative	P. A. Cooper	4,761
	Conservative	J. Tobin	4,656
	Conservative	Malcolm St Clair	4,613
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1958 London County Council election: Islington North ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Bayliss	8,455
	Labour	Bernard Bagnari	8,255
	Labour	Irene Chaplin	7,881
	Conservative	R. B. Butterfield	3,317
	Conservative	P. A. Cooper	2,976
	Conservative	A. Musgrave Scott	2,889
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

1961 London County Council election: Islington East ^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Bayliss	8,011
	Labour	Bernard Bagnari	7,774
	Labour	Irene Chaplin	7,697
	Conservative	M. B. Agnew	4,486
	Conservative	M. W. W. Farrow	4,372
	Conservative	A. T. W. Smith	4,349
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

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