Upton | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Essex |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | West Ham North |
Replaced by | West Ham North |
Upton (strictly the Upton Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.
The County Borough of West Ham wards of Park, Upton, and West Ham.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sir Ernest Wild | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | David Margesson | Conservative | |
1923 | Benjamin Walter Gardner | Labour | |
1924 | Herbert Paton Holt | Conservative | |
1929 | Benjamin Walter Gardner | Labour | |
1931 | Alfred Chotzner | Conservative | |
1934 by-election | Benjamin Walter Gardner | Labour | |
1945 | Arthur Lewis | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Ernest Wild | 8,813 | 61.2 | |
Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 3,186 | 22.2 | ||
Liberal | John Charles Nicholson | 2,380 | 16.6 | ||
Majority | 5,627 | 39.0 | |||
Turnout | 14,379 | 46.8 | |||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | David Margesson | 10,196 | 46.0 | −15.2 | |
Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 7,268 | 32.8 | +10.6 | |
Liberal | John Charles Nicholson | 4,692 | 21.2 | +4.6 | |
Majority | 2,928 | 13.2 | −25.8 | ||
Turnout | 22,156 | 69.4 | +22.6 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 8,656 | 39.3 | +6.5 | |
Unionist | David Margesson | 7,630 | 34.7 | −11.3 | |
Liberal | John Charles Carroll | 5,710 | 26.0 | +4.8 | |
Majority | 1,026 | 4.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,996 | 67.2 | −2.2 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +8.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Herbert Paton Holt | 13,410 | 54.0 | +19.3 | |
Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 11,443 | 46.0 | +6.7 | |
Majority | 1,967 | 8.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,853 | 74.8 | +7.6 | ||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 14,703 | 49.0 | +3.0 | |
Unionist | Morgan Morgan | 9,681 | 32.3 | −21.7 | |
Liberal | W. J. Austin | 5,607 | 18.7 | New | |
Majority | 5,022 | 16.7 | +24.7 | ||
Turnout | 29,991 | 70.8 | −4.0 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +12.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Chotzner | 17,561 | 58.5 | +26.2 | |
Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 12,453 | 41.5 | −7.5 | |
Majority | 5,108 | 17.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,014 | 70.4 | −0.4 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 11,998 | 56.4 | +14.9 | |
Conservative | John Macnamara | 8,534 | 40.1 | −18.4 | |
Ind. Labour Party | Fenner Brockway | 748 | 3.5 | New | |
Majority | 3,464 | 16.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,280 | 50.5 | −19.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +17.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Benjamin Gardner | 13,685 | 53.2 | −3.2 | |
Conservative | Stephen Riou Benson | 12,020 | 46.8 | +6.7 | |
Majority | 1,665 | 6.4 | −9.9 | ||
Turnout | 25,705 | 62.7 | +12.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
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;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arthur Lewis | 14,281 | 74.5 | +21.3 | |
Conservative | CK Collins | 4,885 | 25.5 | −21.3 | |
Majority | 9,396 | 49.0 | +42.6 | ||
Turnout | 19,166 | 67.4 | +4.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +21.3 |