Mile End was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mile End 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.
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1950
Mile End
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
1885–1918: In this period the constituency was a division of the parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. The seat was centred upon the community of Mile End including the Mile End Road, which adjoined the Charrington Brewery. The brewery was headed by Spencer Charrington, MP for the area between 1885 and 1904.
Before 1885 the division was administered as part of the county of Middlesex. It formed part of The Metropolis from 1855 to 1889. In 1889 there was a change in the administrative arrangements covering the constituency, with the creation of the County of London. In 1900 London was divided into Metropolitan Boroughs. The Mile End Old Town Parish Vestry was abolished, with Mile End becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
1918–1950: The constituency became a division of Stepney. The Representation of the People Act 1918 defined it as comprising four local government wards of Mile End Old Town (Centre, North, South and West) as well as the ward of Whitechapel East.
In 1945, the seat became one of only two seats in that Parliament to have a Communist MP elected. Phil Piratin had been a local activist and borough councillor.
In 1950 the constituency was abolished. Its territory became part of the Stepney seat.
Members of Parliament
Year
Member
Party
1885
Spencer Charrington
Conservative
1905
Harry Levy-Lawson
Liberal Unionist
1906
Bertram Straus
Liberal
1910, January
Harry Levy-Lawson
Liberal Unionist a
1916
Warwick Brookes
Unionist
1918
Sir Walter Preston
Unionist b
1923
John Scurr
Labour
1931
William O'Donovan
Conservative
1935
Daniel Frankel
Labour
1945
Phil Piratin
Communist
1950
constituency abolished
Notes:-
a The Liberal Unionist Party formally merged into the Conservative Party in 1912.
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;
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.
Elections in the 1920s
General election 1922: Mile End
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Unionist
Walter Preston
6,014
41.0
-22.2
Labour
John Scurr
5,219
35.5
+10.4
Liberal
Robert Bernard Solomon
3,457
23.5
+11.8
Majority
795
5.5
-32.6
Turnout
14,690
63.8
+20.7
Unionist hold
Swing
-16.3
General election 1923: Mile End
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Labour
John Scurr
6,219
41.0
+5.5
Unionist
Walter Preston
4,741
31.2
-9.8
Liberal
Robert Bernard Solomon
4,215
27.8
+4.3
Majority
1,478
9.8
N/A
Turnout
23,787
63.8
0.0
Labour gain from Unionist
Swing
+7.6
General election 1924: Stepney, Mile End
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Labour
John Scurr
8,306
48.5
+7.5
Unionist
Johnnie Dodge
4,960
28.9
-2.3
Liberal
Solomon Teff
3,872
22.6
-5.2
Majority
3,346
19.6
+9.8
Turnout
24,245
70.7
+6.9
Labour hold
Swing
+4.9
General election 1929: Stepney, Mile End
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Labour
John Scurr
11,489
47.1
-1.4
Unionist
Johnnie Dodge
7,401
30.3
+1.4
Liberal
Solomon Teff
5,525
22.6
0.0
Majority
4,088
16.8
-2.8
Turnout
34,662
70.4
-0.3
Labour hold
Swing
-1.4
Elections in the 1930s
General election 1931: Stepney, Mile End
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Conservative
William O'Donovan
12,399
56.0
+25.7
Labour
John Scurr
9,738
44.0
-3.1
Majority
2,661
12.0
-4.8
Turnout
36,896
60.0
-10.4
Conservative gain from Labour
Swing
+14.4
General election 1935: Stepney, Mile End
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±%
Labour
Daniel Frankel
13,177
57.2
+13.2
Conservative
William O'Donovan
9,859
42.8
-13.2
Majority
3318
14.4
+2.4
Turnout
36,294
63.5
+3.5
Labour gain from Conservative
Swing
+13.2
Elections in the 1940s
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;
‘SANDERS, Sir Charles John Ough’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014
Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
External links
Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)
Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910. by Henry Pelling (Macmillan 1967)
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