Newham North East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
February 1974–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | East Ham North and East Ham South |
Replaced by | East Ham |
Newham North East was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Newham. It returned one Member of Parliament, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new East Ham constituency.
It was one of the most multicultural constituencies in the United Kingdom; the 1991 census showed 53.4% of the constituency was of minority ethnic.[1]
The constituency shared boundaries with the Newham North East electoral division for election of councillors to the Greater London Council at elections in 1973, 1977 and 1981.
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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February 1974 | Reg Prentice | Labour | |
1977 | Conservative | ||
1979 | Ron Leighton | Labour | |
1994 by-election | Stephen Timms | Labour | |
1997 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reg Prentice | 24,200 | 54.4 | ||
Conservative | T.J. Stroud | 10,869 | 24.4 | ||
Liberal | L.H. Cohen | 8,486 | 19.1 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | Vanessa Redgrave | 760 | 1.7 | ||
International Marxist | John Ross | 202 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 13,331 | 30.0 | |||
Turnout | 44,517 | 68.0 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Reg Prentice | 22,205 | 56.9 | +2.5 | |
Conservative | T.J. Stroud | 8,664 | 22.2 | −2.2 | |
Liberal | L.H. Cohen | 4,880 | 12.5 | −6.6 | |
National Front | J. Newham | 2,715 | 7.0 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Vanessa Redgrave | 572 | 1.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 13,541 | 34.7 | +4.7 | ||
Turnout | 39,036 | 59.2 | −8.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ron Leighton | 22,818 | 54.5 | −2.4 | |
Conservative | Cynthia Kay Wood | 12,778 | 30.5 | +8.3 | |
Liberal | David J. Corney | 4,027 | 9.6 | −2.9 | |
National Front | William Northcott[3] | 1,769 | 4.2 | −2.8 | |
Independent | John Regan[3] | 208 | 0.5 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Banda | 154 | 0.4 | −1.1 | |
Democratic Monarchist Public Safety White Resident | William Boaks | 118 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 10,040 | 24.0 | -10.7 | ||
Turnout | 41,872 | 63.1 | +3.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ron Leighton | 19,282 | 49.7 | −4.8 | |
Conservative | Helen Gardener | 10,773 | 27.8 | −2.7 | |
Liberal | Ann Winfield | 7,943 | 20.5 | +10.9 | |
National Front | F.R. Adams | 794 | 2.0 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 8,509 | 21.9 | -2.1 | ||
Turnout | 38,792 | 62.1 | −1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ron Leighton | 20,220 | 51.9 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Peter Davis | 11,984 | 30.7 | +2.9 | |
Liberal | Harriet Steele | 6,772 | 17.4 | −3.1 | |
Majority | 8,236 | 21.2 | -0.7 | ||
Turnout | 38,976 | 64.1 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ron Leighton | 20,952 | 58.3 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | Jeremy H. Galbraith | 10,966 | 30.5 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan J. Aves | 4,020 | 11.2 | −6.2 | |
Majority | 9,986 | 27.8 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 35,938 | 60.3 | −3.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Stephen Timms | 14,688 | 75.0 | +16.7 | |
Conservative | Philip Hammond | 2,850 | 14.6 | −15.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alec Kellaway | 821 | 4.2 | −7.0 | |
UKIP | Anthony Scholefield | 509 | 2.6 | New | |
House Homeless People | Jo Homeless | 342 | 1.8 | New | |
Natural Law | Richard Archer | 228 | 1.2 | New | |
Buy the Daily Sport | Vida Garman | 155 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 11,838 | 60.4 | +32.6 | ||
Turnout | 19,593 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Note: Immediately prior to the election Kellaway announced that he was leaving the Liberal Democrats and joining the Labour Party. Consequently, there was no official Liberal Democrat standing in the election[8]