Tower Hamlets | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Middlesex |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | Middlesex |
Replaced by | Bow and Bromley, Limehouse, Mile End, Poplar, St George, Stepney and Whitechapel |
During its existence contributed to new seat(s) of: | Hackney (constituency) |
Tower Hamlets was a parliamentary borough (constituency) in Middlesex, England from 1832 to 1885. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the first five of its type in the metropolitan area of London. It was enfranchised by the Reform Act 1832.
In its early years the borough was coterminous with the ancient Tower Hamlets, an area which covered the area of the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets as well as Shoreditch and Hackney (the parish rather than the larger modern borough), thus extending from the edge of the City of London to the Lea. In 1868, the borough was split in two, with the southern part retaining the name.
The boundaries of the parliamentary borough were defined by the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 as "The several Divisions of the Liberty of the Tower, and the Tower Division of Ossulston Hundred".[1]
It comprised the following civil parishes and places:[2]
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The Representation of the People Act 1867 widened the parliamentary franchise and also effected a redistribution of seats. This, along with a rapidly increasing population in the East End, resulted in the existing entity being reduced, shedding the parishes of Bethnal Green, Hackney and Shoreditch forming a separate Hackney constituency. The reformed Tower Hamlets was defined as comprising:[3]
In 1885 the parliamentary borough was split into seven single-member divisions. These were Bow and Bromley, Limehouse, Mile End, Poplar, St George, Stepney and Whitechapel.
Election | First member [4] | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1832 | Stephen Lushington | Whig[5][6][7] | Sir William Clay, Bt | Radical[8][9] | ||
1841 | Charles Richard Fox | Whig[5][10][11] | ||||
1847 | George Thompson | Radical[12][13][14] | ||||
1852 | Charles Salisbury Butler | Radical[15] | ||||
1857 | Rt Hon. Acton Smee Ayrton | Radical[16][17][18] | ||||
1859 | Liberal | Liberal | ||||
1868 | Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda | Liberal | ||||
1874 | Charles Ritchie | Conservative | ||||
1880 | James Bryce | Liberal | ||||
1885 | Constituency abolished |
Turnout, in multi-member elections, is estimated by dividing the number of votes by two. To the extent that electors did not use both their votes, the figure given will be an underestimate.
Change is calculated for individual candidates, when a party had more than one candidate in an election or the previous one. When a party had only one candidate in an election and the previous one change is calculated for the party vote.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Stephen Lushington | 3,978 | 31.5 | N/A | |
Radical | William Clay | 3,751 | 29.7 | N/A | |
Whig | Leicester Stanhope | 2,952 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Whig | Frederick Marryat | 1,934 | 15.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 7,320 | 73.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,906 | ||||
Majority | 227 | 1.8 | N/A | ||
Whig win (new seat) | |||||
Majority | 799 | 6.3 | N/A | ||
Radical win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Clay | 2,779 | 47.7 | +18.0 | |
Whig | Stephen Lushington | 2,580 | 44.3 | −25.9 | |
Conservative | Ryder Burton[20] | 465 | 8.0 | New | |
Turnout | 2,912 (est) | 30.8 (est) | −43.1 | ||
Registered electors | 9,462 | ||||
Majority | 199 | 3.4 | −2.9 | ||
Radical hold | Swing | +22.0 | |||
Majority | 2,115 | 36.3 | +34.5 | ||
Whig hold | Swing | −22.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Clay | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Stephen Lushington | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 13,318 | ||||
Radical hold | |||||
Whig hold |
Lushington was appointed a judge of the High Court of Admiralty, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Stephen Lushington | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Clay | 4,706 | 34.6 | N/A | |
Whig | Charles Richard Fox | 4,096 | 30.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Richard Robinson[21] | 2,183 | 16.1 | New | |
Whig | Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson[22][23][24] | 1,775 | 13.1 | N/A | |
Radical | Thomas Edward Perronet Thompson[25][24] | 831 | 6.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | 6,796 (est) | 49.1 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 13,842 | ||||
Majority | 610 | 4.5 | N/A | ||
Radical hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Majority | 1,913 | 14.0 | N/A | ||
Whig hold | Swing | N/A |
Fox was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | Charles Richard Fox | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | George Thompson | 6,268 | 49.2 | +43.1 | |
Radical | William Clay | 3,839 | 30.2 | −4.4 | |
Whig | Charles Richard Fox | 2,622 | 20.6 | −22.6 | |
Majority | 3,646 | 28.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,365 (est) | 33.9 (est) | −15.2 | ||
Registered electors | 18,748 | ||||
Radical hold | Swing | +27.2 | |||
Radical gain from Whig | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Clay | 7,728 | 32.3 | +2.1 | |
Radical | Charles Salisbury Butler | 7,718 | 32.3 | N/A | |
Radical | George Thompson | 4,568 | 19.1 | −30.1 | |
Radical | Acton Smee Ayrton | 2,792 | 11.7 | N/A | |
Radical | William Newton[26] | 1,095 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,150 | 13.2 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 11,951 (est) | 50.8 (est) | +16.9 | ||
Registered electors | 23,534 | ||||
Radical hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Radical hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | Acton Smee Ayrton | 7,813 | 35.9 | +24.2 | |
Radical | Charles Salisbury Butler | 7,297 | 33.5 | +1.2 | |
Radical | William Clay | 6,654 | 30.6 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 643 | 2.9 | −10.3 | ||
Turnout | 10,882 (est) | 38.9 (est) | −11.9 | ||
Registered electors | 27,980 | ||||
Radical hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Radical hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Salisbury Butler | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Acton Smee Ayrton | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 28,843 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Salisbury Butler | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Acton Smee Ayrton | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 34,115 | ||||
Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Acton Smee Ayrton | 9,839 | 28.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda | 7,849 | 22.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Octavius Coope[27] | 7,446 | 21.2 | New | |
Liberal | Edmond Beales[28] | 7,160 | 20.4 | N/A | |
Lib-Lab | William Newton | 2,890 | 8.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 403 | 1.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 17,592 (est) | 54.1 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 32,546 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Ayrton was appointed First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Acton Smee Ayrton | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles Ritchie | 7,228 | 29.7 | +9.5 | |
Liberal | Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda | 5,900 | 24.2 | +1.9 | |
Liberal | Edmund Hay Currie | 5,022 | 20.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Acton Smee Ayrton | 3,202 | 13.2 | −14.8 | |
Liberal | Frederick Maxse | 2,992 | 12.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,026 | 16.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 15,786 (est) | 47.9 (est) | −6.2 | ||
Registered electors | 32,937 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.0 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Bryce | 12,020 | 30.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Ritchie | 11,720 | 29.9 | +0.2 | |
Liberal | Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda | 10,384 | 26.5 | +2.3 | |
Lib-Lab | Benjamin Lucraft[29] | 5,103 | 13.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | 28,025 (est) | 68.3 (est) | +20.4 | ||
Registered electors | 41,042 | ||||
Majority | 300 | 0.7 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Majority | 1,336 | 3.4 | -13.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.1 |