Newham North East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyGreater London
February 1974–1997
SeatsOne
Created fromEast Ham North and East Ham South
Replaced byEast 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.

History

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.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election Member[2] Party
February 1974 Reg Prentice Labour
1977 Conservative
1979 Ron Leighton Labour
1994 by-election Stephen Timms Labour
1997 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

General election February 1974: Newham North East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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)
General election October 1974: Newham North East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
General election 1979: Newham North East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Newham North East[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
General election 1987: Newham North East[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Newham North East[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
By-election 1994: Newham North East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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]

Notes and references

  1. ^ Anwar, Muhammad (July 1994). "Race and Elections: The Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Politics" (PDF). Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations. University of Warwick. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
  3. ^ a b Election Expenses. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1980. p. 19. ISBN 0102374805.
  4. ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  7. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  8. ^ Rallings, Colin; Broughton, David. British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995. p. 182.
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