Bethnal Green (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Bethnal Green Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1974 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Bethnal Green was a parliamentary constituency in the Bethnal Green area of the East End of London, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
It was then partly replaced by the new Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.
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[edit] Boundaries
This area was part of the historic county of Middlesex, from which it had been severed for administrative purposes on the creation of the County of London in 1889.
The constituency, when created in 1950, comprised the whole of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in the County of London. In 1955 part of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was added to the seat. The wards involved were Triangle, Victoria and Wick.
In 1965 Bethnal Green became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London. Hackney was expanded to form the London Borough of Hackney.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | Percy Holman | Labour Co-operative | |
| 1966 | William Hilton | Labour Co-operative | |
| 1974 | constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green & Bow | ||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
