Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bethnal Green and Stepney
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Bethnal Green and Stepney 2023 Constituency.svg
Bethnal Green and Stepney
in Greater London in 2024
County Greater London
19831997
SeatsOne
Created from Bethnal Green & Bow and Stepney & Poplar
Replaced by Bethnal Green and Bow (the most part)
Poplar and Canning Town (small parts)

Bethnal Green and Stepney was a parliamentary constituency in Greater London, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

Contents

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election. It will be largely based on the existing seat of Bethnal Green and Bow.

History

The constituency was only ever represented by the former cabinet minister Peter Shore, who held the seat for the Labour Party from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997.

Boundaries

The constituency was made up of nine electoral wards of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Holy Trinity, Redcoat, St Dunstan's, St James', St Katharine's, St Mary's, St Peter's, Spitalfields, and Weavers. It was abolished in 1997, and largely replaced by the larger Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, in line with the Boundary Commission's recommendation that one seat should be lost in the paired boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. 297 electors moved to the new Cities of London and Westminster constituency.

Proposed

Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries from 2024

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the re-established constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

Apart from Shadwell and a small part of Whitechapel ward, currently part of Poplar and Limehouse, the constituency will replace Bethnal Green and Bow - excluding Bow, which will be included in the newly created seat of Stratford and Bow.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [1] Party
1983 Peter Shore Labour
1997 constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green and Bow

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Bethnal Green and Stepney [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Shore 15,740 51.0
Liberal Stephen Charters9,38230.4
Conservative Demitri Argyropulo4,32314.0
National Front Victor Clark8002.6
Communist J. Rees2430.8
Independent B. N. Chaudhuri2140.7
Independent P. J. Mahoney1360.4
Majority6,35820.6
Turnout 30,83855.7
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1987: Bethnal Green and Stepney [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Shore 15,490 48.3 −2.7
Liberal Jeremy Shaw10,20631.8+1.4
Conservative Olga Maitland 6,17619.2+5.2
Communist Sarah Gasquoine2320.7−0.1
Majority5,28416.5-4.1
Turnout 32,10457.6+1.9
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Bethnal Green and Stepney [4] [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Shore 20,350 55.8 +7.5
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Shaw8,12022.3−9.5
Conservative Jane E. Emmerson6,50717.9−1.3
BNP Richard Edmonds 1,3103.6New
Communist (PCC) Stanley E. Kelsey1560.4−0.3
Majority12,23033.5+17.0
Turnout 36,44365.5+7.9
Labour hold Swing +8.6

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Bethnal Green and Stepney
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rushanara Ali [6]
Liberal Democrats Rabina Khan [7]
SDP Jon Mabbutt [8]
Reform UK Peter Sceats [9]
Green Elizabeth Waight [10]
Independent Mohammed Akunjee [11]
Majority
Turnout

See also

Notes and references

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
  2. "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  6. Rushanara Ali [@rushanaraali] (20 June 2022). "I'm delighted to have been unanimously re-selected by all 9 branches of Bethnal Green & Bow Constituency Labour Party, and their affiliates to stand again in the next #GeneralElection Thank you @bgblabour for your support! Now lets work to get @UKLabour into government.🌹" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  7. "Former councillor to stand for Lib dems in new Tower Hamlets Commons seat". East London Lines. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  8. "GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES". SDP . Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  9. "Find My PPC" (PDF). Reform UK . Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  10. "Green PPC for Bethnal Green & Stepney". Twitter. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  11. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/30/george-galloway-workers-party-election-candidates-monty-panesar?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-5

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