Whitechapel_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Whitechapel (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918
Whitechapel was a parliamentary constituency in the Whitechapel district of East London. In 1885 the seat was established as a division of the parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
| Whitechapel | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Whitechapel in London | |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Seats | one |
| Created from | Tower Hamlets |
| Replaced by | Whitechapel St George's |
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.
Whitechapel is part of the historic county of Middlesex, in the far east of the county. The constituency was on the north bank of the River Thames. It was bordered by the constituencies of: City of London to the west; Hoxton & Bethnal Green South West to the north; and Stepney & St George's in the East to the east.
From 1889 the district was included in the administrative County of London. In 1900 the constituency became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
In the redistribution of 1918 Whitechapel was incorporated in a new Whitechapel and St George's constituency.
| Election | Member [1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Sir Samuel Montagu, Bt | Liberal | |
| 1900 | Sir Stuart Samuel, Bt | Liberal | |
| 1916 by-election | James Kiley | Liberal | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Whitechapel and St George's | ||
| Decades: |
Elections in the 1880s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Samuel Montagu | 2,353 | 54.4 | ||
| Conservative | Phineas Cowan | 1,972 | 45.6 | ||
| Majority | 381 | 8.8 | |||
| Turnout | 4,325 | 70.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 6,140 | ||||
| Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Samuel Montagu | 2,179 | 57.8 | +3.4 | |
| Conservative | William Le Poer Trench | 1,592 | 42.2 | -3.4 | |
| Majority | 587 | 15.6 | +6.8 | ||
| Turnout | 3,771 | 61.4 | -9.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 6,140 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.4 | |||
Elections in the 1890s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Samuel Montagu | 2,327 | 56.4 | -1.4 | |
| Conservative | William Le Poer Trench | 1,800 | 43.6 | +1.4 | |
| Majority | 527 | 12.8 | -2.8 | ||
| Turnout | 4,127 | 71.0 | +9.6 | ||
| Registered electors | 5,813 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -1.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Samuel Montagu | 2,009 | 50.4 | -6.0 | |
| Conservative | Sir William Henry Porter, 2nd Baronet | 1,977 | 49.6 | +6.0 | |
| Majority | 32 | 0.8 | -12.0 | ||
| Turnout | 3,986 | 68.0 | -3.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 5,864 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -6.0 | |||
Elections in the 1900s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Stuart Samuel | 1,679 | 51.1 | +0.7 | |
| Conservative | David Hope Kyd | 1,608 | 48.9 | -0.7 | |
| Majority | 71 | 2.2 | +1.4 | ||
| Turnout | 3,287 | 65.7 | -2.3 | ||
| Registered electors | 5,004 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Stuart Samuel | 1,925 | 55.1 | +4.0 | |
| Conservative | David Hope Kyd | 1,569 | 44.9 | -4.0 | |
| Majority | 356 | 10.2 | +8.0 | ||
| Turnout | 3,494 | 81.7 | +16.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 4,279 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +4.0 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Stuart Samuel | 1,963 | 58.3 | +3.2 | |
| Conservative | Weir Greenlees | 1,402 | 41.7 | -3.2 | |
| Majority | 561 | 16.6 | +6.4 | ||
| Turnout | 3,365 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Stuart Samuel | 1,731 | 59.2 | +0.9 | |
| Conservative | Edgar Monteagle Browne | 1,191 | 40.8 | -0.9 | |
| Majority | 540 | 18.4 | +1.8 | ||
| Turnout | 2,922 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Stuart Samuel | 1,722 | 52.5 | -6.7 | |
| Unionist | Edgar Monteagle Browne | 1,556 | 47.5 | +6.7 | |
| Majority | 166 | 5.0 | -13.4 | ||
| Turnout | 3,278 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -6.7 | |||
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Stuart Samuel
- Unionist:
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | James Kiley | Unopposed | |||
| Liberal hold | |||||
- Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 57. ISBN 9781349022984.
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III 1919-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1979)