Newham North East (UK Parliament constituency)

Newham North East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
February 1974 (February 1974)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Ham
Created from	East Ham North and East Ham South

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.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	Feb 1974	Reg Prentice	Labour
	1977		Conservative
	1979	Ron Leighton	Labour
	1994 by-election	Stephen Timms	Labour
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

Newham North by-election, 1994
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Timms	14,688	74.97	+16.64
	Conservative	Philip Hammond	2,850	14.55	-15.96
	Liberal Democrats nominee	Alec Kellaway	821	4.19	-7.0
	UKIP	Anthony Scholefield	509	2.60	N/A
	House Homeless People	Ms Jo Homeless	342	1.75	N/A
	Natural Law	Richard Archer	228	1.15	N/A
	Buy the Daily Sport	Ms Vida Garman	155	0.79	N/A
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.^[2]

General Election 1992: Newham North East[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ron Leighton	20,952	58.3	+6.4
	Conservative	JH Galbraith	10,966	30.5	-0.2
	Liberal Democrat	JJ Aves	4,020	11.2	-6.2
Majority			9,986	27.8	+6.7
Turnout			35,938	60.3	-3.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.3

Notes and references

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
2. ^ Colin Rallings & David Broughton, British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995, p. 182
3. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.