Bethnal Green and Stepney (UK Parliament constituency)
| Bethnal Green and Stepney | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Bethnal Green and Stepney in Greater London in 2024 | |
| County | Greater London |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Seats | One |
| 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.
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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):
- The London Borough of Tower Hamlets wards of: Bethnal Green; St. Dunstan’s; St. Peter’s; Shadwell; Spitalfields & Banglatown; Stepney Green; Weavers; Whitechapel.
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[edit]
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Peter Shore | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green and Bow | ||
Elections[edit]
Elections in the 1980s[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Shore | 15,740 | 51.0 | ||
| Liberal | Stephen Charters | 9,382 | 30.4 | ||
| Conservative | Demitri Argyropulo | 4,323 | 14.0 | ||
| National Front | Victor Clark | 800 | 2.6 | ||
| Communist | J. Rees | 243 | 0.8 | ||
| Independent | B. N. Chaudhuri | 214 | 0.7 | ||
| Independent | P. J. Mahoney | 136 | 0.4 | ||
| Majority | 6,358 | 20.6 | |||
| Turnout | 30,838 | 55.7 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Shore | 15,490 | 48.3 | −2.7 | |
| Liberal | Jeremy Shaw | 10,206 | 31.8 | +1.4 | |
| Conservative | Olga Maitland | 6,176 | 19.2 | +5.2 | |
| Communist | Sarah Gasquoine | 232 | 0.7 | −0.1 | |
| Majority | 5,284 | 16.5 | -4.1 | ||
| Turnout | 32,104 | 57.6 | +1.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Shore | 20,350 | 55.8 | +7.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Shaw | 8,120 | 22.3 | −9.5 | |
| Conservative | Jane E. Emmerson | 6,507 | 17.9 | −1.3 | |
| BNP | Richard Edmonds | 1,310 | 3.6 | New | |
| Communist (PCC) | Stanley E. Kelsey | 156 | 0.4 | −0.3 | |
| Majority | 12,230 | 33.5 | +17.0 | ||
| Turnout | 36,443 | 65.5 | +7.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +8.6 | |||
Elections in the 2020s[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Rushanara Ali[6] | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Rabina Khan[7] | ||||
| SDP | Jon Mabbutt[8] | ||||
| Reform UK | Peter Sceats[9] | ||||
| Green | Elizabeth Waight[10] | ||||
| Majority | |||||
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See also[edit]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Former councillor to stand for Lib dems in new Tower Hamlets Commons seat". East London Lines. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ "GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES". SDP. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ "Find My PPC" (PDF). Reform UK. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ "Green PPC for Bethnal Green & Stepney". Twitter. Retrieved 17 March 2024.