Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Birkenhead East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Birkenhead East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Birkenhead area of Merseyside. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries
The County Borough of Birkenhead wards of Argyle, Bebington, Clifton, Egerton, and Mersey, and the part of the borough which lay between the eastern boundary of Argyle, Mersey and Bebington wards and the centre of the bed of the River Mersey.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Alfred Bigland | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Henry Graham White | Liberal | |
1924 | William Henry Stott | Conservative | |
1929 | Henry Graham White | Liberal | |
1945 | Frank Soskice | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Birkenhead |
Election results
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Frank Soskice | 14,790 | 45.5 | +22.2 | |
Liberal | Rt Hon. Henry Graham White | 10,140 | 31.1 | -17.0 | |
Conservative | Frederick Newell Bucher | 7,624 | 23.4 | -5.2 | |
Majority | 4,650 | 14.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 73.6 | -0.6 | |||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +19.6 |
Election in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Graham White | 16,548 | 48.1 | -25.1 | |
Conservative | S J Hill | 9,854 | 28.6 | n/a | |
Labour | Mrs M A Mercer | 8,028 | 23.3 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 6,694 | 19.5 | -17.0 | ||
Turnout | 74.2 | -4.9 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Graham White | 26,938 | 73.2 | +37.3 | |
Labour | C McVey | 9,868 | 26.8 | -5.0 | |
Majority | 17,070 | 46.4 | +36.5 | ||
Turnout | 79.1 | +0.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +21.2 |
Election in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Graham White | 13,157 | 35.9 | +2.9 | |
Unionist | Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank | 11,860 | 32.3 | -8.0 | |
Labour | James Coulthard | 11,654 | 31.8 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 1,297 | 3.6 | 10.9 | ||
Turnout | 78.8 | -2.2 | |||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +5.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | William Henry Stott | 11,328 | 40.3 | +3.8 | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 9,275 | 33.0 | -30.5 | |
Labour | James Coulthard | 7,496 | 26.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,053 | 7.3 | |||
Turnout | 81.0 | +6.9 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Graham White | 15,845 | 63.5 | +5.7 | |
Unionist | Luke Lees | 9,091 | 36.5 | -5.7 | |
Majority | 6,754 | 27.0 | +11.4 | ||
Turnout | 74.1 | -3.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +5.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Henry Graham White | 14,690 | 57.8 | +49.0 | |
Conservative | Alfred Bigland | 10,745 | 42.2 | -22.3 | |
Majority | 3,945 | 15.6 | 53.4 | ||
Turnout | 77.5 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +35.7 |
Election in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | 13,012 | 64.5 | n/a | ||
Labour | John Finigan | 5,399 | 26.7 | n/a | |
Liberal | Henry Graham White | 1,787 | 8.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,613 | 37.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 60.7 | n/a | |||
Unionist win |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government
References
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950
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