Poplar and Canning Town (UK Parliament constituency)
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Poplar and Canning Town in Greater London for the 2005 general election.
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County | Greater London |
1997–2010 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Poplar and Limehouse, West Ham |
Created from | Bow and Poplar, Newham South |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Poplar and Canning Town was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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History
The constituency was created in 1997 general election from the constituencies of Bow and Poplar and Newham South, and was divided at the 2010 general election between the realigned seat of Poplar and Limehouse and the neighbouring West Ham seat. It was held by the Labour Party for the entire period of its existence.
Boundaries
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- London Borough of Newham: Beckton, Canning Town and Grange, Custom House and Silvertown, Ordnance.
- London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Blackwall, Bromley, East India, Lansbury, Limehouse, Millwall, Shadwell.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England recommended the creation of an altered Poplar and Limehouse seat, to be fought at the 2010 general election.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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1997 | Jim Fitzpatrick | Labour | |
2010 | Constituency abolished: see Poplar and Limehouse |
Elections
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Fitzpatrick | 15,628 | 40.1 | −21.1 | |
Conservative | Tim Archer | 8,499 | 21.8 | +2.0 | |
Respect | Oliur Rahman | 6,573 | 16.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Janet Ludlow | 5,420 | 13.9 | +2.8 | |
Green | Terry McGrenera | 955 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Md. Aminul Hoque | 815 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Veritas | Tony Smith | 650 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Christian Peoples | Simeon Ademolake | 470 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,129 | 18.7 | |||
Turnout | 39,010 | 61.8 | +16.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −11.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Fitzpatrick | 20,866 | 61.2 | -2.0 | |
Conservative | Robert Marr | 6,758 | 19.8 | +4.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alexi Sugden | 3,795 | 11.1 | +0.8 | |
BNP | Paul Borg | 1,733 | 5.1 | -2.2 | |
Socialist Alliance | Kambiz Boomla | 950 | 2.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,108 | 41.4 | |||
Turnout | 34,102 | 44.9 | -12.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Fitzpatrick | 24,807 | 63.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Bene't Steinberg | 5,892 | 15.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Janet Ludlow | 4,072 | 10.4 | N/A | |
BNP | John Tyndall | 2,849 | 7.3 | N/A | |
Referendum | I. Hare | 1,091 | 2.8 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | J. Joseph | 551 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,915 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 39,262 | 58.5 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
References
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Politics of Newham
- Politics of Tower Hamlets
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 2010
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- Poplar, London
- Canning Town