Wolverhampton East (UK Parliament constituency)

Wolverhampton East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	one

Wolverhampton East was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire, England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Wolverhampton constituency was divided into three single-member constituencies.

It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Wolverhampton wards of St James, St Mary, and St Peter, and the civil parishes of Wednesfield and Willenhall.

1918-1950: The County Borough of Wolverhampton wards of St James's, St Mary's, and St Peter's, and the Urban Districts of Short Heath, Wednesfield, Wednesfield Heath, and Willenhall.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Henry Fowler	Liberal
	1908 by-election	George Rennie Thorne	Liberal
	1929	Geoffrey Mander	Liberal
	1945	John Baird	Labour
	1950	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

George Thorne

General Election 1918: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Rennie Thorne	7,660	51.8
	National Democratic	Rev. James A Shaw	7,138	48.2
Majority			522	3.6
Turnout				48.6
	Liberal hold		Swing

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Rennie Thorne	11,577	45.9	-5.9
	Unionist	Charles Henry Pinson	9,410	37.3	n/a
	Labour	William Thomas Augustus Foot	3,076	12.2	n/a
	National Liberal	Rev. James A Shaw	1,169	4.6	-43.6
Majority			2,167	8.6
Turnout				80.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

George Thorne

General Election 1923: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Rennie Thorne	unopposed		n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Rennie Thorne	11,066	42.1
	Unionist	Sir Thomas Joseph Strangman	10,013	38.1
	Labour	D Rowland Williams	5,188	19.8
Majority			1,053	4.0
Turnout				80.6
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander	15,391	44.8	+2.7
	Unionist	Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn	10,163	29.5	-8.6
	Labour	D Rowland Williams	8,840	25.7	+5.9
Majority			5,228	15.3	+11.3
Turnout				81.5	+0.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	+5.7

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander	14,945	44.1	-0.7
	Conservative	Maj. A T Waters-Taylor	12,628	37.2	+7.7
	Labour	John Smith	6,340	18.7	-7.0
Majority			2,317	6.9	-8.4
Turnout				78.6	-2.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.2

General Election 1935: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander	15,935	48.5	+4.4
	Conservative	J Brockhouse	11,935	36.3	-0.9
	Labour	H E Lane	4,985	15.2	-3.5
Majority			4,000	12.2	+5.3
Turnout				73.3	-5.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.7

Elections in the 1940s

A General election was due to take place before the end of 1940, but was postponed due to the Second World War. By 1939, the following candidates had been selected to contest this constituency;

• Liberal: Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander
• Conservative:

General Election 1945: Wolverhampton East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Baird	17,763	47.7	+32.5
	Liberal	Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander	11,206	30.1	-18.4
	Conservative	William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite	8,266	22.2	-14.1
Majority			6,557	17.6
Turnout				73.3	n/c
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

See also

• List of Members of Parliament for Wolverhampton
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)