Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency)
Wood Green | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | 1918–1965: Middlesex 1965–1983: Greater London |
1918–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Hornsey & Wood Green and Tottenham |
Created from | Tottenham |
Wood Green was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Wood Green area of North London. It which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
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History
The Wood Green constituency was created for the 1918 general election, the area having previously formed part of the Tottenham constituency, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
It returned Conservative MPs until 1950, and then Labour or Labour Co-operative MPs until its abolition.
Boundaries
1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Wood Green (the wards of Alexandra Park, Bowes Park, Central, Noel Park, and Town Hall) and Southgate.
1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Wood Green, and the Municipal Borough of Tottenham wards of Coleraine, Park, and White Hart Lane.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Alexandra-Bowes, Coleraine, Noel Park, Park, and Town Hall.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1918 | Godfrey Locker-Lampson | Conservative | |
1935 | Beverley Baxter | Conservative | |
1950 | William Irving | Labour Co-operative | |
1955 | Joyce Butler | Labour Co-operative | |
1979 | Reg Race | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | * Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson | 19,217 | 71.9 | n/a | |
Labour | Harri Tudor Rhys | 4,539 | 17.0 | n/a | |
Liberal | Henry Bond Holding | 2,957 | 11.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 14,678 | 54.9 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 58.1 | n/a | |||
Unionist win |
* endorsed by the Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson | 21,937 | 70.0 | ||
Labour | Harri Tudor Rhys | 9,411 | 30.0 | ||
Majority | 12,526 | 40.0 | |||
Turnout | 66.5 | +8.4 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson | 15,344 | 46.5 | -23.5 | |
Liberal | John Traill Stevenson | 11,975 | 36.3 | n/a | |
Labour | James Bacon | 5,665 | 17.2 | -12.8 | |
Majority | 3,369 | 10.2 | |||
Turnout | 69.1 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson | 21,725 | 57.9 | ||
Labour | Harri Tudor Rhys | 8,648 | 23.0 | ||
Liberal | John Traill Stevenson | 7,158 | 19.1 | ||
Majority | 13,077 | 34.9 | +24.7 | ||
Turnout | 76.3 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Rt Hon. Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson | 24,821 | 47.6 | -10.3 | |
Liberal | Hew Thomson Fraser | 14,995 | 28.7 | +5.7 | |
Labour | E P Bell | 12,360 | 23.7 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 9,826 | 18.9 | -16.0 | ||
Turnout | 73.0 | -3.3 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -8.0 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson | 44,364 | 78.7 | ||
Labour | E P Bell | 11,980 | 21.3 | ||
Majority | 32,384 | 57.5 | |||
Turnout | 56,344 | 72.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Beverley Baxter | 36,384 | 62.0 | ||
Labour | Miss Dorothy Woodman | 14,561 | 24.8 | ||
Liberal | Hew Thomson Fraser | 7,711 | 13.2 | ||
Majority | 21,823 | 37.2 | |||
Turnout | 58,656 | 69.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Arthur Beverley Baxter
- Liberal: Mrs Hew Thomson Fraser[9]
- Labour: Miss Dorothy Woodman[10]
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Beverley Baxter | 29,429 | 43.4 | ||
Labour | WA Vant | 23,544 | 34.7 | ||
Liberal | Capt. Edwin Thomas Malindine | 14,836 | 21.9 | ||
Majority | 5,885 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 74.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Charles John Irving | 28,480 | 52.38 | ||
Conservative | JD McEwan | 20,013 | 36.81 | ||
Liberal | John Peter James Ellis | 5,875 | 10.81 | ||
Majority | 8,467 | 15.57 | |||
Turnout | 81.88 | ||||
Labour win |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joyce Shore Butler | 18,666 | 57.1 | ||
Conservative | Michael Peter Russell Malynn | 14,022 | 42.9 | ||
Majority | 4,644 | 14.21 | |||
Turnout | 32,689 | 60.92 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joyce Shore Butler | 18,594 | 50.61 | ||
Conservative | Michael Peter Russell Malynn | 10,950 | 29.81 | ||
Liberal | MJ Walton | 7,194 | 19.58 | ||
Majority | 7,644 | 20.81 | |||
Turnout | 36,735 | 71.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joyce Shore Butler | 16,605 | 51.28 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Yates Benyon | 8,394 | 25.92 | ||
Liberal | MJ Walton | 4,782 | 14.77 | ||
National Front | Ken Squires | 2,603 | 8.04 | ||
Majority | 8,211 | 25.36 | |||
Turnout | 32,381 | 62.25 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Denys Alan Reginald Race | 16,465 | 46.94 | ||
Conservative | J Riley | 13,950 | 39.77 | ||
Liberal | G Davies | 3,665 | 10.45 | ||
National Front | R Frost | 998 | 2.85 | ||
Majority | 2,515 | 7.17 | |||
Turnout | 35,079 | 67.41 |
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge31/i20.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge35/i20.htm
- ↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge45/i21.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge70/i21.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i21.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i21.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge79/i21.htm
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- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
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