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bold;">Former <a href="/wiki/Borough_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough constituency">borough constituency</a><br /><span class="category">for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;"><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a>–<a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">one</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tower_Hamlets_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tower Hamlets (UK Parliament constituency)">Tower Hamlets</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a>–<a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1974</span>)</span></a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">one</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Limehouse_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)">Limehouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mile_End_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)">Mile End</a> and <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel_and_St_George%27s_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitechapel and St George's (UK Parliament constituency)">Whitechapel and St George's</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stepney_and_Poplar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stepney and Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)">Stepney and Poplar</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Stepney</b> was a <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_constituencies" title="United Kingdom constituencies">parliamentary constituency</a> centred on the <a href="/wiki/Stepney" title="Stepney">Stepney</a> district of the <a href="/wiki/East_End_of_London" title="East End of London">East End of London</a>. It returned one <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a>, elected by the <a href="/wiki/First_past_the_post" class="mw-redirect" title="First past the post">first past the post</a> system. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The constituency existed for two separate periods: </p> <ul><li>it was first created under the <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_Seats_Act_1885" title="Redistribution of Seats Act 1885">Redistribution of Seats Act 1885</a>, for the <a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885 general election</a>, and abolished for the <a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918 general election</a></li> <li>from the <a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950 general election</a> until its abolition for the <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974 general election</a>, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of <a href="/wiki/Stepney_and_Poplar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stepney and Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)">Stepney and Poplar</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stepney1885.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Stepney1885.png/260px-Stepney1885.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Stepney1885.png/390px-Stepney1885.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Stepney1885.png/520px-Stepney1885.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="577" /></a><figcaption>Stepney in the Metropolitan area, boundaries 1885–1918</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stepney1950.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Stepney1950.png/260px-Stepney1950.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Stepney1950.png/390px-Stepney1950.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Stepney1950.png/520px-Stepney1950.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption>Stepney in the County of London, boundaries 1950–74</figcaption></figure> <p>The constituency was first created in 1885, as a division of the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary borough">parliamentary borough</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tower_Hamlets_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Tower Hamlets (UK Parliament constituency)">Tower Hamlets</a>, centred on the <a href="/wiki/Stepney" title="Stepney">Stepney</a> neighbourhood in the <a href="/wiki/East_End" class="mw-redirect" title="East End">East End</a> of <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. The area was administered as part of the <a href="/wiki/Tower_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Tower division">Tower division</a> of the county of <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a>. </p><p>In 1889 there were administrative changes. The territory of the constituency was severed from Middlesex and included in the new <a href="/wiki/County_of_London" title="County of London">County of London</a>. The lower tier of local government in the area continued to be administered by parish <a href="/wiki/Vestry" title="Vestry">vestries</a> and local boards of works. </p><p>In 1900 local government in London was rationalised. The Stepney Board of Works was abolished and the <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> of Stepney became part of a larger <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Stepney" title="Metropolitan Borough of Stepney">Metropolitan Borough of Stepney</a>. </p><p>In the redistribution of parliamentary seats in 1918, the Metropolitan Borough was divided between three constituencies - <a href="/wiki/Limehouse_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)">Limehouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mile_End_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)">Mile End</a> and <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel_and_St_George%27s_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitechapel and St George's (UK Parliament constituency)">Whitechapel and St George's</a>. The previous <b>Stepney</b> constituency was abolished and largely replaced by Whitechapel and St George's. </p><p>In the next major redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect for the <a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950 United Kingdom general election</a>, the <b>Stepney</b> constituency was re-created. The 1950 version of the seat comprised the whole of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. </p><p>In 1965 Stepney became part of the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets" title="London Borough of Tower Hamlets">London Borough of Tower Hamlets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a>. When parliamentary constituencies were next redistributed, for the <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974 general election</a>, the area was included in the <a href="/wiki/Stepney_and_Poplar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stepney and Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)">Stepney and Poplar</a> seat. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MPs_1885–1918"><span id="MPs_1885.E2.80.931918"></span>MPs 1885–1918</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: MPs 1885–1918"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election</th> <th>Member</th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Charles_Durant" title="John Charles Durant">John Charles Durant</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">1886</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson" title="Frederick Wootton Isaacson">Frederick Wootton Isaacson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1898_Stepney_by-election" title="1898 Stepney by-election">1898</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/W._C._Steadman" title="W. C. Steadman">W. C. Steadman</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">1900</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Evans-Gordon" title="William Evans-Gordon">William Evans-Gordon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1907_Stepney_by-election" title="1907 Stepney by-election">1907</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Leverton_Harris" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Leverton Harris">Frederick Leverton Harris</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">1910 Dec.</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Glyn-Jones" title="William Glyn-Jones">William Glyn-Jones</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><i>constituency abolished</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="MPs_1950–1974"><span id="MPs_1950.E2.80.931974"></span>MPs 1950–1974</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: MPs 1950–1974"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Constituency re-established 1950 </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election</th> <th>Member</th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">1950</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walter_Edwards_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Edwards (UK politician)">Walter Edwards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">1964</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shore" title="Peter Shore">Peter Shore</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: white"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">Feb 1974</a> </td> <td colspan="2"><i>constituency abolished</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1970s">Elections in the 1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">General election 1970</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shore" title="Peter Shore">Peter Shore</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>18,993 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>74.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Greenway" title="Harry Greenway">Harry Greenway</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,922 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Solly_Kaye" title="Solly Kaye">Solly Kaye</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,468 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,071 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,383 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1960s">Elections in the 1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">General election 1966</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shore" title="Peter Shore">Peter Shore</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>23,098 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>76.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Beryl Phyllis Cooper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,049 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Solly_Kaye" title="Solly Kaye">Solly Kaye</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,209 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,049 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,356 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">50.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">General election 1964</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shore" title="Peter Shore">Peter Shore</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>22,184 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>71.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ian F Hay Davison </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,466 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Solly_Kaye" title="Solly Kaye">Solly Kaye</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,454 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,818 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">50.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,104 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1950s">Elections in the 1950s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1950s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">General election 1959</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Edwards_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Edwards (UK politician)">Walter Edwards</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,875 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>70.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">P Brian Calwell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,566 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Solly_Kaye" title="Solly Kaye">Solly Kaye</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,548 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,309 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,989 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">General election 1955</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Edwards_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Edwards (UK politician)">Walter Edwards</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,677 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>73.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−3.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lillian F Sutton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,733 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Solly_Kaye" title="Solly Kaye">Solly Kaye</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,888 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Fred Winckless </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,615 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,944 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,913 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">General election 1951</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Edwards_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Edwards (UK politician)">Walter Edwards</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35,849 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>76.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Martin Herbert Bernhard Solomon </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,586 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ted_Bramley" title="Ted Bramley">Ted Bramley</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,436 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28,263 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">60.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46,871 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">General election 1950</a>: Stepney </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Edwards_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Edwards (UK politician)">Walter Edwards</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>33,475 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>70.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Martin Herbert Bernhard Solomon </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,238 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.1 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: red; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Phil_Piratin" title="Phil Piratin">Phil Piratin</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,991 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.5 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Henry Maynard </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,105 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.4 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27,237 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">56.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,809 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">72.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1910s">Elections in the 1910s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1910s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg/120px-William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg/180px-William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg/240px-William_Samuel_Glyn-Jones.jpg 2x" data-file-width="559" data-file-height="568" /></a><figcaption>WS Glyn-Jones</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election December 1910</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Glyn-Jones" title="William Glyn-Jones">William Glyn-Jones</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,926 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Preston_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Preston (UK politician)">Walter Preston</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,812 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">114 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,738 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,653 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election January 1910</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Leverton_Harris" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Leverton Harris">Frederick Leverton Harris</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,102 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Glyn-Jones" title="William Glyn-Jones">William Glyn-Jones</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,861 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">241 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,963 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,653 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−4.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1900s">Elections in the 1900s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1900s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1907_Stepney_by-election" title="1907 Stepney by-election">1907 Stepney by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Leverton_Harris" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Leverton Harris">Frederick Leverton Harris</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,299 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>63.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: orange; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal-Labour_(UK)" title="Liberal-Labour (UK)">Lib-Lab</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Cooper_(politician)" title="Ben Cooper (politician)">Ben Cooper</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,350 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">949 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,649 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">64.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−19.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,621 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">General election 1906</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Evans-Gordon" title="William Evans-Gordon">William Evans-Gordon</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,490 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Durham Stokes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,853 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">637 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,343 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,176 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-4.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">General election 1900</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Evans-Gordon" title="William Evans-Gordon">William Evans-Gordon</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,783 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: orange; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal-Labour_(UK)" title="Liberal-Labour (UK)">Lib-Lab</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/W._C._Steadman" title="W. C. Steadman">W. C. Steadman</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,718 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,065 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,501 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,878 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1890s">Elections in the 1890s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1890s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Charles_Steadman_MP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/William_Charles_Steadman_MP.jpg/120px-William_Charles_Steadman_MP.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/William_Charles_Steadman_MP.jpg/180px-William_Charles_Steadman_MP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/William_Charles_Steadman_MP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="376" /></a><figcaption>Steadman</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1898_Stepney_by-election" title="1898 Stepney by-election">By-election, 9 Mar 1898</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:orange; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal-Labour_(UK)" title="Liberal-Labour (UK)">Lib-Lab</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/W._C._Steadman" title="W. C. Steadman">W. C. Steadman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,492 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Evans-Gordon" title="William Evans-Gordon">William Evans-Gordon</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,472 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,964 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6,387 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: orange"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal-Labour_(UK)" title="Liberal-Labour (UK)">Lib-Lab</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1906_Willoughby_Dickinson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/1906_Willoughby_Dickinson.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="139" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="110" data-file-height="139" /></a><figcaption>Dickinson</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">General election 1895</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson" title="Frederick Wootton Isaacson">Frederick Isaacson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,346 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Willoughby_Dickinson,_1st_Baron_Dickinson" title="Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson">Willoughby Dickinson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,876 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">470 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,222 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">69.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6,048 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg/120px-Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg/180px-Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg/240px-Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="349" data-file-height="474" /></a><figcaption>Isaacson</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">General election 1892</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson" title="Frederick Wootton Isaacson">Frederick Isaacson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,292 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−5.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Benjamin Thomas Lindsay Thomson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,203 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,495 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+16.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6,069 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-5.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1880s">Elections in the 1880s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1880s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">General election 1886</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson" title="Frederick Wootton Isaacson">Frederick Isaacson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,237 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Samuel_Wright" title="Robert Samuel Wright">Robert Samuel Wright</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,735 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">502 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,972 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6,925 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">General election 1885</a>: Tower Hamlets, Stepney<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Charles_Durant" title="John Charles Durant">John Durant</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,045 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Wootton_Isaacson" title="Frederick Wootton Isaacson">Frederick Isaacson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,035 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.9 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,080 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">58.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6,925 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The initial count for this election had Durant on 2,141 votes and Isaacson on 2,119 votes; a re-count then led to Durant on 2,052 votes and Isaacson on 2,051 votes. 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href="/wiki/Deptford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Deptford (UK Parliament constituency)">Deptford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Dulwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finsbury_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Finsbury Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Finsbury Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finsbury_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Finsbury East (UK Parliament constituency)">Finsbury East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)">Fulham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Hackney Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney North (UK Parliament constituency)">Hackney North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney South (UK Parliament constituency)">Hackney South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haggerston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Haggerston (UK Parliament constituency)">Haggerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hammersmith (UK Parliament constituency)">Hammersmith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampstead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency)">Hampstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holborn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Holborn (UK Parliament constituency)">Holborn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoxton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hoxton (UK Parliament constituency)">Hoxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington South (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington West (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)">Kennington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Kensington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kensington South (UK Parliament constituency)">Kensington South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lambeth_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lambeth North (UK Parliament constituency)">Lambeth North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limehouse_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)">Limehouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marylebone_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Marylebone East (UK Parliament constituency)">Marylebone East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marylebone_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Marylebone West (UK Parliament constituency)">Marylebone West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mile_End_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mile End (UK Parliament constituency)">Mile End</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newington_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Newington West (UK Parliament constituency)">Newington West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paddington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paddington North</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Westminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)">Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitechapel_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Whitechapel (UK Parliament constituency)">Whitechapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woolwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Woolwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Woolwich</a></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea South (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bermondsey_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bermondsey (UK Parliament 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href="/wiki/Fulham_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fulham East (UK Parliament constituency)">Fulham East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulham_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fulham West (UK Parliament constituency)">Fulham West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney South (UK Parliament constituency)">Hackney South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)">Hammersmith North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hammersmith South (UK Parliament constituency)">Hammersmith South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampstead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency)">Hampstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holborn_and_St_Pancras_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)">Holborn and St Pancras South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Kensington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kensington South (UK Parliament constituency)">Kensington South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham North (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham South (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham West (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paddington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paddington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddington_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paddington South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paddington South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peckham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)">Peckham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poplar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)">Poplar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Putney (UK Parliament constituency)">Putney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Marylebone_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)">St Marylebone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency)">St Pancras North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Streatham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Streatham (UK Parliament constituency)">Streatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoreditch_and_Finsbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Shoreditch and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Shoreditch and Finsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)">Southwark</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Stepney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_North_and_Stoke_Newington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney North and Stoke Newington (UK Parliament 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href="/wiki/Battersea_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Battersea South (UK Parliament constituency)">Battersea South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bermondsey_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bermondsey (UK Parliament constituency)">Bermondsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethnal_Green_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bethnal Green (UK Parliament constituency)">Bethnal Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brixton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Brixton (UK Parliament constituency)">Brixton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelsea_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency)">Chelsea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cities_of_London_and_Westminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)">Cities of London and Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Clapham (UK Parliament constituency)">Clapham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deptford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Deptford (UK Parliament constituency)">Deptford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dulwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Dulwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)">Fulham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)">Greenwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Hackney Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)">Hammersmith North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hampstead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency)">Hampstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holborn_and_St_Pancras_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Holborn and St Pancras South (UK Parliament constituency)">Holborn and St Pancras South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington East (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islington_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Islington South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Islington South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Kensington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensington_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kensington South (UK Parliament constituency)">Kensington South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham North (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham South (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lewisham West (UK Parliament constituency)">Lewisham West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)">Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddington_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paddington North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paddington North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddington_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paddington South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paddington South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peckham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)">Peckham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poplar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)">Poplar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putney_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Putney (UK Parliament constituency)">Putney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Marylebone_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Marylebone (UK Parliament constituency)">St Marylebone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency)">St Pancras North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoreditch_and_Finsbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Shoreditch and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Shoreditch and Finsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)">Southwark</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Stepney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_North_and_Stoke_Newington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hackney North and Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)">Stoke Newington and Hackney North</a></li> 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