Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

Stratford
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Stratford in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.
County	Essex
1918–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	West Ham North
Created from	West Ham North

Stratford (strictly the Stratford Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Leonard Lyle	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Thomas Groves	Labour
	1945	Henry Nicholls	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Stratford ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle	8,498	63.8	n/a
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	4,821	36.2	n/a
Majority			3,677	27.2	n/a
Turnout			13,319		n/a
	Unionist win

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Stratford ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Edward Groves	10,017	46.8	n/a
	Unionist	Charles Ernest Leonard Lyle	8,641	40.5	-23.3
	Liberal	Alfred Henry Scott	2,704	12.7	-23.5
Majority			1,376	6.3	33.9
Turnout				64.9	+22.6
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Stratford ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Edward Groves	11466	55.1	+8.3
	Unionist	Frederick Victor Fisher	5,443	26.2	-14.3
	Liberal	William Crow	3,888	18.7	+6.0
Majority			1,376	28.9	+22.6
Turnout				61.8	-3.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+11.3

General Election 1929: Stratford ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas Edward Groves	16,665	58.6
	Unionist	Henry Adam Procter	8,018	28.2
	Liberal	Albert Charles Crane	3,779	13.3
Majority			8,647	30.4
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
3. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)