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Walthamstow East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Walthamstow East was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in east London. It 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 In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ... voting system. The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was combined with part of the former Walthamstow West to form the new Walthamstow constituency. However, Hale End ward was added to the new Chingford constituency. Boundaries 1918–1950: The Urban District of Walthamstow wards of Hale End, Hoe Street, and Wood Street. 1950–1974: The Borough of Walthamstow wards of Hale End, Hoe S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walthamstow (UK Parliament Constituency)
Walthamstow (Received Pronunciation, Contemp. and Cons. RP: , Estuary English, Est. Eng.: //) is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency created in 1974 represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2010 by Stella Creasy, a member of the Labour and Co-operative, Labour Co-op party. An earlier version of the constituency existed covering a significantly different area (1885–1918) and was among the vast majority by that time returning one member to the House of Commons. Boundaries 1885–1918 The South-Western or Walthamstow Division of the parliamentary county of Essex was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the existing seat of South Essex (UK Parliament constituency), South Essex was divided into three single-member constituencies. The constituency consisted of the three civil parishes of Leyton, Wanstead and Walthamstow. The area lay o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutionalist (UK)
Constitutionalist was a label used by some British politicians standing for Parliament in the 1920s, instead of the more traditional party labels. The label was used primarily by former supporters of the David-Lloyd-George-led coalition government, and most notably by Winston Churchill. However, there was no party organisation called the Constitutionalist Party. Origins In 1922, when the Unionist Party voted to end the coalition government with the National Liberal Party, there were still members of both parties who preferred to continue working together. At the 1922 general election, in a number of constituencies local Unionist Associations decided to continue supporting National Liberal candidates and vice versa. However, by the 1923 General Election, the National Liberals had formally rejoined the Liberal Party. In some constituencies there was still some electoral co-operation between Unionists and Liberals. In Dartford a former National Liberal member of Parliament, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McNair-Wilson
Sir Robert Michael Conal McNair-Wilson (12 October 1930 – 28 March 1993) was a British Conservative Party politician and a Member of Parliament (MP). Early life McNair-Wilson was born on 12 October 1930. He attended Eton College before joining the Royal Irish Fusiliers through national service. He then worked for a period at the BBC in Northern Ireland. Career McNair-Wilson contested the seat of Lincoln in 1964, but was beaten by Labour's Dick Taverne. In 1969 he stood as the Conservative candidate in the Walthamstow East by-election, defeating the Labour candidate, Colin Phipps. He held the seat until 1974, when it was abolished and replaced by the new Walthamstow constituency. In the February 1974 general election he won the Conservative safe seat of Newbury where he remained as MP for 18 years before standing down before the 1992 general election. Personal life His brother Patrick McNair-Wilson, who had been Conservative MP for Lewisham West from 1964 to 1966, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Walthamstow East By-election
The Walthamstow East by-election of 27 March 1969 was held following the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) William Robinson. The seat was won by the opposition Conservative Party. Background The Conservatives had gained the seat from Labour in 1955 and held it at the next two elections. In 1964 the Conservative majority had fallen to just 395 votes over Labour, whose candidate was William Robinson, a solicitor who had been a member of Leyton Borough Council between 1945 and 1952 and then had been elected to Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council, serving as Mayor of the latter in 1962–63. In 1966 Robinson had stood again and had taken the seat for Labour with a majority of 1,807 votes. Results Aftermath This defeat marked the twelfth time that Labour had failed to successfully defend a seat it held at a by-election since the last general election. The gain at Walthamstow was one of three Conservative wins in by-elections held that day, with the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Oscar James Robinson
William Oscar James Robinson (20 March 1909 – 18 October 1968) was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected at the 1966 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Walthamstow East, winning the seat with a majority of 1,807 over the sitting Conservative Party MP John Harvey. He had unsuccessfully contested the same seat at the 1964 general election. Robinson served only two years in Parliament, dying in office two years later aged 59. Prior to becoming an MP Robinson had been a solicitor, and had also served as a councillor on two local authorities. He was elected to Leyton Borough Council in 1945, serving until 1952, being elected to Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council in the same year. He also served as Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford in 1962–63. The resulting by-election was held in March 1969 and won with a 5,479-vote majority by the Conservative Michael McNair-Wilson, whose brother Patrick had won a by-election A by-election, also known as a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 United Kingdom General Election
The 1966 United Kingdom general election was held on 31 March 1966. The result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by incumbent Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson decided to call a snap election since his government, elected a mere 17 months previously, in 1964, had an unworkably small majority of only four MPs. The Labour government was returned following this snap election with a much larger majority of 98 seats. This was the last general election in which the voting age was 21; Wilson's government passed an amendment to the Representation of the People Act in 1969 to include eligibility to vote at age 18, which was in place for the next general election in 1970. Background Prior to the 1966 general election, Labour had performed poorly in local elections in 1965, and lost a by-election, cutting their majority to just two. Shortly after the local elections, the leader of the Conservative Party Alec Douglas-Home was replaced by Edward Heath in the 1965 lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edgar Harvey
John Edgar Harvey (4 April 1920 – 13 January 2008) was a British Conservative Party politician. Early life Harvey was born in Derry. He attended Xavierian College in Bruges and Lyme Regis Grammar School. During the Second World War, he served in the Merchant Navy. Parliamentary career He was elected at the 1955 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Walthamstow East, retaining the seat with a majority of 1,129 over the sitting Labour MP Harry Wallace. Harvey held his seat at the next two general elections, until his defeat at the 1966 election by Labour's William Robinson. After politics After losing his seat in 1966, he left politics to concentrate on his business career. He was a director and deputy chairman of Burmah Castrol Europe until his retirement. Harvey lived in Loughton, and was a verderer of Epping Forest. He was appointed CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours for political and public service. Harvey should not be confused with John Harvey-Jones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 United Kingdom General Election
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election in 1951. It was a snap election: after Winston Churchill retired in April 1955, Anthony Eden took over and immediately called the election in order to gain a mandate for his government. It resulted in a majority of 60 seats for the government under new leader and Prime Minister Anthony Eden; the result remains the largest party share of the vote at a post-war general election. This was the first general election to be held with Elizabeth II as monarch. She had succeeded her father George VI a year after the previous election. Results The election was fought on new boundaries, with five seats added to the 625 fought in 1951. At the same time, the Conservative Party had returned to power for the first time since World War II and increased its popularity by accepting the mixed economy and welfare state created by the previous Labour Party government. It also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 United Kingdom General Election
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for overseas votes to be brought to Britain. The governing Conservative Party sought to maintain its position in Parliament but faced challenges from public opinion about the future of the United Kingdom in the post-war period. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill proposed to call for a general election in Parliament, which passed with a majority vote less than two months after the conclusion of the Second World War in Europe. The election's campaigning was focused on leadership of the country and its postwar future. Churchill sought to use his wartime popularity as part of his campaign to keep the Conservatives in power after a wartime coalition had been in place since 1940 with the other political parties, but he faced questions from public opinion surrounding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Brograve Beauchamp, 2nd Baronet
Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, 2nd Baronet (5 May 1897 – 25 August 1976) was a British National Liberal and Conservative Party politician. Beauchamp was the son of the Liberal politician and Lloyd's chairman Sir Edward Beauchamp, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Betty Campbell Beauchamp (''née'' Woods), an American from Columbus, Ohio. Educated at Eton College, he served in the Life Guards during the First World War. His elder brother, Edward Archibald Beauchamp, was killed in the war and Brograve therefore succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1925. Sir Brograve died on 25 August 1976 at the age of 79, and the title became extinct. Political career At the 1922 general election, Beauchamp stood as a National Liberal candidate for the Lowestoft division of Suffolk. His father had just stepped down as the constituency's MP, and Brograve hoped to win the seat, but lost heavily. He did not stand again until the 1931 general election, when he was elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 United Kingdom General Election
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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