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Bethnal Green North East was a
The constituency consisted of the north and east wards of the
parliamentary constituency
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in London
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, which returned one Member of Parliament
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(MP) to the House of Commons
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of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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. It was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the north and east wards of the civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road. By ...
, Middlesex
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(later the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green was a civil parish and a metropolitan borough in the East End of London, England.
It was formed as a civil parish in 1743 from the Bethnal Green hamlet in Stepney ancient parish, and the church of St Matthew, Bethnal Green, was ...
in the County of London
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).
Members of Parliament
Notes:- * a No election. Nathan resigned the Liberal whip. * b No election. Nathan took the Labour whip.Election results
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General election 1914–15: Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; *Liberal:Edwin Cornwall
Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall, 1st Baronet, PC, DL (30 June 1863 – 27 February 1953) was an English politician and coal merchant.
Cornwall was born in Lapford, Devon. At the age of thirteen he became a clerk in a coal merchant's in Hammersmith, ...
*Unionist:
Elections in the 1920s
:Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
General election 1939–40 Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; *Labour:Dan Chater
Daniel Chater (17 November 1870 – 25 May 1959) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician.
Early life and career
Daniel Chater was born in Lambeth, London, on 17 November 1870 into a working-class family. After leaving school he work ...
*Liberal: Ormond Lewis''The Liberal Magazine'', 1939.
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