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Upton (UK Parliament constituency)

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County
  
Essex

Replaced by
  
West Ham North

Number of members
  
1

Created from
  
West Ham North

Upton (UK Parliament constituency)

Upton (strictly the Upton 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.

Contents

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

Boundaries

The County Borough of West Ham wards of Park, Upton, and West Ham.

Elections in the 1910s

  • Wild was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
  • Elections in the 1930s

    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: D. Robert Rees
  • Conservative:
  • British Union: Arthur Beaven
  • References

    Upton (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia