Bethnal Green and Stepney
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
CountyGreater London
1983–1997
SeatsOne
Created fromBethnal Green & Bow and Stepney & Poplar
Replaced byBethnal Green and Bow (the most part)
Poplar and Canning Town (small parts)

Bethnal Green and Stepney was a parliamentary constituency in east London, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election. It will be largely based on the existing seat of Bethnal Green and Bow but excluding the communities of Bow and Old Ford.

History

The constituency was only ever represented by the former cabinet minister Peter Shore, who held the seat for the Labour Party from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997.

Boundaries

The constituency was made up of nine electoral wards of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Holy Trinity, Redcoat, St Dunstan's, St James', St Katharine's, St Mary's, St Peter's, Spitalfields, and Weavers. It was abolished in 1997, and largely replaced by the larger Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, in line with the Boundary Commission's recommendation that one seat should be lost in the paired boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. 297 electors moved to the new Cities of London and Westminster constituency.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the re-established constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be (as they existed on 1st December 2020):

  • The London Borough of Tower Hamlets wards of: Bethnal Green; St. Dunstan’s; St. Peter’s; Shadwell; Spitalfields & Banglatown; Stepney Green; Weavers; Whitechapel.

Apart from Shadwell and a small part of Whitechapel ward, currently part of Poplar and Limehouse, the constituency will replace Bethnal Green and Bow - excluding Bow, which will be included in the newly created seat of Stratford and Bow.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[1]Party
1983Peter ShoreLabour
1997 constituency abolished: see Bethnal Green and Bow

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Bethnal Green and Stepney[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Shore 15,740 51.0
Liberal Stephen Charters 9,382 30.4
Conservative Demitri Argyropulo 4,323 14.0
National Front Victor Clark 800 2.6
Communist J. Rees 243 0.8
Independent B. N. Chaudhuri 214 0.7
Independent P. J. Mahoney 136 0.4
Majority 6,358 20.6
Turnout 30,838 55.7
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1987: Bethnal Green and Stepney[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Shore 15,490 48.3 −2.7
Liberal Jeremy Shaw 10,206 31.8 +1.4
Conservative Olga Maitland 6,176 19.2 +5.2
Communist Sarah Gasquoine 232 0.7 −0.1
Majority 5,284 16.5 -4.1
Turnout 32,104 57.6 +1.9
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Bethnal Green and Stepney[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Shore 20,350 55.8 +7.5
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Shaw 8,120 22.3 −9.5
Conservative Jane E. Emmerson 6,507 17.9 −1.3
BNP Richard Edmonds 1,310 3.6 New
Communist (PCC) Stanley E. Kelsey 156 0.4 −0.3
Majority 12,230 33.5 +17.0
Turnout 36,443 65.5 +7.9
Labour hold Swing +8.6

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Bethnal Green and Stepney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rushanara Ali[6]
Reform UK Peter Sceats[7]
SDP Jon Mabbutt[8]
Majority
Turnout

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
  2. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  6. ↑ Rushanara Ali [@rushanaraali] (20 June 2022). "I'm delighted to have been unanimously re-selected by all 9 branches of Bethnal Green & Bow Constituency Labour Party, and their affiliates to stand again in the next #GeneralElection Thank you @bgblabour for your support! Now lets work to get @UKLabour into government.🌹" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  7. ↑ "Find My PPC" (PDF). Reform UK. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES". SDP. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
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