Bow and Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)




















Bow and Poplar

Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

1983–1997
Number of members
One
Replaced by
Poplar and Canning Town and Bethnal Green and Bow[1]
Created from
Bethnal Green and Bow
Stepney and Poplar[1]

Bow and Poplar was a parliamentary constituency in London which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.


It was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.




Contents






  • 1 Boundaries


  • 2 Members of Parliament


  • 3 Election results


    • 3.1 Elections in the 1980s


    • 3.2 Elections in the 1990s




  • 4 See also


  • 5 Notes and references





Boundaries


The Borough of Tower Hamlets wards of Blackwall, Bow, Bromley, East India, Grove, Lansbury, Limehouse, Millwall, Park, and Shadwell.



Members of Parliament




















Election Member[2]
 Party

1983 Ian Mikardo
Labour

1987 Mildred Gordon
Labour


Election results



Elections in the 1980s














































































General Election 1983: Bow and Poplar[3]
Party
 Candidate
 Votes
 %
 ±


Labour
Ian Mikardo
 15,878
 49.6
N/A


Liberal
 Eric Flounders
 10,017
 31.3
N/A


Conservative
 S.R. Eyres
 5,129
 16.0
N/A


National Front
 S. Bartlett
 596
 1.9
N/A


Independent Labour
 A.J. Snookes
 266
 0.8
N/A


Workers Revolutionary
 K.R. Scotcher
 117
 0.4
N/A
Majority
 5,861
 18.3
N/A

Turnout
 32,003
 55.4
N/A


Labour win (new seat)
































































General Election 1987: Bow and Poplar[4]
Party
 Candidate
 Votes
 %
 ±


Labour
Mildred Gordon
 15,746
 46.4
 −3.2


Liberal
 Eric Flounders
 11,115
 32.7
 +1.4


Conservative
 David Hughes
 6,810
 20.1
 +4.1


Workers Revolutionary
 Peter Chappell
 274
 0.8
 +0.4
Majority
 4,631
 13.6

Turnout
 33,945
 57.4


Labour hold
Swing
 −2.3


Elections in the 1990s

















































































General Election 1992: Bow and Poplar[5]
Party
 Candidate
 Votes
 %
 ±


Labour
Mildred Gordon
 18,487
 49.5
 +3.1


Liberal Democrat
 Peter J. Hughes
 10,083
 27.0
 −5.7


Conservative
 Simon N.C. Pearce
 6,876
 18.4
 −1.7


BNP
John Tyndall
 1,107
 3.0
N/A


Green
 Steve Petter
 612
 1.6
N/A


Natural Law
 William R. Hite
 158
 0.4
N/A
Majority
 8,404
 22.5

Turnout
 37,321
 65.8


Labour hold
Swing
 +4.4


See also


  • Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)


Notes and references





  1. ^ ab "'Bow and Poplar', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Ltd. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)


  3. ^ "UK General Election results: June 1983 [Archive]". www.politicsresources.net.


  4. ^ "UK General Election results: June 1987 [Archive]". www.politicsresources.net.


  5. ^ "UK General Election results: April 1992 [Archive]". www.politicsresources.net.










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