Bow and Poplar | |
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Former
Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1983– 1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from |
Bethnal Green and Bow Stepney and Poplar [1] |
Replaced by | Poplar and Canning Town and Bethnal Green and Bow [1] |
Bow and Poplar was a parliamentary constituency in London which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) 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.
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets wards of Blackwall, Bow, Bromley, East India, Grove, Lansbury, Limehouse, Millwall, Park, and Shadwell.
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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1983 | Ian Mikardo | Labour | |
1987 | Mildred Gordon | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ian Mikardo | 15,878 | 49.6 | ||
Liberal | Eric Flounders | 10,017 | 31.3 | ||
Conservative | Stephen Eyres | 5,129 | 16.0 | ||
National Front | S. Bartlett | 596 | 1.9 | ||
Independent Labour | A.J. Snookes | 266 | 0.8 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | K.R. Scotcher | 117 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 5,861 | 18.3 | |||
Turnout | 32,003 | 55.4 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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 | -4.7 | ||
Turnout | 33,945 | 57.4 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mildred Gordon | 18,487 | 49.5 | +3.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 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 | New | |
Green | Steve Petter | 612 | 1.6 | New | |
Natural Law | William R. Hite | 158 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 8,404 | 22.5 | +8.9 | ||
Turnout | 37,323 | 65.8 | +8.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.4 |