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Newham North East
Newham North East
	Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons;
County	Greater London
February 1974–1997;
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Ham
Created from	; East Ham North and East Ham South;

Newham North East was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Newham. It returned one Member of Parliament, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new East Ham constituency.

Boundaries

1974-1983: The London Borough of Newham wards of Castle, Central, Greatfield, Kensington, Little Ilford, Manor Park, St Stephens, Wall End, and Woodgrange.

1983-1997: The London Borough of Newham wards of Castle, Central, Greatfield, Kensington, Little Ilford, Manor Park, Monega, St Stephens, and Wall End.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[1]	Party
Feb 1974	Reg Prentice	Labour
1977	Reg Prentice	Conservative
1979	Ron Leighton	Labour
1994 by-election	Stephen Timms	Labour
1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

General Election February 1974: Newham North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Reg Prentice	24,200	54.4	N/A
	Conservative	T.J. Stroud	10,869	24.4	N/A
	Liberal	L.H. Cohen	8,486	19.1	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Vanessa Redgrave	760	1.7	N/A
	International Marxist	John Ross	202	0.5	N/A
Majority			13,331	30.0	N/A
Turnout			44,517	68.0	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election October 1974: Newham North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Reg Prentice	22,205	56.9	+2.5
	Conservative	T.J. Stroud	8,664	22.2	−2.2
	Liberal	L.H. Cohen	4,880	12.5	−6.6
	National Front	J. Newham	2,715	7.0	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Vanessa Redgrave	572	1.5	−0.2
Majority			13,541	34.7
Turnout			39,036	59.2	−8.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.4

General Election 1979: Newham North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ron Leighton	22,818	54.5	−2.4
	Conservative	Cynthia Kay Wood	12,778	30.5	+8.3
	Liberal	David J. Corney	4,027	9.6	−2.9
	National Front	W.H.H. Northcott	1,769	4.2	−2.8
	Independent	J. Regan	208	0.5	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Michael Banda	154	0.4	−1.1
	Democratic Monarchist Public Safety White Resident	William Boaks	118	0.3	N/A
Majority			10,040	24.0
Turnout			41,872	63.1	+3.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.8

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Newham North East^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ron Leighton	19,282	49.7	−4.8
	Conservative	Helen Gardener	10,773	27.8	−2.7
	Liberal	Ann Winfield	7,943	20.5	+10.9
	National Front	F.R. Adams	794	2.0	−2.2
Majority			8,509	21.9
Turnout			38,792	62.1	−1.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.2

General Election 1987: Newham North East^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ron Leighton	20,220	51.9	+2.2
	Conservative	Peter Davis	11,984	30.7	+2.9
	Liberal	Harriet Steele	6,772	17.4	−3.1
Majority			8,236	21.2
Turnout			38,976	64.1	+2.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Newham North East^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ron Leighton	20,952	58.3	+6.4
	Conservative	Jeremy H. Galbraith	10,966	30.5	−0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Jonathan J. Aves	4,020	11.2	−6.2
Majority			9,986	27.8	+6.7
Turnout			35,938	60.3	−3.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.3

By-election 1994: Newham North East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Stephen Timms	14,688	75.0	+16.6
	Conservative	Philip Hammond	2,850	14.6	−16.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Kellaway	821	4.2	−7.0
	UKIP	Anthony Scholefield	509	2.6	N/A
	House Homeless People	Jo Homeless	342	1.8	N/A
	Natural Law	Richard Archer	228	1.2	N/A
	Buy the Daily Sport	Vida Garman	155	0.8	N/A
Majority			11,838	60.4
Turnout			19,593
	Labour hold		Swing

Note: Immediately prior to the election Kellaway announced that he was leaving the Liberal Democrats and joining the Labour Party. Consequently, there was no official Liberal Democrat standing in the election.^[6]

Notes and references

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)

^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017..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}

^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

^ Colin Rallings & David Broughton, British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995, p. 182

[1] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)

[electoralcalculus1983-2] "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017..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}

[electoralcalculus1987-3] "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.

[electoralcalculus1992-4] "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. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.

[6] Colin Rallings & David Broughton, British Elections and Parties Yearbook 1995, p. 182

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