South Poplar Former Borough constituencyfor the House of Commons Poplar South in the County of London
1918 –1950 Seats one Created from Poplar Replaced by Poplar
Poplar South (strictly South Poplar , although this is an unusual form of official name for a borough constituency) was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Poplar district of the East End of London . It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election , and abolished for the 1950 general election . It was then largely replaced by a new Poplar constituency.
Boundaries The Borough of Poplar wards of Bromley Central, Bromley South East, Poplar Cubitt Town, Poplar East, Poplar Millwall, Poplar North West, and Poplar West.
Members of Parliament Election Member Party 1918 Alfred Yeo Liberal 1922 Samuel March Labour 1931 David Adams Labour 1942 by-election William Guy Labour 1950 constituency abolished: see Poplar
Election results Elections in the 1910s Yeo Elections in the 1920s General election 1922 : South Poplar[1] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Samuel March 14,484 58.8 +33.2 National Liberal Alfred Yeo 10,146 41.2 New Majority 4,338 17.6 N/A Turnout 37,026 66.5 +18.4 Labour gain from Liberal Swing +20.7
Elections in the 1930s Elections in the 1940s References ^ a b c d e f g h i British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig (1983). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2) 1918 Balham and Tooting Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey West Bethnal Green North East Bethnal Green South West Bow and Bromley Brixton Camberwell North Camberwell North West Clapham Dulwich Chelsea City of London Deptford Finsbury Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn Islington East Islington North Islington South Islington West Kennington Kensington North Kensington South Lambeth North Lewisham East Lewisham West Limehouse Mile End Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar South Putney Rotherhithe St Marylebone St Pancras North St Pancras South East St Pancras South West Shoreditch Southwark Central Southwark North Southwark South East Stoke Newington Streatham Wandsworth Central Westminster Abbey Westminster St George's Whitechapel and St George's Woolwich East Woolwich West