Upton (strictly the Upton Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries The County Borough of West Ham wards of Park, Upton, and West Ham.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1918 Sir Ernest Wild Coalition Conservative 1922 David Margesson Conservative 1923 Benjamin Walter Gardner Labour 1924 Herbert Paton Holt Conservative 1929 Benjamin Walter Gardner Labour 1931 Alfred Chotzner Conservative 1934 by-election Benjamin Walter Gardner Labour 1945 Arthur Lewis Labour 1950constituency abolished
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939–40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; Labour: D. Robert ReesReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939 Conservative: British Union: Arthur Beaven
Elections in the 1940s
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