Ilford was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge in eastern Greater London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Ilford North and Ilford South constituencies.
Boundaries
Members of Parliament YearMemberParty 1918 Peter Griggs Unionist 1920 Fredric Wise Unionist 1928 George Hamilton Unionist 1937 Geoffrey Hutchinson Conservative1945 constituency abolished
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
endorsed by Coalition Government
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; Conservative: Geoffrey Hutchinson Labour: James RangerReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939 British Union: Louise Ann King
In popular culture In Series 3, Episode 6 of the popular BBC mockumentary programme The Thick of It, Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Nicola Murray, Glenn Cullen, tells his co-worker Oliver Reader that he is awaiting the verdict on whether he makes the longlist for potential Labour Party candidates for the fictional Ilford East parliamentary constituency.
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