Poplar South (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

South Poplar
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Poplar South in the County of London
1918–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Poplar
Replaced by	Poplar

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

General election 1918: South Poplar^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Liberal	Alfred Yeo	8,571	49.4
	Labour	Samuel March	4,446	25.6
	Unionist	Wilfrid T. Allen	4,339	25.0
Majority			4,125	23.8
Turnout			36,077	48.1
	Liberal win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

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

General election 1923: South Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samuel March	14,537	64.8	+6.0
	Liberal	Harold Heathcote-Williams	7,899	35.2	−6.0
Majority			6,638	29.6	+12.0
Turnout			37,681	59.5	−7.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.0

General election 1924: South Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samuel March	16,224	62.6	−2.2
	Liberal	Harold Heathcote-Williams	9,709	37.4	+2.2
Majority			6,515	25.2	−4.4
Turnout			38,336	67.6	+8.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.2

General election 1929: South Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samuel March	19,696	64.8	+2.2
	Liberal	Harold Heathcote-Williams	7,185	23.6	−13.8
	Unionist	Elliot Marcet Gorst	3,532	11.6	New
Majority			12,511	41.2	+16.0
Turnout			47,845	63.6	−4.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.0

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: South Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Morgan Adams	16,253	57.6	−7.2
	Liberal	Herbert Leonard M. Jones	11,965	42.4	+18.8
Majority			4,288	15.2	−26.0
Turnout			48,166	58.6	−5.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-13.0

General election 1935: Poplar, South Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Morgan Adams	18,715	73.2	+15.6
	Conservative	Diana Spearman	6,862	26.8	New
Majority			11,853	46.4	+31.2
Turnout			46,231	55.3	−3.3
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1940s

1942 Poplar South by-election^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Henry Guy	3,375	86.2	+13.0
	Christian Socialist	P.H. Figgis	541	13.8	New
Majority			2,834	72.4	−26.0
Turnout			3,916	8.5
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1945: South Poplar^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Henry Guy	11,620	89.2	+16.0
	National Liberal	Joan Vickers	1,403	10.8	−16.0
Majority			10,217	78.4	+32.0
Turnout			19,667	66.2	+10.9
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig (1983). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
2. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)