Walthamstow West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Walthamstow West
Borough constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1974
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Walthamstow West was a parliamentary constituency in what is now the London Borough of Waltham Forest in East London. It returned one Member of Parliament 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 February 1974 general election, when it was combined with part of the former Walthamstow East to form the new Walthamstow constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1918 Charles Jesson NDP
1922 Valentine la Touche McEntee Labour
1924 Horace Evelyn Crawfurd Liberal
1929 Valentine la Touche McEntee Labour
1950 Clement Attlee Labour
1956 Edward Charles Redhead Labour
1967 Frederick Silvester Conservative
1970 Eric Deakins Labour
1974 constituency abolished: see Walthamstow

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.