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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 November 1885		6,558/8,092	81.04
Henry Bret Ince	Liberal Party	3,296	50.26
Isaac Cowley Lambert	Conservative Party	3,262	49.74
Majority		34	0.52

6 July 1886		6,068/8,092	74.99
Isaac Cowley Lambert	Conservative Party	3,732	61.50
Henry Bret Ince	Liberal Party	2,336	38.50
Majority		1,396	23.01

5 July 1892		7,485/9,872	75.82
Benjamin Louis Cohen	Conservative Party	3,975	53.11
Percy William Bunting	Liberal Party	3,510	46.89
Majority		465	6.21

15 July 1895		7,542/10,191	74.01
Benjamin Louis Cohen	Conservative Party	4,383	58.11
Thomas McKinnon Wood	Liberal Party	3,159	41.89
Majority		1,224	16.23

2 October 1900		6,791/10,395	65.33
Benjamin Louis Cohen	Conservative Party	4,205	61.92
Andrew Mitchell Torrance	Liberal Party	2,586	38.08
Majority		1,619	23.84

15 January 1906		8,187/10,786	75.90
George Heynes Radford	Liberal Party	4,477	54.68
Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen, Bt	Conservative Party	3,710	45.32
Majority		767	9.37

15 January 1910		9,672/11,118	86.99
George Heynes Radford	Liberal Party	5,001	51.71
Joseph Henry Thomas Keeves	Conservative Party	4,671	48.29
Majority		330	3.41

5 December 1910		8,881/11,118	79.88
George Heynes Radford	Liberal Party	4,503	50.70
Philip Edward Pilditch	Conservative Party	4,378	49.30
Majority		125	1.41

5 October 1917 Death of George Radford.

23 October 1917		4,754/12,874	36.93
Edward Smallwood	Liberal Party	2,709	56.98
Alfred Baker	Independent	1,532	32.23
Edmund Broughton Barnard	National Party	513	10.79
Majority		1,177	24.76

Alfred Baker was the nominee of Noel Pemberton Billing's Vigilante Society.

14 December 1918		19,164/37,078	51.69
Alfred Baldwin Raper	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	9,352	48.80
Edward Smallwood	Liberal Party	5,968	31.14
Arthur John Lewer	Labour Party	3,122	16.29
Charles Edward Copplestone	National Party	575	3.00
Frederick Alfred Wickhart	Independent	147	0.77
Majority		3,384	17.66

15 November 1922		25,961/43,676	59.44
Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,954	46.05
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt	Liberal Party	8,107	31.23
Dr Ethel Bentham	Labour Party	5,900	22.73
Majority		3,847	14.82

6 December 1923		26,649/44,402	60.02
Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr	Liberal Party	10,670	40.04
Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,038	33.91
Dr Ethel Bentham	Labour Party	6,941	26.05
Majority		1,632	6.12

29 October 1924		31,860/44,978	70.83
Robert Inigo Tasker	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,174	44.49
Dr Ethel Bentham	Labour Party	10,280	32.27
Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr	Liberal Party	7,406	23.25
Majority		3,894	12.22

30 May 1929		39,976/60,202	66.40
Dr Ethel Bentham	Labour Party	15,199	38.02
Robert Inigo Tasker	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,641	34.12
Edgar Middleton	Liberal Party	11,136	27.86
Majority		1,558	3.90

19 January 1931 Death of Dr Ethel Bentham.

19 February 1931		30,537/61,126	49.96
Elizabeth Leah Manning	Labour Party	10,591	34.68
Alfred Cecil Critchley	EC & UEP	8,314	27.23
Thelma Cazalet	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,182	23.52
Horace Evelyn Crawfurd	Liberal Party	4,450	14.57
Majority		2,277	7.46

Alfred Critchley was the nominee of a joint Empire Crusader and United Empire Party selection committee.

27 October 1931		40,332/61,635	65.44
Thelma Cazalet	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,221	67.49
Elizabeth Leah Manning	Labour Party	13,111	32.51
Majority		14,110	34.98

14 November 1935		34,728/60,135	57.75
Thelma Cazalet	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,248	52.55
Gwyn David Jones	Labour Party	13,810	39.77
Cyril Harry Blackburn	Liberal Party	2,670	7.69
Majority		4,438	12.78

1939 Thelma Cazalet marries and changes her name to Thelma Cazalet-Keir.

5 July 1945		28,896/43,660	66.18
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	18,936	65.53
Thelma Cazalet-Keir	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,960	34.47
Majority		8,976	31.06

23 February 1950		40,163/50,644	79.30
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	22,477	55.96
Ann Katherine Beatrix Wilmot	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,385	35.82
Thomas Herbert Coss Billson	Liberal Party	3,301	8.22
Majority		8,092	20.15

25 October 1951		39,896/50,997	78.23
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	23,896	59.90
Ann Katherine Beatrix Wilmot	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,000	40.10
Majority		7,896	19.79

26 May 1955		32,522/49,230	66.06
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	19,612	60.30
Geoffrey Finsberg	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,910	39.70
Majority		6,702	20.61

8 October 1959		30,863/48,613	63.49
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	17,766	57.56
Kenneth Cheney Burden	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,097	42.44
Majority		4,669	15.13

15 October 1964		27,041/47,349	57.11
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	14,192	52.48
Kenneth Cheney Burden	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,715	28.53
Joel Freedman	Liberal Party	3,081	11.39
Alan Ernest Lomas	Independent Liberal	2,053	7.59
Majority		6,477	23.95

Alan Lomas was a founder member of the New East Islington Liberal Association which was formed in 1963 following dissensions with the local Liberal Association.

31 March 1966		25,914/45,416	57.06
Sir Eric George Molyneux Fletcher	Labour Party	15,009	57.92
John Barry William Holderness	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,490	28.90
Joel Freedman	Liberal Party	2,288	8.83
Alan Ernest Lomas	Independent Liberal	1,127	4.35
Majority		7,519	29.02

Alan Lomas was a founder member of the New East Islington Liberal Association which was formed in 1963 following dissensions with the local Liberal Association.

18 June 1970		22,640/43,674	51.84
John Douglas Grant	Labour Party	13,980	61.75
Richard Devonald-Lewis	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,660	38.25
Majority		5,320	23.50