Poplar South

South Poplar
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

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 Metropolitan Borough of Poplar of the County of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Seatsone

Created fromPoplar

Replaced byPoplar

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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.

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Alfred Yeo	Coalition Liberal
	Jan 1922	Alfred Yeo	National Liberal
	1922	Samuel March	Labour
	1931	David Adams	Labour
	1942 by-election	William Guy	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Poplar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
C	Coalition 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			17,356	48.1
	National Liberal win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Samuel March	14,484	58.8	+33.2
	National Liberal	Alfred Yeo	10,146	41.2	−8.2
Majority			4,338	17.6	N/A
Turnout			24,630	66.5	+18.4
	Labour gain from National Liberal		Swing	+20.7

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			22,436	59.5	−7.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.0

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			25,933	67.6	+8.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.2

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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

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			30,413	63.6	−4.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.0

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			28,218	58.6	−5.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-13.0

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			25,577	55.3	−3.3
	Labour hold		Swing

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	−46.8
	Labour hold		Swing

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			13,023	66.2	+10.9
	Labour hold		Swing