Willesden East (UK Parliament constituency)

Willesden East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–February 1974
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Brent East
Created from	Harrow

Willesden East was a borough constituency in North-West 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.

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Willesden East within Middlesex, showing boundaries 1918-50

Boundaries

1918-1950: The Urban District of Willesden wards of Brondesbury Park, Cricklewood, Kensal Rise, Mid Kilburn, North Kilburn, and South Kilburn.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Willesden wards of Brondesbury Park, Carlton, Cricklewood, Kilburn, Mapesbury, and Neasden.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley	Conservative
	1923 by-election	Harcourt Johnstone	Liberal
	1924	George Frederick Stanley	Conservative
	1929	Daniel Somerville	Conservative
	1938 by-election	Samuel Hammersley	Conservative
	1945	Maurice Orbach	Labour
	1959	Trevor Skeet	Conservative
	1964	Reg Freeson	Labour
	Feb 1974	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

Mallaby-Deeley

General Election 1918

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley	12,044	61.0	n/a
	Labour	Henry James Lincoln	4,941	25.0	n/a
	Liberal	Herbert John Doree	2,757	14.0	n/a
Majority			7,103	36.0	n/a
Turnout				50.9	n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Willesden East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Harry Deeley Mallaby-Deeley	12,525	52.8	-8.2
	Liberal	Harcourt Johnstone	11,211	47.2	+33.2
Majority			1,314	5.6	-31.4
Turnout				58.4	+7.5
	Unionist hold		Swing	-20.7

Willesden East by-election, 1923

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Harcourt Johnstone	14,824	60.6	+13.4
	Unionist	Hon. George Frederick Stanley	9,648	39.4	-13.4
Majority			5,176	21.2	26.8
Turnout				60.2
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+13.4

General Election 6 December 1923: Willesden East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Harcourt Johnstone	11,260	40.5	-20.1
	Unionist	Hon. George Frederick Stanley	11,146	40.1	+0.7
	Labour	Joseph George Butler	5,392	19.4	n/a
Majority			114	0.4	-20.8
Turnout				68.1	+7.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	-10.4

General Election 1924: Willesden East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Hon. George Frederick Stanley	15,965	50.2
	Liberal	Harcourt Johnstone	7,992	25.1
	Labour	William Davies Lloyd	7,860	24.7
Majority			7,973	25.1
Turnout				76.0
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1929: Willesden East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Daniel Gerald Somerville	17,090	40.4	-9.8
	Labour	William Davies Lloyd	13,977	33.1	+8.4
	Liberal	Maurice Gordon Liverman	11,190	26.5	+1.4
Majority			3,113	7.3	-17.8
Turnout				69.3	-6.7
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.1

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Daniel Gerald Somerville	28,993	62.1
	Labour	William Davies Lloyd	10,010	21.4
	Liberal	Joseph Samuel Bridges	7,684	16.5
Majority
Turnout			46,687	68.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Daniel Gerald Somerville	25,613	57.7
	Labour	Maurice Orbach	15,523	35.0
	Liberal	Miss Nancy Stuart Parnell	3,217	7.3
Majority			10,090	22.7
Turnout				62.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Willesden East by-election, 1938

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Schofield Hammersley	16,009	56.6
	Labour	Maurice Orbach	12,278	43.4
Majority			3,731	13.2
Turnout				39.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Samuel Hammersley
• Labour: Maurice Orbach
• Liberal: Arthur Asher Shenfield

General Election 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maurice Orbach	23,457	53.0
	Conservative	Samuel Schofield Hammersley	14,027	31.7
	Liberal	Lt. RLR Morgan	6,771
Majority
Turnout				72.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)