Bow and Bromley
Formerborough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Bow and Bromley in London 1885-1918
Bow and Bromley in London 1918-50
1885–1950
Seats	One
Created from	Tower Hamlets
Replaced by	Poplar

Bow and Bromley was aconstituency in theParliament of the United Kingdom. Located in theMetropolitan Borough of Poplar inLondon, it was created by theRedistribution of Seats Act for the1885 general election and returned oneMember of Parliament (MP) until it was abolished for the1950 general election.

The area had been part of the former two-seatTower Hamlets constituency, which was divided at the 1885 general election.

The constituency was marginal before 1918. The party holding the seat changed in 1886, 1892, 1895, 1906, January 1910, December 1910 and 1912. After the extension of the franchise to all adult men and some women in 1918, the seat became a safe Labour seat from 1922.

George Lansbury was first elected in December 1910 as a Labour candidate. He was on theleft-wing of the party and was known as apacifist and supporter of votes for women. In November 1912, Lansbury resigned his seat so he could test public opinion on women's suffrage. He lost the subsequent by-election and did not regain the seat until 1922.

Lansbury was the only member of the cabinet of theSecond Labour Ministry to both remain with the party and secure re-election at the1931 general election. As the party leaderArthur Henderson was not in the House of Commons, Lansbury becameActing Leader of the Labour Party andLeader of the Opposition. In 1932, Henderson resigned the leadership and Lansbury was elected leader in his place. He retained the leadership until 1935.

In 1885 the area was administered as part ofThe Metropolis. It was located in theTower division, in the east of the county ofMiddlesex. The neighbourhoods ofBow andBromley were combined to form a division of theparliamentary borough ofTower Hamlets. The parliamentary division was part of suburbanEast London. The Bromley in this seat is not the same place asBromley inKent after which theBromley constituency, created in 1918, was named.

In 1889 the Tower division of Middlesex was severed from the county. It became part of theCounty of London. In 1900 the lower tier of local government in London was re-modelled.Bow and Bromley became part of theMetropolitan Borough of Poplar.

When a re-distribution of parliamentary seats took place in 1918, the constituency became a division of Poplar. It comprised the wards of Bow Central, Bow North, Bow South, Bow West, Bromley North East, Bromley North West, and Bromley South West.

• Constituency created (1885)

• Constituency abolished (1950)

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1976)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)

• Politics of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950
• Bow, London

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