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| Ealing East | |
|---|---|
| Formerborough constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
| 1945–1950 | |
| Seats | one |
| Created from | Ealing |
| Replaced by | Ealing South |
Ealing East was one of two and a minority of a thirdconstituency covering theMunicipal Borough of Ealing inMiddlesex, 1945–1950. It included the town centre and in terms of local government content became, after its abolition, part of westLondon in 1965 at which time the borough expanded further to the east and west.
Its voters returned onemember (MP) to theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament using thefirst past the post system.
Its single election was the general election of 1945, a landslide forClement Attlee leading the Labour Party, at which the seatde facto re-elected (i.e. as incumbent)Frank Sanderson, aConservative who had represented the seat's main forebear,Ealing.
The constituency was created for the1945 general election, and abolished for the1950 general election. TheMunicipal Borough of Ealing was then represented by the newEaling North andEaling South constituencies save for Hanwell which remained throughout in the Southall seat to the west, created in 1945.
The six Municipal Borough of Ealing wards: Castlebar, Drayton, Grange Grosvenor, Lammas, Manor, and Mount Park.
| Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Frank Sanderson | Conservative | Member forEaling (1931–1945) | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished in name only, seeEaling South | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frank Sanderson | 22,916 | 47.8 | ||
| Labour | David Johnston | 18,619 | 38.9 | ||
| Liberal | Harold Foster | 6,377 | 13.3 | ||
| Majority | 4,297 | 9.0 | |||
| Turnout | 47,912 | 73.2 | |||
| Registered electors | 65,485 | ||||
| Conservativewin (new seat) | |||||