Walthamstow West (UK Parliament constituency)

Walthamstow West was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Waltham Forest, but was until 1965 the Walthamstow Urban District of Essex. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Walthamstow West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	1918–1965: Essex 1965–1974: Greater London
1918–1974 (1974)
Replaced by	Walthamstow
Created from	Walthamstow

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was combined with part of the former Walthamstow East to form the new Walthamstow constituency.

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1918–1950: The Urban District of Walthamstow wards of High Street, Higham Hill, and St James Street.

1950–1974: The Municipal Borough of Walthamstow wards of High Street, Higham Hill, and St James Street.

	Member	Party	Notes
1918	Charles Jesson	NDP
1922	Valentine McEntee	Labour
1924	Horace Crawfurd	Liberal
1929	Valentine McEntee	Labour
1950	Clement Attlee	Labour	Previously MP for Limehouse from 1922; Leader of the Labour Party 1935-55; Prime Minister 1945-51; resigned 26 December 1955
1956 by-election	Edward Redhead	Labour	Died 15 April 1967
1967 by-election	Fred Silvester	Conservative
1970	Eric Deakins	Labour	Subsequently MP for Walthamstow from 1974
Feb 1974	constituency abolished

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