Upton (UK Parliament constituency)

Upton
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Upton in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950.
County	Essex
1918 (1918)–1950 (1950)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	West Ham North
Created from	West Ham North

Upton (strictly the Upton Division of West Ham) was a parliamentary constituency in the Borough of West Ham in the South-West of Essex (now East London), which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Ernest Edward Wild	Coalition Conservative
	1922	David Margesson	Conservative
	1923	Benjamin Walter Gardiner	Labour
	1924	Herbert Paton Holt	Conservative
	1929	Benjamin Walter Gardiner	Labour
	1931	Alfred James Chotzner	Conservative
	1934 by-election	Benjamin Walter Gardiner	Labour
	1945	Arthur Lewis	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "U"