Election 97

Bethnal Green and Bow

Current MP Peter Shore (Retiring)
Conservative 97 9,412
Labour 97 20,697
LibDem 97 5,361
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 8,655
Elected party
Bethnal Green and Bow

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney
Conservative 92 7,316
Labour 92 23,863
LibDem 92 11,498
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 1,918
Elected party Labour

Despite poverty, unemployment, council housing and a significant non-white, particularly Bangladeshi, population, Bethnal Green and Bow, which looks like typical Labour territory, is a area with a curious recent political past. The Liberals, and then the Liberal Democrats, did very well here in local elections during the 1980s and looked as if they might even realise parliamentary ambitions. However, local power slipped away from them acrimoniously in 1994, and the constituency is once again safely Labour.


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