East Ham is a constituency[n 1] in the London Borough of Newham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its creation in 1997 by Stephen Timms of the Labour Party.

The RESPECT Coalition stood a candidate once, hoping to benefit from opposition to the Iraq war in the 2005 general election which saw elsewhere their first MP, and took second place.

Three quarters of the population are non-white; over a third are Muslim and more than half are Asian – the fourth highest proportion of any constituency in England and Wales, according to ONS 2011 Census figures.

The constituency covers north-eastern parts of Newham, including East Ham, Little Ilford, Manor Park and Plashet.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Newham wards of Castle, Central, Greatfield, Kensington, Little Ilford, Manor Park, Monega, St Stephen's, South, and Wall End.