West Ham North (UK Parliament constituency)

West Ham North was a borough constituency in the County Borough of West Ham, in what was then Essex but is now Greater London.

The 1885 act created a new parliamentary borough of West Ham which was divided into two single-member divisions.

West Ham, North Division consisted of the part of the Local Government District of West Ham north of a boundary formed by a number of railway lines and roads, described as follows: From a point where the north side of the present London and Tilbury Railway crosses the west boundary of West Ham Parish; thence in a north-easterly direction along the north side of the said railway to a point where the east side of the present North Woolwich Branch of the Great Eastern Railway crosses it; thence in a northerly direction along the east side of the last-mentioned railway to a point opposite the centre of Abbey Road; thence in a north-easterly and easterly direction along the centres of Abbey Road, Church Street North, Portway, and Plashet Lane to the eastern boundary of West Ham Parish.

[1]West Ham North Borough Constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1948, and was first contested at the 1950 general election.

The seat was defined as consisting of eight wards of the County Borough of West Ham: Broadway, Forest Gate, High Street, Newtown, Park, Plashet Road, Upton and West Ham.