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Leyton was a parliamentary constituency, centred on the town of Leyton in North-East London. It 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 system.

History

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Leyton and Wanstead constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1950	Reginald Sorensen	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1965	Ronald Buxton	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1966	Patrick Gordon Walker	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1974	Bryan Magee	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1983	Harry Cohen	Labour
1997		constituency abolished: see Leyton and Wanstead

Election results

1960s

Leyton by-election, 1965

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Buxton	16,544	42.9	+9.4
	Labour	Patrick Gordon-Walker	16,339	42.4	−8.0
	Liberal	Alistair H Mackay	5,382	14.0	−2.2
	UK & Commonwealth Party	Jeremiah Lynch	157	0.4	N/A
	Disarmament	George Delf	156	0.4	N/A
Majority			205	0.53
Turnout			38,578	57.7	−12.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+8.7

References

• British Parliamentary by-elections: Leyton
• UK General Elections since 1832
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages