Bethnal Green and Bow

Bethnal Green and Bow
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Bethnal Green and Bow in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Population	125,351 (2011 census)
Electorate	79,581 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Rushanara Ali (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Bethnal Green and Stepney
1974–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Bethnal Green & Stepney and Bow & Poplar
Created from	Bethnal Green
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Bethnal Green and Bow (Contemp. RP) /ˈbɛθnl̩ ɡɹiːn ənd bəʊ/, (Cons. RP) /ˈbeθ-/, (Est. Eng.) /ˈbɛfnəw ɡɹiːn ən bəʊ/ is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Rushanara Ali of the Labour Party.

Since the 2014 boundary changes, the constituency has contained the following electoral wards:

The 1974–83 constituency comprised the then London Borough of Tower Hamlets wards of Bethnal Green Central, Bethnal Green East, Bethnal Green North, Bethnal Green South, Bethnal Green West, Bow North, Bow South, Bromley, Holy Trinity and Spitalfields.

Between the 1983 and 1997 general elections, the equivalent seat was Bethnal Green and Stepney.

The Tower Hamlets wards of Blackwall and Cubitt Town, Bromley-by-Bow, East India and Lansbury, Limehouse, Mile End East, Millwall, St Katherine’s and Wapping and Shadwell were before 2010 under the national Boundary Commission for England review which identified a need for London representation changes based on electorate estimates moved to the new constituency of Poplar and Limehouse. In this review a name change to "Tower Hamlets North" was publicly consulted on and rejected.