As an added bonus, some of the names below are hyperlinks that take you to websites relevant to the person concerned. This is done as a politically neutral stance and I do not endorse all of the links given below.

1) Abrahams, Lady R (1951)
2) Allan, Richard (2001)
3) Ashforth, John (1992)
4) Aslam, Mohammad (1987)
5) Atkin, E E H (November 1922)
6) Ball, Tim (1992, 2001)
7) Baum, J H (1929)
8) Baxter, Ashley (2005)
9) Bird, Michael (1983)
10) Birkett, Norman (1923-1931)
11) Bond, Edward (1895-1906)
12) Boote, Sam (2010)
13) Brandon Bravo, Martin (1979)
14) Brocklebank, Edmund (1924)
15) Brookes, Dennis (1918)
16) Brook Partridge, Bernard (1970)
17) Brown, Ben (1997)
18) Coles, M (1979)
19) Comyns Carr, Arthur (1935)
20) Cordeaux, John (1955-1964)
21) Cotton, Henry (1906-January 1910)
22) Dobson, T W (1912)
23) Dunnett, Jack (1964-1979)
24) Ellwood, Anthony (2005)
25) Finch Hatton, Harold (1885-1892)
26) Fletcher, E A B (1950)
27) Fraser, E H (1900)
28) Freedman, Leon (1935)
29) Ghazni, Issan (2005)
30) Gluckstein, Louis (1929-1950)
31) Graham, T G (June 1922)
32) Harrison, James (1945-1951)
33) Heppell, John (1992-2005)
34) Hiley, John (1979)
35) Hoare, Benjamin (2010)
36) Houfton, John (June 1922-1923)
37) Jones, A H (June 1922)
38) Jones, Andrew (1992)
39) Juniper, Ian (1979)
40) Knowles, Michael (1983-1992)
41) Lamont, Ewan (2010)
42) Leslie, Christopher (2010-)
43) Malik, Kenan (1987)
44) Mann, Tom (1924)
45) Merrick, David (1983)
46) Mitton, Tony (1966)
47) Morley, Arnold (1885-1895)
48) Morrison, James (1910) *
49) Mulloy, Kevin (1997)
50) Parkhouse, Steve (1987)
51) Peetz, Dieter (October 1974)
52) Proctor, Thomas (1918)
53) Raca, Andrew (1997)
54) Radcliff, Pete (2001, 2005)
55) Rees, John (1912-1918)
56) Rowan, Ted (1974) *
57) Roylance, Charles (1992)
58) Sardar, Parvaiz (2010)
59) Seely, A P W (1945)
60) Shephard, Sidney (1951)
61) Shepherd, Richard (February 1974)
62) Sloman, Martyn (1983)
63) Stewart-Smith, Dudley (December 1910)
64) Swerling, Sam (October 1974)
65) Thornton, Jim (2005)
66) Twells, George (1945)
67) Windsor, Walter (1931)
68) Winterbottom, Ian (1955-1959)
69) Wolfe, Patricia (2010)

Notes:

* Candidates stood in both elections in the specified year.

The top 106 candidacies with the most number of votes:

1) John Heppell (1992) 25,026 (1st)
2) John Heppell (1997) 24,755 (1st)
3) John Cordeaux (1959) 24,004 (1st)
4) Ian Winterbottom (1959) 21,869 (2nd)
5) Jack Dunnett (1966) 21,348 (1st)
6) Jack Dunnett (1964) 21,040 (1st)
7) John Cordeaux (1955) 20,903 (1st)
8) James Harrison (1951) 20,865 (1st)
9) Sidney Shephard (1951) 20,601 (2nd)
10) James Harrison (1950) 20,404 (1st)
11) Michael Knowles (1987) 20,162 (1st)
12) Ian Winterbottom (1955) 20,145 (2nd)
13) Mohammad Aslam (1987) 19,706 (2nd)
14) John Cordeaux (1964) 18,912 (2nd)
15) Louis Gluckstein (1950) 18,079 (2nd)
16) Michael Knowles (1983) 17,641 (1st)
17) Jack Dunnett (1970) 17,638 (1st)
18) John Heppell (2001) 17,530 (1st)
19) Louis Gluckstein (1931) 17,484 (1st)
20) Michael Knowles (1992) 17,346 (2nd)
21) Jack Dunnett (February 1974) 17,324 (1st)
22) Louis Gluckstein (1935) 16,726 (1st)
23) Jack Dunnett (October 1974) 16,530 (1st)
24) Martyn Sloman (1983) 16,177 (2nd)
25) Jack Dunnett (1979) 15,433 (1st)
26) Christopher Leslie (2010) 15,022 (1st)
27) Tony Mitton (1966) 14,922 (2nd)
28) Bernard Brook Partridge (1970) 14,079 (2nd)
29) Norman Birkett (1929) 14,049 (1st)
30) John Heppell (2005) 13,787 (1st)
31) Richard Shepherd (February 1974) 13,346 (2nd)
32) Martin Brandon Bravo (1979) 12,199 (2nd)
33) John Houfton (November 1922) 12,082 (1st)
34) James Harrison (1945) 12,075 (1st)
35) Norman Birkett (1931) 11,901 (2nd)
36) Edmund Brocklebank (1924) 11,524 (1st)
37) Norman Birkett (1923) 11,355 (1st)
38) Louis Gluckstein (1945) 11,227 (2nd)
39) Louis Gluckstein (1929) 11,110 (2nd)
40) Sam Swerling (October 1974) 10,574 (2nd)
41) John Houfton (June 1922) 10,404 (1st)
42) Norman Birkett (1924) 10,078 (2nd)
43) John Houfton (1923) 9,919 (2nd)
44) J H Baum (1929) 9,787 (3rd)
45) John Rees (1918) 9,549 (1st)
46) Andrew Raca (1997) 9,336 (2nd)
47) Michael Bird (1983) 8,385 (3rd)
48) E E H Atkin (November 1922) 8,170 (2nd)
49) Sam Boote (2010) 8,053 (2nd)
50) Ewan Lamont (2010) 7,846 (3rd)
51) Leon Freedman (1935) 7,435 (2nd)
52) Richard Allan (2001) 7,210 (2nd)
53) Steve Parkhouse (1987) 6,887 (3rd)
54) Issan Ghazni (2005) 6,848 (2nd)
55) Jim Thornton (2005) 6,826 (3rd)
56) John Rees (1912) 6,482 (1st)
57) Ted Rowan (February 1974) 6,294 (3rd)
58) James Morrison (December 1910) 6,274 (1st)
59) Henry Cotton (1906) 6,020 (1st)
60) James Morrison (January 1910) 5,877 (1st)
61) Henry Cotton (January 1910) 5,725 (2nd)
62) A P W Seely (1945) 5,658 (3rd)
63) A H Jones (June 1922) 5,431 (2nd)
64) E A B Fletcher (1950) 5,368 (3rd)
65) Walter Windsor (1931) 5,339 (3rd)
66) Arnold Morley (1885) 5,239 (1st)
67) T W Dobson (1912) 5,158 (2nd)
68) Edward Bond (1900) 4,927 (2nd)
69) Edward Bond (1895) 4,900 (1st)
70) Arnold Morley (1892) 4,861 (1st)
71) Arthur Comyns-Carr (1935) 4,819 (3rd)
72) Dudley Stewart-Smith (December 1910) 4,804 (2nd)
73) Arnold Morley (1895) 4,735 (2nd)
74) Arnold Morley (1886) 4,584 (1st)
75) Ted Rowan (October 1974) 4,442 (3rd)
76) Harold Finch Hatton (1886) 4,418 (2nd)
77) Edward Bond (1906) 4,290 (2nd)
78) Harold Finch Hatton (1892) 4,284 (2nd)
79) Harold Finch Hatton (1885) 4,248 (2nd)
80) E H Fraser (1900) 4,148 (2nd)
81) T G Graham (June 1922) 4,065 (3rd)
82) Kevin Mulloy (1997) 4,008 (3rd)
83) Tim Ball (2001) 3,874 (3rd)
84) Tim Ball (1992) 3,695 (3rd)
85) Thomas Proctor (1918) 2,817 (2nd)
86) Tom Mann (1924) 2,606 (3rd)
87) John Hiley (1979) 2,270 (3rd)
88) Lady R Abrahams (1951) 2,209 (3rd)
89) Dennis Brookes (1918) 2,166 (3rd)
90) Ben Brown (1997) 1,645 (4th)
91) Ashley Baxter (2005) 1,517 (4th)
92) David Merrick (1983) 1,421 (4th)
93) Patricia Wolfe (2010) 1,138 (4th)
94) Pete Radcliff (2001) 1,117 (4th)
95) George Twells (1945) 1,072 (4th)
96) Benjamin Hoare (2010) 928 (5th)
97) Anthony Ellwood (2005) 740 (5th)
98) Dieter Peetz (October 1974) 736 (4th)
99) Andrew Jones (1992) 667 (4th)
100) Charles Roylance (1992) 598 (5th)
101) M Coles (1979) 426 (4th)
102) Pete Radcliff (2005) 373 (6th)
103) John Ashforth (1992) 283 (6th)
104) Ian Juniper (1979) 252 (5th)
105) Kenan Malik (1987) 212 (4th)
106) Parvaiz Sardar (2010) 125 (6th)

Most number of positional votes

First Place - John Heppell (1992)
Second Place - Ian Winterbottom (1959)
Third Place - Michael Bird (1983)
Fourth Place - Ben Brown (1997)
Fifth Place - Benjamin Hoare (2010)
Sixth Place - Pete Radcliff (2005)

Least number of positional votes

First Place - Arnold Morley (1886)
Second Place - Thomas Proctor (1918) **
Third Place - Dennis Brookes (1918) * and **
Fourth Place - Kenan Malik (1997) *
Fifth Place - Ian Juniper (1979) *
Sixth Place - Parvaiz Sardar (2010) *

Notes:

* Candidates finished last in the election that they stood in.

** The 1918 result was the only unique case when two candidates ended up with the least number of positional votes in the same election.

A list of the party candidates that stood in the elections:

CONSERVATIVE

1885: Harold Finch Hatton (2nd)
1886: Harold Finch Hatton (2nd)
1892: Harold Finch Hatton (2nd)
1895: Edward Bond (1st)
1900: Edward Bond (2nd)
1906: James Morrison (1st)
January 1910: James Morrison (1st)
December 1910: James Morrison (1st)
1912: John Rees (1st)
1918: John Rees (1st)
June 1922: John Houfton (1st)
November 1922: John Houfton (1st)
1923: John Houfton (2nd)
1924: Edmund Brocklebank (1st)
1929: Louis Gluckstein (2nd)
1931: Louis Gluckstein (1st)
1935: Louis Gluckstein (1st)
1945: Louis Gluckstein (2nd)
1950: Louis Gluckstein (2nd)
1951: Sidney Shephard (2nd)
1955: John Cordeaux (1st)
1959: John Cordeaux (1st)
1964: John Cordeaux (2nd)
1966: Tony Mitton (2nd)
1970: Bernard Brook Partridge (2nd)
February 1974: Richard Shepherd (2nd)
October 1974: Sam Swerling (2nd)
1979: Martin Brandon-Bravo (2nd)
1983: Michael Knowles (1st) *
1987: Michael Knowles (1st)
1992: Michael Knowles (2nd)
1997: Andrew Raca (2nd)
2001: Richard Allan (2nd)
2005: Jim Thornton (3rd)
2010: Ewan Lamont (3rd)

LABOUR

1885: (No candidate)
1886: (No candidate)
1892: (No candidate)
1895: (No candidate)
1900: (No candidate)
1906: (No candidate)
January 1910: (No candidate)
December 1910: (No candidate)
1912: (No candidate)
1918: Thomas Proctor (2nd)
June 1922: A H Jones (2nd)
November 1922: (No candidate)
1923: (No candidate)
1924: (No candidate)
1929: J H Baum (3rd)
1931: Walter Windsor (3rd)
1935: Leon Freedman (2nd)
1945: James Harrison (1st)
1950: James Harrison (1st)
1951: James Harrison (1st)
1955: Ian Winterbottom (2nd)
1959: Ian Winterbottom (2nd)
1964: Jack Dunnett (1st)
1966: Jack Dunnett (1st)
1970: Jack Dunnett (1st)
February 1974: Jack Dunnett (1st)
October 1974: Jack Dunnett (1st) *
1979: Jack Dunnett (1st)
1983: Martyn Sloman (2nd)
1987: Mohammad Aslam (2nd)
1992: John Heppell (1st)
1997: John Heppell (1st)
2001: John Heppell (1st)
2005: John Heppell (1st)
2010: Christopher Leslie (1st)

LIBERAL

1885: Arnold Morley (1st)
1886: Arnold Morley (1st)
1892: Armold Morley (1st)
1895: Arnold Morley (2nd)
1900: E H Fraser (2nd)
1906: Henry Cotton (1st)
January 1910: Henry Cotton (2nd)
December 1910: Dudley Stewart-Smith (2nd)
1912: T W Dobson (2nd)
1918: (No candidate)
June 1922: T G Graham (2nd)
November 1922: E E H Atkin (2nd)
1923: Norman Birkett (1st)
1924: Norman Birkett (2nd)
1929: Norman Birkett (1st)
1931: Norman Birkett (2nd)
1935: Arthur Comyns-Carr (3rd)
1945: A P W Seely (3rd)
1950: E A B Fletcher (3rd)
1951: Lady R Abrahams (3rd)
1955: (No candidate)
1959: (No candidate)
1964: (No candidate)
1966: (No candidate)
1970: (No candidate)
February 1974: Ted Rowan (3rd)
October 1974: Ted Rowan (3rd)
1979: John Hiley (3rd)
1983: Michael Bird (3rd)
1987: Steve Parkhouse (3rd)
1992: Tim Ball (3rd)
1997: Kevin Mulloy (3rd)
2001: Tim Ball (3rd)
2005: Issan Ghazni (2nd)
2010: Sam Boote (2nd)

Notes:

* October 1974 also had an Independent Labour candidate, while 1983 had an Independent Conservative candidate.

CANDIDATES THAT HAVE LOST THEIR DEPOSIT

From 1918 to 1985 the deposit threshold was set at 12.5% (one eighth of all votes cast). This was lowered to 5% in 1985 (one twentieth of all votes cast). Of course candidates losing their deposit has been more of a common occurrence in the past 20 years or so, thanks to the number of minor party and Independent candidates standing. As of the 2010 General Election a total of 19 candidates have lost their deposit (or 20 if you count Pete Radcliff standing twice and losing his deposit on both occasions). In elections where a multiple number of candidates have lost their deposit on the same occasion, the candidate with the larger percentage is listed before the ones with a smaller amount. Here is a list of those that lost their deposit:

1918-1985 Candidates that have lost their 12.5% deposit

1) Tom Mann (Communist, 1924) 10.8%
2) George Twells (Independent, 1945) 3.6%
3) E A B Fletcher (Liberal, 1950) 12.2% *
4) Lady Abrahams (Liberal, 1951) 5.1%
5) Dieter Peetz (Independent Labour, October 1974) 2.2%
6) John Hiley (Liberal, 1979) 7.4% **
7) M Coles (National Front, 1979) 1.3% **
8) Ian Juniper (Socialist Unity, 1979) 0.8% **
9) David Merrick (Independent Conservative, 1983) 3.2%

Notes:

* First mainstream party candidate to lose their deposit in Nottingham East.

** First election that a multiple number of candidates have lost their deposit.

Post-1985 Candidates that have lost their 5% deposit

1) Kenan Malik (Red Front, 1987) 0.4%
2) Andrew Jones (Green, 1992) 1.4%
3) Charles Roylance (Liberal, 1992) 1.3%
4) John Ashforth (Natural Law Party, 1992) 0.6%
5) Ben Brown (Referendum Party, 1997) 4.1%
6) Pete Radcliff (Socialist Alliance, 2001) 3.8% *
7) Anthony Ellwood (UK Independence Party, 2005) 2.5%
8) Pete Radcliff (Socialist Unity, 2005) 1.2% *
9) Patricia Wolfe (UK Independence Party, 2010) 3.4%
10) Benjamin Hoare (Green, 2010) 2.8%
11) Parvaiz Sardar (Christian Party, 2010) 0.4%

Notes:

* Pete Radcliff has so far been the only candidate to stand more than once in the constituency and lose their deposit on both occasions.

Minor party candidates that have kept their deposit

1) Dennis Brookes (National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, 1918) 14.9% *
2) Ashley Baxter (Green, 2005) 5.0% **

Notes:

* Brookes kept his 12.5% deposit. One assumes that part of his success in keeping his deposit was the fact that the Liberals did not stand in Nottingham East in 1918. In fact, I have almost come to the conclusion that the Liberals had supported this candidate standing here and Brookes certainly seems to have taken the Liberal's place in the election results. Was it common practice back then for the Liberals to not stand in constituencies where minor parties like the National Federation of Discharges and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers taking place? Probably it was a good job that Brookes didn't stand as a Liberal anyway, considering the deposit loses the party had many decades later...

** Baxter kept his 5.0% deposit by getting about 13 votes above the deposit threshold - probably one of the most marginal deposit victors in the country.

Major party candidates that have lost their deposit *

1) E A B Fletcher (Liberal, 1950) 12.2%
2) Lady Abrahams (Liberal, 1951) 5.1%
3) John Hiley (Liberal, 1979) 7.4%

Notes:

* Excludes alternative variations of mainstream candidates such as Independent Conservative and Independent Labour. Charles Roylance, the 1992 Liberal candidate was not a major party candidate.

Ironically, all those candidates above would have kept their deposit if they had reached the percentage total in their elections after 1985.

CANDIDATES THAT HAVE MADE COMEBACKS

The only candidate who had previously been elected, lost their seat and gained it back again was Norman Birkett in 1929. Louis Gluckstein and Ian Winterbottom were candidates trying to repeat this feat without any success, although as I have said before, Winterbottom’s effort with this is partly ignored due to the fact that we do not cover the Nottingham Central elections of 1950 and 1951 when he had been previously elected. One could count Gluckstein's first win in 1931 as a "comeback" as he had previously stood two years earlier and was previously defeated. Also Harold Finch-Hatton, Ted Rowan, Tim Ball (see below) and Pete Radcliff have stood more than once without being elected.

The only candidate to have made a reappearance in a Nottingham East election without appearing in two consecutive elections was Tim Ball, who stood in 1992 and 2001 but not 1997. Interesting that both Birkett and Ball standing as were Liberal candidates (and their surnames began with B of course). Three out of the four candidates that stood in Nottingham East at the 2001 General Election had stood in at least one other election in the same constituency; sitting Member of Parliament John Heppell stood twice before and once afterwards; Pete Radcliff stood again in 2005 and Tim Ball previously stood in 1992.

MINORITY CANDIDATES

It’s a fact that if you are white, male and heterosexual in early 21st century Britain, one tends to be vulnerable to so-called positive action, which is thanks to the Race Relations Act 1976, (which had been put in place by the Wilson and Callaghan Labour government), and is also condoned by man haters like Harriet Harman.

I think that we can take it as a given that the majority of candidates who have stood since 1885 are white and male, but there have been a tiny minority who are neither of that race or gender. Research proves that Nottingham City Councillor Mohammad Aslam, who stood for Labour, and broadcaster and writer Kenan Malik, who represented the short-lived Red Front, were the constituency’s first non-white candidates when they had stood against each other at the 1987 General Election, although the accolade who having the first non-white candidate could have happened long before this. Indeed I have no proof of this. Aslam’s 1987 result has proved that he has been the constituency’s most successful non-white candidate.

Meanwhile Lady Abrahams, the 1951 Liberal candidate was the first female to stand - this is something that I am more definite about here when to comes to gender; (the “Lady” part of her name is an enormous clue to the identity of her gender, and the title is also used because it replaces first name, which at the moment of writing, is unknown). But it was not until the 2010 General Election that a second female candidate stood, and that was Pat Wolfe who stood for the UK Independence Party. Ironically, Sharon Atkin, who was going to be the 1987 Labour Party candidate was both a non-white and a non-male candidate, and would have been the first one to stand (as well as appear twice in both lists below), but controversy over accusing the Labour Party of racism had forced Atkin to resign from the candidacy and the aforementioned Mohammad Aslam took her place. No coincidence that 1987 had made a big impact with ethnic minority candidates because that year’s General Election also gave Parliament a number of ethnic candidates such as Bernie Grant and Diane Abbott, one of the first black females to be elected for the first time.

Here is a list of all non-white and non-male candidates who have stood in Nottingham East. I may have left some people out because I only know their name and not what they look like to determine gender or race. There have been six candidates who were not male or white; two females and four who are from an Asian or black background. If there are any other non-white person that I have left out of the list below, especially if they happened to stand as a candidate decades ago, please email me with the details. Can I also add that the object of this is for statistical and historical purposes only and is not meant to be racist or sexist.

Non-male candidates

1) Lady R Abrahams (1951)
2) Patricia Wolfe (2010)

Non-white candidates

1) Mohammad Aslam (1987)
2) Kenan Malik (1987)
3) Issan Ghazni (2005)
4) Parvaiz Sardar (2010)

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES

This list is decided on how well (or how badly) a candidate has performed at any of the past elections.

The most successful...

Conservative candidates:

1) Sir Louis Gluckstein
2) John Cordeaux
3) Michael Knowles

Labour candidates:

1) Jack Dunnett
2) John Heppell
3) James Harrison

Liberal candidates:

1) Arnold Morley
2) Norman Birkett
3) Henry Cotton

Other candidates:

1) Tom Mann
2) Dennis Brookes
3) Ben Brown

The least successful...

Conservative candidates:

1) Jim Thornton
2) Harold Finch Hatton
3) Richard Allan

Labour candidates:

1) Walter Windsor *
2) J H Baum
3) Ian Winterbottom

Liberal candidates:

1) Lady R Abrahams
2) John Hiley
3) Ted Rowan

Other candidates:

1) Parvaiz Sardar
2) Kenan Malik
3) Ian Juniper

Notes:

* Ironically, for such a Labour dominated constituency in later decades, Nottingham East was the only constituency where Walter Windsor stood without being elected, even though he had been an elected politician for Bethnal Green North East from 1922 to 1929 and again for Hull Central from 1935 until his death in 1945. But Windsor's bad back luck didn't end there; in 1945 while seeking re-election for Hull Central, he passed away just six days before the date of the General Election, causing the election in the constituency to be postponed by about a month; something that has only happened six times in the 20th century.

FORMER CANDIDATES AND ELECTED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

Longest living former Member of Parliament

Jack Dunnett (28 years - 1983-)

Shortest living former Member of Parliament

Sir John Rees (Died in office - 1922)

Longest lived former non-elected candidate

Leon Freedman (53 years - 1935-1988)

Shortest lived former non-elected candidate

Sidney Shephard (2 years - 1951-1953) *

Notes:

* It’s probably a good job that Sidney Shephard did not get elected in 1951 as he would have triggered off a By-Election two years later due to his death.

An index of all political party descriptions that took part in elections:

1) Christian Party (2010) - 1
2) Coalition Unionist (1918-June 1922) - 2
3) Communist (1924) - 1
4) Conservative (1885-1892, November 1922-1929, 1935-) - 26
5) Gladstonian Liberal (1886, 1892) - 2
6) Green (1992, 2005-2010) - 3
7) Independent (1945) - 1
8) Independent Conservative (1983) - 1
9) Independent Labour (October 1974) - 1
10) Independent Liberal (June 1922) - 1
12) Labour (1918, 1929-1979, 1987-) - 21
13) Labour Cooperative (1922, 1983, 2010) - 3
14) Liberal (1885, 1895-1912, 1922-1951, February 1974-1979) - 18
15) Liberal - Charles Roylance (1992) - 1
16) Liberal Democrat (1992-) - 5
17) National Conservative (1931) - 1
18) National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers - NFDSS (1918) - 1
19) National Front (1979) - 1
20) Natural Law Party (1992) - 1
21) Red Front (1987) - 1 *
22) Referendum Party (1997) - 1
23) Revolutionary Communist Party (1987) - 1 *
24) Socialist Alliance (2001) - 1
25) Social Democrat Party (1983) - 1
26) Social Democrat Party - Liberal Alliance (1987) - 1
27) Socialist Unity (1979, 2005) - 2
28) UK Independence Party (2005-2010) - 1
29) Unionist (1895-1912) - 6

Notes:

* These two descriptions are the same candidate.

All the name variations of the descriptions of political parties given are listed above. There are a number of different descriptions and names above that refer to the same political party.

The probable ratio between a candidate and a different political party description above is roughly one in 1.5 (or ignoring decimal points, two in three).