The largest part of this website is our collection of historical statistics, but these are always for precisely defined areas, usually administrative units, not "places". We know about the following units named after Poplar. Each has its own "home page" with much more information. Click on a tick to go directly to a particular statistical theme.

Be careful! A unit may cover just the town or village, but it may include a big surrounding area. For example, in England and Wales rural districts — units with RD or RSD suffixes — may even exclude the places they are named after. The "Units covering this place" tab lists units whose boundaries contained Poplar.

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Poplar Christ Church EP                  
Poplar St Stephen EP                  
Poplar St Matthias EP                  
Poplar St Saviour EP                  
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Poplar St Frideswide EP                  
Poplar All Saints With St Frideswide EP                  
Poplar St Saviour With St Gabriel and St Stephen EP                  
Poplar EP                  
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Election Results

Election results are available for these constituencies associated with Poplar.

Constituencies Start Date End Date
Tower Hamlets Poplar PBDivCon 1885 1918
Poplar Bow and Bromley PBDivCon 1918 1948
Poplar South Poplar PBDivCon 1918 1948
Poplar BCon 1949 1973
Poplar and Canning Town BCon 1997

Additional constituencies that covered Poplar may be listed on the "Units covering this place" tab.

This website includes information on many different historical units, including census data and other statistics. The boundaries of these units covered Poplar:

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Election Results

Election results are available for these constituencies which covered Poplar.

Constituencies Start Date End Date
Tower Hamlets PBCon18321884
Tower Hamlets Poplar PBDivCon18851917
Poplar South Poplar PBDivCon19181948
Poplar BCon19491973
Tower Hamlets Stepney and Poplar BCon19741982
Bow and Poplar BCon19831996
Poplar and Canning Town BCon1997 

Please note that these units are listed here because their boundaries covered the point location we hold for Poplar. You can search for units that covered the particular location you are interested in by typing a postcode into our home page, or by using our Historic maps section, zooming in, selecting the Information option, and then clicking on your location. Units will also not be listed here if we hold no computerised boundaries for them, such as Registration sub-Districts and Sanitary Districts.