Editing Poplar, London (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Bow Business Centre, Bow Road - geograph.org.uk - 434827.jpg|thumb|[[Poplar Town Hall]], now a business centre]]
Until 1965, Poplar had its own council which was based at [[Poplar Town Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://manchesterhistory.net/architecture/1930/poplartownhall.html|title=Poplar Town Hall|publisher=Manchester History|accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref> Since 1965, the area has formed part of the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]], with its council based at [[Mulberry Place]].<ref>{{cite web|title='Modern Docklands: Gazetteer of modern non-housing developments', in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs|first= Hermione |last=Hobhouse|location=London|year=1994|pages=707–724|publisher=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp707-724 |accessdate= 14 May 2020}}</ref> The council moved to a new [[Tower Hamlets Town Hall]] in Whitechapel Road on 1 March 2023.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2023/03/historic-whitechapel-building-reopens-as-tower-hamlets-new-town-hall/|title=Historic Whitechapel building reopens as Tower Hamlets' new town hall|newspaper=East London Lines|date=1 March 2023|access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>

The [[Isle of Dogs]] and Poplar proper in general achieved notoriety in 1993 when [[Derek Beackon]] of the [[British National Party]] became a councillor for [[Millwall]] ward, in a [[by election]]. This was the culmination of years of resentment by local residents of perceived neglect by both [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politicians.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/17/newsid_2520000/2520085.stm BBC "on this day" report] accessed: 17 April 2007</ref> Labour regained the ward in the full council election of May 1994, and held all three seats until a further by election in September 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theedkins.co.uk/byelections/le0409.htm|title=September 2004 Byelection Results|access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref>