Shoreditch and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Shoreditch and Finsbury
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
1950–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Islington South & Finsbury Hackney South & Shoreditch
Created from	Shoreditch Finsbury

Shoreditch and Finsbury was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Shoreditch district of the East End of London and the adjacent Finsbury area. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post system of voting.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, partially replacing the previous Shoreditch and Finsbury constituencies, which had seen a significant fall in population.

Shoreditch and Finsbury was itself abolished for the February 1974 general election, when its territory was divided between two new constituencies: Islington South & Finsbury and Hackney South & Shoreditch.

Boundaries

Shoreditch and Finsbury in London 1950-74

The constituency consisted of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch and the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. Shoreditch was absorbed into the London Borough of Hackney in 1964, and Finsbury was absorbed into the London Borough of Islington; however, the boundaries were unchanged until the seat's abolition.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Ernest Thurtle	Labour
	1954 by-election	Victor Collins	Labour
	1958 by-election	Michael Cliffe	Labour
	1964	Ronald Brown	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	22,150	53.2	n/a
	Conservative	Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon	7,879	18.6	n/a
	Independent Labour	John Faithful Fortescue Platts-Mills	7,602	18.0	n/a
	Liberal	George Alfred Hensher	4,297	10.4	n/a
Majority			14,631	34.6	n/a
Turnout				73.4	n/a
	Labour win

General Election 1951: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	30,162	72.6
	Conservative	Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon	11,399	27.4
Majority			18,763	45.1
Turnout				73.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Shoreditch and Finsbury by-election, 1954
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victor John Collins	18,082
	Conservative	Malcolm Bowden Agnew	5,043
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victor John Collins	25,500	73.4
	Conservative	Malcolm Bowden Agnew	9,216	26.5
Majority			16,284	46.9
Turnout				77.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Shoreditch and Finsbury by-election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Cliffe	10,215
	Conservative	Thomas Henry Martin Whipham	3,219
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Cliffe	22,744	67.0
	Conservative	Thomas Henry Martin Whipham	11,178	33.0
Majority			11,566	34.1
Turnout				34.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald William Brown	18,207	68.4
	Conservative	Roger J L Bramble	8,412	31.6
Majority			9,795	36.8
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald William Brown	17,456	71.1	+2.7
	Conservative	Roger Edward Sims	5,957	24.3	−7.3
	Union Movement	Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley	1,126	4.6	N/A
Majority			11,499	46.9	+10.1
Turnout			24,519	53.5	−2.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.0

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald William Brown	14,474	66.9
	Conservative	Roger Edward Sims	7,166	33.1
Majority			7,308	33.8
Turnout				48.7
	Labour hold		Swing

References

Historic constituencies in London

1950	Barnet Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham East Fulham West Greenwich Hackney South Hammersmith North Hammersmith South Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Streatham Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

1955	Barnet Barons Court Battersea North Battersea South Bermondsey Bethnal Green Brentford and Chiswick Brixton Chelsea Cities of London and Westminster Clapham Deptford Dulwich Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hammersmith North Hampstead Holborn and St Pancras South Islington East Islington North Islington South West Kensington North Kensington South Lewisham North Lewisham South Lewisham West Norwood Paddington North Paddington South Peckham Poplar Putney St Marylebone St Pancras North Shoreditch and Finsbury Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington and Hackney North Streatham Vauxhall Wandsworth Central Woolwich East Woolwich West

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