Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)

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Shoreditch
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
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Shoreditch in London
County London
1918–1950
SeatsOne
Created from Haggerston and Hoxton
Replaced by Shoreditch & Finsbury

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

Contents

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Shoreditch and Finsbury constituency.

Boundaries

Throughout its existence, the constituency's boundaries were contiguous with those of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Members of Parliament

YearMemberWhip
1918 Christopher Addison Coalition Liberal
1922 Ernest Griffith Price National Liberal
1923 Ernest Thurtle Labour
1931 Charles Summersby Liberal National
1935 Ernest Thurtle Labour
1950 constituency abolished

Election results

Election in the 1910s

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Chancellor
General election 1918: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C National Liberal Christopher Addison 9,53255.9
Unionist Robert Standish Sievier [2] 3,41420.0
National Amalgamated Coal Workers' Union Alfred Walton [3] 2,07212.2
Liberal Henry Chancellor 1,5248.9
National Thomas Warwick5043.0
Majority6,11835.9
Turnout 17,04637.3
National Liberal win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Election in the 1920s

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Addison
General election 1922: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Liberal Ernest Griffith Price 9,084 37.6 New
Labour Ernest Thurtle 8,83436.5New
Liberal Christopher Addison 6,27325.9+17.0
Majority2501.1−34.8
Turnout 24,19147.4+10.1
National Liberal hold Swing
General election 1923: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 13,874 56.6 +20.1
Liberal Ernest Griffith Price 10,65843.4+17.5
Majority3,21613.2N/A
Turnout 24,53247.40.0
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing +1.3
General election 1924: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 16,608 53.0 −3.6
Liberal Harold Reckitt 14,74847.0+3.6
Majority1,8606.0−7.2
Turnout 31,35659.5+12.1
Labour hold Swing −3.6
General election 1929: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 20,552 51.5 −1.5
Liberal Harold Reckitt 12,98132.6−13.6
Unionist Antony Bulwer-Lytton 6,33415.9New
Majority7,57118.9+12.9
Turnout 39,86764.3+4.8
Labour hold Swing +6.4

Election in the 1930s

General election 1931: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Liberal Charles Summersby 19,596 56.7 New
Labour Ernest Thurtle 14,98843.3−8.2
Majority4,60813.4N/A
Turnout 34,58455.9−8.6
National Liberal gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 18,602 61.4 +18.1
National Liberal Somerset Stopford Brooke 11,67338.6−18.1
Majority6,92922.8N/A
Turnout 30,27551.9−4.0
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing +18.1

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

General election 1945: Shoreditch [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 11,592 74.0 +12.6
National Liberal Frederick L Boult4,08126.0−12.6
Majority7,51148.0+25.2
Turnout 15,67357.6+2.7
Labour hold Swing +6.3

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 47. ISBN   0-900178-06-X.
  2. ↑ ‘SIEVIER, Robert Standish’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 Sept 2017
  3. ↑ Julia Bush (1984). Behind the Lines: East London Labour, 1914-1919. Merlin Press. pp. 95, 241. ISBN   9780850363043.
  4. ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  5. ↑ Chemist & Druggist - Volume 128 1938
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