Shoreditch | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | London |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Shoreditch & Finsbury |
Created from | Haggerston and Hoxton |
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.
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.
Throughout its existence, the constituency's boundaries were contiguous with those of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Year | Member | Whip | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | National Liberal | Christopher Addison | 9,532 | 55.9 | |
Unionist | Robert Standish Sievier [2] | 3,414 | 20.0 | ||
National Amalgamated Coal Workers' Union | Alfred Walton [3] | 2,072 | 12.2 | ||
Liberal | Henry Chancellor | 1,524 | 8.9 | ||
National | Thomas Warwick | 504 | 3.0 | ||
Majority | 6,118 | 35.9 | |||
Turnout | 17,046 | 37.3 | |||
National Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Liberal | Ernest Griffith Price | 9,084 | 37.6 | New | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 8,834 | 36.5 | New | |
Liberal | Christopher Addison | 6,273 | 25.9 | +17.0 | |
Majority | 250 | 1.1 | -34.8 | ||
Turnout | 24,191 | 47.4 | +10.1 | ||
National Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 13,874 | 56.6 | +20.1 | |
Liberal | Ernest Griffith Price | 10,658 | 43.4 | +17.5 | |
Majority | 3,216 | 13.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,532 | 47.4 | 0.0 | ||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | +1.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 16,608 | 53.0 | −3.6 | |
Liberal | Harold Reckitt | 14,748 | 47.0 | +3.6 | |
Majority | 1,860 | 6.0 | −7.2 | ||
Turnout | 31,356 | 59.5 | +12.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 20,552 | 51.5 | −1.5 | |
Liberal | Harold Reckitt | 12,981 | 32.6 | −13.6 | |
Unionist | Antony Bulwer-Lytton | 6,334 | 15.9 | New | |
Majority | 7,571 | 18.9 | +12.9 | ||
Turnout | 39,867 | 64.3 | +4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Liberal | Charles Summersby | 19,596 | 56.7 | New | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 14,988 | 43.3 | −8.2 | |
Majority | 4,608 | 13.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,584 | 55.9 | −8.6 | ||
National Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 18,602 | 61.4 | +18.1 | |
National Liberal | Somerset Stopford Brooke | 11,673 | 38.6 | −18.1 | |
Majority | 6,929 | 22.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,275 | 51.9 | −4.0 | ||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | +18.1 | |||
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;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 11,592 | 74.0 | +12.6 | |
National Liberal | Frederick L Boult | 4,081 | 26.0 | −12.6 | |
Majority | 7,511 | 48.0 | +25.2 | ||
Turnout | 15,673 | 57.6 | +2.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.3 | |||
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