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Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)

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Type of constituency
  
County constituency

Number of members
  
1

Created from
  
Middlesex

Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)

County
  
1885–1965: Middlesex 1965–1983: Greater London

Replaced by
  
Middlesex, Hornsey and Wood Green, Tottenham

Hornsey was a parliamentary constituency covering what is now the Hornsey district of north London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1885 general election until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

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History

From 1885 to 1918, the constituency was a county division of Middlesex, and in 1918 it became a parliamentary borough. From 1950 it was a borough constituency.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The parishes of Hornsey (including South Hornsey) and Finchley, and the area included in the Parliamentary Boroughs of the City of London, Finsbury, and Islington.

1918-1974: The Municipal Borough of Hornsey.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Central Hornsey, Crouch End, Fortis Green, Highgate, Muswell Hill, South Hornsey, Stroud Green, and Turnpike.

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Unionist: Earl of Ronaldshay
  • Liberal:
  • endorsed by Coalition Government
  • Elections in the 1930s

    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;

  • Conservative: David Euan Wallace
  • Labour: JT Murphy
  • Elections in the 1950s

  • Archive footage of the result and speeches from 3:57:

  • References

    Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia