Girish Mahajan (Editor)

Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
County
  
London

Replaced by
  
Shoreditch & Finsbury

Number of members
  
One

Created from
  
Haggerston and Hoxton

Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Map of South Hackney, London, UK

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.

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;

  • Labour: Ernest Thurtle
  • Liberal National: James Edward Houseman
  • British Union: Michael Goulding
  • References

    Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia