Shoreditch and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Shoreditch and Finsbury
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
1950 (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 the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used from 1950 to 1974.

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 1960s

General Election 1966: Shoreditch and Finsbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronald Brown	17,456	71.1	+2.7
	Conservative	R. E. Sims	5,957	24.3	−7.3
	Union Movement	Sir Oswald 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

References

• Richard Kimber's political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)