Finsbury East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Finsbury East Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Finsbury East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Finsbury district of North 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 system.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created when the two-member Finsbury constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was replaced by a new single-member Finsbury constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	James Bigwood
	1886	James Rowlands
	1895	Henry Charles Richards
	1905	Joseph Allen Baker
	1918	Harry Evan Auguste Cotton
1918		constituency abolished: see Finsbury

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.