Hackney North (UK Parliament constituency)

Hackney North Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Hackney North was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, in London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[edit] History

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 when the two member Hackney seat was split into three single member divisions and was first contested in the 1885 general election. The constituency was abolished under the Representation of the People Act, 1948 for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency.

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Lt Gen Sir Lewis Pelly	Conservative
	1892	William Robert Bousfield QC	Conservative
	1906	Thomas Hart-Davies	Conservative
	1910	Lt Col Walter Raymond Greene	Conservative
	1923	John Hobbis Harris	Liberal
	1924	Capt Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson	Conservative
	1945	Henry Edwin Goodrich	Labour
1950		constituency abolished