Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stoke Newington
Borough constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Stoke Newington was a borough constituency in what was then the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington, in London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election, and abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1948 for the 1950 general election, and largely replaced by the newly created Hackney North & Stoke Newington constituency.

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Election Member Party
1918 Sir George William Henry Jones Conservative
1923 Dr George Ernest Spero Liberal
1924 Sir George William Henry Jones Conservative
1945 David Weitzman QC Labour
1950 constituency abolished: see Hackney North & Stoke Newington


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