Hackney Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hackney Central Borough constituency
Created:	1885, 1955
Abolished:	1950, 1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Hackney Central was a borough 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.

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 from 1885, and abolished for the 1950 general election. It was recreated for the 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1885-1950 2.2 MPs 1955-1983 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1885-1950

Election		Name	Party
	1885	Sir William Guyer Hunter	Conservative
	1892	Sir Andrew Richard Scoble	Conservative
	1900	Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen	Conservative
	1906	Sir Albert Spicer	Liberal
	1918	William James Uglow Woolcock	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Sir Arthur Levy Lever	National Liberal
	1923	Leonard Benjamin Franklin	Liberal
	1924	Robert Vaughan Gower	Conservative
	1929	Frederick Charles Watkins	Labour
	1931	John Cutts Lockwood	Conservative
	1935	Frederick Charles Watkins	Labour
	1945	Harry Hynd	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] MPs 1955-1983

Election		Name	Party
1955		constituency recreated
	1955	Herbert Butler	Labour
	1970	Stanley Clinton Davis	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.