Shoreditch and Finsbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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North Staffordshire Borough constituency
Created:	1950
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Shoreditch and Finsbury was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Shoreditch district of the East End of London and the adjacent and Finsbury area. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1960s 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1950	Ernest Thurtle	Labour
	1954	Victor Collins	Labour
	1958	Michael Cliffe	Labour
	1964	Ronald William Brown	Labour
1974		constituency abolished: see Islington South & Finsbury and Hackney South & Shoreditch

[edit] Election results

[edit] 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

[edit] References

• Richard Kimber's political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page