Hackney North and Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)

Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hackney North and Stoke Newington in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	74,780 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1950 (1950)
Member of Parliament	Diane Abbott (Labour)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Hackney North and Stoke Newington is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 2.1 Boundary review 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 4.1 Elections in the 2010s 4.2 Elections in the 2000s 4.3 Elections in the 1990s 4.4 Elections in the 1980s 5 References 6 External links 7 See also

History

The constituency has gone through many changes and in January 2006 saw the boundary moved again, this time to correspond with the local government ward boundaries.

Elections have been held here since De Montfort's Parliament in 1265 for the county constituency of Middlesex. The first division of the historic county was for the two seat constituency of Hackney at the 1868 general election. This was a creation of the Second Reform Act or the officially termed Representation of the People Act, 1867. Hackney's increased democratic representation provided suffrage for the first time to working-class men but was originally intended to increase the number of seats held in the House of Commons by the Conservative Party.

Following even greater electoral reform of the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, part of the Third Reform Act, the seat became Hackney North and this time returned only one Member of Parliament in the 1885 general election.

The Stoke Newington constituency was created at the 1918 general election by the division of the Hackney North constituency by the Representation of the People Act, 1918, known generally as Fourth Reform Act; an Act most importantly remembered for the first time extending suffrage to women. The constituency was identical in area to the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington.

Following a decrease in the population the two constituencies were merged by the Representation of the People Act, 1948, retaining David Weitzman as MP and becoming the current constituency in the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the northern part of the London Borough of Hackney. It is made up of ten electoral wards from the borough:

• Brownswood, Cazenove, Clissold, Dalston, Hackney Downs, Leabridge Park, Lordship, New River, Springfield, Stoke Newington Central^[2]

The constituency borders four others. Islington North to the west, Tottenham to the north, Walthamstow to the east and Hackney South & Shoreditch to the south.

Boundary review

Following its review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England made some changes to Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Parts of Dalston ward and Leabridge ward were transferred from the constituency of Hackney South and Shoreditch, and part of Hackney Central ward was transferred to Hackney South and Shoreditch from Hackney North and Stoke Newington.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [3]	Party
	1950	David Weitzman	Labour
	1979	Ernie Roberts	Labour
	1987	Diane Abbott	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Hackney North and Stoke Newington[4][5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diane Abbott	25,553	55.0	+6.0
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Angus	11,092	23.9	+0.8
	Conservative	Darren Caplan	6,759	14.5	0.0
	Green	Matt Sellwood	2,133	4.6	-5.1
	Christian	Maxine Hargreaves	299	0.6	N/A
	Independent	Suzanne Moore	258	0.6	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Knigel Knapp	182	0.4	-0.4
	Independent	Paul Shaer	96	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Alessandra Williams	61	0.1	N/A
	Magna Carta Party	Jack Pope-de-Locksley	26	0.1	N/A
Majority			14,461	31.1
Turnout			46,459	62.9	+13.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.6

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diane Abbott	14,268	48.6	−12.4
	Liberal Democrat	James Blanchard	6,841	23.3	+9.2
	Conservative	Ertan Hurer	4,218	14.4	−0.6
	Green	Mischa Borris	2,907	9.9	+2.5
	Independent	David Vail	602	2.0	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Nusrat Sen	296	1.0	−1.6
	Monster Raving Loony	Nigel Barrow	248	0.8	N/A
Majority			7,427	25.3
Turnout			29,380	49.6	+0.6
	Labour hold		Swing	−10.8

General Election 2001: Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diane Abbott	18,081	61.0	-4.1
	Conservative	Pauline (aka) Molly Dye	4,430	15.0	-2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Meral Ece	4,170	14.1	+3.9
	Green	Chit Chong	2,184	7.4	+3.1
	Socialist Labour	Sukant Chandan	756	2.6	N/A
Majority			13,651	46.0
Turnout			29,621	49.0	-3.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diane Abbott	21,110	65.2
	Conservative	M Lavender	5,483	16.9
	Liberal Democrat	D Taylor	3,306	10.2	+3.9
	Green	Y Chong	1,395	4.3
	Referendum Party	B Maxwell	544	1.7
	Independent	D Tolson	368	1.1
	Independent	L Lovebucket	176	0.5
Majority			15,627	0.5
Turnout				52.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diane Abbott	20,083	57.8
	Conservative	C Manson	9,356	26.9
	Liberal Democrat	K Fitchett	3,996	11.5
	Green	H M Hunt	1,111	3.2
	Natural Law	J Windsor	178	0.5
Majority			10,727	30.9
Turnout				63.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diane Abbott	18,912	48.7
	Conservative	Oliver Letwin	11,234	28.9
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	S H Taylor	7,446	19.2
	Green	DJ FitzPatrick	997	2.6
	Red Front	YT Anwar	228	0.6
Majority			7,678	19.8
Turnout				58.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ernie Roberts	18,989	52.0
	Conservative	E Hartley-Booth	10,444	28.6
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	D Ash	5,746	15.8
	Ecology	D FitzPatrick	492	1.4
	Communist	Monty Goldman	426	1.2
	National Front	J Field	396	1.1
Majority			8,545	23.4
Turnout				54.7
	Labour hold		Swing

References

External links

• Diane Abbott's website

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hackney
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

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