Shoreditch | |
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Former Borough constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Shoreditch in the Parliamentary County of London, showing boundaries used from 1918 to 1950 |
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County | London |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Shoreditch & Finsbury |
Created from | Haggerston and Hoxton |
Shoreditch was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Shoreditch district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Shoreditch and Finsbury constituency.
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Throughout its existence, the constituency's boundaries were contiguous with those of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Christopher Addison | Liberal | |
1922 | Ernest Griffith Price | National Liberal | |
1923 | Ernest Thurtle | Labour | |
1931 | Charles Summersby | Liberal National | |
1935 | Ernest Thurtle | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Shoreditch & Finsbury |
General Election 5 to 19 July 1945: Shoreditch Electorate 27,223, Turnout 57.6%[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 11,592 | 74.0 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | F. Boult | 4,081 | 26.0 | −12.6 | |
Majority | 7,511 | 48.0 | +25.2 | ||
Turnout | 15,673 | 57.6 | +2.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.3 |
General Election 14 November 1935: Shoreditch
Electorate 58,333[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 18,602 | 61.4 | +18.1 | |
Liberal National | S. S. Brooke | 11,673 | 38.6 | −18.1 | |
Majority | 6,929 | 22.8 | |||
Turnout | 30,275 | 51.9 | −4.0 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal National | Swing | 18.1 |
General Election 27 October 1931: Shoreditch Electorate 61,874[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal National | Charles Summersby | 19,596 | 56.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 14,988 | 43.3 | −8.2 | |
Majority | 4,608 | 13.4 | |||
Turnout | 34,584 | 55.9 | −8.6 | ||
Liberal National gain from Labour | Swing |
General Election 30 May 1929: Shoreditch Electorate 62,025[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 20,552 | 51.5 | −1.5 | |
Liberal | Sir H. J. Reckitt, Bt | 12,981 | 32.6 | −14.1 | |
Conservative | Viscount Knebworth | 6,334 | 15.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,571 | 18.9 | |||
Turnout | 39,867 | 64.3 | +4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 29 October 1924: Shoreditch Electorate 52,698[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 16,608 | 53.0 | −3.6 | |
Liberal | Sir H. J. Reckitt, Bt | 14,748 | 47.0 | +3.6 | |
Majority | 1,860 | 6.0 | −7.2 | ||
Turnout | 31,356 | 59.5 | +12.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.6 |
General Election 6 December 1923: Shoreditch Electorate 51,726[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 13,874 | 56.6 | +20.1 | |
Liberal | Ernest Griffith Price | 10,658 | 43.4 | ||
Majority | 3,216 | 13.2 | |||
Turnout | 24,532 | 47.4 | +0 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
General Election 15 November 1922: Shoreditch Electorate 51,040[1] |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
National Liberal | Ernest Griffith Price | 9,084 | 37.6 | ||
Labour | Ernest Thurtle | 8,834 | 36.5 | ||
Liberal | Christopher Addison | 6,273 | 25.9 | ||
Majority | 250 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 47.4 | +10.1 | |||
National Liberal gain from Liberal | Swing |
General Election 14 December 1918: Shoreditch Composed of the Shoreditch Metropolitan District |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Christopher Addison | 9,532 | 55.9 | ||
Conservative | Robert Standish Sievier | 3,414 | 20.0 | ||
Independent Labour | A. Walton | 2,072 | 12.2 | ||
Liberal | Henry George Chancellor | 1,524 | 8.9 | ||
Independent | Thomas Warwick | 504 | 3.0 | ||
Majority | 6,118 | 35.9 | |||
Turnout | 17,046 | 37.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |