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Hackney South and Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)
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Hackney South and Shoreditch 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.
Boundaries
The constituency shares a boundary with eight others: Walthamstow, Leyton & Wanstead, West Ham, Bethnal Green & Bow, Cities of London and Westminster, Islington South & Finsbury, Islington North, and its borough partner Hackney North & Stoke Newington.
The constituency historically covers South Hackney, Shoreditch, Haggerston, De Beauvoir Town and Hackney Wick in the London Borough of Hackney, and is now divided into nine political wards:
Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1974)
The seat has a history of members switching parties. Ronald Brown, elected in 1974 as a representative of the Labour Party, joined the splinter Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He held the seat as an SDP member until 1983, when he was defeated by Labour Party candidate Brian Sedgemore. Sedgemore then remained a member of the Labour Party for most of his career, but defected to the Liberal Democrats, the successors to the SDP, shortly before the 2005 election, in which he did not stand. The Liberal Democrat candidate Hugh Bayliss was unable to hold the seat, which is again held by a Labour Party representative, the incumbent Meg Hillier.
Election results
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
See also
Sources
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