Islington Central (UK Parliament constituency)
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Islington Central | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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February 1974–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Islington North |
Created from | Islington East and Islington South West |
Islington Central was a parliamentary constituency in the Islington district of Inner London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Contents
Boundaries
The London Borough of Islington wards of Canonbury, Highbury, Holloway, Mildmay, and Quadrant.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | John Grant | Labour | |
1981 | SDP | ||
1983 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Douglas Grant | 13,415 | 51.5 | -7.0 | |
Conservative | Charles Goodson-Wickes | 9,276 | 35.6 | +14.5 | |
Liberal | Marie Dunn | 2,242 | 8.6 | -6.5 | |
National Front | Stewart Chaney | 797 | 3.1 | -2.2 | |
Ecology | Adrian Williams | 310 | 1.2 | ||
Majority | 4,139 | 15.9 | |||
Turnout | 40,884 | 63.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Douglas Grant | 14,689 | 58.5 | +4.6 | |
Conservative | C. Stanbrook | 5,296 | 21.1 | -2.9 | |
Liberal | P.W. Murphy | 3,786 | 15.1 | -7.0 | |
National Front | R. Score | 1,335 | 5.3 | ||
Majority | 9,393 | 37.4 | |||
Turnout | 45,347 | 55.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Douglas Grant | 15,687 | 53.9 | ||
Conservative | Richard Devonald-Lewis | 6,996 | 24.0 | ||
Liberal | I. Stuart | 6,447 | 22.1 | ||
Majority | 8,691 | 29.8 | |||
Turnout | 45,090 | 64.6 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
References
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with one unnamed parameter
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1974
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- Politics of Islington