Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)
Hornsey | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | 1885–1965: Middlesex 1965–1983: Greater London |
1918–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Hornsey and Wood Green |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | Middlesex |
Hornsey was a parliamentary constituency covering what is now the Hornsey district of north London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1885 general election until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
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History
From 1885 to 1918, the constituency was a county division of Middlesex, and in 1918 it became a parliamentary borough. From 1950 it was a borough constituency.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The parishes of Hornsey (including South Hornsey) and Finchley, and the area included in the Parliamentary Boroughs of the City of London, Finsbury, and Islington.
1918-1974: The Municipal Borough of Hornsey.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Central Hornsey, Crouch End, Fortis Green, Highgate, Muswell Hill, South Hornsey, Stroud Green, and Turnpike.
Members of Parliament
Election Results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | unopposed | n/a | n/a | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Viscount Ednam | 15,959 | 53.4 | n/a | |
Liberal | Edward Leslie Burgin | 13,943 | 46.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,016 | 6.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 65.7 | n/a | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Viscount Ednam | 18,462 | 53.2 | ||
Liberal | Edward Leslie Burgin | 16,239 | 46.8 | ||
Majority | 2,223 | 6.4 | |||
Turnout | 77.2 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Viscount Ednam | 16,812 | 47.4 | -5.8 | |
Liberal | Edward Leslie Burgin | 15,197 | 42.8 | -4.0 | |
Labour | Christopher Francis Healy | 3,487 | 9.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,615 | 4.6 | -1.8 | ||
Turnout | 76.6 | -0.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | David Euan Wallace | 21,017 | 54.6 | ||
Liberal | Edward Leslie Burgin | 13,217 | 34.3 | ||
Labour | Christopher Francis Healy | 4,277 | 11.1 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 7,800 | 20.3 | |||
Turnout | 81.6 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | David Euan Wallace | 25,540 | 51.0 | -3.6 | |
Liberal | William Thomson | 16,029 | 32.0 | -2.3 | |
Labour | Francis Henry Wiltshire | 8,529 | 17.0 | +5.9 | |
Majority | 9,511 | 19.0 | -1.3 | ||
Turnout | 75.2 | -6.4 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.7 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Euan Wallace | 41,194 | 84.5 | ||
Labour | Hugh Arthur Franklin | 7,585 | 15.5 | ||
Majority | 33,609 | 69.0 | |||
Turnout | 48,779 | 70.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Euan Wallace | 30,494 | 64.9 | ||
Labour | Mrs Mari M Power | 10,320 | 21.9 | ||
Liberal | Herbert James Baxter | 6,206 | 13.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 20,174 | 43.0 | |||
Turnout | 47,020 | 67.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: David Euan Wallace
- Labour: JT Murphy[5]
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leonard David Gammans | 11,077 | 72.8 | ||
National Independent | Noel Pemberton Billing | 4,146 | 27.2 | ||
Majority | 6,931 | 45.6 | +2.6 | ||
Turnout | 21.1 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leonard David Gammans | 24,684 | 52.8 | ||
Labour | William Geoffrey Fiske | 12,015 | 25.7 | ||
Communist | George John Jones | 10,058 | 21.5 | ||
Majority | 12,669 | 27.1 | |||
Turnout | 73.1 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leonard David Gammans | 33,927 | 53.8 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Reginald Alfred Pestel | 22,832 | 36.2 | +10.5 | |
Liberal | Adrienne Annie Ellen Marjorie Leevers | 5,122 | 8.1 | n/a | |
Communist | George John Jones | 1,191 | 1.9 | -19.6 | |
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Majority | 11,095 | 17.6 | - |
- Archive footage of the result and speeches from 3:57: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmt5Rz-DTA
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leonard David Gammans | 36,417 | 58.7 | ||
Labour | Reginald Alfred Pestel | 25,643 | 41.3 | ||
Majority | 10,774 | 17.4 | - | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Leonard David Gammans | 33,294 | 60.2 | ||
Labour | Frederick Evelyn Mostyn | 20,568 | 37.2 | ||
Communist | George John Jones | 1,442 | 2.6 | ||
Majority | 12,726 | 23.0 | - | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ann Muriel Gammans | 24,169 | 53.5 | -6.7 | |
Labour | Frederick Evelyn Mostyn | 21,038 | 46.5 | +9.3 | |
Majority | 3,131 | 7.0 | -16.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -8.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ann Muriel Gammans | 30,048 | 55.06 | ||
Labour | Frederick Evelyn Mostyn | 17,710 | 32.45 | ||
Liberal | Samuel Solomon | 5,706 | 10.46 | ||
Communist | George John Jones | 1,107 | 2.03 | ||
Majority | 12,338 | 22.61 | - | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1950
- ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1951
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
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