Hackney South and Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hackney South and Shoreditch Borough constituency

Hackney South and Shoreditch shown within Greater London
Created:	1974
MP:	Meg Hillier
Party:	Labour Co-operative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

Hackney South and Shoreditch is a 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] 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:

Chatham (ward) see Homerton
De Beauvoir (ward) see De Beauvoir Town
Hackney Central ((ward) see Hackney Central
Haggerston (ward) see Haggerston
Hoxton (ward) see Hoxton
Kings Park (ward) see Lower Clapton
Queensbridge (ward)
Victoria (ward) see South Hackney
Wick (ward) see Hackney Wick

[edit] Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1974)

The seat has a history of members switching parties. Ronald Brown, elected in 1974 as a Labour MP, joined the splinter Social Democratic Party in 1981. He held the seat as a SDP member until 1983, when he was defeated by Labour politician Brian Sedgemore. Sedgemore 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 run. The Liberal Democrats were unable to hold the seat, which is again held by a Labour MP, Meg Hillier.

	Member	Party
1974	Ronald Brown	Labour
1974	Ronald Brown	Social Democratic
1983	Brian Sedgemore	Labour
2005	Brian Sedgemore	Liberal Democrats
2005	Meg Hillier	Labour/Co-operative Party

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Hackney South and Shoreditch
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Meg Hillier	17,048	52.9	−11.3
	Liberal Democrats	Hugh Bayliss	6,844	21.2	+6.6
	Conservative	John Moss	4,524	14.0	+0.2
	Green	Ipemndoh dan Iyan	1,779	5.5	N/A
	Respect	Dean Ryan	1,437	4.5	N/A
	Liberal	Benjamin Rae	313	1.0	N/A
	Communist	Monty Goldman	200	0.6	−0.3
	Workers' Revolutionary	Jonty Leff	92	0.3	−0.2
Majority			10,204	31.7
Turnout			32,237	49.7	+2.3
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	−9.0

General Election 2001: Hackney South and Shoreditch
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Sedgemore	19,471	64.2	+4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Vickers	4,422	14.6	-0.4
	Conservative	Paul White	4,180	13.8	+0.5
	Socialist Alliance	Cecilia Prosper	1,401	4.6	N/A
	Reform 2000	Saim Koksal	471	1.6	N/A
	Communist	Ivan Beavis	259	0.9	N/A
	Workers' Revolutionary	William Rogers	143	0.5	+0.1
Majority			15,049	49.6
Turnout			30,347	47.4	-7.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Hackney South and Shoreditch
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Sedgemore	20,048	59.4	+
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Pantling	5,058	15.0	-
	Conservative	Christopher O'Leary	4,494	13.3	+
	Independent	Terry Betts	2,436	7.2	N/A
	Referendum Party	Richard Franklin	613	1.8	N/A
	British National	Gordon Callow	531	1.6	N/A
	Independent	Monty Goldman	298	0.9	N/A
	Natural Law	Michelle Goldberg	145	0.4	N/A
	Workers' Revolutionary	William Rogers	139	0.4	+
Majority			14,990	44.4
Turnout			33,762	54.5	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

[edit] External links

BBC NEWS Hackney South & Shoreditch

Constituencies in Greater London
Labour	Barking \| Battersea \| Brent North \| Brent South \| Brentford and Isleworth \| Camberwell and Peckham \| Croydon North \| Dagenham \| Dulwich and West Norwood \| Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush \| Ealing North \| Ealing Southall \| East Ham \| Edmonton \| Eltham \| Enfield North \| Erith and Thamesmead \| Feltham and Heston \| Finchley and Golders Green \| Greenwich and Woolwich \| Hackney North and Stoke Newington \| Hackney South and Shoreditch \| Hampstead and Highgate \| Harrow East \| Harrow West \| Hayes and Harlington \| Hendon \| Holborn and St. Pancras \| Ilford South \| Islington North \| Islington South and Finsbury \| Lewisham Deptford \| Lewisham East \| Lewisham West \| Leyton and Wanstead \| Mitcham and Morden \| Poplar and Canning Town \| Regent's Park and Kensington North \| Streatham \| Tooting \| Tottenham \| Vauxhall \| Walthamstow \| West Ham
Conservative	Beckenham \| Bexleyheath and Crayford \| Bromley and Chislehurst \| Chingford and Woodford Green \| Chipping Barnet \| Cities of London and Westminster \| Croydon Central \| Croydon South \| Enfield Southgate \| Hammersmith and Fulham \| Hornchurch \| Ilford North \| Kensington and Chelsea \| Old Bexley and Sidcup \| Orpington \| Putney \| Romford \| Ruislip-Northwood \| Upminster \| Uxbridge \| Wimbledon
Liberal Democrat	Brent East \| Carshalton and Wallington \| Hornsey and Wood Green \| Kingston and Surbiton \| Richmond Park \| North Southwark and Bermondsey \| Sutton and Cheam \| Twickenham
Respect	Bethnal Green and Bow
London European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (3) \| Liberal Democrats (1) \| UKIP (1) \| Green (1)