Shoreditch (UK Parliament constituency)

Shoreditch
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Shoreditch in London
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.

Boundaries

Throughout its existence, the constituency's boundaries were contiguous with those of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Whip
	1918	Christopher Addison	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Ernest Griffith Price	National Liberal
	1923	Ernest Thurtle	Labour
	1931	Charles Summersby	Liberal National
	1935	Ernest Thurtle	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Election in the 1910s

Chancellor

General Election 1918: Shoreditch^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Coalition Liberal	Rt Hon. Christopher Addison	9,532	55.9	n/a
	Unionist	Robert Standish Sievier	3,414	20.0	n/a
	Independent Labour	J. Walton	2,072	12.2	n/a
	Liberal	Henry George Chancellor	1,524	8.9	n/a
	National Party	Thomas Warwick	504	3.0	n/a
Majority			6,118	35.9	n/a
Turnout			17,046	37.3	n/a
	Coalition Liberal win

Election in the 1920s

Addison

General Election 1922: Shoreditch^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	National Liberal	Ernest Griffith Price	9,084	37.6	n/a
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	8,834	36.5	n/a
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Christopher Addison	6,273	25.9	n/a
Majority			250	1.1	-34.8
Turnout				47.4	+10.1
	National Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Shoreditch ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	13,874	56.6	+20.1
	Liberal	Ernest Griffith Price	10,658	43.4	+17.5
Majority			3,216	13.2	14.3
Turnout			24,532	47.4	+0.0
	Labour gain from National Liberal		Swing	+1.3

General Election 1924: Shoreditch^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	16,608	53.0	−3.6
	Liberal	Sir Harold James Reckitt	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 1929: Shoreditch ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	20,552	51.5	−1.5
	Liberal	Sir Harold James Reckitt	12,981	32.6	−14.1
	Unionist	Viscount Knebworth	6,334	15.9	n/a
Majority			7,571	18.9	+12.9
Turnout			39,867	64.3	+4.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.4

Election in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Shoreditch^[1]

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	32.3
Turnout			34,584	55.9	−8.6
	Liberal National gain from Labour		Swing	n/a

General Election 1935: Shoreditch^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	18,602	61.4	+18.1
	Liberal National	Somerset Stopford Brooke	11,673	38.6	−18.1
Majority			6,929	22.8	36.2
Turnout			30,275	51.9	−4.0
	Labour gain from Liberal National		Swing	+18.1

Election in the 1940s

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;

• Labour: Ernest Thurtle^[2]
• Liberal National: James Edward Houseman^[3]
• British Union: Michael Goulding

General Election 1945: Shoreditch^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Thurtle	11,592	74.0	+12.6
	Liberal National	Frederick L 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

References

1. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 47. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
2. Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
3. Chemist & Druggist - Volume 128 1938