Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Islington North Borough constituency
Islington North shown within Greater London
Created:	1885
MP:	Jeremy Corbyn
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

Islington North 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 1910s 3.2 1920s 3.3 1930s 3.4 1940s 3.5 1950s 3.6 1960s 3.7 1970s 3.8 1980s 3.9 1990s 3.10 2000s 4 Further information 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Boundaries

The seat covers the northern half of the London Borough of Islington which includes the areas of Holloway, Archway and Tufnell Park.

These boundaries have been considerably changed since 1970, when Islington returned three MPs and shared another with Hackney. This reflects the depopulation of central London as people move to leafier suburbs and the local authority seeks to obtain lower housing densities. The core of the constituency was the area north of Seven Sisters Road and Camden Road.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1885		constituency created
	1885	Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley	Conservative
	1906	David Sydney Waterlow	Liberal
	1910	Sir George Touche	Liberal
	1918	Sir Newton James Moore	Conservative
	1923	William Henry Cowan	Conservative
	1929	Robert Young	Labour
	1931	Albert William Goodman	Conservative
	1937	Dr Leslie Haden-Guest	Labour
	1950	Ronw Moelwyn Hughes	Labour
	1951	Wilfred Fienburgh	Labour
	1958	Gerald Reynolds	Labour
	1969	Michael O'Halloran	Labour
	1981		SDP
	1983		'Independent Labour'
	1983	Jeremy Corbyn	Labour

[edit] Election results

Elections

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

[edit] 1910s

General Election 1918: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Newton Moore	14,183	68.5
	British Socialist Party	J. Arnall	4,000	19.3
	Liberal	N. T. C. Sargant	2,529	12.2
Majority			49.2	10,183
Turnout			18,412	49.6
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

[edit] 1920s

[edit] 1930s

Islington North by-election, 1937
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Leslie Haden-Guest	13,523	52.5	+6.9
	Conservative	Sir Wilfrid Sugden	12,227	47.5	−6.9
Majority			1,296	5.0
Turnout			27,750	40.4	−19.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	6.9

[edit] 1940s

General Election 1945: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Leslie Haden-Guest	23,234	67.4	+14.9
	Conservative	C. A. U Rhys	11,240	32.6	−14.9
Majority			11,994	34.8	+29.8
Turnout				67.2	+26.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+14.9

[edit] 1950s

General Election 1950: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ronw Moelwyn Hughes	26,354	57.9	−9.5
	Conservative	R. G. Page	16,935	37.2	+4.6
	Liberal	R. E. Burns	2,189	4.8	N/A
Majority			9,419	20.7	−14.1
Turnout			45,478	76.7	+9.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−7.1

General Election 1951: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Wilfred Fienburgh	27,406	59.6	+1.7
	Conservative	R. G. Page	18,541	40.4	+3.2
Majority			8,865	19.3	−1.4
Turnout			45,947	77.8	+0.8
	Labour hold		Swing	−0.8

General Election 1955: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Wilfred Fienburgh	22,100	60.3	+0.7
	Conservative	E. Mackinnon	14,522	39.7	−0.7
Majority			7,578	20.7	+1.4
Turnout				64.7	−13.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.7

Islington North by-election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gerry Reynolds	13,159	66.8	+6.4
	Conservative	R. Bartle	5,968	30.3	−9.4
	Ind. Labour Party	J. McKie	576	2.9	N/A
Majority			7,461	37.9	+17.2
Turnout			19,703
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.9

General Election 1959: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael O'Halloran	18,718	55.8	−11.0
	Conservative	R. D. Bartle	14,820	44.2	+13.9
Majority			3,898	11.6	−26.3
Turnout			33,538	62.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−12.5

[edit] 1960s

Islington North by-election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael O'Halloran	7,288	49.2	−10.2
	Conservative	Andrew Pearce	5,754	38.9	+8.2
	Liberal	Eric Thwaites	1,514	10.2	+0.4
	Independent Socialist	Austin Williams	245	1.7	N/A
Majority			1,534	10.4	−18.4
Turnout			14,801
	Labour hold		Swing	−9.2

[edit] 1970s

[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 2000s

General Election 2001: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeremy Corbyn	18,699	61.9	-7.4
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Willoughby	5,741	19.0	+5.4
	Conservative	Neil Rands	3,249	10.8	-2.2
	Green	Chris Ashby	1,876	6.2	+2.0
	Socialist Labour	Stephen Cook	512	1.7	N/A
	Reform 2000 Party	Hassan	139	0.5	N/A
Majority			12,958	42.9
Turnout			30,216	48.8	-13.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Islington North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeremy Corbyn	16,118	51.2	-10.7
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Willoughby	9,402	29.9	+10.9
	Conservative	Nicola Talbot	3,740	11.9	+1.1
	Green	Jon Nott	2,234	7.1	+0.9
Majority			6,716	21.3
Turnout			31,494	53.9	+5.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-10.8

[edit] Further information

Michael O'Halloran, elected Labour MP for Islington North in 1969, was the subject of an investigation in the early 1970s by The Sunday Times newspaper. They highlighted his background with a local building company and the local Irish community and queried the tactics of his supporters during his selection as candidate.

O'Halloran joined the SDP in September 1981, as did both of the other Islington MPs. However the Boundary Commission cut the number of constituencies in Islington from three to two. O'Halloran sought selection as the SDP candidate for the revised Islington North constituency but the local SDP association selected John Grant, then SDP (elected as Labour) MP for Islington Central, as its official candidate. In February 1983, O'Halloran resigned his membership of the SDP and sat in Parliament as an "Independent Labour" member, supporting the Parliamentary Labour Party. Despite this, he failed to regain the Labour Party nomination for the 1983 General Election and he was defeated by the new Labour candidate, Jeremy Corbyn, coming fourth with 11.1% of the vote.

Corbyn defeated Paul Boateng for the Labour Party selection. Boateng subsequently became the first black Cabinet Minister in the UK.

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London
• Islington constituencies

[edit] References

• (2003) Iain Dale: The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
• (1945) The Times House of Commons 1945. The Times.
• (1950) The Times House of Commons 1950. The Times.
• (1955) The Times House of Commons 1955. The Times.
• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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