Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)
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Islington North Borough constituency |
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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.
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[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 | |
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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
[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.