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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

Henry Chancellor
Chancellor
General election 1918: Shoreditch
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Coalition Liberal Christopher Addison 9,532 55.9
Unionist Robert Standish Sievier 3,414 20.0
National Amalgamated Coal Workers' Union Alfred Walton 2,072 12.2
Liberal Henry Chancellor 1,524 8.9
National Thomas Warwick 504 3.0
Majority 6,118 35.9
Turnout 17,046 37.3
Coalition Liberal win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Election in the 1920s

Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
Addison
General election 1922: Shoreditch
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Ernest Griffith Price 9,084 37.6 New
Labour Ernest Thurtle 8,834 36.5 New
Liberal Christopher Addison 6,273 25.9 +17.0
Majority 250 1.1 -34.8
Turnout 24,191 47.4 +10.1
National Liberal hold Swing
General election 1923: Shoreditch
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 N/A
Turnout 24,532 47.4 0.0
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing +1.3
General election 1924: Shoreditch
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 16,608 53.0 −3.6
Liberal Harold 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
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 20,552 51.5 −1.5
Liberal Harold Reckitt 12,981 32.6 −13.6
Unionist Antony Bulwer-Lytton 6,334 15.9 New
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
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Charles Summersby 19,596 56.7 New
Labour Ernest Thurtle 14,988 43.3 −8.2
Majority 4,608 13.4 N/A
Turnout 34,584 55.9 −8.6
National Liberal Party gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Shoreditch
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 18,602 61.4 +18.1
National Liberal Somerset Stopford Brooke 11,673 38.6 −18.1
Majority 6,929 22.8 N/A
Turnout 30,275 51.9 −4.0
Labour gain from National Liberal Party 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
  • Liberal National: James Houseman
  • British Union: Michael Goulding
General election 1945: Shoreditch
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest Thurtle 11,592 74.0 +12.6
National Liberal 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
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