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 YearMemberWhip 1918Christopher Addison Coalition Liberal Jan 1922 National Liberal Jul 1922 Liberal 1922Ernest Griffith Price National Liberal Nov 1923 Liberal Dec 1923 Ernest Thurtle Labour 1931 Charles Summersby Liberal National 1935 Ernest Thurtle Labour1950 constituency abolished
Election results Election in the 1910s
Election in the 1920s
Election in the 1930s
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 ThurtleReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939 Liberal National: James HousemanChemist & Druggist - Volume 128 1938 British Union: Michael Goulding
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