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Hackney (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1885 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hackney was a two-seat constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament created under the Representation of the People Act 1867 (often termed Second Reform Act) from the former northern parishes of the Tower Hamlets constituency and abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (often termed a twin Third Reform Act, with its enabling Reform Act 1884).

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The constituency existed in its two-seat form for three general elections and returned two Liberal Party Members at each election until its abolition. At abolition it was noted intense house- and apartment (tenement block-) building had occurred within its boundaries and it was divided into seven single seats.

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Boundaries

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Hackney in the Metropolitan area from 1868 to 1885.

The vestry of the civil parish of Hackney became a local government authority in 1855.

The parliamentary borough of Hackney was established in 1868 and its area formed part of the east of the historic county of Middlesex. It comprised:

Parishes includedPopulation in 1871Population in 1881Total electorate 7 Dec 1868Total electorate of 20 Nov 1884
The Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch[1]not knownnot known40,613[2]48,076[2]
The Parish of St Matthew, Bethnal Green[1]non knownnot known
The Parish of St John, Hackney[1]115,110[3]163,681[3]

The area thus formed the northern rump of Shoreditch and rest of the north of the former parliamentary borough of Tower Hamlets (Hackney accounted for the northernmost of the Hamlets in the nineteenth century, see Tower Division). The area was to the east of Islington and Hornsey, south of Tottenham in its county and west of Walthamstow in Essex.

In 1885 the two-member constituency was abolished. In 1889 the former area, for administrative purposes, became part of the London County Council local authority. In 1900 the main civil vestry was dissolved and the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was created (with the same boundaries as the Parliamentary Borough). Since 1965 it has been part of Greater London.

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Members of Parliament

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Sir Charles Reed MP
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Henry Fawcett and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Ford Madox Brown, 1872, National Portrait Gallery, London
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"Military changes"
Holms as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1882
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"Hoxton Division"
Stuart as caricatured by "Stuff" in Vanity Fair, October 1899
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Elections

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Turnout, in multi-member elections, is estimated by dividing the number of votes by two. To the extent that electors did not use both their votes, the figure given will be an underestimate.

Change is calculated for individual candidates, when a party had more than one candidate in an election or the previous one. When a party had only one candidate in an election and the previous one change is calculated for the party vote.

Elections in the 1860s

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Elections in the 1870s

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  • Election declared void on petition
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Elections in the 1880s

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The appointment of Fawcett as Postmaster General and Holms as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury caused a by-election for both seats.

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The death of Fawcett caused a by-election.

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