Haggerston (UK Parliament constituency)

Haggerston
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Seats	one
Created from	Hackney
Replaced by	Shoreditch

Haggerston, formally known as the "Haggerston Division of Shoreditch", was a borough constituency centred on the Haggerston district of the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch in 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 system.

History

Haggerston in the Metropolitan area, boundaries 1885–1918

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

A map showing the wards of Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916

The constituency was created in 1885, as a division of the parliamentary borough of Shoreditch in the East End of London. The area was administered as part of the Tower division of the county of Middlesex.

The division consisted of the Acron, Haggerston, Kingsland and Whitmore wards.

In 1889 there were administrative changes. The territory of the constituency was severed from Middlesex and included in the new County of London. The lower tier of local government in the area continued to be administered by parish vestries and local boards of works.

In 1900 local government in London was rationalised. The civil parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch became part of a larger Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch.

In the redistribution of parliamentary seats in 1918, the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch constituted a single parliamentary division of Shoreditch. The Haggerston division was abolished.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Randal Cremer	Liberal
	1895	John Lowles	Conservative
	1900	Sir Randal Cremer	Liberal
	1908 b-e	Rupert Guinness	Conservative
	Jan. 1910	Henry Chancellor	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Randal Cremer	2,736	68.5
	Conservative	Richard Denny Urlin	1,259	31.5
Majority			1,477	37.0
Turnout			3,995	59.3
Registered electors			6,737
	Lib-Lab win (new seat)

General election 1886: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Randal Cremer	2,054	55.1	−13.4
	Liberal Unionist	Edwin Durning-Lawrence	1,677	44.9	+13.4
Majority			377	10.2	−26.8
Turnout			3,731	55.4	−3.9
Registered electors			6,737
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	-13.4

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Randal Cremer	2,543	61.1	+6.0
	Conservative	Joseph Firbank	1,622	38.9	−6.0
Majority			921	22.2	+12.0
Turnout			4,165	65.6	+10.2
Registered electors			6,351
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	+6.0

Lowles

General election 1895: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Lowles	2,269	50.4	+11.5
	Lib-Lab	Randal Cremer	2,229	49.6	−11.5
Majority			40	0.8	N/A
Turnout			4,498	67.5	+1.9
Registered electors			6,661
	Conservative gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	+11.5

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Randal Cremer	2,290	50.3	+0.7
	Conservative	John Lowles	2,266	49.7	−0.7
Majority			24	0.6	N/A
Turnout			4,556	67.2	−0.3
Registered electors			6,781
	Lib-Lab gain from Conservative		Swing	+0.7

Cremer

General election 1906: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Randal Cremer	2,772	53.9	+3.6
	Conservative	Rupert Guinness	2,371	46.1	−3.6
Majority			401	7.8	+7.2
Turnout			5,143	80.3	+13.1
Registered electors			6,403
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	+3.6

Burrows

1908 Haggerston by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rupert Guinness	2,867	51.4	+5.3
	Liberal	Walter Richard Warren	1,724	30.9	−23.0
	Social Democratic Federation	Herbert Burrows	986	17.7	New
Majority			1,143	20.5	N/A
Turnout			5,577	65.9	−14.4
Registered electors			8,457
	Conservative gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	+14.2

Elections in the 1910s

Chancellor

General election January 1910: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Chancellor	3,041	48.0	−5.9
	Conservative	Rupert Guinness	2,586	40.9	−5.2
	Social Democratic Federation	Herbert Burrows	701	11.1	N/A
Majority			455	7.1	−0.7
Turnout			6,327	79.7	−0.6
Registered electors			7,936
	Liberal hold		Swing	+13.8

General election December 1910: Haggerston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Chancellor	3,046	53.6	+5.6
	Conservative	Rupert Guinness	2,641	46.4	+5.5
Majority			405	7.2	+0.1
Turnout			5,687	71.7	−8.0
Registered electors			7,936
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.1

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)