Islington South West | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–February 1974 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Islington South and Islington West |
Replaced by | Islington Central and Islington South and Finsbury |
Islington South West was a Parliamentary constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Islington, in North London.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
The Metropolitan Borough of Islington wards of Barnsbury, Lower Holloway, St Mary, St Peter, and Thornhill. [1]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Albert Evans | Labour | |
1970 | George Cunningham | Labour | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Islington South & Finsbury |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Evans | 30,201 | 64.74 | ||
Conservative | Tom Howard | 13,012 | 27.89 | ||
Liberal | George William Waddilove | 2,602 | 5.58 | ||
Communist | Alfred Bender | 834 | 1.79 | ||
Majority | 17,189 | 36.85 | |||
Turnout | 46,649 | 74.60 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Evans | 31,637 | 68.20 | ||
Conservative | Tom Howard | 14,750 | 31.80 | ||
Majority | 16,887 | 36.40 | |||
Turnout | 46,387 | 75.17 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Evans | 24,935 | 68.12 | ||
Conservative | Colin GS Hodgkinson | 11,667 | 31.88 | ||
Majority | 13,268 | 36.24 | |||
Turnout | 36,602 | 62.04 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Evans | 22,362 | 65.13 | ||
Conservative | Nicholas Scott | 11,974 | 34.87 | ||
Majority | 10,388 | 30.26 | |||
Turnout | 34,336 | 60.64 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Evans | 17,589 | 65.17 | +0.04 | |
Conservative | Nicholas Scott | 8,023 | 29.73 | −5.14 | |
Communist | John F Moss | 1,377 | 5.10 | New | |
Majority | 9,566 | 35.44 | +5.18 | ||
Turnout | 26,989 | 51.53 | −9.11 | ||
Registered electors | 52,373 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.59 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Evans | 16,206 | 64.95 | −0.22 | |
Conservative | Alan Hardy | 5,903 | 23.66 | −6.07 | |
Independent | Harry Weston | 1,271 | 5.09 | New | |
Union Movement | Dennis Herbert Harmston | 816 | 3.27 | New | |
Communist | John F Moss | 756 | 3.03 | −2.07 | |
Majority | 10,303 | 41.29 | +5.85 | ||
Turnout | 24,952 | 50.93 | −0.60 | ||
Registered electors | 48,995 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.93 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Cunningham | 12,876 | 60.89 | ||
Conservative | John Szemerey | 6,601 | 31.21 | ||
New Liberal | Alan Ernest Lomas | 1,161 | 5.49 | New | |
Communist | Marie Betteridge | 509 | 2.41 | ||
Majority | 6,275 | 29.68 | |||
Turnout | 21,147 | 48.84 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
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