Hackney South and Shoreditch is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency shares a boundary with eight others: Walthamstow, Leyton & Wanstead, West Ham, Bethnal Green & Bow, Cities of London and Westminster, Islington South & Finsbury, Islington North, and its borough partner Hackney North & Stoke Newington.

The constituency historically covers South Hackney, Shoreditch, Haggerston, De Beauvoir Town and Hackney Wick in the London Borough of Hackney, and is now divided into nine political wards:

• Chatham (ward) see Homerton
• De Beauvoir (ward) see De Beauvoir Town
• Hackney Central (ward) see Hackney Central
• Haggerston (ward) see Haggerston
• Hoxton (ward) see Hoxton
• Kings Park (ward) see Lower Clapton
• Queensbridge (ward)
• Victoria (ward) see South Hackney
• Wick (ward) see Hackney Wick

Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1974)

The seat has a history of members switching parties. Ronald Brown, elected in 1974 as a representative of the Labour Party, joined the splinter Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He held the seat as an SDP member until 1983, when he was defeated by Labour Party candidate Brian Sedgemore. Sedgemore then remained a member of the Labour Party for most of his career, but defected to the Liberal Democrats, the successors to the SDP, shortly before the 2005 election, in which he did not stand. The Liberal Democrat candidate Hugh Bayliss was unable to hold the seat, which is again held by a Labour Party representative, the incumbent Meg Hillier.

Election		Member	Party
	1974	Ronald Brown	Labour
	1981		Social Democratic
	1983	Brian Sedgemore	Labour
	2005		Liberal Democrats
	2005	Meg Hillier	Labour Co-operative

Election results

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hackney
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

Sources

• Election result, 2005 (BBC)
• Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
• Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon)
• Election results, 1983 - 1992 (Election Demon)
• Election results, 1992 - 2005 (Guardian)
• Election results, 1974 - 1979 (Keele University)