Islington North

Borough constituency
Islington North shown within Greater London
Created:	1885
MP:	Jeremy Corbyn
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

Islington North is a 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. A borough constituency (in Scotland, a burgh constituency) is a type of parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... For more coverage on London, visit the London Portal. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949, Wiltshire) is a British Member of Parliament for Islington North. ... Political parties in the United Kingdom lists political parties in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party of the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ... For more coverage on London, visit the London Portal. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... London is a constituency of the European Parliament. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The plurality voting system, also known as first past the post, is a voting system used to elect a single winner in a given election. ...

Boundaries

The seat covers the northern half of the London Borough of Islington which includes the areas of Holloway, Archway and Tufnell Park. Arms of Islington London Borough Council Islington Town Hall Islington is a borough of London to the north of the City of London, west of Hackney, east of Camden, and south of Haringey. ... Holloway is an area in North London in the London Borough of Islington and follows the line of the A1 road. ... Archway Bridge Archway is an area in North London in the London Borough of Islington. ... Tufnell Park is a place in London which straddles the border of the London Borough of Islington and the London Borough of Camden. ...

These boundaries have been considerably changed since 1970, when Islington returned 3 MPs and shared another with Hackney. This reflects the depopulation of central London as people move to leafier suburbs and the local authority seeks to obtain lower housing densities. The core of the constituency was the area north of Seven Sisters Road and Camden Road.

Members of Parliament

• 1885 – 1906: Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley
• 1906 – 1910: David Sydney Waterlow
• 1910 – 1918: George Touche
• 1918 – 1923: Sir Newton James Moore
• 1926 – 1929: William Henry Cowan; Conservative
• 1929 – 1931: Robert Stanley Young; Labour
• 1931 – 1938: Albert William Goodman; Conservative
• 1938 – 1950: Dr Leslie Haden Guest; Labour
• 1950 – 1951: Moelwyn Hughes, Labour
• 1951 – 1959: Wilfred Fienberg, Labour
• 1959 – 1969: Gerald Reynolds, Labour
• 1969 – 1983: Michael O'Halloran, Labour then SDP then 'Independent Labour'
• 1983 – "present": Jeremy Corbyn, Labour

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Election results

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Further information

Michael O'Halloran, elected Labour MP for Islington North in 1969, was the subject of an investigation in the early 1970s by The Sunday Times newspaper. They highlighted his background with a local building company and the local Irish community and queried the tactics of his supporters during his selection as candidate. The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ...

O'Halloran joined the SDP in September 1981, and sought selection as the SDP candidate for the constituency. However, the local SDP association selected John Grant, then SDP (elected as Labour) MP for Islington Central, as its official candidate. In February 1983, O'Halloran resigned his membership of the SDP and sat in Parliament as an "Independent Labour" member, supporting the Parliamentary Labour Party. Despite this, he failed to regain the Labour Party nomination for the 1983 General Election and he was defeated by the new Labour candidate, Jeremy Corbyn, coming fourth with 11.1% of the vote. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. ...

Corbyn defeated Paul Boateng for the Labour Party selection. Boateng subsequently became the first black Cabinet Minister in the UK. The Rt Hon. ... Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ...

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

The adminstrative region and ceremonial county of Greater London, together with the enclave of the City of London, is divided into 74 Parliamentary constituencies (all Borough constituencies). ...

References

• (2003) Iain Dale The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935, Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
• (1945) The Times House of Commons 1945, The Times.
• (1950) The Times House of Commons 1950, The Times.
• (1955) The Times House of Commons 1955, The Times.