Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency)

Hornsey
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	1885–1965: Middlesex 1965–1983: Greater London
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Hornsey and Wood Green
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Created from	Middlesex

Hornsey was a parliamentary constituency covering what is now the Hornsey district of north London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the 1885 general election until it was abolished for the 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.

History

From 1885 to 1918, the constituency was a county division of Middlesex, and in 1918 it became a parliamentary borough. From 1950 it was a borough constituency.

Hornsey in Middlesex, boundaries used 1918-50

Boundaries

1885-1918: The parishes of Hornsey (including South Hornsey) and Finchley, and the area included in the Parliamentary Boroughs of the City of London, Finsbury, and Islington.

1918-1974: The Municipal Borough of Hornsey.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Central Hornsey, Crouch End, Fortis Green, Highgate, Muswell Hill, South Hornsey, Stroud Green, and Turnpike.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir James McGarel-Hogg	Conservative
	1887 by-election	Henry Charles Stephens	Conservative
	1900	Charles Balfour	Conservative
	1907 by-election	Earl of Ronaldshay	Conservative
	1916 by-election	Kennedy Jones	Conservative
	1921 by-election	Viscount Ednam	Conservative
	1924	Euan Wallace	Conservative
	1941 by-election	Sir David Gammans	Conservative
	1957 by-election	Lady Gammans	Conservative
	1966	Sir Hugh Rossi	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished. see Hornsey & Wood Green

Election Results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	William Kennedy Jones	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

• denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

Hornsey by-election, 1921

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Viscount Ednam	15,959	53.4	n/a
	Liberal	Edward Leslie Burgin	13,943	46.6	n/a
Majority			2,016	6.8	n/a
Turnout				65.7	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1922: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Viscount Ednam	18,462	53.2
	Liberal	Edward Leslie Burgin	16,239	46.8
Majority			2,223	6.4
Turnout				77.2
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Viscount Ednam	16,812	47.4	-5.8
	Liberal	Edward Leslie Burgin	15,197	42.8	-4.0
	Labour	Christopher Francis Healy	3,487	9.8	n/a
Majority			1,615	4.6	-1.8
Turnout				76.6	-0.6
	Unionist hold		Swing	-0.9

General Election 1924: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Euan Wallace	21,017	54.6
	Liberal	Edward Leslie Burgin	13,217	34.3
	Labour	Christopher Francis Healy	4,277	11.1	+1.3
Majority			7,800	20.3
Turnout				81.6
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Euan Wallace	25,540	51.0	-3.6
	Liberal	William Thomson	16,029	32.0	-2.3
	Labour	Francis Henry Wiltshire	8,529	17.0	+5.9
Majority			9,511	19.0	-1.3
Turnout				75.2	-6.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	-0.7

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Euan Wallace	41,194	84.5
	Labour	Hugh Arthur Franklin	7,585	15.5
Majority			33,609	69.0
Turnout			48,779	70.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Euan Wallace	30,494	64.9
	Labour	Mrs Mari M Power	10,320	21.9
	Liberal	Herbert James Baxter	6,206	13.2	n/a
Majority			20,174	43.0
Turnout			47,020	67.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: David Euan Wallace
• Labour: JT Murphy

Elections in the 1940s

Hornsey by-election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard David Gammans	11,077	72.8
	National Independent	Noel Pemberton Billing	4,146	27.2
Majority			6,931	45.6	+2.6
Turnout				21.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1945: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard David Gammans	24,684	52.8
	Labour	William Geoffrey Fiske	12,015	25.7
	Communist	George John Jones	10,058	21.5
Majority			12,669	27.1
Turnout				73.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard David Gammans	33,927	53.8	+1.0
	Labour	Reginald Alfred Pestel	22,832	36.2	+10.5
	Liberal	Adrienne Annie Ellen Marjorie Leevers	5,122	8.1	n/a
	Communist	George John Jones	1,191	1.9	-19.6
	Conservative hold		Swing
Majority			11,095	17.6	-

• Archive footage of the result and speeches from 3:57: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmt5Rz-DTA

General Election 1951: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard David Gammans	36,417	58.7
	Labour	Reginald Alfred Pestel	25,643	41.3
Majority			10,774	17.4	-
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard David Gammans	33,294	60.2
	Labour	Frederick Evelyn Mostyn	20,568	37.2
	Communist	George John Jones	1,442	2.6
Majority			12,726	23.0	-
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hornsey by-election, 1957

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ann Muriel Gammans	24,169	53.5	-6.7
	Labour	Frederick Evelyn Mostyn	21,038	46.5	+9.3
Majority			3,131	7.0	-16.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.0

General Election 1959: Hornsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ann Muriel Gammans	30,048	55.06
	Labour	Frederick Evelyn Mostyn	17,710	32.45
	Liberal	Samuel Solomon	5,706	10.46
	Communist	George John Jones	1,107	2.03
Majority			12,338	22.61	-
	Conservative hold		Swing