General Election 2024 London seats: Who will be my MP in...Hackney South and Shoreditch?
Millions of voters across London will go the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:
HACKNEY SOUTH AND SHOREDITCH
Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):
Anil Bhatti - Reform UK
Laura-Louise Fairley - Green Party
Dame Meg Hillier - Labour
Joanna Kate Reeves - Conservatives
Theodore Roos - Liberal Democrats
Summary:
Hackney South and Shoreditch is one of those constituencies that can go slightly under the radar given all the controversy in Hackney North and Stoke Newington where there was the row over Labour chiefs trying to stop Diane Abbott standing for the party at the election.
Hackney South and Shoreditch was created in 1974 and has always been Labour apart from a brief period in the early 1980s when then MP Ronald Brown defected to the Social Democratic Party amid the dispute over Labour backing ditching Britain’s nuclear deterrent and pulling out of the Common Market.
Dame Meg Hillier, who in recent years has scrutinised the Government as chair of the Public Account Committee, was elected MP for this constituency in 2005, winning it in 2019 with a whopping majority of 33,985.
Area: Wards in the constituency include Dalston, Hackney Central, Hackney Wick, Haggerston, Homerton, Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hoxton West, London Fields, and Victoria
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Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Boundary changes have not significantly hanged the political make-up of this constituency.
YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour hold
Evening Standard view: Definitely Labour. It’s one of the party’s safest seats in London
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