Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1997 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Finchley was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by first-past-the-post voting; its longest-serving and best-known MP was Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Although boundary changes meant that she never again attained the large majority by which she won in 1959, her constituents nonetheless returned her by comfortable (9,000) majorities at general elections throughout her premiership.
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Finchley | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | 1918–1965 Middlesex 1965–1997 Greater London |
1950–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Replaced by | Finchley & Golders Green (newly created seat) Chipping Barnet (in part) |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | Hornsey (bulk of seat formed former western part of) Enfield (as to the Friern Barnet part) |
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The seat was abolished in 1997 and split between the Finchley and Golders Green and Chipping Barnet constituencies.