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Hackney North and Stoke Newington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the...

Hackney North and Stoke Newington 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. The constituency borders four others. Islington North to the west, Tottenham to the north, Walthamstow to the east and Hackney South & Shoreditch to the south. It is currently divided into ten wards and each represented by three councillors sitting together with members from Hackney South & Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney’s council chamber. The constituency has gone through many changes and has only recently, in January 2006 seen the boundary moved again, this time to correspond with the local government ward boundaries. Elections have been held here since De Montfort's Parliament in 1265 for the county constituency of Middlesex. The first division of the historic county was for the two seat constituency of Hackney at the 1868 general election. This was a creation of the Second Reform Act or the officially termed Representation of the People Act, 1867. Hackney's increased democratic representation provided suffrage for the first time to working-class men but