Paddington North (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1974 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paddington North was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington in London which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. It was created in 1885, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Paddington North | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–February 1974 | |
Seats | 1 |
Created from | Marylebone |
Replaced by | Paddington |
It was a compact and mixed residential area which included some grand mansion blocks of flats, large runs of typical London terraced houses, and some areas of working-class housing. The area moved slowly down the social scale during its existence and the construction of large amounts of social housing following the Second World War made what had been a Conservative-inclined marginal seat into a reasonably safe Labour one.