Hammersmith (UK Parliament constituency)
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Hammersmith in Greater London.
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| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 70,008 (December 2010) |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of parliament | Andy Slaughter (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Hammersmith and Fulham & Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Hammersmith and Fulham & Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush |
| Created from | Hammersmith North |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Hammersmith North, Hammersmith South |
| Created from | Chelsea |
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| European Parliament constituency | London |
Hammersmith is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 recreation by Andy Slaughter of the Labour Party.
The parliamentary borough of Hammersmith was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and consisted of the civil parish of Hammersmith (in Middlesex only until 1889 when it fell within the approximately 30,000 acres (120 km2) that became part of the County of London under the Local Government Act 1888). Like almost all seats created from 1885 it returned one Member of Parliament. This was the first parliamentary constituency to be based on the town, which from 1868–1885 was at the westernmost part of Chelsea and previously had been part of the parliamentary county of Middlesex. In 1900 the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith was formed, but this did not affect the constituency's boundaries.
The seat bordered to the west the Ealing seat, to the north the large Harrow division of Middlesex seat, to the east Kensington North and Kensington South and to the south the large Kingston division of Surrey and, to the southeast, Fulham. In 1918 the Hammersmith constituency was divided into Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South constituencies.
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