page_title: Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency) / History
caption_attribution_description: A map of Greenwich constituency within the London County Council area, as it existed from 1918 to 1949.
context_page_description: Greenwich was a constituency in south-east London, which returned at first two, then one member to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It existed from 1832 to 1997. Elections used the first past the post system; when this elects more than one member, it is sometimes called plurality-at-large voting.
context_section_description: From 1832 until 1885 it was a two-member constituency. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 associated with the Reform Act 1884, its area was reduced overall (although it gained Kidbrooke) and it was reduced to one seat. For the 1997 general election, it was merged with part of the former Woolwich constituency to form the Greenwich and Woolwich seat.
  Its history is dominated by the area's strong maritime tradition. Its most prominent claim to fame was as the seat of William Ewart Gladstone between 1868 and 1880, and it also achieved prominence in the 1987 Greenwich by-election, when the SDP won a surprise victory.
caption: The seat and others in the County of London 1918–49
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