Chingford and Woodford Green (UK Parliament constituency)

Chingford and Woodford Green
Chingford and Woodford Green
Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Chingford and Woodford Green in Greater London
County	Greater London
Population	88,149 (2011 census)
Electorate	64,770 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	Sir Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Chingford and Wanstead & Woodford

Coordinates: 51°37′01″N 0°00′11″E / 51.617°N 0.003°E / 51.617; 0.003

Chingford and Woodford Green is a constituency in North East London represented by Sir Iain Duncan Smith of the Conservative Party since its creation in 1997.^{[n 1]}

Boundaries[]

The London Borough of Waltham Forest wards of Chingford Green, Endlebury, Hale End and Highams Park, Hatch Lane, Larkswood, and Valley, and the London Borough of Redbridge wards of Church End and Monkhams have been selected to form the seat since inception.

Out of 24 council seats that make up Chingford and Woodford Green the Conservatives hold 18 and Labour hold 5.

The boundaries of Chingford and Woodford Green take in a large slice of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The constituency includes Chingford in the north bordering Enfield down through Highams Park and Hatch Lane into Woodford, and also takes in a part of the London Borough of Redbridge.

History[]

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Map of present boundaries

Wards of the constituency (not affected by 2010 boundary changes)

Before 1945, both Woodford and Chingford were part of Epping for general elections, for which wartime Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill was MP. The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the former seats of Chingford and Wanstead & Woodford. Both seats previously had well-known MPs, Norman Tebbit and Winston Churchill respectively. Iain Duncan Smith had been MP for Chingford since 1992, then was elected MP for this constituency five years later in 1997.

Political history

Chingford and Woodford Green and its predecessors have been solid Conservative wards since the beginning of the Thatcher period in 1979. The closest contest in the 20th century was from the Labour at the 1997 general election, with a Conservative majority of over 5000; the Conservatives retained the seat in 2001 with a majority little changed on a low turnout. In 2005, the Conservative incumbent did better, getting twice as many votes as Labour with a swing to the party of 6.4% (over double that nationally) from Labour. The 2015 result gave the seat the 119th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.^[3] At the 2017 snap election, Duncan Smith was re-elected with a greatly reduced majority on a 7% swing to Labour, slightly more than a sixth of his 2010 margin; while this was in keeping with the large swings to Labour throughout Greater London at that election, it seems to suggest an increasingly marginal seat, even though the Conservatives hold three-quarters of the local council seats in the wards which make up the constituency. The 2019 general election saw the Conservatives retaining the seat, although with a smaller majority than 2017 due to a swing to Labour, despite significant movement against the opposing party nationwide.

Members of Parliament[]

Election		Member^[4]^[5]	Party	Notes
	1997	Iain Duncan Smith	Conservative	MP for Chingford (1992–1997) Shadow Defence Secretary (1999–2001) Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition (2001–2003) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2010–2016)

Elections[]

Elections in the 2010s[]

General election 2019: Chingford and Woodford Green^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	23,481	48.5	0.6
	Labour	Faiza Shaheen	22,219	45.9	2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Seeff	2,744	5.6	1.2
Majority			1,262	2.6	2.6
Turnout			48,444	74.1	2.9
Registered electors			65,393
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.3

General election 2017: Chingford and Woodford Green^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	23,076	49.1	1.2
	Labour	Bilal Mahmood	20,638	43.9	15.1
	Liberal Democrats	Deborah Unger	2,043	4.4	1.1
	Green	Sinead King	1,204	2.6	1.6
Majority			2,438	5.2	13.9
Turnout			46,961	71.2	5.5
Registered electors			65,958
	Conservative hold		Swing	7.0

General election 2015: Chingford and Woodford Green^[9] ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	20,999	47.9	4.9
	Labour	Bilal Mahmood	12,613	28.8	6.1
	UKIP	Freddy Vachha	5,644	12.9	10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Crook	2,400	5.5	11.3
	Green	Rebecca Tully	1,854	4.2	2.7
	TUSC	Len Hockey^[11]	241	0.6	New
	Class War	Lisa Mckenzie	53	0.1	New
Majority			8,386	19.1	11.0
Turnout			43,804	65.7	0.8
Registered electors			66,680
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.5

General election 2010: Chingford and Woodford Green^[12]^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	22,743	52.8	0.4
	Labour	Cath Arakelian	9,780	22.7	3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Seeff	7,242	16.8	0.9
	BNP	Julian Leppert	1,288	3.0	New
	UKIP	Nick Jones	1,133	2.6	0.2
	Green	Lucy Craig	650	1.5	New
	Independent	None Of The Above^{[n 2]}	202	0.5	New
	Independent	Barry White	68	0.2	New
Majority			12,963	30.1	2.6
Turnout			43,106	66.5	3.5
Registered electors			64,831
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.3

Elections in the 2000s[]

General election 2005: Chingford and Woodford Green^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	20,555	53.2	5.0
	Labour	Simon Wright	9,914	25.7	7.7
	Liberal Democrats	John Beanse	6,832	17.7	2.2
	UKIP	Michael McGough	1,078	2.8	New
	Independent	Barry White	269	0.7	New
Majority			10,641	27.5	12.7
Turnout			38,648	63.0	1.5
Registered electors			61,386
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.4

General election 2001: Chingford and Woodford Green^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	17,834	48.2	0.7
	Labour	Jessica Webb	12,347	33.4	1.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Beanse	5,739	15.5	0.0
	BNP	Jean Griffin	1,062	2.9	0.5
Majority			5,487	14.8	1.9
Turnout			36,982	58.5	12.2
Registered electors			63,252
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.0

Elections in the 1990s[]

General election 1997: Chingford and Woodford Green^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	21,109	47.5
	Labour	Tommy Hutchinson	15,395	34.6
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Seeff	6,885	15.5
	BNP	Alan Gould	1,059	2.4
Majority			5,714	12.9
Turnout			44,448	70.7
Registered electors			62,904
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references[]

Notes

^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
^ Original name Adam Osen

References

^ "Chingford and Woodford Green: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ List of Conservative MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ "Chingford and Woodford Green 1997–". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
^ "Chingford & Woodford Green Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ "Chingford & Woodford Green parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
^ Baker, Carl (14 July 2017). "General Election 2017: results and analysis – Briefing paper number CBP 7979" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ "General Election results, 7 May 2015". Walthamforest.gov.uk. 2015-05-07. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ "Trade unionist chosen to stand at election (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)". Guardian-series.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ (PDF) http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/sopn-chingford.pdf. Retrieved 20 April 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)^{[dead link]}
^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Sources

Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 – 2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 – 2005 Archived 2000-12-07 at the Wayback Machine (Election Demon)
Election results, 1997 – 2005 (Guardian)

External links[]

nomis Constituency Profile for Chingford and Woodford Green — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richmond, Yorks	Constituency represented by the Leader of the Opposition 2001–2003	Succeeded by Folkestone and Hythe

[3] As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

[15] Original name Adam Osen

[1] "Chingford and Woodford Green: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 February 2015.

[2] "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.

[4] List of Conservative MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[5] "Chingford and Woodford Green 1997–". Hansard 1803–2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

[rayment-6] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

[7] "Chingford & Woodford Green Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

[8] "Chingford & Woodford Green parliamentary constituency". BBC News.

[parliament-9] Baker, Carl (14 July 2017). "General Election 2017: results and analysis – Briefing paper number CBP 7979" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 14 November 2019.

[electoralcalculus2015-10] "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[11] "General Election results, 7 May 2015". Walthamforest.gov.uk. 2015-05-07. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.

[12] "Trade unionist chosen to stand at election (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)". Guardian-series.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2015.

[electoralcalculus2010-13] "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[14] (PDF) http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/sopn-chingford.pdf. Retrieved 20 April 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)^{[dead link]}

[electoralcalculus2005-16] "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

[electoralcalculus2001-17] "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

[electoralcalculus1997-18] "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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