Hornchurch and Upminster (UK Parliament constituency)

Hornchurch and Upminster
Hornchurch and Upminster
Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Hornchurch and Upminster in Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	79,568 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Julia Lopez (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Hornchurch, Upminster, Romford

Hornchurch and Upminster is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Julia Lopez of the Conservative Party.^{[n 2]}

Constituency profile and history[]

The easternmost seat in Greater London, this seat was created by merging two of the three old constituencies comprising the London borough of Havering, specifically Hornchurch and Upminster. These two seats were lost by the Conservatives in Labour's landslide 1997 victory, but Upminster was one of the few Conservative gains in 2001 and Hornchurch was lost by Labour in 2005; this area is now very safe territory for the Conservatives since it gained their strongest areas from Hornchurch in the boundary changes. The 2015 result made the seat the 146th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.^[2] Also in the 2015 election, UKIP beat two of the 'big three' parties, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and came second with 25% of the vote - one of their best results in the country that year.

The constituency includes affluent areas such as Hornchurch town centre, Cranham^{[citation needed]} and Upminster. Limited pockets of deprivation exist in the north of the constituency and most output areas have high levels of retired constituents by Greater London standards, and the borough as a whole is similar to the London Borough of Bromley in that it has high levels of home ownership, on statistics compiled in the 2011 UK Census. The seat, like the London borough, is the only one in London that extends beyond the M25 motorway.^[3]

Boundaries[]

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Map of present boundaries

The seat was the proposal of the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies in 2008-9 and was after consultation accepted by Parliament. Hornchurch and Upminster is essentially an expansion of the old Upminster seat to include a chunk of the old Hornchurch seat – specifically Hornchurch itself. Most of the western wards of Hornchurch went to the new Dagenham and Rainham seat.

The constituency of Hornchurch and Upminster is made up of eight electoral wards from the London Borough of Havering:

Cranham, Emerson Park, Gooshays, Hacton, Harold Wood, Heaton, St Andrew's, Upminster.

Members of Parliament[]

Election		Member^[4]	Party
	2010	Dame Angela Watkinson	Conservative
	2017	Julia Lopez	Conservative

Election results[]

Elections in the 2010s[]

Election results of Hornchurch and Upminster.

General election 2019: Hornchurch and Upminster^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julia Lopez	35,495	65.8	+5.6
	Labour	Tele Lawal	12,187	22.6	-6.0
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Clarke	3,862	7.2	+4.8
	Green	Peter Caton	1,920	3.6	+1.7
	BNP	David Furness	510	0.9	+0.2
Majority			23,308	43.2	+11.6
Turnout			53,974	66.8	-2.6
Registered electors			80,765
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.8

General election 2017: Hornchurch and Upminster^[6]^[7] ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julia Dockerill	33,750	60.2	+11.2
	Labour	Rocky Gill	16,027	28.6	+8.5
	UKIP	Lawrence Webb	3,502	6.2	-19.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Mitchell	1,371	2.4	-0.3
	Green	Peter Caton	1,077	1.9	-0.7
	BNP	David Furness	380	0.7	+0.4
Majority			17,723	31.6	+7.9
Turnout			56,107	69.4	-0.2
Registered electors			80,802
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.36

General election 2015: Hornchurch & Upminster^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angela Watkinson	27,051	49.0	-2.4
	UKIP	Lawrence Webb	13,977	25.3	+20.0
	Labour	Paul McGeary	11,103	20.1	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Mitchell	1,501	2.7	-11.2
	Green	Melanie Collins	1,411	2.6	+1.6
	BNP	Paul Borg	193	0.3	-6.1
Majority			13,074	23.7	-6.9
Turnout			55,236	69.6	+1.6
Registered electors			79,331
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.7

General election 2010: Hornchurch & Upminster^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Angela Watkinson*	27,469	51.4
	Labour	Kath McGuirk	11,098	20.8
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Chilvers	7,426	13.9
	BNP	William Whelpley	3,421	6.4
	UKIP	Lawrence Webb	2,848	5.3
	Green	Melanie Collins	542	1.0
	Independent	David Durant	305	0.6
	Christian	Johnson Olukotun	281	0.5
Majority			16,371	30.6
Turnout			53,390	68.0
Registered electors			78,547
	Conservative win (new seat)

* Served as MP for Upminster in the 2005–2010 Parliament

The seat was contested for the first time in 2010, so percentage changes are based on notional results of the 2005 election.

Notes and references[]

Notes

^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^ 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.

References

^ "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 2017-01-29
^ "2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)
^ https://www.havering.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/3466/hornchurch_and_upminster_notice_of_poll_statement_of_persons_nominated_and_situations_of_polling_stations.pdf
^ "Hornchurch & Upminster parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
^ http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf
^ "Hornchurch and Upminster - UK Parliament Constituency - Election Polling". www.electionpolling.co.uk.
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ Havering, The London Borough Of. "Elections and voting - The London Borough Of Havering". www.havering.gov.uk.
^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

External links[]

Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
Hornchurch and Upminster, UKPollingReport

Coordinates: 51°35′N 0°13′E / 51.58°N 0.22°E / 51.58; 0.22

[2] A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

[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.

[1] "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 2017-01-29

[5] "2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.

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

[Statement_of_persons_nominated-7] ttps://www.havering.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/3466/hornchurch_and_upminster_notice_of_poll_statement_of_persons_nominated_and_situations_of_polling_stations.pdf

[8] "Hornchurch & Upminster parliamentary constituency". BBC News.

[9] ttp://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf

[10] "Hornchurch and Upminster - UK Parliament Constituency - Election Polling". www.electionpolling.co.uk.

[electoralcalculus-11] "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[12] Havering, The London Borough Of. "Elections and voting - The London Borough Of Havering". www.havering.gov.uk.

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

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show v t London Borough of Havering
Districts	Ardleigh Green Beam Park Chase Cross Coldharbour Collier Row Cranham Elm Park Emerson Park Frog Island Gallows Corner Gidea Park Hacton Harold Hill Harold Park Harold Wood Havering-atte-Bower Heath Park Hornchurch Noak Hill North Ockendon Rainham Rise Park Romford Rush Green South Hornchurch Upminster Upminster Bridge Wennington
Attractions	CEME The Diver Havering Museum Langtons Queen's Theatre Rainham Hall Rainham War Memorial The Rom Tithe Barn Museum Upminster Windmill
Major retail	The Brewery The Liberty The Mercury Romford Market
Places of worship	St Andrew, Hornchurch St Edward the Confessor, Romford St Helen and St Giles, Rainham St John, South Hornchurch St Laurence, Upminster St Mary Magdalene, North Ockendon
Parks and open spaces	Bedfords Park Cranham Brickfields Cranham Marsh Dagnam Park Hainault Forest Harrow Lodge Park Havering Country Park Hornchurch Country Park Hylands Park Ingrebourne Marshes Ingrebourne Valley Lodge Farm Park Pages Wood Pyrgo Park Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve Raphael Park Tylers Common Weald Brook Wildspace Conservation Park
Constituencies	Dagenham and Rainham (part) Hornchurch and Upminster Romford
Tube and rail stations	Elm Park Emerson Park Gidea Park Harold Wood Hornchurch Rainham Romford Upminster Upminster Bridge
Other topics	Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Public transport Schools
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Hornchurch and Upminster
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hornchurch and Upminster in Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	79,568 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Julia Lopez (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Hornchurch, Upminster, Romford