Leyton and Wanstead (UK Parliament constituency)
Leyton and Wanstead | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Leyton and Wanstead in Greater London.
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County | Greater London |
Electorate | 63,021 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | John Cryer (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Leyton, Wanstead & Woodford |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Leyton and Wanstead is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Cryer of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
Straddling the boundary of the boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest in inner north-east London, the constituency covers Leyton, Wanstead, Leytonstone and South Woodford. The seat was created for the 1997 election succeeding the Leyton constituency, with parts of what had been the Wanstead and Woodford constituency. It has an electorate of approximately 60,000.
The seat has electoral wards:
- Snaresbrook;[n 3] and Wanstead in the London Borough of Redbridge:
- Cann Hall; Cathall; Forest; Grove Green; Leyton; and Leytonstone in the London Borough of Waltham Forest
Constituency profile
This seat combines deprived and economic-cycle vulnerable areas around Leyton[2] with the more affluent, resilient Wanstead area. It is an ethnically diverse area with the biggest minority groups Pakistani British and Caribbean British, however has fewer ethnic minority constituents than in the London Borough of Newham.[3]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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1997 | Harry Cohen | Labour | |
2010 | John Cryer | Labour |
History
The seat has been Labour since its creation in 1997 - the historical results of its wards present one of the Labour Party's safest seats. Harry Cohen was MP for the Leyton area from 1983 and this seat from 1997. Cohen retired in 2010 when the seat was won by John Cryer.[n 4]
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cryer | 23,858 | 58.6 | +15.0 | |
Conservative | Matthew Scott | 8,939 | 22.0 | -0.3 | |
Green | Ashley Gunstock[8] | 2,974 | 7.3 | +5.9 | |
UKIP | Rosamund Beattie[9] | 2,341 | 5.8 | +3.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Carl Quilliam[10] | 2,304 | 5.7 | -22.0 | |
Independent | Mahtab Aziz | 289 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,919 | 36.7 | +20.7 | ||
Turnout | 40,705 | 63.0 | -0.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cryer | 17,511 | 43.6 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Farooq Qureshi | 11,095 | 27.6 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Ed Northover | 8,928 | 22.2 | −0.5 | |
UKIP | Graham Wood | 1,080 | 2.7 | +0.9 | |
Green | Ashley Gunstock | 562 | 1.4 | −3.0 | |
BNP | Jim Clift | 561 | 1.4 | +1.4 | |
Christian | Sonika Bhatti | 342 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
Independents Federation UK | Martin Levin | 80 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,416 | 16.0 | -4.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,159 | 63.2 | +9.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.6 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harry Cohen | 15,234 | 45.8 | −12.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Meher Khan | 8,377 | 25.2 | +9.2 | |
Conservative | Julien Foster | 7,393 | 22.2 | +2.5 | |
Green | Ashley Gunstock | 1,522 | 4.6 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | Nick Jones | 591 | 1.8 | +0.7 | |
Independent | Marc Robertson | 155 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,857 | 20.6 | |||
Turnout | 33,272 | 55.0 | +0.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −10.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harry Cohen | 19,558 | 58.0 | -2.8 | |
Conservative | Edward G. Heckels | 6,654 | 19.7 | -2.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alexander I.M.C. Wilcock | 5,389 | 16.0 | +0.9 | |
Green | Ashley Gunstock | 1,030 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Socialist Alliance | Sally A. Labern | 709 | 2.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | Michael J. Skaife D'Ingurthorpe | 378 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,904 | 38.3 | |||
Turnout | 33,718 | 54.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harry Cohen | 23,922 | 60.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Robert Vaudry | 8,736 | 22.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Charles Anglin | 5,920 | 15.1 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Sean Duffy | 488 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Abdul Mian | 256 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,186 | 38.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,322 | 63.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
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.
- ↑ Excluding one polling district of this ward which is in the Ilford North seat
- ↑ Previously MP for Hornchurch (1997 to 2005).
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2001 Census
- ↑ 2011 census interactive maps
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ election result https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceChild/election-results-7May15.aspx 19Jul15
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/leytonandwanstead/
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.wfrgreenparty.org.uk/candidates.html
- ↑ http://www.rosamundbeattie.org/
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/the_council/council_people_and_elections/elections/idoc.ashx?docid=b31f1fcf-e9e1-4932-b291-32ec1e8ec1ca&version=-1
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Politics of Waltham Forest
- Politics of Redbridge
- Parliamentary constituencies in London
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997