Brentford and Isleworth (UK Parliament constituency)
Brentford and Isleworth | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Brentford and Isleworth in Greater London. | |
County | Greater London |
Population | 128,556 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 83,332 (December 2010)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of parliament | Ruth Cadbury (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Brentford & Chiswick and Heston & Isleworth |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Brentford and Isleworth /brɛntfᵿd ənd ˈaɪzəlwɜːrθ/ is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Ruth Cadbury of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Boundaries
1974-1983: The London Borough of Hounslow wards of Clifden, Gunnersbury, Homefields, Hounslow Central, Hounslow South, Isleworth North, Isleworth South, Riverside, Spring Grove, and Turnham Green.
1983-1997: The London Borough of Hounslow wards of Brentford Clifden, Chiswick Homefields, Chiswick Riverside, Gunnersbury, Hounslow Central, Hounslow South, Isleworth North, Isleworth South, Spring Grove, and Turnham Green.
1997-2010: The London Borough of Hounslow wards of Brentford Clifden, Chiswick Homefields, Chiswick Riverside, Gunnersbury, Hounslow Central, Hounslow South, Hounslow West, Isleworth North, Isleworth South, Spring Grove, and Turnham Green.
2010-present: The London Borough of Hounslow wards of Brentford, Chiswick Homefields, Chiswick Riverside, Hounslow Central, Hounslow Heath, Hounslow South, Isleworth, Osterley and Spring Grove, Syon, and Turnham Green.
Constituency profile
The constituency is located in suburban West London and stretches along the north bank of the Thames, encompassing the London districts (former villages) of Chiswick, Isleworth, Brentford, Osterley and most of Hounslow.
The constituency is generally affluent with lower unemployment (6.2% for the year ended October 2014) than London in general (7.1%) or Great Britain as a whole (6.5%).[3] Hounslow Heath on western side of the constituency and the Brentford ward have a marginally higher ranking in the Index of Multiple Deprivation and are generally strong for the Labour Party. It is in the east of the constituency, the three Chiswick wards in particular, that the Conservatives are strongest. Chiswick (uniquely in the area having a London postcode - W4) has a higher number of professionals and much expensive housing.[4] The wards of Osterley & Spring Grove and Hounslow South tend to give marginal majorities. The Liberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 2010. Since 1979 the constituency has been a national bellwether constituency.
Brentford FC's Griffin Park ground is within the seat, as is the Fuller's brewery and several headquarters of high-profile companies including GlaxoSmithKline's global HQ.
Split of votes in local council elections
In 2010 Council seats split evenly (15—15) between the two main parties reflecting the result of the general election held on the same day, where the seat was narrowly gained by the Conservatives. From 1998-2001 three wards of the centre of the constituency saw the Independent Community Group have councillors, seven at their greatest. These wards were taken by Labour in 2010. Labour added Hounslow South in 2014 and took one of the three Osterley and Spring Grove seats leaving them with 19 seats and the Conservatives with 11.
Members of Parliament
The constituency was created in 1974, mostly replacing the former seat of Brentford and Chiswick. It was held by the Conservatives from 1974 to 1997, by Labour from 1997 to 2010, and by the Conservatives from 2010 to 2015. It was won again by Labour in 2015.
Election | Member[5][6] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Sir Barney Hayhoe | Conservative | |
1992 | Nirj Deva | Conservative | |
1997 | Ann Keen | Labour | |
2010 | Mary Macleod | Conservative | |
2015 | Ruth Cadbury | Labour | |
Elections of the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ruth Cadbury[9] | 25,096 | 43.8 | +10.2 | |
Conservative | Mary Macleod [9] | 24,631 | 42.9 | +5.7 | |
UKIP | Richard Hendron [10] | 3,203 | 5.6 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Joseph Bourke[11] | 2,305 | 4.0 | -19.6 | |
Green | Daniel Goldsmith [9] | 2,120 | 3.7 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 465 | 0.8 | n/a1 | ||
Turnout | 57,355 | 67.8 | +3.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +2.2 | |||
1 Change to majority not useful when as seat changed hands.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Mary Macleod | 20,022 | 37.2 | +6.5 | |
Labour | Ann Keen | 18,064 | 33.6 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andrew S. Dakers | 12,718 | 23.7 | +0.7 | |
UKIP | Jason D. Hargreaves | 863 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Green | John G. Hunt | 787 | 1.5 | −2.1 | |
BNP | Paul Winnett | 704 | 1.3 | N/A | |
English Democrat | David B. Cunningham | 230 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Christian | Aamir J. Bhatti | 210 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Christian Peoples | Evangeline Pillai | 99 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Teresa M. Vanneck-Surplice | 68 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,958 | 3.6 | |||
Turnout | 53,765 | 64.4 | +11.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ann Keen | 18,329 | 39.8 | −12.5 | |
Conservative | Alexander B. Northcote | 13,918 | 30.2 | +1.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andrew S. Dakers | 10,477 | 22.8 | +9.3 | |
Green | John G. Hunt | 1,652 | 3.6 | +0.6 | |
Community Group | Philip Andrews | 1,118 | 2.4 | N/A | |
National Front | Michael R. Stoneman | 523 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,411 | 9.6 | |||
Turnout | 46,017 | 54.5 | +0.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Ann Keen | 23,275 | 52.3 | −5.2 | |
Conservative | Timothy Kenneth Andrew Mack | 12,957 | 29.1 | −2.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Gareth Gerald Hartwell | 5,994 | 13.5 | +5.2 | |
Green | Nicholas Peter Ferriday | 1,324 | 3.0 | +1.8 | |
UKIP | Gerald Aleck Ingram | 412 | 0.9 | −0.2 | |
Socialist Alliance | Daniel Philip Faith | 408 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Asa Singh Khaira | 144 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,318 | 23.2 | |||
Turnout | 44,514 | 53.7 | −15.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Ann Keen | 32,249 | 57.4 | +14.7 | |
Conservative | Nirj Deva | 17,825 | 31.8 | −13.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Gareth Gerald Hartwell | 4,613 | 8.2 | −1.9 | |
Green | John W. Bradley | 687 | 1.2 | ||
UKIP | Mrs. B. Simmerson | 614 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Morris Ahmed | 147 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,424 | 25.7 | |||
Turnout | 56,135 | 69.5 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Nirj Deva | 24,752 | 45.8 | −1.9 | |
Labour | Ann Keen | 22,666 | 42.0 | +8.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Janet C.N. Salmon | 5,683 | 10.5 | −7.0 | |
Green | John W. Bradley | 927 | 1.7 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 2,086 | 3.9 | |||
Turnout | 54,024 | 76.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.2 | |||
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Sir Bernard John Hayhoe | 26,230 | 47.7 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Ann Keen | 18,277 | 33.6 | +3.9 | |
Social Democratic | Dr. David Michael Worsley Wilks | 9,626 | 17.5 | −4.6 | |
Green | Timothy Hayden Cooper | 849 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,953 | 14.5 | |||
Turnout | 54,983 | 76.7 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Bernard John Hayhoe | 24,515 | 47.4 | −2.0 | |
Labour | P.L. Rowlands | 15,128 | 29.3 | −11.1 | |
Social Democratic | Dr. David Michael Worsley Wilks | 11,438 | 22.1 | +14.5 | |
National Front | P. Andrews | 427 | 0.8 | −0.5 | |
Conservatives Against the Common Market | R.E.G. Simmerson | 179 | 0.8 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 9,387 | 18.2 | |||
Turnout | 51,683 | 74.7 | −3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.6 | |||
Elections of the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Bernard John Hayhoe | 27,527 | 49.4 | +6.2 | |
Labour | P.J. Walker | 22,533 | 40.4 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | J. Parry | 4,208 | 7.6 | −3.9 | |
National Front | P. Attridge | 738 | 1.3 | −1.3 | |
Ecology | I. Coates | 454 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Conservatives Against the Common Market | R.E.G. Simmerson | 257 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,994 | 9.0 | |||
Turnout | 55,714 | 78.1 | +4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Bernard John Hayhoe | 22,527 | 43.2 | +2.6 | |
Labour | P.J. Walker | 22,295 | 42.7 | +3.4 | |
Liberal | R. Blundell | 6,019 | 11.5 | −5.5 | |
National Front | T. Benford | 1,362 | 2.6 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 232 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 52,203 | 73.3 | −5.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bernard John Hayhoe | 22,690 | 40.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Michael Cecil John Barnes | 21,964 | 39.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | D.C. Blackburn | 9,502 | 17.0 | N/A | |
National Front | T. Benford | 1,741 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 726 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 55,894 | 79.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
See also
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
- ↑ "Brentford and Isleworth: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 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.
- ↑ "All people - Economically active - Unemployed: Brentford and Isleworth". Nomis. Source: Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ "Property for Sale in W4, Houses & Flat for Sale W4 - Mouseprice". mouseprice.com.
- ↑ "Brentford and Isleworth 1983-". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-19. 3Aug15
- 1 2 3 "UK ELECTION RESULTS". electionresults.blogspot.co.uk.
- ↑ Robert Cumber (3 March 2015). "New UKIP candidate is champion canoeist and former police inspector". getwestlondon.
- ↑ "Candidate Profiles". Liberal Democrats.
- ↑ "UKPollingReport Election Guide 2010 » Brentford and Isleworth". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
- ↑ "Brentford and Isleworth". YourNextMP. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
- ↑ "Brentford & Isleworth". politicsresources.net.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: April 1992 [Archive]". politicsresources.net.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: June 1987 [Archive]". politicsresources.net.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: June 1983 [Archive]". politicsresources.net.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: May 1979 [Archive]". politicsresources.net.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: October 1974 [Archive]". politicsresources.net.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: February 1974 [Archive]". politicsresources.net.
External links
- nomis Constituency Profile for Brentford and Isleworth — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
Coordinates: 51°28′49″N 0°19′25″W / 51.4802°N 0.3236°W