Ilford South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Ilford South in Greater London | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 74,065 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Ilford |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1945 |
Member of Parliament | Jas Athwal (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ilford |
Ilford South is a constituency[n 1] created in 1945 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jas Athwal of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Constituency profile
[edit]The seat covers Ilford town centre and the surrounding suburbs, and the housing is predominantly semi-detached with little high-rise development. There is significant commuting to central London via the four stations on the Elizabeth line. The seat is ethnically diverse including white, black and Asian communities.[2]
Ilford South | |
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Racial makeup (2021)[3] | |
• Asian | 61.2% |
• White | 19.8% |
• Black | 9.9% |
• Other | 5.8% |
• Mixed | 3.3% |
Political history
[edit]This constituency was created in 1945. The previous MP since 1992, Mike Gapes, who before defecting to Change UK, was the fourth Labour Party MP, each of whose tenures was interspersed or preceded by one of a Conservative MP serving the area. Regarded as a key marginal seat for decades, under Gapes's tenure Ilford South became a very safe seat for the Labour Party; in every election since 1997 it has been won by a majority of over 20% by Labour, and in 2017 they secured over 75% of the vote in the constituency.
The 2015 result made the seat the 38th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[4] The narrowest result since 1997 (inclusive) was in 2005 at a majority of 21.6%; the 2017 majority is the greatest ever achieved in the seat, at 54.9%.
Boundaries
[edit]Historic
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1945–1950: The Borough of Ilford wards of Clementswood, Cranbrook, Goodmayes, Loxford, and Park.
1950–1974: The Borough of Ilford wards of Clementswood, Cranbrook, Goodmayes, Loxford, Mayfield, and Park.
1974–1983: The London Borough of Redbridge wards of Clementswood, Cranbrook, Goodmayes, Ilford, Mayfield, and Park.
1983–1997: As above substituting Ilford and Park with reshaped wards Loxford, Newbury, and Valentines.
1997–2017: As above plus Chadwell and Seven Kings wards.
2017–2024: Following a review of ward boundaries which became effective in May 2017,[5] the constituency comprises the following wards of the London Borough of Redbridge:
- Chadwell; Clementswood; Cranbrook; Goodmayes; Ilford Town; Loxford; Mayfield; Newbury; Seven Kings; Valentines; and a small part of Wanstead Park ward.
Current
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Ilford_South_2023_Constituency.svg/220px-Ilford_South_2023_Constituency.svg.png)
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
- The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham ward of Chadwell Heath.
- The London Borough of Redbridge wards of: Chadwell; Clementswood; Goodmayes; Ilford Town; Loxford; Mayfield; Newbury; Seven Kings.[6]
The Cranbrook and Valentines wards were transferred to Ilford North, with the small part of Wanstead Park ward going to Leyton and Wanstead. To partly compensate, the Chadwell Heath ward was transferred from Dagenham and Rainham.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member[7] | Party | |
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1945 | Jim Ranger | Labour | |
1950 | Albert Cooper | Conservative | |
1966 | Arnold Shaw | Labour | |
1970 | Albert Cooper | Conservative | |
February 1974 | Arnold Shaw | Labour | |
1979 | Neil Thorne | Conservative | |
1992 | Mike Gapes | Labour | |
February 2019 | The Independent Group for Change | ||
2019 | Sam Tarry | Labour | |
2024 | Jas Athwal | Labour |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jas Athwal | 16,537 | 40.2 | –25.4 | |
Independent | Noor Begum | 9,643 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Sayeed Syduzzaman | 6,142 | 14.9 | –5.6 | |
Green | Syed Siddiqi | 3,437 | 8.3 | +7.0 | |
Reform UK | Raj Forhad | 2,329 | 5.7 | +3.8 | |
Workers Party | Golam Tipu | 1,366 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Clare | 1,340 | 3.3 | –0.1 | |
TUSC | Andy Walker | 376 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,896 | 16.8 | –27.2 | ||
Turnout | 41,170 | 50.8 | –11.8 | ||
Registered electors | 80,993 | ||||
Labour hold |
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]2019 notional result[9] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 30,246 | 65.2 | |
Conservative | 9,837 | 21.2 | |
Others | 3,082 | 6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1,546 | 3.3 | |
Brexit Party | 1,034 | 2.2 | |
Green | 623 | 1.3 | |
Turnout | 46,368 | 62.6 | |
Electorate | 74,065 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sam Tarry | 35,085 | 65.6 | –10.2 | |
Conservative | Ali Azeem | 10,984 | 20.5 | –0.4 | |
The Independent Group for Change | Mike Gapes | 3,891 | 7.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Ashburn Holder | 1,795 | 3.4 | +2.1 | |
Brexit Party | Munish Sharma | 1,008 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Green | Rosemary Warrington | 714 | 1.3 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 24,101 | 45.1 | –9.8 | ||
Turnout | 53,477 | 62.9 | –7.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes | 43,724 | 75.8 | +11.8 | |
Conservative | Christopher Chapman | 12,077 | 20.9 | –5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Farid Ahmed | 772 | 1.3 | –0.7 | |
Green | Rosemary Warrington | 542 | 0.9 | –2.0 | |
UKIP | Tariq Saeed | 477 | 0.8 | –4.4 | |
Friends Party | Kane Khan | 65 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 31,647 | 54.9 | +16.8 | ||
Turnout | 57,657 | 69.9 | +13.5 | ||
Registered electors | 82,487 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +8.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes[15] | 33,232 | 64.0 | +14.6 | |
Conservative | Christopher Chapman | 13,455 | 25.9 | −1.5 | |
UKIP | Amjad Khan[16] | 2,705 | 5.2 | +3.0 | |
Green | Rosemary Warrington[17] | 1,506 | 2.9 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ashburn Holder | 1,014 | 2.0 | −15.0 | |
Majority | 19,777 | 38.1 | +16.1 | ||
Turnout | 51,912 | 56.4 | −1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 91,987 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +8.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes | 25,311 | 49.4 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | Toby Boutle | 14,014 | 27.4 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anood Al-Samerai | 8,679 | 17.0 | −3.5 | |
Green | Wilson Chowdhry | 1,319 | 2.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Terry Murray | 1,132 | 2.2 | +0.6 | |
Save King George Hospital | John Jestico | 746 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,297 | 22.0 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 51,201 | 58.0 | +4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 86,220 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes | 20,856 | 48.9 | −10.7 | |
Conservative | Stephen Metcalfe | 11,628 | 27.2 | +1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew E. Lake | 8,761 | 20.5 | +9.2 | |
British Public Party | Kashif Rana | 763 | 1.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Colin H. Taylor | 685 | 1.6 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 9,228 | 21.7 | −12.2 | ||
Turnout | 42,693 | 53.6 | −0.7 | ||
Registered electors | 79,646 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | −6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes | 24,619 | 59.6 | +1.1 | |
Conservative | Suresh Kumar | 10,622 | 25.7 | −4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ralph Scott | 4,647 | 11.3 | +5.0 | |
UKIP | Harun Khan | 1,407 | 3.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,997 | 33.9 | +5.5 | ||
Turnout | 41,295 | 54.3 | −15.9 | ||
Registered electors | 76,025 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +2.7 |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes | 29,273 | 58.5 | +13.5 | |
Conservative | Neil Thorne | 15,073 | 30.1 | −14.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Aina Khan | 3,152 | 6.3 | −3.3 | |
Referendum | David Hodges | 1,073 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Bruce G. Ramsey | 868 | 1.7 | N/A | |
BNP | Aron Owens | 580 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,200 | 28.4 | +27.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,019 | 70.2 | −6.5 | ||
Registered electors | 71,202 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +16.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Mike Gapes | 19,418 | 45.4 | +7.9 | |
Conservative | Neil Thorne | 19,016 | 44.4 | −4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | George G. Hogarth | 4,126 | 9.6 | −4.5 | |
Natural Law | Nandkishore Bramachari | 269 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 402 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,829 | 76.7 | +4.9 | ||
Registered electors | 55,741 | ||||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | +6.0 |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Thorne | 20,351 | 48.4 | +2.9 | |
Labour | Kenneth Jones | 15,779 | 37.5 | +3.1 | |
Liberal | Ralph Scott | 5,928 | 14.1 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 4,572 | 10.9 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 42,058 | 71.8 | +1.2 | ||
Registered electors | 58,572 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Neil Thorne | 18,672 | 45.5 | −1.3 | |
Labour | John Hogben | 14,106 | 34.4 | −8.3 | |
Liberal | Ralph Scott | 7,999 | 19.5 | +10.6 | |
BNP | R.A. Martin | 235 | 0.6 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 4,566 | 11.1 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 41,012 | 70.6 | −5.3 | ||
Registered electors | 58,208 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Neil Thorne | 19,290 | 46.8 | +6.6 | |
Labour | Arnold Shaw | 17,602 | 42.7 | −2.0 | |
Liberal | Ralph Scott | 3,664 | 8.9 | −5.72 | |
National Front | Terence Fitzgerald[20] | 636 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,688 | 4.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,230 | 75.9 | +6.17 | ||
Registered electors | 54,295 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arnold Shaw | 17,538 | 44.71 | +4.64 | |
Conservative | Neil Thorne | 15,789 | 40.25 | +2.84 | |
Liberal | E. Yates | 5,734 | 14.62 | −7.90 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Tom Keen | 169 | 0.43 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,749 | 4.46 | +1.80 | ||
Turnout | 39,230 | 69.73 | −7.20 | ||
Registered electors | 56,257 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Shaw | 17,201 | 40.07 | −2.96 | |
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 16,058 | 37.41 | −8.84 | |
Liberal | Gareth Wilson | 9,666 | 22.52 | +14.11 | |
Majority | 1,143 | 2.66 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,925 | 76.93 | +8.8 | ||
Registered electors | 55,799 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 18,369 | 46.25 | +4.48 | |
Labour | Arnold Shaw | 17,087 | 43.03 | −4.56 | |
Liberal | Gerald Leslie Wilson | 3,341 | 8.41 | −2.22 | |
National Front | Malcolm Eric Leslie Skeggs | 727 | 1.83 | N/A | |
Independent | Michael Joseph Marks | 190 | 0.48 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,282 | 3.22 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,714 | 68.13 | −8.80 | ||
Registered electors | 58,292 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Arnold Shaw | 20,613 | 47.59 | +9.52 | |
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 18,093 | 41.77 | −0.36 | |
Liberal | Irene Watson | 4,606 | 10.63 | −8.99 | |
Majority | 2,520 | 5.82 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,312 | 76.93 | +1.92 | ||
Registered electors | 56,302 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 18,352 | 42.13 | −8.37 | |
Labour | Arnold Shaw | 16,659 | 38.25 | +3.20 | |
Liberal | Peter McGregor | 8,547 | 19.62 | +5.17 | |
Majority | 1,693 | 3.88 | −11.57 | ||
Turnout | 43,558 | 75.01 | −2.90 | ||
Registered electors | 58,066 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 23,876 | 50.50 | −6.23 | |
Labour | Gordon Borrie | 16,569 | 35.05 | −8.22 | |
Liberal | Raymond V Netherclift | 6,832 | 14.45 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,307 | 15.45 | +1.99 | ||
Turnout | 47,277 | 77.91 | +2.59 | ||
Registered electors | 60,678 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 27,292 | 56.73 | +1.98 | |
Labour | James Ranger | 20,814 | 43.27 | −1.98 | |
Majority | 6,478 | 13.46 | +3.96 | ||
Turnout | 48,106 | 75.32 | −7.34 | ||
Registered electors | 63,866 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 30,177 | 54.75 | +5.24 | |
Labour | James Ranger | 24,938 | 45.25 | +3.72 | |
Majority | 5,239 | 9.50 | +1.52 | ||
Turnout | 54,115 | 82.66 | −2.71 | ||
Registered electors | 66,678 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Albert Cooper | 28,087 | 49.51 | +13.21 | |
Labour | James Ranger | 23,558 | 41.53 | −6.47 | |
Liberal | Ronald Acott Hall | 4,170 | 7.35 | −8.35 | |
Communist | Dave Kelly[21] | 913 | 1.61 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,529 | 7.98 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 56,728 | 85.37 | +14.27 | ||
Registered electors | 66,720 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Ranger | 19,339 | 48.0 | ||
Conservative | Edward Boulton | 14,633 | 36.3 | ||
Liberal | Eric Arthur Holloway | 6,322 | 15.7 | ||
Majority | 4,706 | 11.7 | |||
Turnout | 40,294 | 71.1 | |||
Registered electors | 56,669 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – London". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
- ^ "UK POLLING REPORT survey and polling news from YouGov's Anthony Wells". Archived from the original on 6 August 2022.
- ^ Population by detailed ethnic group in Ilford South https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/topic/home-affairs/communities/demography/census/
- ^ "Labour Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018.
- ^ LGBCE. "Redbridge | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 3 London region.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"
- ^ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED, NOTICE OF POLL AND SITUATION OF POLLING STATIONS" (PDF). Redbridge Council. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Ilford South Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll Archived 15 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine London Borough of Redbridge
- ^ "Ilford South parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
- ^ "General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "UK ELECTION RESULTS: ILFORD SOUTH 2015".
- ^ "Election 2015 - Ilford Recorder". Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ "Prospective General Election Candidates | Green Party". Green Party Members' Website.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "General Election Results from the Electoral Commission".
- ^ Election Expenses. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1980. p. 19. ISBN 0102374805.
- ^ Stevenson, Graham. "Dave Kelly". Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
External links
[edit]- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
- Ilford South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Ilford South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Ilford South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK