Croydon North (UK Parliament constituency)

Croydon North
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Croydon North in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	85,107 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Thornton Heath, Norbury, Selhurst, South Norwood, Upper Norwood
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Steve Reed (Labour Party)
Number of members	One
Created from	Croydon North East and Croydon North West
1918–1955
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Croydon North East and Croydon North West
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Croydon North is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2012 by Steve Reed of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

History

On re-creation at the 1997 general election the MP for the seat became Malcolm Wicks of the Labour Party with the fourth largest Labour majority in Greater London. Wicks was victorious at the next two general elections and died on 29 September 2012, prompting the 2012 Croydon North by-election which was won by Steve Reed, also of the Labour Party.

The seat was created from the former Croydon North West and part of the former North East constituencies. In its previous form it existed from 1918 until 1955.

Constituency profile

Croydon North is the densest of Croydon's three seats, regarded as safely Labour with all wards held safely by them at local level, consisting for the most part of rows of modest terraced houses, interspersed with tower blocks, much of it social and ex-social housing and with recreation areas.^[2]

Passing through the constituency are London Overground and Southern services to London Victoria and Croydon — the seat is well connected by several stations to rail services. There has been some regeneration since 2000 with new-build developments for affluent commuters.^[3]

The seat includes Crystal Palace FC's ground at Selhurst Park and the northeastern end of the seat is near the site of the former Crystal Palace itself.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The County Borough of Croydon wards of North, South Norwood, and Upper Norwood.

1950-1955: The County Borough of Croydon wards of Bensham Manor, Norbury, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood, and West Thornton.

1997-2010: The London Borough of Croydon wards of Bensham Manor, Beulah, Broad Green, Norbury, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood, West Thornton, and Whitehorse Manor.

2010-present: The London Borough of Croydon wards of Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Norbury, Selhurst, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood, and West Thornton.

Members of Parliament

As Croydon North

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1918	George Borwick	Conservative
	1922	Glyn Mason	Conservative	Resigned 1940
	1940 by-election	Henry Willink	Conservative	Resigned 1948
	1948 by-election	Fred Harris	Conservative
1955		constituency abolished: see Croydon North East & Croydon North West
1997		constituency re-created
	1997	Malcolm Wicks	Labour	Died 2012
	2012 by-election	Steve Reed	Labour

As Croydon North East

	Member^[4]	Party
1955	John Hughes-Hallett	Conservative
1964	Bernard Weatherill	Conservative
1983	Bernard Weatherill	Speaker
1992	David Congdon	Conservative

As Croydon North West

	Member	Party
1955	Fred Harris	Conservative
1970	Robert Taylor	Conservative
1981 by-election	Bill Pitt	Liberal
1983	Humfrey Malins	Conservative
1992	Malcolm Wicks	Labour
2012 by-election	Steve Reed	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Croydon North^[5]^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Steve Reed	33,513	62.6	+6.6
	Conservative	Vidhi Mohan	12,149	22.7	-1.4
	UKIP	Winston McKenzie	2,899	5.4	+3.7
	Green	Shasha Khan	2,515	4.7	+2.7
	Liberal Democrat	Joanna Corbin	1,919	3.6	-10.4
	TUSC	Glen Hart	261	0.5	+0.5
	Independent	Lee Berks	141	0.3	+0.3
	Communist	Ben Stevenson	125	0.2	-0.1
Majority			21,364	39.9	-8
Turnout			53,522	62.3	+35.77
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.0

Croydon North by-election, 2012^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Steve Reed	15,892	64.7	+8.7
	Conservative	Andrew Stranack	4,137	16.8	-7.3
	UKIP	Winston McKenzie	1,400	5.7	+4.0
	Liberal Democrat	Marisha Ray	860	3.5	-10.5
	Green	Shasha Khan	855	3.5	+1.5
	Respect	Lee Jasper	707	2.9	+2.4
	Christian Peoples	Stephen Hammond	192	0.8	N/A
	National Front	Richard Edmonds	161	0.7	N/A
	Communist	Ben Stevenson	119	0.5	+0.2
	Monster Raving Loony	John Cartwright	110	0.4	N/A
	Nine Eleven Was An Inside Job	Simon Lane	66	0.3	N/A
	Young People's Party	Robin Smith	63	0.3	N/A
Majority			11,755	47.9	+16.0
Rejected ballots
Turnout				26.53%
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2010: Croydon North^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	28,947	56.0	+2.4
	Conservative	Jason Hadden	12,466	24.1	+1.9
	Liberal Democrat	Gerry Jerome	7,226	14.0	−3.2
	Green	Shasha Khan	1,017	2.0	−0.9
	UKIP	Jonathan Serter	891	1.7	−0.0
	Christian	Novlette Williams	586	1.1	N/A
	Respect	Mohommad Shaikh	272	0.5	N/A
	Communist	Ben Stevenson	160	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Mohamed Seyed	111	0.2	N/A
Majority			16,481	31.9	+0.5
Turnout			51,676	60.6	+8.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Croydon North^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	23,555	53.7	−9.8
	Conservative	Tariq Ahmad	9,667	22.0	−1.3
	Liberal Democrat	Adrian Gee-Turner	7,590	17.2	+6.8
	Green	Shasha Khan	1,248	2.8	N/A
	UKIP	Henry Pearce	770	1.8	+0.4
	Croydon Pensions Alliance	Peter Gibson	394	0.9	N/A
	Veritas	Winston McKenzie	324	0.7	N/A
	Independent	Farhan Rasheed	197	0.4	N/A
	The People's Choice! Exclusively For All	Michelle Chambers	132	0.3	N/A
Majority			13,888	31.7
Turnout			43,877	52.3	−0.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.3

General Election 2001: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	26,610	63.5	+1.4
	Conservative	Simon Allison	9,752	23.3	-3.9
	Liberal Democrat	Sandra Lawman	4,375	10.4	+2.7
	UKIP	Alan Smith	606	1.4	+0.7
	Socialist Alliance	Don Madgwick	539	1.3	N/A
Majority			16,858	40.2
Turnout			41,882	53.2	-15.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	32,672	62.2	N/A
	Conservative	Ian Martin	14,274	27.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Morris	4,066	7.7	N/A
	Referendum	Roger Billis	1,155	2.2	N/A
	UKIP	James R. Feisenberger	396	0.8	N/A
Majority			18,398	35.0	N/A
Turnout			52,563	68.2	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1951: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Harris	29,984	55.5	+2.1
	Labour	Reginald Prentice	19,738	36.6	+0.1
	Liberal	Brian Collins	4,272	7.9	-2.3
Majority			10,246	19.0
Turnout			53,994
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.0

General Election 1950: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Harris	29,420	53.4
	Labour	Reginald Prentice	20,116	36.5
	Liberal	F. O. H. Rowlands	5,600	10.2
Majority			9,304	16.9
Turnout			55,136
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

1948 By-election: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Harris	36,200	54.0	+13.9
	Labour	Hon. Harold Nicolson	24,536	36.6	-3.5
	Liberal	Donald Bennett	6,321	9.4	-9.4
Majority			11,664	17.4	+16.3
Turnout			67,057
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.7

General Election 1945: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Willink	23,417	41.1	-26.0
	Labour	Marian Billson	22,810	40.1	+7.2
	Liberal	John Howard	10,714	18.8	+18.8
Majority			607	1.1	-33.0
Turnout			56,941
	Conservative hold		Swing	-16.6 v. 1935

1940 By-election: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Willink	14,163	90.7	N/A
	Independent	Arthur Lascelles Lucas	1,445	9.3	N/A
Majority			12,718	81.4	N/A
Turnout			15,608
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glyn Mason	36,383	67.1	-13.8
	Labour	F. Mitchell	17,872	32.9	+13.8
Majority			18,511	34.1	-27.6
Turnout			54,255
	Conservative hold		Swing	-13.8

General Election 1931: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glyn Mason	45,595	80.9	+30.5
	Labour	H. W. Ray	10,795	19.1	-7.4
Majority			34,800	61.7	+37.8
Turnout			56,490
	Conservative hold		Swing	+19.0

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Glyn Keith Murray Mason	26,336	50.4	-19.9
	Labour	Gilbert Arthur Foan	13,852	26.5	-3.2
	Liberal	Cyril Walter Nunneley	12,053	23.1	+23.1
Majority			12,484	23.9	-16.7
Turnout			52,241
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.3

General Election 1924: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Glyn Keith Murray Mason	25,972	70.3
	Labour	Gilbert Arthur Foan	10,954	29.7
Majority			15,018	40.7
Turnout			36,926
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Croydon North ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Glyn Keith Murray Mason	17,085	63.0	n/a
	Labour	Gilbert Arthur Foan	10,054	37.0	n/a
Majority			7,031	26.0	n/a
Turnout				55.7	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

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. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ Get a Map Ordnance survey
↑ Planning Applications Croydon Council
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ https://www.croydon.gov.uk/sites/default/files/articles/downloads/Croydon-North-election-results.pdf 19Aug15
↑ Election 2015 - Croydon North BBC News, 8 May 2015
↑ Croydon North by-election: Labour's Steve Reed secures win BBC News, 30 November 2012
↑ Parliamentary election results 2010, Croydon North Croydon Council
↑ UK general election 2005 - Results for Croydon North Electoral Commission
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

Sources

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)

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Liberal Democrats (1)	Carshalton and Wallington

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London Borough of Croydon

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Street markets	Croydon Farmers Market Surrey Street Market

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