Ealing Southall (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing, Southall
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ealing, Southall in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	65,768 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Southall, Norwood Green, Northfields, Dormers Wells
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Virendra Sharma (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Southall
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Ealing, Southall is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2007 by Virendra Sharma of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Constituency profile

The constituency has relatively good road and rail transport, and green spaces,^[2] but less notable tube connections. Southall in particular has a high British Asian ethnic minority; who overall across the constituency represent 39% of the population according to the 2001 census,^[3] the majority of this minority is of Indian ethnicity (28%). Both minorities are lower than the London Borough of Newham at 43.5% in 2011.^{[n 3]} The Afro-Caribbean community amounts to 8% according to the latest census statistics. The seat has generally modest incomes and is held by the third Labour MP in succession, the only political party that has won this seat, with a majority of 18,760, obtained in the 2015 election.

Boundaries

1983–1997: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Ealing Common, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.

2010–present: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Lady Margaret, Northfield, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway, and Southall Green.

The constituency occupies the south western part of the London Borough of Ealing in west London. It includes Southall and parts of Hanwell and West Ealing south of the Great Western Main Line railway. The other Ealing constituencies are Ealing North, and Ealing Central and Acton.

Boundary review

Following its review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England made some changes to Ealing, Southall. Part of Greenford Broadway ward and tiny parts of Hobbayne ward and Dormers Wells ward were transferred from the constituency of Ealing North to Ealing, Southall. Tiny parts of Hobbayne ward and Dormers Wells ward were also transferred to Ealing North. Walpole ward, and parts of Ealing Broadway ward and Ealing Common ward were transferred from Ealing, Southall to help form the new Ealing Central and Acton constituency.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[4]	Party
1983	Syd Bidwell	Labour
1992	Piara Khabra	Labour
2007 by-election	Virendra Sharma	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Ealing Southall^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	28,147	65.0	+13.5
	Conservative	James Symes	9,387	21.7	−8.1
	Green	Jas Mahal^[6]	2,007	4.6	+3.0
	UKIP	John Poynton	1,769	4.1	+4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Kavya Kaushik	1,550	3.6	−11.4
	NLP	Jagdeesh Singh	461	1.1	+1.1
Majority			18,760	43.3	+21.6
Turnout			43,321	66.1	−4.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+10.8

General Election 2010: Ealing Southall^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	22,024	51.5	−5.8
	Conservative	Gurcharan Singh	12,733	29.8	+10.8
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Bakhai	6,383	14.9	−3.3
	Green	Suneil Basu	705	1.6	−3.1
	Christian	Mehboob Anil	503	1.2	N/A
	English Democrats	Sati Chaggar	408	1.0	N/A
Majority			9,291	21.7
Turnout			42,756	70.8	+15.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.3

Elections in the 2000s

Ealing Southall by-election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	15,188	41.5	−7.5
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Bakhai	10,118	27.7	+3.3
	Conservative	Tony Lit	8,230	22.5	+0.9
	Green	Sarah Edwards	1,135	3.1	−1.5
	Respect	Salvinder Dhillon	588	1.6	N/A
	UKIP	K. T. Rajan	285	0.8	N/A
	Christian Vote	Yaqub Masih	280	0.8	N/A
	Independent	Jasdev Rai	275	0.8	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	John Cartwright	188	0.5	N/A
	English Democrats	Sati Chaggar	152	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Gulbash Singh	92	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Kuldeep Grewal	87	0.2	N/A
Majority			5,070	13.8	-10.5
Turnout			36,618	42.9	-13.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.4

General Election 2005: Ealing Southall^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	22,937	48.8	+1.3
	Liberal Democrat	Nigel Bakhai	11,497	24.4	+14.4
	Conservative	Mark D.Y. Nicholson	10,147	21.6	+3.3
	Green	Mrs. Sarah J. Edwards	2,175	4.6	+0.1
	Workers Revolutionary	Mrs. Malkiat Bilku	289	0.6	N/A
Majority			11,440	24.3
Turnout			47,045	56.2	−0.6
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.6

General Election 2001: Ealing Southall^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	22,239	47.5	−12.5
	Conservative	Daniel Kawczynski	8,556	18.3	−2.5
	Independent	Avtar Lit	5,764	12.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Baldev Kumar Sharma	4,680	10.0	−0.4
	Green	Mrs. Margaret Jane Cook	2,119	4.5	+2.8
	Independent	Salvinder Singh Dhillon	1,214	2.6	N/A
	Independent	Mushtaq Choudhry	1,666	2.5	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Harpal Brar	921	2.0	−1.9
	Independent	Mohammed Zulfikal Bhutta	169	0.4	N/A
Majority			13,683	29.2
Turnout			46,828	56.8
	Labour hold		Swing

At the 2001 Election, the Electoral Commissions book "Election 2001" {ISBN 978-1-84275-020-9} records the following three candidates with party names rejected for not being recorded on the register of political parties:

Dhillon – Independent Community Candidate Empowering Change
Bhutta – Qari
Lit – Chairman of Sunrise Radio

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Ealing Southall^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	32,791	60.0	+12.6
	Conservative	John Penrose	11,368	20.8	−12.8
	Liberal Democrat	Miss Nikki F. Thomson	5,687	10.4	+2.7
	Socialist Labour	Harpal Brar	2,107	3.9	N/A
	Green	Nicholas Goodwin	934	1.7	−0.2
	Referendum	Bruce Cherry	854	1.6	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Mrs. Kinga M. Klepacka	473	0.9	N/A
	UKIP	Dr. Richard G.C. Mead	428	0.8	N/A
Majority			21,423	39.2
Turnout			54,642	66.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Ealing Southall^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	23,476	47.4	−3.3
	Conservative	Philip C. Treleaven	16,610	33.6	−1.9
	True Labour	Syd Bidwell	4,665	9.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Ms. Pash Nandhra	3,790	7.7	−5.6
	Green	Nicholas Goodwin	964	1.9	N/A
Majority			6,866	13.8	-1.3
Turnout			49,505	75.5	+5.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Ealing Southall^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Syd Bidwell	26,480	50.7	−1.6
	Conservative	Michael Anthony Truman	18,503	35.5	+5.0
	Liberal	Mrs. Monica Howes	6,947	13.3	−2.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Richard Francis Lugg	256	0.5	N/A
Majority			7,977	15.2	−6.6
Turnout			52,186	69.7	−1.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Ealing Southall^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Syd Bidwell	26,664	52.3	N/A
	Conservative	Nigel G.T. Linacre	15,548	30.5	N/A
	Liberal	Mahmud Nadeen	8,059	15.8	N/A
	National Front	E. Pendrous	555	1.1	N/A
	Independent	S.S. Paul	150	0.3	N/A
Majority			11,116	21.8	N/A
Turnout			50,976	71.4	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

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.
↑ see 2011 census data release: Ethnicity

References

↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "OpenStreetMap". openstreetmap.org.
↑ "Check Browser Settings". statistics.gov.uk.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://london.greenparty.org.uk/elections/2015-general-election.html
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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Constituencies in London (73)

Labour (45)	Barking Bermondsey and Old Southwark Bethnal Green and Bow Brent Central Brentford and Isleworth Brent North Camberwell and Peckham Croydon North Dagenham and Rainham Dulwich and West Norwood Ealing Central and Acton Ealing North Ealing Southall East Ham Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Erith and Thamesmead Feltham and Heston Greenwich and Woolwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hampstead and Kilburn Holborn and St. Pancras Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West and Penge Leyton and Wanstead Mitcham and Morden Poplar and Limehouse Streatham Tooting Tottenham Vauxhall Walthamstow West Ham Westminster North

Conservative (27)	Battersea Beckenham Bexleyheath and Crayford Bromley and Chislehurst Chelsea and Fulham Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon South Enfield Southgate Finchley and Golders Green Harrow East Hendon Hornchurch and Upminster Kensington Kingston and Surbiton Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Putney Richmond Park Romford Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner Sutton and Cheam Twickenham Uxbridge and South Ruislip Wimbledon

Liberal Democrats (1)	Carshalton and Wallington

London European constituency: Labour (4) Conservative (2) Green (1) UKIP (1)

Historic constituencies in London

1983	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Stepney Bexleyheath Bow and Poplar Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton and Wallington Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing Acton Ealing North Ealing Southall Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond and Barnes Romford Ruislip-Northwood Southwark and Bermondsey Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Westminster North Wimbledon Woolwich

1997	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath and Crayford Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Bromley and Chislehurst Camberwell and Peckham Carshalton and Wallington Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon North Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich and West Norwood Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush Ealing North Ealing Southall East Ham Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Thamesmead Feltham and Heston Finchley and Golders Green Greenwich and Woolwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith and Fulham Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington and Chelsea Kingston and Surbiton Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton and Wanstead Mitcham and Morden North Southwark and Bermondsey Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Poplar and Canning Town Putney Regent's Park and Kensington North Richmond Park Romford Ruislip-Northwood Streatham Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow West Ham Wimbledon

Coordinates: 51°30′18″N 0°21′14″W / 51.505°N 0.354°W / 51.505; -0.354

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