Putney | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 62,153 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Fleur Anderson (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Wandsworth (abolished, divided into four) |
Putney is a constituency created in 1918. It is currently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Fleur Anderson of the Labour Party. Putney was the only seat that Labour gained during the 2019 general election.
1918–1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth wards of Putney and Southfields.
1950–1964: The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth wards of Fairfield, Putney and Southfields.[2]
1964–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth wards of Fairfield, Putney, Southfield, Thamesfield, and West Hill.[3]
1974–1983: The London Borough of Wandsworth wards of Putney, Roehampton, Southfield, Thamesfield, and West Hill.[4]
1983–2010: The London Borough of Wandsworth wards of East Putney, Parkside, Roehampton, Southfields, Thamesfield, West Hill, and West Putney.
2010–present: As above less Parkside ward.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward boundaries in place at 1 December 2020, and enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be expanded to bring it within the permitted electoral range by including the majority of the Fairfield ward (polling districts FFA, FFB and FFC), transferred from Battersea.[5]
When created in 1918 the constituency was carved out of the west of the abolished seat Wandsworth. The rest of the latter formed Wandsworth Central, Balham and Tooting and Streatham. Putney formed one of the divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of Wandsworth.
The seat was Conservative from 1918 until 1964, in a national context of Labour marginal wins in the 1920s, the landslide Labour victory in 1945 and the narrower Labour win in 1950. After the Labour win of 1964, the fairly narrow Heath ministry win of 1970 failed to tip the seat back to the Conservative Party, and the seat was held by Labour for 15 years with Hugh Jenkins as MP.
Putney was next held by Conservative Secretary of State for National Heritage David Mellor from 1979 until 1997 during the party's successive national governments; the 1997 Labour landslide saw Putney gained by Tony Colman (Lab) and a signal early-declared result as the landslide unfolded.[n 1]
Putney was the first Conservative gain on election night in 2005, when Justine Greening took back the seat from Labour on a two-party swing (Lab-Con) of 6.5%. The 2015 result gave the seat the 148th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority, similar to the 2010 result.[6] The 2017 election saw Greening re-elected, but with a 10% swing to Labour; this heavy swing against the Conservatives has been attributed to the fact that the Borough of Wandsworth (of which Putney is part) voted 75% in favour of remaining in the European Union in the previous year's referendum. In 2019, Putney was the only seat in the country gained by Labour.[7]
Putney has long had many desirable properties of South-West London[8] with Southfields to the south and the River Thames to the north with Fulham lying across the river.
The majority of the area as in the 19th century is covered by mid-to-high income neighbourhoods[9] whereas the eastern boundary of the seat eating into Wandsworth town centre is more mixed, and Roehampton which has its university (University of Roehampton and part of the Kingston University campus) consists of, in terms of housing, by a small majority, a diverse council stock that owing to its cost has only fractionally been acquired under the Right to Buy — much of this ward remains in one form or another reliant on social housing.[9]
The local council is not a bellwether of who will win the Putney seat, and for a considerable time has imposed the lowest council tax in the country.[10] Between 1997 and 2005 Putney had a unique attribute of being the only seat in the country where every single component ward elected a full slate of Conservative councillors, yet the constituency had a Labour MP, Tony Colman.
In the 2016 EU Referendum, Putney voted 72.24% to Remain.[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Lee Roberts[13] | ||||
Labour | Fleur Anderson[14] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Kieren McCarthy[15] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fleur Anderson | 22,780 | 45.1 | 4.3 | |
Conservative | Will Sweet | 18,006 | 35.7 | 8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sue Wixley | 8,548 | 16.9 | 5.3 | |
Green | Fergal McEntee | 1,133 | 2.2 | 0.2 | |
Majority | 4,774 | 9.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,467 | 77.0 | 4.9 | ||
Registered electors | 65,542 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 6.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Justine Greening | 20,679 | 44.1 | 9.7 | |
Labour | Neeraj Patil | 19,125 | 40.8 | 10.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ryan Mercer | 5,448 | 11.6 | 5.3 | |
Green | Ben Fletcher | 1,107 | 2.4 | 2.4 | |
UKIP | Patricia Ward | 477 | 1.0 | 3.6 | |
Independent | Lotta Quizeen | 58 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 1,554 | 3.3 | 21.5 | ||
Turnout | 46,894 | 72.1 | 5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 65,031 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 10.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Justine Greening | 23,018 | 53.8 | +1.8 | |
Labour | Sheila Boswell | 12,838 | 30.0 | +2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Hallett | 2,717 | 6.3 | −10.6 | |
Green | Christopher Poole[22] | 2,067 | 4.8 | +3.4 | |
UKIP | Patricia Ward | 1,989 | 4.6 | +3.5 | |
Animal Welfare | Guy Dessoy | 184 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 10,180 | 23.8 | -0.9 | ||
Turnout | 42,813 | 67.0 | +2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 63,923 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Justine Greening | 21,223 | 52.0 | +9.6 | |
Labour | Stuart King | 11,170 | 27.4 | -10.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Sandbach | 6,907 | 16.9 | +0.6 | |
Green | Bruce Mackenzie | 591 | 1.4 | -1.3 | |
BNP | Peter Darby | 459 | 1.1 | New | |
UKIP | Hugo Wareham | 435 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 10,053 | 24.6 | +19.8 | ||
Turnout | 40,785 | 64.4 | +4.9 | ||
Registered electors | 63,371 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Justine Greening | 15,497 | 42.4 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Tony Colman | 13,731 | 37.5 | -9.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Ambache | 5,965 | 16.3 | +2.7 | |
Green | Keith Magnum | 993 | 2.7 | New | |
UKIP | Anthony Gahan | 388 | 1.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 1,766 | 4.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 36,574 | 59.5 | +3.0 | ||
Registered electors | 61,499 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +6.50 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tony Colman | 15,911 | 46.5 | +0.9 | |
Conservative | Michael Simpson | 13,140 | 38.4 | -0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony Burrett | 4,671 | 13.6 | +2.8 | |
UKIP | Pat Wild | 347 | 1.0 | +0.5 | |
ProLife Alliance | Yvonne Windsor | 185 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 2,771 | 8.1 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 34,254 | 56.5 | -16.8 | ||
Registered electors | 60,643 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tony Colman | 20,084 | 45.6 | +9.0 | |
Conservative | David Mellor | 17,108 | 38.9 | −13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Russell Pyne | 4,739 | 10.8 | +1.2 | |
Referendum | James Goldsmith | 1,518 | 3.5 | New | |
UKIP | William Jamieson | 233 | 0.5 | New | |
Happiness Stan's Freedom to Party | Lenny Beige (AKA Steve Furst) | 101 | 0.2 | New | |
Sportsman's Alliance: Anything but Mellor | Michael Yardley | 90 | 0.2 | New | |
Natural Law | John Small | 66 | 0.2 | −0.1 | |
Independently Beautiful Party | Ateeka Poole | 49 | 0.1 | New | |
Renaissance Democrat | Dorian Van Braam | 7 | 0.02 | New | |
Majority | 2,976 | 6.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,994 | 73.3 | −4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 60,015 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | -11.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Mellor | 25,188 | 52.2 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Judith Chegwidden | 17,662 | 36.6 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Martyn | 4,636 | 9.6 | -2.8 | |
Green | Keith Hagenbach | 618 | 1.3 | +0.2 | |
Natural Law | Paul Levy | 139 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 7,526 | 15.6 | +1.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,243 | 77.9 | +1.9 | ||
Registered electors | 61,914 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Mellor | 24,197 | 50.5 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Peter Hain | 17,290 | 36.1 | +0.2 | |
Liberal | Sally Harlow | 5,934 | 12.4 | -3.9 | |
Green | Simon Desorgher | 508 | 1.1 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 6,907 | 14.4 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,929 | 76.0 | +2.4 | ||
Registered electors | 63,108 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Mellor | 21,863 | 46.5 | -0.3 | |
Labour | Peter Hain | 16,844 | 35.9 | -5.6 | |
Liberal | Charles Welchman | 7,668 | 16.3 | +6.0 | |
National Front | Michael Connolly | 290 | 0.6 | -0.8 | |
Ecology | Rose Baillie-Grohman | 190 | 0.4 | New | |
Socialist (GB) | Leonard Chalk | 88 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent | William Williams | 41 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,019 | 10.6 | +5.3 | ||
Turnout | 46,984 | 73.6 | -2.5 | ||
Registered electors | 63,853 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Mellor | 23,040 | 46.8 | +7.3 | |
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 20,410 | 41.5 | -3.8 | |
Liberal | Nicholas Couldrey | 5,061 | 10.3 | -3.7 | |
National Front | James Webster | 685 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 2,630 | 5.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,196 | 76.1 | +4.3 | ||
Registered electors | 64,648 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 21,611 | 45.3 | +4.0 | |
Conservative | Gerard Wade | 18,836 | 39.5 | +1.0 | |
Liberal | Adrian Slade | 7,159 | 15.0 | -5.2 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Thomas Keen | 125 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,775 | 5.8 | +3.0 | ||
Turnout | 47,731 | 71.8 | -7.8 | ||
Registered electors | 66,515 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.55 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 21,680 | 41.3 | -5.1 | |
Conservative | Gerard Wade | 20,241 | 38.5 | -7.7 | |
Liberal | Adrian Slade | 10,629 | 20.2 | +12.7 | |
Majority | 1,439 | 2.8 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 52,550 | 79.6 | +10.8 | ||
Registered electors | 66,013 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 25,162 | 47.6 | -0.7 | |
Conservative | John Wakeham | 23,768 | 45.0 | +3.1 | |
Liberal | Geoffrey Broughton | 3,887 | 7.4 | -2.6 | |
Majority | 1,394 | 2.6 | -3.8 | ||
Turnout | 52,727 | 68.8 | -10.1 | ||
Registered electors | 76,722 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.95 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 26,601 | 48.3 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 23,114 | 41.9 | -0.6 | |
Liberal | Adrian Slade | 5,420 | 9.8 | -2.7 | |
Majority | 3,487 | 6.4 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 55,135 | 78.9 | +1.9 | ||
Registered electors | 69,870 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.95 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hugh Jenkins | 24,581 | 44.9 | +4.7 | |
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 23,274 | 42.54 | -6.6 | |
Liberal | Anthony Cowen | 6,856 | 12.5 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 1,307 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54,711 | 77.0 | -3.1 | ||
Registered electors | 71,084 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 28,236 | 49.1 | -8.0 | |
Labour | Dick Taverne | 23,115 | 40.2 | -2.7 | |
Liberal | Michael Francis Burns | 6,166 | 10.7 | New | |
Majority | 5,121 | 8.9 | -5.3 | ||
Turnout | 57,517 | 80.1 | +4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 71,772 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.65 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 28,969 | 57.1 | +1.3 | |
Labour Co-op | Bernard Bagnari | 21,774 | 42.9 | -1.3 | |
Majority | 7,195 | 14.2 | +2.6 | ||
Turnout | 50,743 | 76.0 | -5.9 | ||
Registered electors | 66,776 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 29,686 | 55.83 | +4.07 | |
Labour Co-op | Eric Hutchison | 23,489 | 44.17 | +2.93 | |
Majority | 6,197 | 11.6 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 53,175 | 81.9 | +0.1 | ||
Registered electors | 64,933 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.57 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 28,007 | 51.76 | +3.22 | |
Labour | Irene Chaplin | 22,315 | 41.24 | +4.24 | |
Liberal | Beresford Alton | 3,785 | 7.0 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 5,692 | 10.52 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 54,107 | 81.8 | +8.2 | ||
Registered electors | 66,158 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.51 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 16,356 | 48.5 | -16.6 | |
Labour | Percy D. Stewart | 12,469 | 37.0 | +5.1 | |
Common Wealth | Richard Acland | 2,686 | 8.0 | New | |
Liberal | Isaac Joseph Hyam | 2,041 | 6.1 | New | |
Ind. Conservative | Eleonora Tennant | 144 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 3,887 | 11.5 | -21.7 | ||
Turnout | 33,696 | 75.6 | +5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 45,796 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.85 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hugh Linstead | 8,788 | 74.9 | +9.8 | |
Independent | Bernard Acworth | 2,939 | 25.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,849 | 49.8 | +16.6 | ||
Turnout | 11,727 | 23.0 | -43.5 | ||
Registered electors | 51,066 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +20.85 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Samuel | 22,288 | 65.1 | -16.5 | |
Labour | Andrew Aiken Watson | 10,895 | 31.9 | +13.5 | |
Independent | Violet Van der Elst | 1,021 | 3.0 | New | |
Majority | 11,393 | 33.2 | -30.0 | ||
Turnout | 34,204 | 68.5 | +2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 49,901 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -15.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Samuel | 15,599 | 54.7 | -26.9 | |
Labour | Edith Summerskill | 12,936 | 45.3 | +26.9 | |
Majority | 2,663 | 9.4 | -53.8 | ||
Turnout | 28,535 | 57.5 | -8.8 | ||
Registered electors | 49,642 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -26.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Samuel Samuel | 27,318 | 81.6 | +17.8 | |
Labour | John Lawder | 6,172 | 18.4 | -17.8 | |
Majority | 21,146 | 63.2 | +25.6 | ||
Turnout | 33,490 | 66.3 | +4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 50,538 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +17.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Samuel Samuel | 19,657 | 63.8 | -8.6 | |
Labour | John Lawder | 11,136 | 36.2 | +8.6 | |
Majority | 8,521 | 27.6 | -17.2 | ||
Turnout | 30,793 | 62.1 | -6.3 | ||
Registered electors | 49,594 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -8.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Samuel Samuel | 17,341 | 72.4 | N/A | |
Labour | John Allen | 6,609 | 27.6 | New | |
Majority | 10,732 | 44.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 23,950 | 68.4 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 35,030 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Samuel Samuel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | |||||
Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Samuel Samuel | 9,739 | 47.2 | -16.4 | |
Ind. Unionist | Cyril Prescott-Decie | 5,556 | 27.0 | New | |
Liberal | Henry Higgs | 5,317 | 25.8 | New | |
Majority | 4,183 | 20.2 | -7.0 | ||
Turnout | 20,612 | 61.8 | +18.4 | ||
Registered electors | 33,346 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -16.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Samuel Samuel | 8,677 | 63.6 | |
National | John Jenkins | 4,968 | 36.4 | ||
Majority | 3,709 | 27.2 | |||
Turnout | 13,645 | 43.4 | |||
Registered electors | 31,437 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |