Ealing Central and Acton
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Ealing Central and Acton in Greater London
CountyGreater London
Electorate69,828 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created2010
Member of ParliamentRupa Huq (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created fromEaling, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North

Ealing Central and Acton is a constituency created in 2010,[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rupa Huq,[n 2] who was elected as a Labour MP, suspended from the party in September 2022 following alleged racist comments,[2] and reinstated in March 2023.[3]

Constituency profile

The seat takes in an eastern third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the commercial centres of Acton and Ealing. There are suburban residential side streets, educational establishments, small industrial estates, sports areas, part of the Grand Union Canal and parks, centred around the Uxbridge Road (A4020). This is one of the more affluent seats in London.[4]

Political history

The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies created the seat by selecting wards for the year 2010 to equalise electorates. Here, if votes were cast as in 2005, this seat would have produced a three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties.[5] An analysis of intervening local results indicated that the seat would, if no voters were swung nor new voters introduced, present a tiny Labour majority.

2010 campaign

In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray, a Conservative, won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.[n 3]

2015

According to the BBC, heavy campaigning in the 2015 general election was expected by leading figures and regional activists of the two largest political parties;[6] at the time it was 56th on the list of Labour target seats.[7] In a mixed election for two-way targets of the two largest parties, Labour's Rupa Huq won the constituency. The 2015 result gave the seat the 2nd most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[8]

2017

In April 2017, the Green Party announced that it would not stand a candidate in this constituency for the 2017 general election and instead lend its support to the sitting MP, Rupa Huq.[9][10]

Boundaries

Map
Map of present boundaries

The constituency consists of the following electoral wards of the London Borough of Ealing:

The constituency was created with an electorate close to the electoral quota of 69,703 for 2006.[11]

Proposed

Ealing Central and Acton in 2023

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 4 May 2022):

The two Hammersmith and Fulham wards will be added from Hammersmith (to be abolished), offset by the transfer of the Ealing Borough ward of Walpole to Ealing Southall.

Members of Parliament

Election Member[13] Party
2010 Angie Bray Conservative
2015 Rupa Huq Labour
2022 Independent
2023 Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Ealing Central and Acton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Windsor-Clive
Labour Rupa Huq[14]
Liberal Democrats Alastair Mitton[15]
Reform UK Felix Orrell[16]
SDP Marta Bleier[17]

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Ealing Central and Acton[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rupa Huq 28,132 51.3 Decrease8.4
Conservative Julian Gallant 14,832 27.1 Decrease7.6
Liberal Democrats Sonul Badiani 9,444 17.2 Increase11.7
Green Kate Crossland 1,735 3.2 N/A
Brexit Party Samir Alsoodani 664 1.2 N/A
Majority 13,300 24.2 Decrease0.8
Turnout 54,807 72.6 Decrease2.0
Registered electors 75,510
Labour hold Swing -0.3
General election 2017: Ealing Central and Acton[19][20][21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rupa Huq 33,037 59.7 Increase16.5
Conservative Joy Morrissey 19,230 34.7 Decrease8.0
Liberal Democrats Jon Ball 3,075 5.6 Decrease0.5
Majority 13,807 25.0 Increase24.5
Turnout 55,342 74.6 Increase3.2
Registered electors 74,200
Labour hold Swing +12.2
General election 2015: Ealing Central and Acton[22][23][24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rupa Huq 22,002 43.2 Increase13.1
Conservative Angie Bray 21,728 42.7 Increase4.7
Liberal Democrats Jon Ball 3,106 6.1 Decrease21.5
UKIP Peter Florence 1,926 3.8 Increase2.2
Green Tom Sharman[25] 1,841 3.6 Increase2.1
Independent Jonathan Notley 125 0.2 N/A
Workers Revolutionary Scott Dore 73 0.1 N/A
Above and Beyond Party Tammy Rendle 54 0.1 N/A
Europeans Party Andrzej Rygielski 39 0.1 N/A
Majority 274 0.5 N/A
Turnout 50,894 71.4 Increase3.9
Registered electors 71,422
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +4.2

See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Ealing Central and Acton
General election 2010: Ealing Central and Acton[26][27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Angie Bray 17,944 38.0 N/A
Labour Bassam Mahfouz 14,228 30.1 N/A
Liberal Democrats Jon Ball 13,041 27.6 N/A
UKIP Julie Carter 765 1.6 N/A
Green Sarah Edwards 737 1.6 N/A
Christian Suzanne Fernandes 295 0.6 N/A
Independent Ealing Acton Communities Public Services Sam Akaki 190 0.4 N/A
Majority 3,716 7.9 N/A
Turnout 47,200 67.5 N/A
Registered electors 70,251
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Based upon the notional outcome of an election fought with electoral wards from the various previous seats fought in the previous election.

References

  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. ^ Allegretti, Aubrey (27 September 2022). "Rupa Huq has Labour whip suspended after Kwasi Kwarteng comments". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Labour MP Rupa Huq regains whip after Kwasi Kwarteng racism row". BBC News. 3 March 2023.
  4. ^ Electoral Calculus https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/seatdetails.py?seat=Ealing+Central+and+Acton
  5. ^ "UKPollingReport Election Guide 2010 » Ealing Central and Acton". ukpollingreport.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 December 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  6. ^ Hollins, Victoria (7 April 2015). "Ealing Central and Acton is key election battleground". BBC News. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Labour's 106 battleground target seats for 2015". Labour List. 8 January 2013. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Labour Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018.
  9. ^ Bloom, Dan (23 April 2017). "Green Party pulls out of crucial general election seat to help Labour beat the Tories". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  10. ^ Morse, Felicity (23 April 2017). "Local election pact: Ealing Green Party stand aside to help Labour MP Rupa Huq win". i. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  11. ^ Fifth Periodical Report Archived 2012-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Boundary Commission for England, page 7 ISBN 0-10-170322-8. Also contains list of boundary changes in England.
  12. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 3 London region.
  13. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
  14. ^ "Ealing Central & Acton MP, Rupa Huq reselected to be Labour candidate for next General Election". Ealing.News. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  15. ^ "Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Mark Pack. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  16. ^ "Find My PPC" (PDF). Reform UK. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  17. ^ "GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES". SDP. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  18. ^ Council, Ealing. "Ealing Council download - Statements of persons nominated and notice of poll: UK Parliamentary General Election 12 December 2019 | Council and local decisions | Elections". www.ealing.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  19. ^ "General election 2017: latest updates". BBC News. Archived from the original on 3 October 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  20. ^ Robin de Peyer (9 June 2017), "Ealing Central & Acton 2017 result", Evening Standard, archived from the original on 25 February 2018, retrieved 5 April 2018
  21. ^ "General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  22. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  23. ^ "Ealing Central and Acton - RESULTS - UK Parliamentary election: 7 May 2015 - Ealing Council". 10 May 2015. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015.
  24. ^ "Peter Florence". ukip-ealing-central-acton.org. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015.
  25. ^ "London Green Party - 2015 general election". greenparty.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015.
  26. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  27. ^ "Ealing Central and Acton 6 May 2010 - Parliamentary election - Ealing Council". 25 October 2012. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.

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