Lewisham East (UK Parliament constituency)
Lewisham East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Lewisham East in Greater London. | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 65,508 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of parliament | Heidi Alexander (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Lewisham North and Lewisham South |
1918–1950 | |
Replaced by | Lewisham North and Lewisham South |
Created from | Lewisham |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Lewisham East is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Heidi Alexander of the Labour Party.[n 2]
History
Lewisham East was first contested in the 1918 general election, and from 1945-1950 was represented by the former Labour cabinet minister Herbert Morrison. The seat was abolished in 1950 but recreated in 1974 and until 1997 was a marginal seat. The area collectively has swung a long way against the Conservatives since the 1983 to 1992 period when the Conservative Minister for Sport Colin Moynihan served the seat - Conservatives in 2010 found themselves for the first time in third place, meanwhile the Liberal Democrat share of the vote increased to 28.2% in 2010. In 2014 Labour won a landslide victory at the local council elections with the Liberal Democrats losing all ten council seats and the Conservatives losing their only seat. On the same date Steve Bullock was reelected as Mayor of Lewisham, a position that he has held since the position was created in 2002. Conservative Party candidate Simon Nundy came second in the election, the first time that the Conservative Party candidate has beaten the Liberal Democrats into third place since 2002. The opposition candidates for incumbent MP Heidi Alexander at the 2015 General Election include Julia Fletcher and Störm Poorun
In terms of share of the vote, this seat received the 43rd largest Labour vote in 2010, of the 650 constituencies.[2]
Constituency profile
This is a set of neighbourhoods in the inner London Borough of Lewisham, stretching from the relatively affluent former village of Blackheath is in the north-east of the borough that has much more in common with the leafier parts of Greenwich than neighbouring Lewisham - indeed some of the area marked on maps as Blackheath is in that borough.[3] Extending further south, Lewisham East then takes in some areas of high social deprivation[4] fairly close to Lewisham town centre, and the Rushey Green side of Catford, a low-to-middle income area famous for opening one of the first indoor shopping malls in England.
At the southern end of the seat is Grove Park, one of the quieter and more upmarket parts of Lewisham Borough, which, unlike the rest of Lewisham, has had a tendency to elect conservative Conservative councillors. As the constituency profile changes to a more affluent and metropolitan electorate wards such as Grove Park, Lee Green and Catford South have become target wards, but overall this is a safe Labour seat, typical of inner South East London.
Boundaries
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1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath, Church, Lewisham Park, Manor, and South, and parts of the wards of Catford and Lewisham Village.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath and Lewisham Village, Grove Park, Lewisham Park, Manor Lee, St Andrew, St Mildred Lee, South Lee, Southend, and Whitefoot.
1983-2010: The London Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath, Churchdown, Downham, Grove Park, Hither Green, Manor Lee, St Margaret, St Mildred, and Whitefoot.
2010–present: The London Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath, Catford South, Downham, Grove Park, Lee Green, Rushey Green, and Whitefoot.
The 2010 redistribution created a replacement seat for Lewisham West, this time cross-borough and named Lewisham West and Penge, which meant consequential changes to the other seats in the borough.
- Lewisham East received:
- Catford South, and parts of Rushey Green and Whitefoot wards from the former constituency of Lewisham West.
- Part of Rushey Green from Lewisham, Deptford
- Lewisham East lost:
- Part of Lewisham Central to Lewisham, Deptford.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1918 | Assheton Pownall | Conservative | |
1945 | Herbert Morrison | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished | ||
Feb 1974 | constituency recreated | ||
Feb 1974 | Roland Moyle | Labour | |
1983 | Colin Moynihan | Conservative | |
1992 | Bridget Prentice | Labour | |
2010 | Heidi Alexander | Labour |
Election results
Elections in 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Heidi Alexander | 23,907 | 55.7 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | Peter Fortune | 9,574 | 22.3 | -1.3 | |
UKIP | Anne Marie Waters | 3,886 | 9.1 | +7.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Julia Fletcher | 2,455 | 5.7 | -22.4 | |
Green | Störm Poorun | 2,429 | 5.7 | +4.2 | |
People Before Profit | Nick Long | 390 | 0.9 | +0.1 | |
Christian Peoples | Maureen Martin | 282 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,333 | 33.4 | +18.5 | ||
Turnout | 42,923 | 64.1 | +0.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Heidi Alexander | 17,966 | 43.1 | -2.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Pete Pattisson | 11,750 | 28.2 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Clamp | 9,850 | 23.6 | -0.7 | |
UKIP | Roderick Reed | 771 | 1.8 | -0.4 | |
Green | Priscilla Cotterell | 624 | 1.5 | -2.7 | |
English Democrat | James Rose | 426 | 1.0 | N/A | |
People Before Profit | George Hallam | 332 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,216 | 14.9 | |||
Turnout | 41,719 | 63.3 | +8.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bridget Prentice | 14,263 | 45.8 | −7.9 | |
Conservative | James Cleverly | 7,512 | 24.1 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard Thomas | 6,787 | 21.8 | +5.4 | |
Green | Anna Baker | 1,243 | 4.0 | N/A | |
UKIP | Arnold Tarling | 697 | 2.2 | +1.0 | |
National Front | Bernard Franklin | 625 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,751 | 21.7 | |||
Turnout | 31,127 | 52.6 | −0.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bridget Prentice | 16,160 | 53.7 | -4.6 | |
Conservative | David McInnes | 7,157 | 23.8 | -2.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | David Buxton | 4,937 | 16.4 | +5.2 | |
BNP | Barry Roberts | 1,005 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Socialist Alliance | Jean Kysow | 464 | 1.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Maurice Link | 361 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,003 | 29.9 | |||
Turnout | 30,084 | 53.1 | -13.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bridget Prentice | 21,821 | 58.3 | ||
Conservative | Philip Hollobone | 9,694 | 25.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | David Buxton | 4,178 | 11.2 | ||
Referendum | Spencer Drury | 910 | 2.4 | ||
National Front | Robert Croucher | 431 | 1.2 | ||
Liberal | Peter White | 277 | 0.7 | ||
Independent | K Rizz | 97 | 0.26 | ||
Majority | 12,127 | 32.42 | |||
Turnout | 37,410 | 66.41 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bridget Prentice | 19,576 | 45.4 | ||
Conservative | Colin Moynihan | 18,481 | 42.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Julian Alexandra Hawkins | 4,877 | 11.3 | ||
Natural Law | G Elizabeth Mansour | 196 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 1,095 | 2.5 | |||
Turnout | 43,128 | 74.78 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colin Moynihan | 19,873 | 45.11 | ||
Labour | M. Russell Profitt | 15,059 | 34.2 | ||
Social Democratic | V.W. Stone | 9,118 | 20.70 | ||
Majority | 4,814 | 10.9 | |||
Turnout | 44,052 | 73.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colin Moynihan | 17,168 | 40.36 | ||
Labour | Roland Moyle | 15,259 | 35.87 | ||
Social Democratic | Polly Toynbee | 9,351 | 21.98 | ||
BNP | Richard Edmonds | 288 | 0.68 | ||
Ecology | A Hassard | 270 | 0.63 | ||
Communist | G Roberts | 135 | 0.32 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | P Gibson | 71 | 0.17 | ||
Majority | 1,909 | 4.49 | |||
Turnout | 42,538 | 69.49 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections in 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roland Moyle | 22,916 | 45.96 | ||
Conservative | Humfrey Malins | 21,323 | 42.76 | ||
Liberal | J Forrest | 4,265 | 8.55 | ||
National Front | M Ellis | 1,168 | 2.34 | ||
Workers Revolutionary | H Harewood | 190 | 0.38 | ||
Majority | 1,593 | 3.19 | |||
Turnout | 49,863 | 74.35 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roland Moyle | 24,350 | 50.92 | ||
Conservative | D Mahony | 15,398 | 32.20 | ||
Liberal | M Minter | 8,069 | 16.87 | ||
Majority | 8,952 | 18.72 | |||
Turnout | 47,815 | 68.76 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roland Moyle | 24,339 | 45.59 | ||
Conservative | John Leslie Marshall | 18,033 | 33.78 | ||
Liberal | M Minter | 10,543 | 19.75 | ||
Independent | C Carey | 269 | 0.5 | ||
New Freedom | Frank Hansford-Miller | 203 | 0.38 | ||
Majority | 6,306 | 11.81 | |||
Turnout | 53,389 | 77.53 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Election in 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Herbert Stanley Morrison | 37,361 | 61.82 | ||
Conservative | Sir Assheton Pownall | 22,142 | 36.64 | ||
Independent | F Russell | 931 | 1.54 | ||
Majority | 15,219 | 25.18 | |||
Turnout | 60,434 | 76.19 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir Assheton Pownall | 32,874 | 55.44 | ||
Labour | Freda Künzlen Corbet | 25,425 | 44.56 | ||
Majority | 6,449 | 10.88 | |||
Turnout | 68.02 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sir Assheton Pownall | 41,354 | 66.87 | ||
Labour | John Charles Wilmot | 20,485 | 33.13 | ||
Majority | 20,869 | 33.75 | |||
Turnout | 74.86 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in 1920s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir Assheton Pownall | 23,208 | 42.4 | ||
Labour | John Charles Wilmot | 22,806 | 41.7 | ||
Liberal | Sir Edward Penton | 8,729 | 15.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 402 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Assheton Pownall | 13,560 | 44.4 | -13.2 | |
Labour | Ernest Wesley Wilton | 9,604 | 31.4 | +2.5 | |
Liberal | Sir Edward Penton | 7,397 | 24.2 | +10.7 | |
Majority | 3,956 | 13.0 | -15.7 | ||
Turnout | 62.6 | -1.4 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -7.8 | |||
See also
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.
- ↑ General Election Results from the Electoral Commission
- ↑ Detailed Map of Blackheath Ordnance survey website
- ↑ 2001 Census including the 2000-compiled Index of Multiple Deprivation and more recent indicators
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=23&RPID=38836300 27Jul15
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000787
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/217756E9-5DCC-45EF-828B-3939C12CBFEA/0/LewishamEastSOPNNOP.pdf
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/057.htm
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i13.htm
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge87/i13.htm
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge83/i13.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge79/i13.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i13.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i13.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge45/i12.htm
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- Iain Dale, ed. (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
- The Times House of Commons 1945. 1945.