Barking (UK Parliament constituency)

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Barking
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Barking2007Constituency.svg
Boundary of Barking in Greater London
County Greater London
Population122,313 (2011 census) [1]
Electorate 74,027 (December 2010) [2]
Borough London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Major settlements Barking and Becontree
Current constituency
Created 1945
Member of Parliament Margaret Hodge (Labour)
Created from Romford

Barking is a constituency [n 1] in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since its formation in 1945, it has consistently returned a member of the Labour Party as its Member of Parliament (MP). Since 1994, its MP has been Margaret Hodge.

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Political history

The area has elected Labour MPs since its creation in 1945, on strong majorities of 20.4% of the vote or greater, except for the results in 1983 and 1987.

The rise in support for the British National Party since the turn of the 21st century saw the party attain 17% of the vote at the 2005 general election. Party members and supporters were optimistic that the party would soon make the breakthrough into UK parliament, and party leader Nick Griffin stood in Barking for the 2010 general election. However, his performance in Barking was poor, as he polled 14.8% of the vote (which actually represented a decline in percentage terms compared to 2005), and Margaret Hodge retained the seat with more than half of the vote. [3] During the run-up to the 2010 election, filmmaker Laura Fairrie had access to the British National Party and Labour Party campaigns, and later produced a documentary The Battle for Barking, which premiered on More 4 on 30 November 2010. [4]

Bucking the national trend, the incumbent MP Margaret Hodge almost doubled her majority at the 2010 general election.

Constituency profile

Set in the east of Greater London, the Barking constituency is one of the areas identified for London's planned expansion in housing. The Barking Riverside regeneration project aims to create new homes, jobs and services on the site of the former power station.

Having returned Labour MPs since 1945, Margaret Hodge has served as the MP for the seat since 1994. A challenge from the BNP in 2005 saw the Labour vote reduced by over 13% from the 2001 general election. The BNP, with 16.9% of the vote, out-polled the Liberal Democrats for third place and were 27 votes behind the Conservatives.

According to 2011 United Kingdom census data, the seat had the 21st highest proportion of unemployed people amongst constituencies in England and Wales, at 7.4%. It also has the third-highest proportion of people from Africa, while one in six identifies as Asian/Asian British. In 2010, Labour won with 54.3% of the vote, Conservatives 17.8%, BNP 14.6%.

In 2015, the UKIP vote increased to almost 23%, this was predicted as they came the runners up in every ward in the 2014 Barking and Dagenham Council election, they came within 200 votes of winning 4 seats on the council.

In 2017, the UKIP vote collapsed, and Labour and the Conservatives both increased their share of the vote, although Labour's increase of 10.1% saw them claim 67.8% of the vote overall (their largest share in Barking at any election since the 1994 by-election and the greatest at a general election since 1970), increasing their majority from 35.5% to 45.3%.

The constituency has benefited from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and its districts include a larger than average proportion of social housing and earners on low incomes. [5]

Boundaries

Barking (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries
DatesAreasMapsNotes
1945–1974The Municipal Borough of Barking. Barking1945.png Barking in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1945 to 1950.
1974–1983The London Borough of Barking wards of Abbey, Cambell, Gascoigne, Longbridge, and Manor.
1983–1997The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham wards of Abbey, Cambell, Eastbury, Gascoigne, Goresbrook, Longbridge, Manor, Parsloes, and Thames.
1997–2010The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham wards of Abbey, Becontree, Cambell, Eastbury, Gascoigne, Goresbrook, Longbridge, Manor, Parsloes, and Thames.
2010–2024The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (2010) wards of Abbey, Alibon, Becontree, Eastbury, Gascoigne, Goresbrook, Longbridge, Mayesbrook, Parsloes, Thames, and Valence. [6] Note that the ward boundaries and some ward names changed in 2022. [7] Barking2007Constituency.svg Barking&dagenham.svg
2024–present Barking 2023 Constituency.svg 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies

2010 boundary changes

Following their review of parliamentary representation the Boundary Commission for England recommended that the wards of Alibon, Parsloes and Valence be transferred from the old Dagenham constituency to Barking, and that following a review of ward boundaries a small part of River ward be transferred from Barking to help form the new Dagenham and Rainham constituency. These boundaries were first contested for the 2010 general election.

2023 boundary review

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 Valence ward will be moved to Dagenham and Rainham in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range. [8]

Following a local government boundary review in Barking and Dagenham which came into effect in May 2022 [9] [10] , the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham from the next general election:

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [12] Party
1945 Somerville Hastings Labour
1959 Tom Driberg Labour
Feb 1974 Jo Richardson Labour
1994 by-election Margaret Hodge Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Barking
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Darren Rodwell [13]
Majority
Turnout

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Barking [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 27,219 61.2 ―6.6
Conservative Tamkeen Shaikh11,79226.5+4.0
Brexit Party Karen Batley3,1867.2New
Liberal Democrats Ann Haigh1,4823.3+2.0
Green Shannon Butterfield8201.8+0.3
Majority15,42734.7―10.6
Turnout 44,49957.1―4.8
Registered electors 77,946
Labour hold Swing ―5.3
General election 2017: Barking [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 32,319 67.8 +10.1
Conservative Minesh Talati10,71122.5+6.2
UKIP Roger Gravett3,0316.4―15.8
Green Shannon Butterfield7241.5―0.5
Liberal Democrats Pauline Pearce 5991.3±0.0
Independent Noel Falvey2950.6New
Majority21,60845.3+9.8
Turnout 47,67961.9+3.7
Registered electors 77,022
Labour hold Swing +2.0
General election 2015: Barking [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 24,826 57.7 +3.4
UKIP Roger Gravett9,55422.2+19.3
Conservative Mina Rahman [17] 7,01916.3―1.5
Green Tony Rablen8792.0+1.3
Liberal Democrats Peter Wilcock5621.3―6.9
TUSC Joseph Mambuliya [18] 1830.4New
Majority15,27235.5―1.0
Turnout 43,02358.2―3.2
Registered electors 73,977
Labour hold Swing +2.0
General election 2010: Barking [19] [20] [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 24,628 54.3 +4.7
Conservative Simon Marcus8,07317.8+1.2
BNP Nick Griffin 6,62014.8―1.7
Liberal Democrats Dominic Carman 3,7198.2―2.6
UKIP Kellie Maloney 1,3002.9―0.6
Christian George Hargreaves 4821.1New
Green Jayne Forbes3170.7―1.0
Monster Raving Loony Crucial Chris Dowling820.2New
Independent Thomas Darwood770.2New
Restoration PartyDapo Sijuwola450.1New
Majority16,55536.5+5.8
Turnout 44,34361.4+13.2
Registered electors 73,868
Labour hold Swing +1.7

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Barking [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 13,826 47.8 ―13.1
Conservative Keith Prince 4,94317.1―5.9
BNP Richard Barnbrook 4,91616.9+10.5
Liberal Democrats Toby Wickenden3,21111.1+1.3
UKIP Terry Jones8032.8New
Green Laurie Cleeland6182.1New
Independent Demetrious Panton5301.8New
Workers Revolutionary Mick Saxby590.2New
Majority8,88330.7―7.2
Turnout 28,90650.1+4.6
Registered electors 57,658
Labour hold Swing ―3.6
General election 2001: Barking [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 15,302 60.9 ―4.9
Conservative Mike Weatherley 5,76823.0+5.4
Liberal Democrats Anura Keppetipola2,4509.8+0.3
BNP Mark C. Tolman1,6066.4+3.7
Majority9,53437.9―10.3
Turnout 25,12645.5―16.2
Registered electors 55,229
Labour hold Swing ―5.2

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Barking [24] [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 21,698 65.8 +14.2
Conservative Keith Langford5,80217.6―16.3
Liberal Democrats Mark Marsh3,1289.5―5.0
Referendum Colin Taylor1,2833.9New
BNP Mark Tolman8942.7New
ProLife Alliance Damien Mearns1590.5New
Majority15,89648.2+30.5
Turnout 32,96261.7―8.3
Registered electors 53,458
Labour hold Swing +15.2

1994 Barking by-election [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Margaret Hodge 13,704 72.1 +20.5
Liberal Democrats Gary White2,29012.0―2.5
Conservative Theresa May 1,97610.4―23.5
National Front Gary Needs5512.9New
UKIP Gerard Batten 4062.1New
Natural Law Heather R. Butensky [27] 900.5New
Majority11,41460.1+42.4
Turnout 19,01738.3―31.7
Registered electors 49,635
Labour hold Swing
General election 1992: Barking [28] [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jo Richardson 18,224 51.6 +7.3
Conservative John G. Kennedy11,95633.9―0.6
Liberal Democrats Stephen W. Churchman5,13314.5―6.7
Majority6,26817.7+7.9
Turnout 35,31370.0+3.1
Registered electors 50,454
Labour hold Swing +3.9

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Barking [30]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jo Richardson 15,307 44.3 +2.2
Conservative William Sharp11,89834.5+4.1
Liberal John Gibb7,36621.2―4.4
Majority3,4099.8―1.9
Turnout 34,54166.9+1.5
Registered electors 51,639
Labour hold Swing ―1.0
General election 1983: Barking [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jo Richardson 14,415 42.1 ―10.7
Conservative Hugo Summerson 10,38930.4―2.0
Liberal John Gibb8,77025.6+14.9
National Front Ian Newport6461.9―1.1
Majority4,02611.7―8.7
Turnout 34,21965.4―5.7
Registered electors 52,362
Labour hold Swing ―4.4

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Barking
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jo Richardson 18,111 52.8 −11.1
Conservative Marion Roe 11,10332.4+16.8
Liberal Martin Taylor [32] 3,67910.7−4.9
National Front Ian Newport1,0213.0−1.9
Independent Labour John Barry [32] 4001.2New
Majority7,00820.4−27.9
Turnout 34,31471.1+3.7
Registered electors 48,289
Labour hold Swing −14.0
General election October 1974: Barking [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jo Richardson 21,546 63.9 +3.8
Conservative Eric Forth 5,25615.6−3.2
Liberal M Taylor5,24515.6−5.5
National Front C. Bond1,6614.9 New
Majority16,29048.3+9.3
Turnout 33,70667.49.2
Registered electors 50,039
Labour hold Swing +3.5
General election February 1974: Barking [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jo Richardson 22,846 60.1 −9.3
Liberal M. Taylor8,01221.1New
Conservative Eric Forth 7,15418.811.8
Majority14,83439.0+0.2
Turnout 38,01176.6+15.0
Registered electors 49,617
Labour hold Swing
General election 1970: Barking [35]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Driberg 21,097 69.4 +3.2
Conservative Geoffrey Pattie 9,30930.6+8.8
Majority11,78838.8−5.6
Turnout 30,40661.610.4
Registered electors 49,363
Labour hold Swing −2.8

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Barking [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Driberg 22,994 66.2 +3.6
Conservative Geoffrey Pattie 7,58421.8−0.8
Liberal James T. Silvey4,18112.0−2.8
Majority15,41044.4+4.4
Turnout 48,28172.0−1.2
Registered electors 48,281
Labour hold Swing +2.2
General election 1964: Barking [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Driberg 23,055 62.6 +4.8
Conservative Geoffrey C Waterer8,29622.6−5.6
Liberal Nicholas Henry Donahue5,46314.8+0.9
Majority14,75940.0+10.4
Turnout 50,32673.2−5.3
Registered electors 50,326
Labour hold Swing +5.2

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Barking [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Driberg 23,454 57.8 11.4
Conservative Kenneth F Dibben11,45428.22.6
Liberal David E Evans5,64813.9New
Majority12,00029.68.8
Turnout 51,65478.5+4.9
Registered electors 51,654
Labour hold Swing 4.4
General election 1955: Barking [39]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Somerville Hastings 27,129 69.2 +1.8
Conservative Bernard Massey12,08230.8+5.7
Majority15,04738.4-3.9
Turnout 53,31473.68.3
Registered electors 53,314
Labour hold Swing 2.0
General election 1951: Barking [40]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Somerville Hastings 30,486 67.4 +1.1
Conservative Michael Thomas Ben Underhill11,34025.1+2.6
Liberal Norman Henry Cork3,3877.53.7
Majority19,14642.31.5
Turnout 55,21981.91.7
Registered electors 55,219
Labour hold Swing 0.8
General election 1950: Barking [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Somerville Hastings 30,299 66.3 4.2
Conservative Kenneth Edward Boulton Glenny10,26922.5+6.4
Liberal Harry Willcock 5,10911.22.2
Majority20,03043.810.4
Turnout 54,62783.6+10.8
Registered electors 54,627
Labour hold Swing 5.3

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Barking [42]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Somerville Hastings 24,504 70.5
Conservative Kenneth Edward Boulton Glenny5,59316.1
Liberal Harry Willcock 4,67413.4
Majority18,91154.4
Turnout 34,77172.8
Registered electors 47,770
Labour win (new seat)

Notes

  1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

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