Croydon South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 82,010 (May 2015) [1] |
Major settlements | Coulsdon and Purley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Chris Philp (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | East Surrey |
Croydon South is a constituency [n 1] created in 1974 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Chris Philp, a Conservative. [n 2]
In 1974, the original Croydon South constituency created in 1918 was renamed Croydon Central and the current Croydon South was created from the northwestern part of East Surrey, covering Purley and Coulsdon, which had become parts of Greater London in 1965.
Since its creation, the constituency has been represented by three Conservative MPs. Sir William Clark, who had represented East Surrey since 1970, won the new seat in February 1974, and held it until his retirement in 1992. His successor, Sir Richard Ottaway, then held the seat until 2015, when he stood down and was succeeded by Chris Philp. [2] [1] Boundary changes have been minor and the 2015 result made the seat the 145th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. [3] At the 2015 general election, it was one of the Conservatives' safest seats in Greater London. [4]
Croydon South consists of affluent suburbia, including a significant minority of large houses with gardens on the North Downs escarpment. It has many well-to-do commuters taking advantage of the fast trains to the City and Gatwick Airport, plus a significant proportion of retired people.
The village-like Selsdon – one of the few places in the seat where transport links are poor – has a place on the political map having spawned the phrase 'Selsdon Man',[ citation needed ] its swing and voters first seen as an ideal bellwether for the national swing by the Conservative Party. The Purley Way, which runs mainly through Waddon, has become home to large retail estates for out-of-town shopping and leisure. Waddon is the sole Labour ward in the constituency – one of its councillors, Andrew Pelling, the former Conservative MP for Croydon Central, defected to the Labour Party.
At the southern end of the constituency, Coulsdon has much in common with the residual county of Surrey of which it was a more intrinsically associated part until 1965 as it was excluded from Croydon County Borough on the county borough's creation in 1889.
Dates | Local authority | Wards |
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1974–1983 | London Borough of Croydon | Coulsdon East, Purley, Sanderstead and Selsdon, Sanderstead North, Woodcote and Coulsdon West |
1983–1997 | Coulsdon East, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Woodcote and Coulsdon West | |
1997–2010 | Coulsdon East, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Waddon, Woodcote and Coulsdon West | |
2010–Next United Kingdom general election | Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards, Waddon | |
Next United Kingdom general election– | Coulsdon Town, Kenley, Old Coulsdon, Park Hill & Whitgift, Purley & Woodcote, Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown, Sanderstead, South Croydon [5] |
Election | Member | Party | |
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February 1974 | Sir William Clark | Conservative | |
1992 | Sir Richard Ottaway | Conservative | |
2015 | Chris Philp | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp [6] | ||||
Labour | Ben Taylor [7] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Richard Howard [8] | ||||
Green | Elaine Garrod [9] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 30,985 | 52.2 | -2.2 | |
Labour | Olga FitzRoy | 18,646 | 31.4 | -4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Jones | 7,503 | 12.6 | +6.8 | |
Green | Peter Underwood | 1,782 | 3.0 | +1.2 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 442 | 0.7 | -1.1 | |
Majority | 12,339 | 20.8 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,358 | 70.7 | -2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 83,977 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 33,334 | 54.4 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Jennifer Brathwaite | 21,928 | 35.8 | +11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Jones | 3,541 | 5.8 | -0.2 | |
Green | Catherine Shelley | 1,125 | 1.8 | -1.9 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 1,116 | 1.8 | -8.7 | |
CPA | David Omamogho | 213 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 11,406 | 18.6 | -11.1 | ||
Turnout | 61,247 | 73.3 | +2.9 | ||
Registered electors | 83,518 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 31,448 | 54.5 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Emily Benn | 14,308 | 24.8 | +4.8 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 6,068 | 10.5 | +6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gill Hickson | 3,448 | 6.0 | -16.8 | |
Green | Peter Underwood | 2,154 | 3.7 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 221 | 0.4 | New | |
Class War | Jon Bigger [16] | 65 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 17,140 | 29.7 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 57,712 | 70.4 | +1.1 | ||
Registered electors | 82,010 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 28,684 | 50.9 | -1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Rix | 12,866 | 22.8 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Jane Avis | 11,287 | 20.0 | -4.0 | |
UKIP | Jeffrey Bolter | 2,504 | 4.4 | +2.3 | |
Green | Gordon Ross | 981 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 15,818 | 28.1 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 56,322 | 69.3 | +5.8 | ||
Registered electors | 81,303 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 25,320 | 51.8 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Paul Smith | 11,792 | 24.1 | –5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sandra Lawman | 10,049 | 20.6 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | James Feisenberger | 1,054 | 2.2 | 0.0 | |
Veritas | Graham Dare | 497 | 1.0 | New | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 185 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 13,528 | 27.7 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,897 | 63.6 | +2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 75,812 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 22,169 | 49.2 | +1.9 | |
Labour | Gerry Ryan | 13,472 | 29.9 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna-Nicolett Gallop | 8,226 | 18.3 | –2.8 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 998 | 2.2 | New | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 195 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 8,697 | 19.3 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 45,060 | 61.4 | –12.1 | ||
Registered electors | 73,372 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | –1.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 25,649 | 47.3 | -14.3 | |
Labour | Charlie Burling | 13,719 | 25.3 | +9.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steven Gauge | 11,441 | 21.1 | -0.5 | |
Referendum | Tony Barber | 2,631 | 4.9 | New | |
BNP | Paul Ferguson | 354 | 0.7 | New | |
Independent | A.G. Harker | 309 | 0.6 | New | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 96 | 0.2 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 11,930 | 22.0 | -18.7 | ||
Turnout | 54,199 | 73.5 | -4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 73,787 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -11.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 31,993 | 63.7 | -0.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Billenness | 11,568 | 23.0 | -1.3 | |
Labour | Helen Salmon | 6,444 | 12.8 | +3.0 | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 239 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 20,425 | 40.7 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 50,244 | 77.6 | +3.9 | ||
Registered electors | 64,768 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 30,732 | 64.1 | -1.0 | |
Liberal | George Morrison | 11,669 | 24.3 | -2.8 | |
Labour | Geraint Davies | 4,679 | 9.8 | +2.0 | |
Green | Paul Baldwin | 900 | 1.9 | New | |
Majority | 19,063 | 39.8 | +1.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,980 | 73.7 | +2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 65,085 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 29,842 | 65.1 | +0.2 | |
Liberal | James Forrest [19] | 12,402 | 27.1 | +6.1 | |
Labour | Robert C E Brooks [19] | 3,568 | 7.8 | -5.3 | |
Majority | 17,440 | 38.0 | -5.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,702 | 71.1 | -5.7 | ||
Registered electors | 64,482 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark [20] | 30,874 | 64.9 | +7.0 | |
Liberal | Peter Billenness [20] | 10,006 | 21.0 | -4.9 | |
Labour | John Bloom [20] | 6,249 | 13.1 | -3.1 | |
National Front | Roland Dummer [20] | 469 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 20,868 | 43.9 | +11.9 | ||
Turnout | 47,598 | 76.7 | +2.8 | ||
Registered electors | 62,022 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 25,703 | 57.9 | -1.2 | |
Liberal | D Nunneley | 11,514 | 25.9 | -0.8 | |
Labour | DW Keene | 7,203 | 16.2 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 14,189 | 32.0 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,420 | 73.9 | -8.4 | ||
Registered electors | 60,090 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 28,915 | 59.1 | ||
Liberal | J.P. Coleman | 13,048 | 26.7 | ||
Labour | Henry Hodge | 6,965 | 14.2 | ||
Majority | 15,867 | 32.4 | |||
Turnout | 48,928 | 82.3 | |||
Registered electors | 59,447 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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