Croydon West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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County | Greater London |
Electorate | 70,812 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Croydon, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Waddon |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Croydon Central, Croydon North and Croydon South |
1950–1955 | |
Created from | Croydon North, Croydon South and East Surrey |
Replaced by | Croydon North West and Croydon South |
Croydon West is a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1955 by the first past the post system of election.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election. It primarily comprises the majority of the abolished constituency of Croydon North, with the addition of Croydon town centre and the community of Waddon. [2]
Croydon West was a short-lived seat for the 1950 general election, creating three seats in the County Borough of Croydon from the previous two, also taking in areas from the East Surrey constituency to the south.
Croydon West took in areas of the former Croydon North and Croydon South constituencies, and East Surrey. It bordered Croydon East, Croydon North, East Surrey and Mitcham.
All three Croydon constituencies were abolished five years later at the 1955 general election, re-creating Croydon South and creating Croydon North East and Croydon North West seats.
For all of its history, Croydon West's Member of Parliament was Conservative Richard Thompson. It was contested in two elections: the 1950 general election and the 1951 general election. Prior to 1950, Croydon South had been held by Labour and most of the Labour voters were re-drawn into Croydon West, making it a marginal seat.
Dates | Local authority | Maps | Wards |
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1950–1955 | County Borough of Croydon | ![]() Shown within Surrey | Broad Green, Central, South, Waddon, and Whitehorse Manor. |
2024-present | London Borough of Croydon | ![]() Shown within Greater London | Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Fairfield, Selhurst, South Norwood, Waddon, West Thornton, Woodside (part) [3] |
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1950 | Richard Thompson | Conservative | ||
1955 | constituency abolished | |||
2024 | Sarah Jones | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sarah Jones | 20,612 | 54.1 | –12.6 | |
Conservative | Simon Fox | 6,386 | 16.8 | –4.7 | |
Green | Ria Patel | 3,851 | 10.1 | +7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jahir Hussain | 3,667 | 9.6 | +2.6 | |
Reform UK | Vinayak Malhotra | 2,148 | 5.6 | +4.3 | |
Workers Party | Ahsan Ullah | 708 | 1.9 | +1.9 | |
Taking the Initiative | Donna Murray-Turner | 503 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
TUSC | April Ashley | 247 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 14,226 | 37.3 | –7.9 | ||
Turnout | 38,122 | 48.9 | –13.9 | ||
Registered electors | 77,942 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | –4.0 |
2019 notional result [6] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 29,651 | 66.7 | |
Conservative | 9,561 | 21.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3,097 | 7.0 | |
Green | 1,205 | 2.7 | |
Brexit Party | 587 | 1.3 | |
Others | 348 | 0.8 | |
Turnout | 44,449 | 62.8 | |
Electorate | 70,812 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Thompson | 23,484 | 52.2 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Gerald Gardiner | 21,534 | 47.8 | +2.7 | |
Majority | 1,950 | 4.3 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 45,018 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Thompson | 21,411 | 47.3 | ||
Labour | David Rees-Williams | 20,424 | 45.1 | ||
Liberal | Arthur Russell Mayne | 3,101 | 6.8 | ||
Communist | Bob Jarvie [7] | 336 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 987 | 2.2 | |||
Turnout | 45,272 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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