| Dagenham and Rainham | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Dagenham and Rainham in Greater London | |
| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 70,187 (December 2010) [1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Jon Cruddas (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Dagenham, Hornchurch, Barking |
Dagenham and Rainham is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Jon Cruddas of the Labour Party since its 2010 creation. [n 2]
| Dates | Maps | Electoral wards | Local authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010–Next United Kingdom general election |  | (North to south) Whalebone, Chadwell Heath [n 3] , Heath, Eastbrook, Village, River | London Borough of Barking and Dagenham |
| Elm Park, Rainham and Wennington, South Hornchurch | London Borough of Havering | ||
| Next United Kingdom general election– |  |
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 Chadwell Heath ward will be moved to Ilford South. To compensate, the Barking and Dagenham Borough ward of Valence and parts of the Havering Borough wards of St Andrew's and Hacton (mainly to the west of Abbs Cross Lane and South End Road) will be transferred in from Barking, and Hornchurch and Upminster respectively. [2]
Following local government boundary reviews in Barking and Dagenham [3] [4] , and Havering [5] [6] which came into effect in May 2022, the constituency will now comprise the following from the next general election:
Before 1945 the Dagenham area was part of the Romford constituency. The MP for the latter seat since 1935, Labour's John Parker, continued to represent Dagenham until 1983. Parker was the last serving MP to have been elected before the Second World War, and with 48 years in Parliament, was the longest-serving Labour MP in history, a record he held until December 2017. The seat was first contested in the 2010 general election which resulted from the Boundary Commission's report that recommended merging the majority of the former constituencies of Dagenham and Hornchurch and added to existing electoral wards a small part of River ward was also transferred from Barking.
In 2010 Labour's Jon Cruddas took the seat gaining a marginal 5.9% win, facing a strong nominal (ward-by-ward) Lab–Con swing measured against the previous forerunner seats and candidates. BNP candidate Michael Barnbrook came third with 11.2% of the vote, his party's second-best showing in the election. In 2015, Cruddas, incumbent won an 11.6% majority; the runner-up party changed to being UKIP closely followed by the Conservative candidate.
In 2019, Cruddas' majority was cut to just 293 votes, the lowest Labour majority in Dagenham ever, which has been represented by Labour MPs since 1945.
The electoral wards in both boroughs were redrawn in 2022 and subsequently the constituency no longer aligns with ward boundaries.
The constituency may retain significant pockets of poverty indicated by a high ranking in the Index of Multiple Deprivation compiled in the year 2000 however average incomes were in four large wards close to the national average. [8] The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham saw the most rapid decrease in people of White British ethnicity in the 10 years to the 2011 census, of 31.4 percentage points. However the same dataset shows that 58.3% of people are white in the seat, which is similar to the Greater London average. An established area of settlement for British people of Asian ethnicity with 15.9% of this background, the neighbouring London Borough of Newham has a much higher proportion of residents with Asian heritage, 43.5%. [9]
| Election | Member [10] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jon Cruddas | Labour | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform UK | Kevin Godfrey [11] | ||||
| Conservative | Sam Holland [12] | ||||
| Labour | Margaret Mullane [13] | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jon Cruddas | 19,468 | 44.5 |  5.6 | |
| Conservative | Damian White | 19,175 | 43.8 |  3.9 | |
| Brexit Party | Tom Bewick | 2,887 | 6.6 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | Sam Fisk | 1,182 | 2.7 | 1.7 | |
| Green | Azzees Minott | 602 | 1.4 | 0.2 | |
| Independent | Ron Emin | 212 | 0.5 | New | |
| Independent | Terry London | 209 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
| Majority | 293 | 0.7 | 9.5 | ||
| Turnout | 43,735 | 61.7 | 3.2 | ||
| Registered electors | 71,045 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | 4.8 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jon Cruddas | 22,958 | 50.1 | 8.7 | |
| Conservative | Julie Marson | 18,306 | 39.9 | 15.5 | |
| UKIP | Peter Harris | 3,246 | 7.1 | 22.7 | |
| Green | Denis Breading | 544 | 1.2 | 0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Fryer | 465 | 1.0 | 0.7 | |
| BNP | Paul Sturdy | 239 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
| Concordia | Terence London | 85 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 4,652 | 10.2 | 1.4 | ||
| Turnout | 45,843 | 64.9 | 2.6 | ||
| Registered electors | 70,616 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | 3.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jon Cruddas | 17,830 | 41.4 | 1.1 | |
| UKIP | Peter Harris | 12,850 | 29.8 | 26.3 | |
| Conservative | Julie Marson | 10,492 | 24.4 | 9.9 | |
| Green | Kate Simpson [19] | 806 | 1.9 | 1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Denise Capstick [20] [21] | 717 | 1.7 | 6.9 | |
| BNP | Tess Culnane | 151 | 0.4 | 10.8 | |
| Independent | Terry London | 133 | 0.3 | New | |
| English Democrat | Kim Gandy | 71 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 4,980 | 11.6 | 5.6 | ||
| Turnout | 43,050 | 62.3 | 0.9 | ||
| Registered electors | 69,128 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | 12.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jon Cruddas* | 17,813 | 40.3 | ||
| Conservative | Simon Jones | 15,183 | 34.3 | ||
| BNP | Michael Barnbrook | 4,952 | 11.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Joseph Bourke | 3,806 | 8.6 | ||
| UKIP | Craig Litwin | 1,569 | 3.5 | ||
| Independent | Gordon Kennedy [23] | 308 | 0.7 | ||
| Christian | Paula Watson [24] | 305 | 0.7 | ||
| Green | Debbie Rosaman | 296 | 0.7 | ||
| Majority | 2,630 | 6.0 | |||
| Turnout | 44,232 | 63.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 69,764 | ||||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
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