Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ealing Central and Acton
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency)
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Ealing Central and Acton 2023 Constituency.svg
Location within Greater London
County Greater London
Electorate 75,399 (2023) [1]
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of Parliament Rupa Huq (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North

Ealing Central and Acton is a constituency created in 2010, [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rupa Huq, [n 2] who was elected as a Labour MP, suspended from the party in September 2022 following alleged racist comments, [2] and reinstated in March 2023. [3]

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Constituency profile

The seat takes in an eastern third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the commercial centres of Acton and Ealing. There are suburban residential side streets, educational establishments, small industrial estates, sports areas, part of the Grand Union Canal and parks, centred around the Uxbridge Road (A4020). This is one of the more affluent seats in London. [4]

Political history

The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies created the seat by selecting wards for the year 2010 to equalise electorates. Here, if votes were cast as in 2005, this seat would have produced a three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties. [5] An analysis of intervening local results indicated that the seat would, if no voters were swung nor new voters introduced, present a tiny Labour majority.

2010 campaign

In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray, a Conservative, won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%. [n 3]

2015

According to the BBC, heavy campaigning in the 2015 general election was expected by leading figures and regional activists of the two largest political parties; [6] at the time it was 56th on the list of Labour target seats. [7] In a mixed election for two-way targets of the two largest parties, Labour's Rupa Huq won the constituency. The 2015 result gave the seat the 2nd most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [8]

2017

In April 2017, the Green Party announced that it would not stand a candidate in this constituency for the 2017 general election and instead lend its support to the sitting MP, Rupa Huq. [9] [10]

Boundaries

2010–2024

The constituency consisted of the following electoral wards of the London Borough of Ealing:

The constituency was created with an electorate close to the electoral quota of 69,703 for 2006. [11]

Current

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of:

The two Hammersmith and Fulham wards were added from Hammersmith (abolished), offset by the transfer of the Ealing Borough ward of Walpole to Ealing Southall.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [13] Party
2010 Angie Bray Conservative
2015 Rupa Huq Labour
2022 Independent
2023 Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Ealing Central and Acton [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rupa Huq 22,340 46.8 –5.5
Conservative James Windsor-Clive8,34517.5–8.1
Liberal Democrats Alastair Mitton6,05612.7–4.6
Green Kate Crossland5,44411.4+8.0
Reform UK Felix Orrell3,1056.5+5.1
Workers Party Nada Jarche1,7663.7N/A
SDP Stephen Balogh4100.9N/A
Independent Julie Carter3030.6N/A
Majority13,99529.3+2.6
Turnout 47,76960.9–9.4
Registered electors 78,436
Labour hold Swing Increase2.svg1.3

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [15]
PartyVote %
Labour 27,70752.3
Conservative 13,57425.6
Liberal Democrats 9,19117.3
Green 1,7933.4
Brexit Party 7201.4
Turnout52,98570.3
Electorate75,399
General election 2019: Ealing Central and Acton [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rupa Huq 28,132 51.3 Decrease2.svg8.4
Conservative Julian Gallant14,83227.1Decrease2.svg7.6
Liberal Democrats Sonul Badiani9,44417.2Increase2.svg11.7
Green Kate Crossland1,7353.2N/A
Brexit Party Samir Alsoodani6641.2N/A
Majority13,30024.2Decrease2.svg0.8
Turnout 54,80772.6Decrease2.svg2.0
Registered electors 75,510
Labour hold Swing -0.3
General election 2017: Ealing Central and Acton [17] [18] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rupa Huq 33,037 59.7 Increase2.svg16.5
Conservative Joy Morrissey 19,23034.7Decrease2.svg8.0
Liberal Democrats Jon Ball3,0755.6Decrease2.svg0.5
Majority13,80725.0Increase2.svg24.5
Turnout 55,34274.6Increase2.svg3.2
Registered electors 74,200
Labour hold Swing +12.2
General election 2015: Ealing Central and Acton [20] [21] [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rupa Huq 22,002 43.2 Increase2.svg13.1
Conservative Angie Bray 21,72842.7Increase2.svg4.7
Liberal Democrats Jon Ball3,1066.1Decrease2.svg21.5
UKIP Peter Florence1,9263.8Increase2.svg2.2
Green Tom Sharman [23] 1,8413.6Increase2.svg2.1
Independent Jonathan Notley1250.2N/A
Workers Revolutionary Scott Dore730.1N/A
Above and Beyond PartyTammy Rendle540.1N/A
Europeans PartyAndrzej Rygielski390.1N/A
Majority2740.5N/A
Turnout 50,89471.4Increase2.svg3.9
Registered electors 71,422
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +4.2
General election 2010: Ealing Central and Acton [24] [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Angie Bray 17,944 38.0 N/A
Labour Bassam Mahfouz 14,22830.1N/A
Liberal Democrats Jon Ball13,04127.6N/A
UKIP Julie Carter7651.6N/A
Green Sarah Edwards7371.6N/A
Christian Suzanne Fernandes2950.6N/A
Independent Ealing Acton Communities Public ServicesSam Akaki1900.4N/A
Majority3,7167.9N/A
Turnout 47,20067.5N/A
Registered electors 70,251
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Based upon the notional outcome of an election fought with electoral wards from the various previous seats fought in the previous election.

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