Ealing, Southall | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 65,768 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Southall, Norwood Green, Northfields, Dormers Wells, Hanwell |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Virendra Sharma (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Southall |
Ealing, Southall (also Ealing Southall) is a constituency [n 1] created in 1974 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2007 by Virendra Sharma of the Labour Party. [n 2]
The constituency has relatively good road and rail transport, and numerous small to medium-size green spaces, [2] and has had as many as three tube stations at its eastern extremes of its boundaries. Southall and Norwood Green, forming the western bulk of the seat, feature a high British Asian proportion of the population since the 1960s. British Indian ethnicity is the largest single ethnic group. British Asians account for 51% of the population, as at the 2011 census, [3] the majority of this minority is of Indian ethnicity (29.6%), with significant Hindu and Muslim populations, with the highest number of Sikh residents in any constituency in Britain at over 20%. [4] The Afro-Caribbean community amounts to 8% according to the latest census statistics. The seat has generally modest incomes and the vast majority of housing is modest terraced, semi-detached or mid-rise 20th century blocks of flats. The east of the seat is formed by Hanwell and West Ealing.
Ealing Southall | |
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Religion (2021) [5] | |
• Christian | 28.7% |
• Sikh | 21.1% |
• Muslim | 20.5% |
• No religion | 12.3% |
• Hindu | 11.0% |
• Not answered | 5.0% |
• Other | 0.7% |
• Buddhist | 0.6% |
• Jewish | 0.1% |
The seat has been served by three successive Labour Party MPs since its inception in 1974, with majorities ranging between 13.8% and 49% of the vote; the latter was achieved in 2017, which was not a landslide year for the party. The length of tenure and size of majorities mean that practical analyses consider Ealing Southall a safe seat. The 2015 result made the seat the 25th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [6] The larger predecessor seat, created in 1945, was held by Labour throughout its existence.
1983–1997: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.
1997–2010: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Ealing Common, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.
2010–present: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Lady Margaret, Northfield, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway, and Southall Green.
The constituency takes in the south western third of population of the London Borough of Ealing in west London and is traversed its extreme length by the Great Western Main Line (railway). The other Ealing constituencies are Ealing North, and Ealing Central and Acton.
The Boundary Commission for England made minor changes. Part of Greenford Broadway ward and tiny parts of Hobbayne ward and Dormers Wells ward were transferred from the constituency of Ealing North to Ealing, Southall. Tiny parts of Hobbayne ward and Dormers Wells ward were also transferred to Ealing North. Walpole ward, and parts of Ealing Broadway ward and Ealing Common ward were transferred from the seat into new Ealing Central and Acton.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following wards of the London Borough of Ealing (as they existed on 4 May 2022):
Dormers Wells; Hanwell Broadway; Lady Margaret; Northfield; Norwood Green; Southall Broadway; Southall Green; Southall West; Walpole. [7]
In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, Walpole ward will be transferred in from Ealing Central and Acton.
Election | Member [8] | Party | |
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1974 | Syd Bidwell | Labour | |
1992 | Piara Khabra | Labour | |
2007 by-election | Virendra Sharma | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Tariq Mahmood [9] | ||||
Reform UK | Steve Chilcott [10] | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Virendra Sharma | 25,678 | 60.8 | -9.5 | |
Conservative | Tom Bennett | 9,594 | 22.7 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tariq Mahmood | 3,933 | 9.3 | +5.1 | |
Green | Darren Moore | 1,688 | 4.0 | +1.7 | |
Brexit Party | Rosamund Beattie | 867 | 2.1 | New | |
CPA | Suzanne Fernandes | 287 | 0.7 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Hassan Zulkifal | 170 | 0.4 | -0.4 | |
Majority | 16,084 | 38.1 | -10.9 | ||
Turnout | 42,217 | 65.4 | −3.9 | ||
Registered electors | 64,580 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Virendra Sharma | 31,720 | 70.3 | +5.3 | |
Conservative | Fabio Conti | 9,630 | 21.3 | -0.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Bakhai | 1,892 | 4.2 | +0.6 | |
Green | Peter Ward | 1,037 | 2.3 | -2.3 | |
UKIP | John Poynton | 504 | 1.1 | -3.0 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Arjinder Thiara | 362 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 22,090 | 49.0 | +5.7 | ||
Turnout | 45,145 | 69.3 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 65,188 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Virendra Sharma | 28,147 | 65.0 | +13.5 | |
Conservative | James Symes | 9,387 | 21.7 | −8.1 | |
Green | Jas Mahal [16] | 2,007 | 4.6 | +3.0 | |
UKIP | John Poynton | 1,769 | 4.1 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Kavya Kaushik | 1,550 | 3.6 | −11.3 | |
National Liberal | Jagdeesh Singh | 461 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 18,760 | 43.3 | +21.6 | ||
Turnout | 43,321 | 66.1 | −4.7 | ||
Registered electors | 65,606 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Virendra Sharma | 22,024 | 51.5 | −5.8 | |
Conservative | Gurcharan Singh | 12,733 | 29.8 | +10.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Bakhai | 6,383 | 14.9 | −3.3 | |
Green | Suneil Basu | 705 | 1.6 | −3.1 | |
Christian | Mehboob Anil | 503 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 9,291 | 21.7 | -2.6 | ||
Turnout | 42,756 | 63.8 | +7.6 | ||
Registered electors | 66,970 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −8.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Virendra Sharma | 15,188 | 41.5 | −7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Bakhai | 10,118 | 27.7 | +3.3 | |
Conservative | Tony Lit | 8,230 | 22.5 | +0.9 | |
Green | Sarah Edwards | 1,135 | 3.1 | −1.5 | |
Respect | Salvinder Dhillon | 588 | 1.6 | New | |
UKIP | K. T. Rajan | 285 | 0.8 | New | |
Christian Vote | Yaqub Masih | 280 | 0.8 | New | |
Independent | Jasdev Rai | 275 | 0.8 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | John Cartwright | 188 | 0.5 | New | |
English Democrat | Sati Chaggar | 152 | 0.4 | New | |
Independent | Gulbash Singh | 92 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Kuldeep Grewal | 87 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 5,070 | 13.8 | -10.5 | ||
Turnout | 36,618 | 42.9 | -13.3 | ||
Registered electors | 85,262 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Piara Khabra | 22,937 | 48.8 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Bakhai | 11,497 | 24.4 | +14.4 | |
Conservative | Mark D.Y. Nicholson | 10,147 | 21.6 | +3.3 | |
Green | Sarah J. Edwards | 2,175 | 4.6 | +0.1 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Malkiat Bilku | 289 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 11,440 | 24.4 | -4.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,045 | 56.2 | −0.6 | ||
Registered electors | 83,246 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Piara Khabra | 22,239 | 47.5 | −12.5 | |
Conservative | Daniel Kawczynski | 8,556 | 18.3 | −2.5 | |
Independent | Avtar Lit | 5,764 | 12.3 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Baldev Sharma | 4,680 | 10.0 | −0.4 | |
Green | Margaret Cook | 2,119 | 4.5 | +2.8 | |
Independent | Salvinder Singh Dhillon | 1,214 | 2.6 | New | |
Independent | Mushtaq Choudhry | 1,666 | 2.5 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Harpal Brar | 921 | 2.0 | −1.9 | |
Independent | Mohammed Bhutta | 169 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 13,683 | 29.2 | -10.0 | ||
Turnout | 46,828 | 56.8 | -10.9 | ||
Registered electors | 82,373 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.0 | |||
At the 2001 Election, the Electoral Commissions book "Election 2001" ISBN 978-1-84275-020-9 records the following three candidates with party names rejected for not being recorded on the register of political parties:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Piara Khabra | 32,791 | 60.0 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | John Penrose | 11,368 | 20.8 | −12.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nikki F. Thomson | 5,687 | 10.4 | +2.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Harpal Brar | 2,107 | 3.9 | New | |
Green | Nicholas Goodwin | 934 | 1.7 | −0.2 | |
Referendum | Bruce Cherry | 854 | 1.6 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | Kinga M. Klepacka | 473 | 0.9 | New | |
UKIP | Richard G.C. Mead | 428 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 21,423 | 39.2 | +25.4 | ||
Turnout | 54,642 | 66.9 | -8.6 | ||
Registered electors | 81,704 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Piara Khabra | 23,476 | 47.4 | −3.3 | |
Conservative | Philip C. Treleaven | 16,610 | 33.6 | −1.9 | |
True Labour | Syd Bidwell | 4,665 | 9.4 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Pash Nandhra | 3,790 | 7.7 | −5.6 | |
Green | Nicholas Goodwin | 964 | 1.9 | New | |
Majority | 6,866 | 13.8 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,505 | 75.5 | +5.8 | ||
Registered electors | 65,574 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Syd Bidwell | 26,480 | 50.7 | −1.6 | |
Conservative | Michael Truman | 18,503 | 35.5 | +5.0 | |
Liberal | Monica Howes | 6,947 | 13.3 | −2.5 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Richard Lugg | 256 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 7,977 | 15.2 | −6.6 | ||
Turnout | 52,186 | 69.7 | −1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 74,843 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Syd Bidwell | 26,664 | 52.3 | -2.1 | |
Conservative | Nigel G.T. Linacre | 15,548 | 30.5 | -2.4 | |
Liberal | Mahmud Nadeen | 8,059 | 15.8 | +8.3 | |
National Front | E. Pendrous | 555 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | S.S. Paul | 150 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 11,116 | 21.8 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 50,976 | 71.4 | |||
Registered electors | 71,441 | ||||
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