Greenwich and Woolwich | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 77,190 (June 2017) [1] [2] |
Major settlements | Greenwich, Woolwich and Charlton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Matthew Pennycook (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Greenwich, Woolwich |
Greenwich and Woolwich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Matthew Pennycook of the Labour Party. [n 1] [n 2]
The seat is dominated in the south by expansive and panoramic Greenwich Park [3] with an acute demand for housing, particularly in the western half, due to architecturally-rich conservation areas and very close proximity to Canary Wharf and City of London. [4] There remain some industrial areas in the former Royal Docks and around North Greenwich [n 3] . The seat includes considerable social dependency in its Greenwich and Woolwich town centres, including in social housing, [5]
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election by the merger of the former Greenwich constituency, and the western half of the former Woolwich constituency. It has been controlled by the Labour Party since its creation, when they polled 63.4% of the vote and a majority of 44.8%. Thirteen years later, the 2010 general election produced the smallest majority as a share of the vote, 24.7%, with the Labour candidate taking 49.2% of votes cast.
The 2015 general election result was the 105th-safest Labour majority of 232 seats won by Labour at that election. [6]
Reflecting a demographic split in the latter twentieth century were five and eleven-year periods when the two predecessor seats were represented by candidates from the SDP.
The former Greenwich constituency was a secure Labour Party seat for much of the twentieth century, though it had been a safe Liberal seat throughout most of the nineteenth century. In 1987, it was gained by the Social Democratic Party at a by-election and narrowly regained by Labour five years later at the 1992 general election.
The former Woolwich constituency (and its predecessor Woolwich East) was a similar safe-Liberal-seat-turned-safe-Labour-seat. Its Labour MP Christopher Mayhew defected to the Liberal Party in 1974 before being defeated, and his Labour successor, John Cartwright, defected to the SDP in 1981. He retained the seat at the 1983 and 1987 general elections, but narrowly lost it to Labour in 1992; in a similar fashion to the neighboring Greenwich seat. In council elections, since the seat's 1997 creation, most wards have tended to elect Labour councillors and few wards other than the Blackheath Westcombe ward have tended to elect Conservative councilors.
Including the pre-1997 predecessors, the area has since World War II been a Labour safe seat, or, as indicated in the 1987 result for Greenwich only, in the best result for a Conservative candidate locally during the years since 1955, occasionally a marginal. [n 4]
1997–2010: The London Borough of Greenwich wards of Arsenal, Blackheath, Burrage, Charlton, Ferrier, Hornfair, Kidbrooke, Nightingale, Rectory Field, St Alfege, St Mary's, Trafalgar, Vanbrugh, West, and Woolwich Common.
2010–present: The London Borough of Greenwich wards of Blackheath Westcombe, Charlton, Glyndon, Greenwich West, Peninsula, Woolwich Common, and Woolwich Riverside.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in South London, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that part of Woolwich Common ward be transferred to Greenwich and Woolwich from the constituency of Eltham; that parts of Glyndon ward be transferred from Eltham and Erith and Thamesmead; and that parts of Kidbrooke with Hornfair ward, Eltham West ward, and Middle Park and Sutcliffe ward be transferred from Greenwich and Woolwich to Eltham.
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 Glyndon ward will be transferred to Erith and Thamesmead in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range. [7]
Election | Member [8] | Party | |
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1997 | Nick Raynsford | Labour | |
2015 | Matthew Pennycook | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Chris Annous [9] | ||||
Green | Stacy Smith [10] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 30,185 | 56.8 | -7.6 | |
Conservative | Thomas Turrell | 11,721 | 22.1 | -3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rhian O'Connor | 7,253 | 13.7 | +6.6 | |
Green | Victoria Rance | 2,363 | 4.4 | +1.4 | |
Brexit Party | Kailash Trivedi | 1,228 | 2.3 | New | |
CPA | Eunice Odesanmi | 245 | 0.5 | New | |
Independent | Shushil Gaikwad | 125 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 18,464 | 34.7 | -4.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,120 | 66.4 | -2.4 | ||
Registered electors | 79,997 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 34,215 | 64.4 | +12.2 | |
Conservative | Caroline Attfield | 13,501 | 25.4 | -1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Adams | 3,785 | 7.1 | +1.4 | |
Green | Daniel Garrun | 1,605 | 3.0 | -3.4 | |
Majority | 20,714 | 39.0 | +13.4 | ||
Turnout | 53,107 | 68.8 | +5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 77,190 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 24,384 | 52.2 | +3.0 | |
Conservative | Matt Hartley | 12,438 | 26.6 | +2.1 | |
UKIP | Ryan Acty [18] | 3,888 | 8.3 | New | |
Green | Abbey Akinoshun [19] | 2,991 | 6.4 | +3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Holder [20] | 2,645 | 5.7 | -12.8 | |
TUSC | Lynne Chamberlain | 370 | 0.8 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 11,946 | 25.6 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,716 | 63.7 | +0.8 | ||
Registered electors | 73,315 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Raynsford | 20,262 | 49.2 | -3.3 | |
Conservative | Spencer Drury | 10,109 | 24.5 | +7.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joseph Lee | 7,498 | 18.5 | -1.5 | |
BNP | Lawrence Rustem [22] | 1,151 | 2.8 | New | |
Green | Andy Hewett | 1,054 | 2.6 | -1.9 | |
Christian | Edward Adeyele | 443 | 1.1 | New | |
English Democrat | Raden Wresniwiro | 339 | 0.8 | -2.6 | |
TUSC | Onay Kasab | 267 | 0.6 | New | |
No description | Tammy Alingham | 61 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 10,153 | 24.7 | -3.8 | ||
Turnout | 41,188 | 62.9 | +9.6 | ||
Registered electors | 65,489 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Raynsford | 17,527 | 49.2 | -11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Le Breton | 7,381 | 20.7 | +5.1 | |
Conservative | Alistair Craig | 7,142 | 20.1 | +0.9 | |
Green | David Sharman | 1,579 | 4.4 | New | |
English Democrat | Garry Bushell | 1,216 | 3.4 | New | |
UKIP | Stan Gain | 709 | 2.0 | -0.1 | |
Independent | Purvarani Nagalingam | 61 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 10,146 | 28.5 | -12.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,615 | 55.6 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 63,631 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -8.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Raynsford | 19,691 | 60.5 | -2.9 | |
Conservative | Richard Forsdyke | 6,258 | 19.2 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Russell Pyne | 5,082 | 15.6 | +3.1 | |
UKIP | Stan Gain | 672 | 2.1 | New | |
Socialist Alliance | Kirstie Paton | 481 | 1.5 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Margaret Sharkey | 352 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 13,433 | 41.3 | -3.5 | ||
Turnout | 32,536 | 54.1 | -11.8 | ||
Registered electors | 60,114 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Raynsford | 25,630 | 63.4 | ||
Conservative | Michael Mitchell | 7,502 | 18.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Cherry Luxton | 5,049 | 12.5 | ||
Referendum | Douglas Ellison | 1,670 | 4.1 | ||
Fellowship | Ronald Mallone | 428 | 1.1 | ||
Constitutionalist | David Martin-Eagle | 124 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 18,128 | 44.8 | |||
Turnout | 40,403 | 65.9 | |||
Registered electors | 61,352 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
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