Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner 2023 Constituency.svg
Boundary of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner in Greater Londonfor the 2024 general election
County Greater London
Electorate 72,168 (2023) [1]
Major settlements Ruislip, Northwood, Pinner, Harefield, Eastcote, Hatch End, Ickenham, North Hillingdon
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of Parliament David Simmonds (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from Ruislip-Northwood, Harrow West

Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner is a constituency [n 1] in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by David Simmonds, a Conservative. [n 2]

Contents

History

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and created this constituency for General Election 2010. In this election it was won by the previous member for Ruislip, Northwood.

Predecessor seat

This seat is at its core the successor to Ruislip-Northwood which had an unbroken history as a Conservative safe seat with non-marginal majorities running from its 1950 creation. [2] This Conservative success was only bolstered by the addition of generally highly Conservative, highly affluent Pinner in 2010.

Political history

The 2015 result was greater than the previous majority, having seen a major fall in the vote of the Liberal Democrats, of 11.7% less than national swing against the party of 15.7%, and made the seat the 57th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. [3] Since 2015, the Conservative vote share has been slowly declining, while the Liberal Democrat and Labour vote share has been steadily rising.

Boundaries

2010–2024

Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

Following their 2007 review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England created the new seat of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner to deal with population changes. It included parts of the Harrow West constituency and much of the former Ruislip-Northwood constituency. [4]

This constituency had electoral wards:

The only other three-place constituency name in England at the time was Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford in Yorkshire.

Current

Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner from 2024 Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner 2023 Constituency.svg
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner from 2024

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

The Borough of Hillingdon ward of Ickenham and South Harefield was transferred to Uxbridge and South Ruislip, partly offset by minor expansions into neighbouring seats as a result of ward boundary changes.

Constituency profile

The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of two local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is higher than the national average and lower than average reliance upon social housing. [6] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 1.6% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 3.6%. [7] This was the third lowest in the capital behind Richmond Park and Kingston & Surbiton. The borough contributing to the bulk of the seat's statistics are given first.

In terms of tenure 62.9%/65.2% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census across the two London Boroughs. [8]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [9] Party
2010 Nick Hurd Conservative
2019 David Simmonds Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Simmonds 21,366 45.4 −9.9
Labour Tony Gill13,78529.3+4.2
Reform UK Ian Price4,6719.9+9.8
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Banks4,3439.2−6.0
Green Jess Lee2,9266.2+3.6
Majority7,58116.1−14.9
Turnout 47,09165.7−6.7
Registered electors 71,683
Conservative hold Swing −7.1

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [11]
PartyVote %
Conservative 28,91655.3
Labour 13,10625.1
Liberal Democrats 7,92015.2
Green 1,3812.6
Others8841.7
Brexit Party 490.1
Turnout52,25672.4
Electorate72,168
General election 2019: Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner [12] [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Simmonds 29,391 55.6 −1.6
Labour Peymana Assad12,99724.6−6.4
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Banks7,98615.1+8.0
Green Sarah Green1,6463.1+0.7
Animal Welfare Femy Amin3250.6N/A
Independent Tracy Blackwell2950.6N/A
Independent Julian Wilson2640.5N/A
Majority16,39431.0+4.8
Turnout 52,90472.1−0.6
Registered electors 73,389
Conservative hold Swing +2.4
General election 2017: Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nick Hurd 30,555 57.2 −2.4
Labour Rebecca Lury16,57531.0+10.9
Liberal Democrats Alexander Cunliffe3,8137.1+2.1
Green Sarah Green1,2682.4−1.1
UKIP Richard Braine 1,1712.2−8.7
Majority13,98026.2−13.3
Turnout 53,38272.7+2.7
Registered electors 73,427
Conservative hold Swing −6.6
General election 2015: Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner [16] [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nick Hurd 30,521 59.6 +2.1
Labour Michael Borio10,29720.1+0.6
UKIP Gerard Barry [19] 5,59810.9+8.2
Liberal Democrats Josh Dixon2,5375.0−11.6
Green Karen Pillai [20] 1,8013.5+2.0
TUSC Wally Kennedy3020.6N/A
National Liberal Sockalingam Yogalingam [21] 1660.3N/A
Majority20,22439.5+1.5
Turnout 51,22270.0−0.8
Registered electors 73,216
Conservative hold Swing +0.7
General election 2010: Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner [22] [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nick Hurd* 28,866 57.5
Labour Anita McDonald9,80619.5
Liberal Democrats Thomas Papworth8,34516.6
UKIP Jason Pontey1,3512.7
National Front Ian Edward8991.8
Green Graham Lee7401.5
Christian Ruby Akhtar1980.4
Majority19,06038.0
Turnout 50,20570.8
Registered electors 70,783
Conservative win (new seat)
*Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

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.

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References

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