Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency)

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Vauxhall
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Vauxhall2007Constituency.svg
Boundary of Vauxhall in Greater London
County Greater London
Electorate 88,659 (December 2019) [1]
Major settlements North Lambeth
Vauxhall
Stockwell
Kennington
Clapham
Brixton (part)
Current constituency
Created 1950
Member of Parliament Florence Eshalomi
(Labour Co-op)
SeatsOne
Created from Kennington and Lambeth North

Vauxhall is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons by Florence Eshalomi of Labour Co-op since her election in 2019.

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Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to major boundary changes. It will lose the wards of Clapham Town, Ferndale and Larkhall to the new constituency of Clapham and Brixton Hill, partly offset by the addition of the Borough of Southwark wards of Camberwell Green and Newington. As a consequence, it will be renamed Vauxhall and Camberwell Green , to be first contested at the next general election. [2]

Boundaries

Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Marsh, Oval, Prince's, and Vauxhall.

1974–1983: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

1983–1997: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Angell, Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

2010–present: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

Vauxhall is wholly within the London Borough of Lambeth. The core of the constituency, unchanged from the former Lambeth North, is delimited by the River Thames to the west and north and the boundary with Southwark to the east.[ citation needed ]

Constituency profile

The seat includes all of Vauxhall, North Lambeth, Stockwell, Kennington and some of Brixton and north Clapham. Its landmarks include the London Eye, The Oval cricket ground, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, SIS building and the National Theatre. Among Britain's most ethnically diverse constituencies, Vauxhall has sizable Jamaican, Portuguese, Ghanaian and Ecuadorian communities.

At just over 6% of the population, Vauxhall (which is located in the London Borough of Lambeth) has the largest proportion of LGBT+ people in the country. [3]

Political history

Vauxhall in the Parliamentary County of London from 1950 to 1974 Vauxhall1950.png
Vauxhall in the Parliamentary County of London from 1950 to 1974

The area has consistently voted in parliamentary elections for Labour Members of Parliament since 1929, except in 1931. This includes the results of the former seat of Lambeth North, which had near-identical boundaries.[ citation needed ]

Since a 1989 by-election, the seat had been represented by Kate Hoey. Continuing a history as a safe seat for Labour, since her 1989 election, Hoey consistently achieved majorities of 9,100 to 20,200 votes. The 2015 result made the seat the 105th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [4]

Despite Hoey being a prominent campaigner for leaving the European Union, Vauxhall voted to remain in the EU by 77.6% in the national referendum on 23 June 2016. [5] This made it the strongest pro-EU constituency to be represented by a pro-Brexit MP. In the 2017 general election, this led to her seat being targeted by pro-Remain organisations and high-profile individuals seeking to oust her in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat candidate. [6] There had been a change.org petition calling for Hoey's deselection as the Labour candidate for the seat; however, due to party rules this was unsuccessful. [7] [8] In the 2017 election, Hoey significantly increased her majority to the largest the seat had ever seen; the Liberal Democrat vote total more than trebled, and they moved back into second place having fallen to fourth behind the Conservatives and the Greens in 2015. In May 2018, Hoey's local party passed a vote of no confidence in her, vowing to deselect the MP as well. [9] On 8 July 2019 Hoey announced that she would retire from the House of Commons, and would not seek re-election as a Labour candidate at the next general election. [10]

Prominent frontbenchers

George Strauss was appointed Minister of Supply from 1947 to 1951 during the Attlee Ministry. Kate Hoey was Minister for Sport (1999–2001) during the Blair Ministry. [11]

Local government results

The constituency shared boundaries with the Vauxhall electoral division for election of councillors to the Greater London Council at elections in 1973, 1977 and 1981.

The local government wards in the constituency are currently entirely represented by Labour on Lambeth London Borough Council.

A single Conservative councillor represented the Clapham Town ward from 2002 until losing their seat by sixty votes in the 2006 Council Elections.

Three Liberal Democrat councillors represented the Bishop's ward from 1990 to 2014; they subsequently lost the three ward seats to Labour, as did the sole Liberal Democrat councilors in the Oval and Vassall wards. They failed to gain them back in 2018.

At the 2018 council elections, Labour won all of the ward seats in the constituency. The Liberal Democrats finished second in the wards of Bishop's, Oval, Stockwell and Prince's. The Conservatives finished the runner up in Clapham Town and the Green Party in Vassall, Ferndale and Larkhall.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [12] Party
1950 George Strauss Labour
1979 Stuart Holland Labour
1989 by-election Kate Hoey Labour
2019 Florence Eshalomi Labour Co-op

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Vauxhall [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Florence Eshalomi 31,615 56.1 −1.2
Liberal Democrats Sarah Lewis12,00321.3+0.8
Conservative Sarah Bool9,42216.7−1.9
Green Jacqueline Bond2,5164.5+2.5
Brexit Party Andrew McGuinness6411.1New
Independent Salah Faissal1360.2New
Majority19,61234.8−2.0
Turnout 56,33363.5−3.6
Registered electors 88,659
Labour Co-op hold Swing −1.0

13.6% was the largest vote share increase in a Labour held seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 2017 general election. [14] UKIP stood down their candidate in order to ensure Hoey was successfully re-elected. [15]

General election 2017: Vauxhall [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 31,576 57.3 +3.5
Liberal Democrats George Turner11,32620.5+13.6
Conservative Dolly Theis10,27718.6−8.7
Green Gulnar Hasnain1,1522.0−5.6
Women's Equality Harini Iyengar5390.9New
Pirate Mark Chapman1720.3−0.1
Majority20,25036.8+10.3
Turnout 55,04267.1+9.2
Registered electors 82,055
Labour hold Swing −5.1
General election 2015: Vauxhall [18] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 25,778 53.8 +4.0
Conservative James Bellis13,07027.3+5.8
Green Gulnar Hasnain3,6587.6+6.0
Liberal Democrats Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett3,3126.9−18.2
UKIP Ace Nnorom1,3852.9New
Pirate Mark Chapman2010.4New
Left Unity Simon Hardy1880.4New
CISTA Louis Jensen1640.3New
Whig Waleed Ghani1030.2New
Socialist (GB) Daniel Lambert820.2−0.2
Majority12,70826.5+1.8
Turnout 47,94158.3+0.6
Registered electors 82,231
Labour hold Swing +0.9
General election 2010: Vauxhall [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 21,498 49.8 −2.0
Liberal Democrats Caroline Pidgeon 10,84725.1−2.1
Conservative Glyn Chambers9,30121.5+7.0
Green Joseph Healy7081.6−2.8
English Democrat Jose Navarro2890.7+0.1
Christian Lana Martin2000.5New
Socialist (GB) Daniel Lambert1430.3−0.3
AnticapitalistsJeremy Drinkall1090.3New
Animal Welfare James Kapetanos960.2New
Majority10,65124.7−2.0
Turnout 43,19157.7+ 9.3
Registered electors 74,811
Labour hold Swing +0.1

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 19,744 52.9 −6.2
Liberal Democrats Charles Anglin9,76726.1+6.0
Conservative Edward Heckels5,40514.5+1.1
Green Tim Summers1,7054.6+0.2
UKIP Robert McWhirter2710.7New
Socialist (GB) Daniel Lambert2400.6New
English Democrat Janus Polenceus2210.6New
Majority9,97726.8−12.2
Turnout 37,36346.9+2.1
Registered electors 79,637
Labour hold Swing
General election 2001: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 19,738 59.1 −4.7
Liberal Democrats Anthony Bottrall 6,72020.1+4.1
Conservative Gareth Compton4,48913.4−1.8
Green Shane Collins1,4854.4+2.2
Socialist Alliance Theresa Bennett8532.6New
Independent Martin Boyd1070.3New
Majority13,01839.0−8.8
Turnout 33,39244.8−10.7
Registered electors 74,474
Labour hold Swing −4.4

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 24,920 63.8 +7.7
Liberal Democrats Keith Kerr6,26016.0+1.6
Conservative Richard Bacon 5,95215.2−11.4
Socialist Labour Ian Driver9832.5New
Green Shane Collins8622.2New
Socialist (GB) Richard Headicar970.3New
Majority18,66047.8+20.9
Turnout 39,07455.5−6.9
Registered electors 70,424
Labour hold Swing +3.1
General election 1992: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 21,328 54.8 +4.6
Conservative Bernard Gentry10,84027.8−1.2
Liberal Democrats Mike Tuffrey 5,67814.6−3.6
Green Penny Shepherd8032.1+0.3
Independent A Khan1560.4New
Revolutionary Communist S. Hill1520.4New
Majority10,48827.0+5.8
Turnout 38,95762.4−1.6
Registered electors 62,473
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1980s

1989 Vauxhall by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kate Hoey 15,191 52.7 +2.5
Conservative Michael Keegan5,42518.8−10.2
SLD Mike Tuffrey 5,04317.5−0.7
Green Henry Bewley1,7676.1+4.3
The People's CandidateHewie Andrew3021.1New
The GreensDominic Allen2640.9New
Independent Rudy Narayan 1790.6New
Revolutionary Communist Don Milligan1770.6New
Official National Front Patrick Harrington 1270.4New
Monster Raving Loony Screaming Lord Sutch 1060.4New
Christian AllianceDavid Black860.3New
National Front Ted Budden 830.3New
Fellowship Geoffrey Rolph240.1New
Leveller PartyWilliam Scola210.1New
Majority9,76633.9+12.7
Turnout 28,79544.4−19.6
Registered electors 64,905
Labour hold Swing
General election 1987: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stuart Holland 21,364 50.2 +3.7
Conservative David Lidington 12,34529.0+2.3
SDP Simon Acland7,76418.2−6.1
Green Janice Owens7701.8New
Communist Dave Cook 2230.50.0
Red Front Kunle Oluremi1170.3New
Majority9,01921.2+1.3
Turnout 42,58364.0−0.5
Registered electors 66,538
Labour hold Swing
General election 1983: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stuart Holland 18,234 46.5 −5.9
Conservative Kingsley Manning10,45426.7−7.1
SDP Roger Liddle [21] 9,51524.3+16.9
National Front J. Wright5081.3−2.3
Monster Raving Loony P. Lingard2660.7New
Communist Dave Cook 1990.5New
Workers Revolutionary G Shorter380.1-0.5
Majority7,78019.9+1.1
Turnout 39,21464.5+2.0
Registered electors 64,867
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stuart Holland 13,058 52.4 −10.8
Conservative Philip Linnell Heslop8,35833.6+10.2
Liberal Frederick Harrison [22] 1,8427.4−6.1
National Front Vernon Atkinson [22] 8793.6New
Labour Alliance PartyDouglas Elliot [22] 5652.3New
Workers Revolutionary Sarah Hannigan [22] 1530.6New
Democratic Monarchist Public Safety White Resident Bill Boaks 440.2New
Majority4,70018.8−21.0
Turnout 24,89962.5+9.8
Registered electors 39,870
Labour hold Swing
General election October 1974: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 15,493 63.2 +10.8
Conservative Victor MacColl5,72723.4−2.7
Liberal Edward Cousins3,30013.5−4.4
Majority9,76639.8+9.5
Turnout 24,52052.7−9.5
Registered electors 46,502
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 16,135 52.4 −11.2
Conservative Margaret Marshall7,49426.1−10.3
Liberal Edward Cousins5,13917.9New
Majority8,64130.3+2.9
Turnout 28,76862.2+7.8
Registered electors 46,261
Labour hold Swing
General election 1970: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 13,046 63.6 −3.0
Conservative Clive W Jones7,47736.4+3.0
Majority5,56927.2−6.0
Turnout 20,52354.4−4.2
Registered electors 37,707
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 15,233 66.6 +2.49
Conservative Spencer Le Marchant 7,64533.4−2.49
Majority7,58833.2+4.98
Turnout 22,87858.6−0.58
Registered electors 39,042
Labour hold Swing
General election 1964: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 15,458 64.11 +2.13
Conservative David Lane 8,65335.89−2.13
Majority6,80528.22+4.26
Turnout 24,11159.18−5.77
Registered electors 40,743
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 18,437 61.98 −2.71
Conservative Elizabeth Havers 11,31238.02+2.71
Majority7,12523.96−5.42
Turnout 29,74964.95+2.21
Registered electors 45,802
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 19,220 64.69 −1.15
Conservative Edwin H. Lee10,49235.31+1.15
Majority8,72829.38−2.3
Turnout 29,71262.74−10.91
Registered electors 47,354
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 24,217 65.84 +3.34
Conservative Edwin H. Lee12,56434.16+6.46
Majority11,65331.68−3.22
Turnout 36,78173.65−2.05
Registered electors 49,939
Labour hold Swing
General election 1950: Vauxhall
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Strauss 23,988 62.5
Conservative Alfred Frank Lockwood10,61827.7
Liberal Walter Stanley Dyer3,2518.5
Communist Margot Heinemann 5081.3
Majority13,37034.8
Turnout 38,36575.7
Registered electors 50,673
Labour win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

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