West Central (London Assembly constituency)

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West Central
Territorial constituency for the London Assembly
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West Central shown within London
Created2000 (2000)
Number of membersOne
Member James Small-Edwards
Party Labour
Last election 2024
Next election2028

West Central is a constituency represented on the London Assembly. The seat is currently held by James Small-Edwards from the Labour Party.

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It covers the combined area of the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, much larger than the West Central postcode area.

History

Since the seat's creation in 2000, the elected Assembly Member (AM) until 2024 had always been a Conservative candidate: three have represented the seat in succession. Its first AM was Angie Bray, who subsequently served as MP for Ealing Central and Acton. She was followed by Kit Malthouse in 2008, who was elected as MP for North West Hampshire in 2015, thus acting as an AM and MP for the remainder of his term on the London Assembly. He was succeeded in 2016 by Tony Devenish, who has been a councillor for Knightsbridge and Belgravia in Westminster (part of the GLA seat) since 2006.

At the time of the 2016 London Assembly elections, two of the MPs for the five parliamentary constituencies covered by this seat were members of the Labour Party, and the other three from the Conservatives; Labour have always been the main challenger in the corresponding GLA seat. It includes a number of affluent areas which have tended to vote for Conservative candidates in local and general elections, accounting for the results to date.

After the 2016 election, defeated candidate Mandy Richards lodged an election petition claiming that the results showed a discrepancy in turnout and that 15,000–20,000 postal votes were missing. [1] The case was heard on 8 and 9 December 2016, with the result being all aspects of the petition were dismissed. [2]

Assembly members

ElectionMemberParty
2000 Angie Bray Conservative
2008 Kit Malthouse Conservative
2016 Tony Devenish Conservative
2024 James Small-Edwards Labour

Mayoral election results

Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

YearMemberParty
2000 Steven Norris Conservative
2004 Steven Norris Conservative
2008 Boris Johnson Conservative
2012 Boris Johnson Conservative
2016 Zac Goldsmith Conservative
2021 Shaun Bailey Conservative
2024 Sadiq Khan Labour

Overlapping constituencies

The West Central Assembly constituency comprises all of the following UK Parliament constituencies:

Assembly election results

2020s

2024 London Assembly election: West Central [3] [4]
PartyCandidateConstituencyList
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Labour James Small-Edwards 46,83137.7+0.445,10236.2+3.5
Conservative Tony Devenish 42,57834.2-4.639,04931.3-5.0
Liberal Democrats Christophe Noblet14,50511.7+2.211,2239.0+1.4
Green Rajiv Rahul Sinha12,42710.0-1.611,7179.4-2.1
Reform UK Nicola Pateman8,0406.5+5.15,8564.7+3.8
Rejoin EU 4,5333.6+1.1
Animal Welfare 1,9671.6-0.1
Britain First 1,1470.9New
CPA 1,0140.80.0
SDP 9860.8+0.5
Independent Laurence Fox 8380.7New
Communist 5280.4+0.1
Independent Farah London3120.3New
Heritage 2210.2-0.4
Independent Gabe Romualdo610.1New
Majority4,253
Valid Votes124,381124,554
Invalid Votes1,143983
Turnout 125,52434.94125,53734.95
Labour gain from Conservative Swing


2021 London Assembly election: West Central [5]
PartyCandidateConstituencyList
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Conservative Tony Devenish 55,16338.9-5.351,43536.3
Labour Rita Begum52,93837.3+2.646,36432.7
Green Zack Polanski 16,42711.6+2.416,32011.5
Liberal Democrats Ted Townsend13,4629.5+3.610,7427.6
Rejoin EU 3,5912.5
Women's Equality 2,6301.9
Animal Welfare 2,4381.7
Reform UK Saradhi Rajan1,9541.4New1,3320.9
CPA 1,1570.8
Let London Live Heiko Khoo1,9771.4New1,1210.8
London Real 1,0820.7
UKIP 9980.7
Heritage 9030.6
Communist 4600.3
SDP 4230.3
TUSC 3120.2
Londependence Party2680.2
National Liberal 1120.1
Majority2,2251.6−7.9
Turnout 137,990
Conservative hold Swing
Notes

    2010s

    2016 London Assembly election: West Central [6]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    Conservative Tony Devenish 67,775 44.2 −6.2
    Labour Mandy Richards53,21134.7+4.2
    Green Jennifer Nadel 14,0509.2+0.5
    Liberal Democrats Annabel Mullin10,5775.9−1.0
    UKIP Clive Egan7,7085.0+1.5
    Majority14,5649.5−10.4
    Turnout 153,32145.0+5.8
    Conservative hold Swing -5.2
    2012 London Assembly election: West Central [7]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    Conservative Kit Malthouse 73,761 50.4 −1.7
    Labour Todd Foreman44,63030.5+9.3
    Green Susanna Rustin12,7998.7−1.4
    Liberal Democrats Layla Moran 10,0356.9−2.7
    UKIP Elizabeth Jones5,1613.5+1.7
    Majority29,13119.9–11.0
    Turnout 149,41939.2−9.3
    Conservative hold Swing -5.5
    2008 London Assembly election: West Central [8]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    Conservative Kit Malthouse 86,651 52.1 +7.4
    Labour Murad Qureshi 35,27021.2+2.3
    Green Julia Stephenson16,87410.1+0.8
    Liberal Democrats Merlene Emerson15,9349.6–5.5
    UKIP Paul Wiffen3,0601.8–4.4
    English Democrat Alex Vaughan1,8581.1New
    Left List Explo Nani-Kofi1,6301.0New
    Independent Abby Dharamsey9620.6New
    Majority51,38130.9+5.1
    Turnout 166,37948.5+15.6
    Conservative hold Swing +2.5
    2004 London Assembly election: West Central [9]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    Conservative Angie Bray 51,884 44.7 +0.5
    Labour Ansuya Sodha21,94018.9–8.1
    Liberal Democrats Francesco Fruzza17,47815.1+1.9
    Green Julia Stephenson10,7629.3–2.2
    UKIP Damian Hockney 7,2196.2New
    Respect Kevin Cobham4,8254.1New
    CPA Jillian McLachlan1,9931.7New
    Majority29,94425.8+8.6
    Turnout 116,10132.9+2.0
    Conservative hold Swing +4.3
    2000 London Assembly election: West Central [10]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    Conservative Angie Bray 47,117 44.2
    Labour Kate Green 28,83827.0
    Liberal Democrats Jon Burden14,07113.2
    Green Julia Stephenson12,25411.5
    London Socialist Christine Blower 2,7202.6
    Homeless and AddictedStephen Smith1,6001.5
    Majority18,27917.2
    Turnout 106,60030.9
    Conservative win (new seat)

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    2. ↑ "Richards v Devenish & Anor [2017] EWHC 37 (QB) England and Wales High Court (Queen's Bench Division) Judgment Law CaseMine" . Retrieved 1 September 2019.
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    7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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