West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Ham
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
WestHam2007Constituency.svg
Boundary of West Ham in Greater London
County Greater London
Electorate 86,400 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Canning Town, Forest Gate, Maryland Plaistow, Stratford and West Ham
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of Parliament Lyn Brown (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Newham North West, Newham South

West Ham is a constituency [n 1] created in 1997 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Lyn Brown, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]

Contents

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to major boundary changes. The two Forest Gate wards, Stratford and New Town, and the Green Street West ward will form the majority of the new constituency of Stratford and Bow. To compensate, the Beckton and Royal Docks wards will be transferred from East Ham. Accordingly, the constituency will be renamed West Ham and Beckton , to be first contested at the next general election. [2]

Boundaries

West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1997–2010: The London Borough of Newham wards of Bemersyde, Forest Gate, Hudsons, New Town, Park, Plaistow, Plashet, Stratford, Upton, and West Ham.

2010–present: The London Borough of Newham wards of Canning Town North, Canning Town South, Custom House, Forest Gate North, Forest Gate South, Green Street West, Plaistow North, Plaistow South, Stratford and New Town, and West Ham.

The constituency covers the western half of Newham stretching from the Thames just east of Canary Wharf to Stratford. The boundary changes that took effect for the 2010 general election expanded the constituency by adding Canning Town from the abolished Poplar and Canning Town constituency, whilst losing Silvertown to the redrawn East Ham. The boundary with the East Ham constituency was modified to align with local government ward boundaries. [3]

History

The seat was created in 1997 by the fourth periodic review (following the first such review in 1945), undertaken by the Boundary Commission, from portions of the Newham North West and Newham South seats.

The area's elections to date, including both forerunner seats have returned safe majorities for the Labour Party since the last Conservative for the smaller, denser divisions from 1931 to 1934; [n 3] going back further, West Ham South had in 1892 sent Keir Hardie to the Commons who co-founded the party.

The first member, Tony Banks, served the main predecessor seat, Newham North West from 1983 and was Minister for Sport (1997-1999). He held this seat at the 2001 general election with nearly 70% of the vote and a local record majority of 53.5% of the vote. He retired from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election.

The 2010 result, not only on the notional result, accommodating boundary changes, but also on predecessor-successor seat analysis shows that the main beneficiary of the runner-up Respect vote, as they did not have a candidate in that year, was the Labour candidate. The 2015 result made the seat the 14th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [4]

Constituency profile

Helped by proximity to the City of London and exporting businesses in areas such as Hackney, Shoreditch and the Thames Gateway, the area is only gradually recovering in terms of employment rates from the deep East End decline, particularly decline of the dockers' industry here of the 1950s to the 1980s, with an immediate boost from the 2010 creation of the London Olympic Village and Park. In November 2012, workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were significantly higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 7.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian , though not the highest in London. Within this figure is a skew toward male unemployment which was at 9.8% [5]

Now that the Olympic stadium has become West Ham United's home the club is located in the constituency that shares its name; their previous ground at Upton Park was actually in the neighbouring East Ham seat.

Demographics

In the 1991 census just over 43% of residents were non-white. [6] By the time of the 2001 census, people who identified as white made up 44.1% of the population and 35.3% of residents were born outside the UK, and in the 2011 census the borough saw an increase in those of mixed colour ethnicity at 4.6%, and saw the lowest proportion of people of solely white ethnicity at 29.0%, the figure for those of black ethnicity had fallen to 19.6%, and those of South Asian ethnicity had risen to 43.5% of the population. [7] [8]

In terms of religion the British Asian population is more than 50% Muslim in this constituency. By the time of the 2005 general election, only seven of the 646 constituencies had more Muslims than West Ham. [9] Respect fielded a candidate for the 2005 election, hoping to benefit from opposition to the Iraq war; in the end this was not enough to unseat Labour's replacement for Banks, Lyn Brown, but Respect managed to take nearly 20% of the vote. [9]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [10] Party
1997 Tony Banks Labour
2005 Lyn Brown Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

2019 general election: West Ham [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lyn Brown 42,181 70.1 -6.6
Conservative Sara Kumar9,79316.3+0.1
Liberal Democrats Eimear O’Casey4,1616.9+3.9
Green Danny Keeling1,7803.0+1.4
Brexit Party Emma Stockdale1,6792.8New
CPA Paul Jobson4630.8+0.2
Communities United Humera Kamran1430.2New
Majority32,38853.8-6.7
Turnout 60,20061.5-4.2
Registered electors 97,942
Labour hold Swing -3.4
2017 general election: West Ham [12] [13] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lyn Brown 46,591 76.7 +8.3
Conservative Patrick Spencer9,83716.2+0.8
Liberal Democrats Paul Reynolds1,8363.0+0.3
UKIP Rosamund Beattie1,1341.9-5.6
Green Michael Spracklin9571.6-3.4
CPA Kayode Shedowo3530.6-0.1
Majority36,75460.5+7.5
Turnout 60,70865.7+7.5
Registered electors 92,418
Labour hold Swing +3.8
2015 general election: West Ham [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lyn Brown 36,132 68.4 +5.7
Conservative Festus Akinbusoye 8,14615.4+0.7
UKIP Jamie Ross-McKenzie [16] 3,9507.5+5.9
Green Rachel Collinson [17] 2,6515.0+3.6
Liberal Democrats Paul Reynolds [18] 1,4302.7-8.8
CPA Andy Uzoka3690.7-2.1
Communities United Cydatty Bogie1150.2New
Majority27,98653.0+5.0
Turnout 52,79358.2+3.2
Registered electors 90,640
Labour hold Swing +2.5
2010 general election: West Ham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lyn Brown 29,422 62.7 +10.9 [n 4]
Conservative Virginia Morris6,88814.7+2.6
Liberal Democrats Martin Pierce5,39211.5+1.3
CPA Stan Gain1,3272.8+1.7
Independent Kamran Malik1,2452.7New
National Front Michael Davidson1,0892.3New
UKIP Kim Gandy7661.6+0.6
Green Jane Lithgow6451.4-1.6
Independent Grace Agbogun-Toko1770.4New
Majority22,53448.0+16.3
Turnout 46,95155.0+10.2
Registered electors 85,313
Labour hold Swing +4.2

The Green Party originally selected Jane Lithgow as their candidate for the 2010 election. [19]

Elections in the 2000s

2005 general election: West Ham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lyn Brown 15,840 51.2 -18.7
Respect Lindsey German 6,03919.5New
Conservative Chris L. Whitbread3,61811.7-4.7
Liberal Democrats Alexandra E. Sugden3,36410.9+3.5
Green Jane A. Lithgow8942.9-1.2
CPA Stephen C. Hammond4371.4New
UKIP Henry E.B. Mayhew4091.3-0.9
Veritas Generoso Alcantara3651.2New
Majority9,80131.7-21.8
Turnout 30,96649.8+0.9
Registered electors 62,188
Labour hold Swing -19.1
2001 general election: West Ham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tony Banks 20,449 69.9 -3.0
Conservative Syed Kamall 4,80416.4+1.4
Liberal Democrats Paul J. Fox2,1667.40.0
Green Jackie M. Chandler-Oatts1,1974.1New
UKIP Gerard Batten 6572.2New
Majority15,64553.5-4.4
Turnout 29,27348.9-9.6
Registered electors 59,828
Labour hold Swing -2.2

Elections in the 1990s

1997 general election: West Ham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tony Banks 24,531 72.9
Conservative Mark MacGregor 5,03715.0
Liberal Democrats Samantha L.C. McDonough2,4797.4
BNP Kenneth Francis 1,1983.6
Monster Raving Loony Toby Jug 3000.9
Rainbow Dream Ticket Jonathan P. Rainbow1160.3
Majority14,49457.9
Turnout 33,36158.5
Registered electors 57,589
Labour win (new seat)

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.
  3. ↑ Upton
  4. ↑ Percentages are notional (based on extrapolation from combining two whole constituency results overlaid onto the redrawn constituency), with the Canning Town vote therefore deemed to be slightly stronger towards Labour rather than the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties than in the non-identical seat in 2005.

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