Westminster North | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 65,936 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Maida Vale St John's Wood Queen's Park Bayswater |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Karen Buck (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Regent's Park & Kensington North Cities of London & Westminster (one ward and parts of two others) |
1983–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Paddington and St Marylebone |
Replaced by | Regent's Park & Kensington North Cities of London & Westminster |
Westminster North is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Karen Buck, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2] It was created in 1983 and abolished in 1997, before being created again in 2010.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished, with the majority being included in the new constituency of Queen's Park and Maida Vale. The Abbey Road and Regent's Park wards will be transferred to Cities of London and Westminster, and the Bayswater and Lancaster Gate wards to Kensington (to be renamed Kensington and Bayswater). [2]
Comprising the northwestern part of the City of Westminster, the constituency contains some affluent residential areas that have historically voted Conservative in large numbers, such as Bayswater and the area on the western and northwestern sides of Regent's Park.
Lord's Cricket Ground and the Abbey Road Studios are in the seat, as are the Queen's Park, Church Street, Westbourne Park, and Harrow Road areas, further from central London. However, the seat has mostly been represented at local level by Conservative councillors, via the wards of Little Venice, Regent's Park, Abbey Road and Lancaster Gate, while Maida Vale and Bayswater have had split representation.
Reflective of the transport links to the selective professional industries of the City of London and long-standing desirable housing in this area, workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.9% of the population, based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [3]
The seat was created under the Third Periodic Review of constituencies in 1983, which followed the first Boundary Commission Review in 1945, which in turn directly followed the Representation of the People Act 1918 review. It was based largely on Paddington but also took in the abolished St Marylebone constituency.
The seat was held with modest majorities for the first creation, made up of three terms, by John Wheeler, a Conservative. Paddington constituency, its main predecessor was often marginal: by length of a single party's representation and by majorities achieved. The far less contributory precursor, St Marylebone, was a Conservative safe seat.
The 1997 boundary changes expanded the constituency to the west, taking in Labour-voting areas of north Kensington and tilting the seat towards Labour. Wheeler decided that he did not wish to contest such unfavourable territory and sought selection elsewhere. However he was unsuccessful in finding a new safe seat and thus retired at the 1997 general election.
The seat was tipped in mainstream newspapers to be likely to achieve the necessary notional swing based on the same area's votes in the previous election, in 2005, to fall to the Conservative candidate; however the seat fell short of the national average swing and was accordingly won by Karen Buck. The 2015 result gave the seat the 21st most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [4] In the 2017 general election, Karen Buck increased her majority over Lindsey Hall, the Conservative Party candidate, from 1,977 to 11,512. [5]
The seat has electoral wards:
From 1983 to 1997 the constituency had the wards:
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which called for the recreation of this constituency for the 2010 general election. This was achieved from parts of two seats: the eastern three quarters of Regent's Park and Kensington North and northern parts of Cities of London and Westminster:
Population expansion across the former main seat was a factor, including Maida Vale, West Kilburn and to a lesser degree in St John's Wood, which were retained, as well as in Notting Hill and North Kensington, which were therefore removed. [7]
Election | Member [8] | Party | Notes | |
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1983 | John Wheeler | Conservative | Knighted in 1993 [n 4] | |
constituency abolished in 1997 | ||||
2010 | Karen Buck | Labour | Member for main predecessor seat (1997–2010) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Karen Buck | 23,240 | 54.2 | -5.7 | |
Conservative | Jamie Macfarlane | 12,481 | 29.1 | -4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | George Lee | 5,593 | 13.0 | +7.8 | |
Green | Holly Robinson | 1,064 | 2.5 | +1.1 | |
Brexit Party | Cyrus Parvin | 418 | 1.0 | New | |
CPA | Gabriela Fajardo Palacios | 115 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 10,759 | 25.1 | -1.5 | ||
Turnout | 42,911 | 65.5 | -2.3 | ||
Registered electors | 65,519 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Karen Buck [14] | 25,934 | 59.9 | +13.1 | |
Conservative | Lindsey Hall [15] | 14,422 | 33.3 | −8.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alex Harding [16] | 2,253 | 5.2 | +1.5 | |
Green | Emmanuelle Tandy [17] | 595 | 1.4 | -1.9 | |
Independent | Abby Dharamsey [18] | 91 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 11,512 | 26.6 | +14.6 | ||
Turnout | 43,295 | 67.8 | +8.4 | ||
Registered electors | 63,846 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Karen Buck | 18,504 | 46.8 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Lindsey Hall | 16,527 | 41.8 | +3.3 | |
UKIP | Nigel Sussman | 1,489 | 3.8 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kirsty Allen | 1,457 | 3.7 | −10.2 | |
Green | Jennifer Nadel | 1,322 | 3.3 | +2.1 | |
Christian | Gabriela Fajardo | 152 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Nicholas Ward | 63 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 1,977 | 5.0 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 39,514 | 63.4 | +4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 62,346 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Karen Buck | 17,377 | 43.9 | ||
Conservative | Joanne Cash | 15,251 | 38.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Mark Blackburn | 5,513 | 13.9 | ||
Green | Tristan Smith | 478 | 1.2 | ||
BNP | Stephen Curry | 334 | 0.8 | ||
UKIP | Jasna Badzak | 315 | 0.8 | ||
Independent | Ali Bahaijoub | 101 | 0.3 | ||
English Democrat | Edward Roseman | 99 | 0.3 | ||
Christian | Gabriela Fajardo | 98 | 0.2 | ||
Independent | Abdulla Dharamsey | 32 | 0.1 | ||
Majority | 2,126 | 5.4 | |||
Turnout | 39,616 | 59.3 | |||
Registered electors | 66,739 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Wheeler | 21,828 | 49.0 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Jennifer Edwards | 18,095 | 40.6 | +1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lewis Wigoder | 3,349 | 7.5 | −4.6 | |
Green | Amelia Burke | 1,017 | 2.3 | +1.2 | |
Natural Law | Jonathan Hinde | 159 | 0.4 | New | |
Anti-Federalist League | Michael Kelly | 137 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 3,733 | 8.4 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 44,585 | 75.1 | +4.0 | ||
Registered electors | 59,405 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Wheeler | 19,941 | 47.3 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Jennifer Edwards | 16,631 | 39.5 | +0.1 | |
SDP | Richard De Ste Croix | 5,116 | 12.1 | −3.6 | |
Green | David Stutchfield | 450 | 1.1 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 3,310 | 7.8 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 42,138 | 71.1 | +6.9 | ||
Registered electors | 59,363 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Wheeler | 19,134 | 43.2 | −3.8 | |
Labour | Arthur Latham | 17,424 | 39.4 | −2.8 | |
SDP | Thomas Halliwell | 6,956 | 15.7 | +7.1 | |
Ecology | Timothy Cooper | 527 | 1.2 | New | |
Independent | Thomas Keen [n 5] | 148 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Brian Fisher | 73 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 1,710 | 3.8 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 44,262 | 64.2 | |||
Registered electors | 68,988 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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