Greenwich and Woolwich (UK Parliament constituency)
Greenwich and Woolwich | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Greenwich and Woolwich in Greater London | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 69,824 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Greenwich, Woolwich and Charlton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Matthew Pennycook (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Greenwich, Woolwich |
Greenwich and Woolwich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Matthew Pennycook of the Labour Party.[n 1][n 2]
Constituency profile
The seat is dominated in the south by expansive and panoramic Greenwich Park[2] with an acute demand for housing, particularly in the western half, due to architecturally-rich conservation areas and very close proximity to Canary Wharf and City of London.[3] There remain some industrial areas in the former Royal Docks and around North Greenwich[n 3]. The seat includes considerable social dependency in its Greenwich and Woolwich town centres, including in social housing,[4]
History
- Since 1997
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election by the merger of the former Greenwich constituency, and the western half of the former Woolwich constituency. It has been controlled by the Labour Party since its creation, when they polled 63.4% of the vote and a majority of 44.8%. Thirteen years later, the 2010 general election produced the smallest majority as a share of the vote, 24.7%, with the Labour candidate taking 49.2% of votes cast.
The 2015 general election result was the 105th-safest Labour majority of 232 seats won by Labour at that election.[5]
- Greenwich forerunner
Reflecting a demographic split in the latter twentieth century were five and eleven-year periods when the two predecessor seats were represented by candidates from the SDP.
The former Greenwich constituency was a secure Labour Party seat for much of the twentieth century, though it had been a safe Liberal seat throughout most of the nineteenth century. In 1987, it was gained by the Social Democratic Party at a by-election and narrowly regained by Labour five years later at the 1992 general election.
- Woolwich forerunner
The former Woolwich constituency (and its predecessor Woolwich East) was a similar safe-Liberal-seat-turned-safe-Labour-seat. Its Labour MP Christopher Mayhew defected to the Liberal Party in 1974 before being defeated, and his Labour successor, John Cartwright, defected to the SDP in 1981. He retained the seat at the 1983 and 1987 general elections, but narrowly lost it to Labour in 1992; in a similar fashion to the neighboring Greenwich seat. In council elections, since the seat's 1997 creation, most wards have tended to elect Labour councillors and few wards other than the Blackheath Westcombe ward have tended to elect Conservative councilors.
- 1945-1997 combined summary
Including the pre-1997 predecessors, the area has since World War II been a Labour safe seat, or, as indicated in the 1987 result for Greenwich only, in the best result for a Conservative candidate locally during the years since 1955, occasionally a marginal.[n 4]
Boundaries
Historic
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1997–2010: The London Borough of Greenwich wards of Arsenal, Blackheath, Burrage, Charlton, Ferrier, Hornfair, Kidbrooke, Nightingale, Rectory Field, St Alfege, St Mary's, Trafalgar, Vanbrugh, West, and Woolwich Common.
2010–2024: The London Borough of Greenwich wards of Blackheath Westcombe, Charlton, Glyndon, Greenwich West, Peninsula, Woolwich Common, and Woolwich Riverside.
Following their 2007 review of parliamentary representation in South London, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that part of Woolwich Common ward be transferred to Greenwich and Woolwich from the constituency of Eltham; that parts of Glyndon ward be transferred from Eltham and Erith and Thamesmead; and that parts of Kidbrooke with Hornfair ward, Eltham West ward, and Middle Park and Sutcliffe ward be transferred from Greenwich and Woolwich to Eltham.
Current
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Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the Glyndon ward (as it existed on 1 December 2010) was transferred to Erith and Thamesmead in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range.[6]
Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2022,[7][8] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the Royal Borough of Greenwich from the 2024 general election:
- Blackheath Westcombe (most); Charlton Hornfair (most); Charlton Village and Riverside; East Greenwich; Greenwich Creekside; Greenwich Park; Greenwich Peninsula; Woolwich Arsenal (most); Woolwich Common (most); Woolwich Dockyard; and small parts of Shooters Hill and Plumstead Common.[9]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[10] | Party | |
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1997 | Nick Raynsford | Labour | |
2015 | Matthew Pennycook | Labour |
Election results
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 23,999 | 56.2 | +1.2 | |
Green | Stacy Smith | 5,633 | 13.2 | +8.6 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Goff | 4,863 | 11.4 | –11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Annous | 3,865 | 9.0 | –5.6 | |
Reform UK | Abdoul Ndiaye | 3,305 | 7.7 | +5.4 | |
Workers Party | Sheikh Raquib | 570 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Niko Omilana | 311 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Climate | Priyank Bakshi | 173 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,366 | 43.0 | +10.7 | ||
Turnout | 42,719 | 58.1 | –9.7 | ||
Registered electors | 73,573 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 2010s
2019 notional result[13] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 26,043 | 55.0 | |
Conservative | 10,760 | 22.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | 6,902 | 14.6 | |
Green | 2,176 | 4.6 | |
Brexit Party | 1,089 | 2.3 | |
Others | 370 | 0.8 | |
Turnout | 47,340 | 67.8 | |
Electorate | 69,824 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 30,185 | 56.8 | −7.6 | |
Conservative | Thomas Turrell | 11,721 | 22.1 | −3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rhian O'Connor | 7,253 | 13.7 | +6.6 | |
Green | Victoria Rance | 2,363 | 4.4 | +1.4 | |
Brexit Party | Kailash Trivedi | 1,228 | 2.3 | N/A | |
CPA | Eunice Odesanmi | 245 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Shushil Gaikwad | 125 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,464 | 34.7 | −4.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,120 | 66.4 | −2.4 | ||
Registered electors | 79,997 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 34,215 | 64.4 | +12.2 | |
Conservative | Caroline Attfield | 13,501 | 25.4 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Adams | 3,785 | 7.1 | +1.4 | |
Green | Daniel Garrun | 1,605 | 3.0 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 20,714 | 39.0 | +13.4 | ||
Turnout | 53,107 | 68.8 | +5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 77,190 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Matthew Pennycook | 24,384 | 52.2 | +3.0 | |
Conservative | Matt Hartley | 12,438 | 26.6 | +2.1 | |
UKIP | Ryan Acty[21] | 3,888 | 8.3 | N/A | |
Green | Abbey Akinoshun[22] | 2,991 | 6.4 | +3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Holder[23] | 2,645 | 5.7 | −12.8 | |
TUSC | Lynne Chamberlain | 370 | 0.8 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 11,946 | 25.6 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,716 | 63.7 | +0.8 | ||
Registered electors | 73,315 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Nick Raynsford | 20,262 | 49.2 | −3.3 | |
Conservative | Spencer Drury | 10,109 | 24.5 | +7.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joseph Lee | 7,498 | 18.5 | −1.5 | |
BNP | Lawrence Rustem[25] | 1,151 | 2.8 | N/A | |
Green | Andy Hewett | 1,054 | 2.6 | −1.9 | |
Christian | Edward Adeyele | 443 | 1.1 | N/A | |
English Democrat | Raden Wresniwiro | 339 | 0.8 | −2.6 | |
TUSC | Onay Kasab | 267 | 0.6 | N/A | |
No description | Tammy Alingham | 61 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,153 | 24.7 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 41,188 | 62.9 | +9.6 | ||
Registered electors | 65,489 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.1 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Nick Raynsford | 17,527 | 49.2 | −11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Le Breton | 7,381 | 20.7 | +5.1 | |
Conservative | Alistair Craig | 7,142 | 20.1 | +0.9 | |
Green | David Sharman | 1,579 | 4.4 | N/A | |
English Democrat | Garry Bushell | 1,216 | 3.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Stan Gain | 709 | 2.0 | −0.1 | |
Independent | Purvarani Nagalingam | 61 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,146 | 28.5 | −12.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,615 | 55.6 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 63,631 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -8.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Nick Raynsford | 19,691 | 60.5 | −2.9 | |
Conservative | Richard Forsdyke | 6,258 | 19.2 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Russell Pyne | 5,082 | 15.6 | +3.1 | |
UKIP | Stan Gain | 672 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Socialist Alliance | Kirstie Paton | 481 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Margaret Sharkey | 352 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,433 | 41.3 | −3.5 | ||
Turnout | 32,536 | 54.1 | −11.8 | ||
Registered electors | 60,114 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.8 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Nick Raynsford | 25,630 | 63.4 | ||
Conservative | Michael Mitchell | 7,502 | 18.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Cherry Luxton | 5,049 | 12.5 | ||
Referendum | Douglas Ellison | 1,670 | 4.1 | ||
Fellowship | Ronald Mallone | 428 | 1.1 | ||
Constitutionalist | David Martin-Eagle | 124 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 18,128 | 44.8 | |||
Turnout | 40,403 | 65.9 | |||
Registered electors | 61,352 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
Notes
- ^ MP for Greenwich (UK Parliament constituency) 1992–97
- ^ As with all constituencies, Greenwich and Woolwich elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ See The O2 Arena
- ^ The winning majority was 5.7% over the Conservative challenger.
References
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- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
- ^ "Greenwich and Woolwich Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Royal Borough of Greenwich. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Greenwich & Woolwich Parliamentary constituency". Greenwich Council. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
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- ^ "Commons Briefing Paper 7979. General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF) (Second ed.). House of Commons Library. 29 January 2019 [7 April 2018]. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2019.
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- ^ "Ryan Acty for UKIP Greenwich & Woolwich". www.ryanacty.org.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015.
- ^ "Your Green candidates for May 2015". London Green Party. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ^ "Our candidates for the 2015 General Election". Greenwich Borough Liberal Democrats. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
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- ^ "BNP to Fight 32 Parliamentary Seats in London". BNP. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
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External links
- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
- Greenwich and Woolwich UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Greenwich and Woolwich UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Greenwich and Woolwich UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK
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