Chelsea and Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)
| Chelsea and Fulham | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Chelsea and Fulham in Greater London. |
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| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 62,958 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Greg Hands (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | London |
Chelsea and Fulham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was first contested in the 2010 general election.
Following the review of parliamentary representation in west London, the boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham were paired for constituency allocation purposes, and allocated three seats between them.
This broke the previous pairings of Hammersmith and Fulham with Ealing, and Kensington and Chelsea with the City of Westminster, and the end of the former constituencies of Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea, as well as the cross-boundary seats of Regents Park and Kensington North and Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush.
Kensington was recreated as a stand alone constituency. The same happened to Hammersmith, previously part of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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[edit] Boundaries
Chelsea and Fulham constituency is made up of the following electoral wards[2]:
- From the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham: Fulham Broadway; Munster; Palace Riverside; Parsons Green and Walham; Sands End; Town.
- From the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: Cremorne; Hans Town; Redcliffe; Royal Hospital; Stanley.
[edit] Constituency Profile
Containing some of the most affluent areas in London, this is the safest Conservative seat in the capital, and the safest urban Conservative seat in the country. At the 2010 election, only a small handful of rural areas leaned more strongly towards the Tories.
The Premiership football grounds at Stamford Bridge and Craven Cottage are both within the seat and the area is home to many of London's elite footballers as well as other very wealthy celebrities.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Greg Hands | Conservative | |
[edit] Elections
For results of predecessor seats, see Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham.
[edit] Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Chelsea and Fulham | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Greg Hands | 24,093 | 60.5 | +5.2 | |
| Labour | Alex Hilton | 7,371 | 18.5 | −6.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Dirk Hazell | 6,473 | 16.2 | +2.2 | |
| Green | Julia Stephenson | 671 | 1.7 | −2.5 | |
| UKIP | Tim Gittos | 478 | 1.2 | −0.1 | |
| BNP | Brian McDonald | 388 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| New Independent Conservative | Roland Courtenay | 196 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| English Democrats | George Roseman | 169 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Blue Environment | Godfrey Spickernell | 17 | 0.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 16,722 | 42.0 | +7.5 | ||
| Turnout | 39,856 | 60.1 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
The 17 votes won by Godfrey Spickernell was the lowest for any candidate in the 2010 election.
The new seat of Chelsea and Fulham was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election, when it had a notional Conservative majority of over 10,000 based on 2005 election results.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Boundary Commission for England
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)[self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ Times Online guide to the Chelsea and Fulham constituency
