Chipping Barnet (UK Parliament constituency)
| Chipping Barnet | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Chipping Barnet in Greater London. |
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| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 76,455 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1974 |
| Member of Parliament | Theresa Villiers (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Barnet |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | London |
Chipping Barnet is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
It has been held by the Conservative Party since its creation for the February 1974 general election, and withstood the Labour landslide in 1997 by 1035 votes.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1974 from the former seat of Barnet. It covers the north-eastern third of the London Borough of Barnet including High Barnet, Arkley, New Barnet, East Barnet, Totteridge, Whetstone, Friern Barnet and parts of Cockfosters, Southgate and Muswell Hill. Chipping Barnet is made up of seven electoral wards from the London Borough of Barnet:
- Brunswick Park, Coppetts, East Barnet, High Barnet, Oakleigh, Totteridge, Underhill
[edit] 2007 Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that parts of Underhill ward and Coppetts ward be transferred to Chipping Barnet from the constituencies of Hendon and Finchley and Golders Green respectively. It also recommended that a small part of Mill Hill ward be transferred from Chipping Barnet to Hendon.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Event | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Reginald Maudling | Conservative | |
| 1979 | Sir Sydney Chapman | Conservative | |
| 2005 | Theresa Villiers | Conservative | |
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Chipping Barnet[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Theresa Villiers | 24700 | 48.8 | +2.9 | |
| Labour | Damien Welfare | 12773 | 25.2 | -8.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stephen Barber | 10202 | 20.2 | +4.9 | |
| UKIP | James Fluss | 1442 | 2.8 | +0.8 | |
| Green | Kate Tansley | 1021 | 2 | -0.8 | |
| Independent | Philip Clayton | 470 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Majority | 11927 | 23.6 | |||
| Turnout | 50608 | 65.1 | +2.3 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2005: Chipping Barnet | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Theresa Villiers | 19,744 | 46.6 | +0.2 | |
| Labour | Pauline Coakley-Webb | 13,784 | 32.5 | –7.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Sean Hooker | 6,671 | 15.7 | +2.1 | |
| Green | Audrey Poppy | 1,199 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
| UKIP | Victor Kaye | 924 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
| Rainbow Dream Ticket | Rainbow George Weiss | 59 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 5,960 | 14.1 | |||
| Turnout | 42,381 | 64.1 | +3.7 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 | |||
| General Election 2001: Chipping Barnet | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Sydney Chapman | 19,702 | 46.4 | +3.4 | |
| Labour | Damien Welfare | 17,001 | 40.0 | –0.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Sean Hooker | 5,753 | 13.6 | +1.2 | |
| Majority | 2,701 | 6.4 | |||
| Turnout | 42,456 | 60.4 | –11.3 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] 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.
- ^ >Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
- ^ http://www.barnet.gov.uk/chipping-barnet-constituency-candidates2010.pdf
