Hendon (UK Parliament constituency)

Hendon
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hendon in Greater London for the 2010 general election.
County	Greater London
Electorate	74,329 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Matthew Offord (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Hendon North and parts of Hendon South
1918 (1918)–1945 (1945)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Harrow East, Harrow West, Hendon North, Hendon South and Wembley North
Created from	Harrow
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Hendon /ˈhɛndʉn/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. since 2010 by Matthew Offord of the Conservative Party.

History

The constituency was originally created for the 1918 General Election. By 1941 the estimated electorate was 217,900 and the constituency was divided into two parts (Hendon North and Hendon South) for the 1945 general election. In the boundary change before the 1997 General Election the London Borough of Barnet's Parliamentary representation was reduced from four seats to three and the Hendon North constituency was combined with the northern part of the Hendon South constituency. Although this new seat was called Hendon it did not cover the whole area of the former constituency as part of that seat was placed in the new constituency of Finchley and Golders Green.

Including the period of division into larger north/south replacement seats (1945-1997), only two Labour Party MPs have represented Hendon, Barbara Ayrton-Gould in Hendon North (1945-1950) and Andrew Dismore (1997-2010). No Liberal or Liberal Democrat has served these seats since 1910 as MP.

Boundaries

Hendon constituency within the parliamentary county of Middlesex, showing boundaries used from 1918-45.

Since 2010 the constituency has been made up of seven wards from the London Borough of Barnet:

• Burnt Oak, Colindale, Edgware, Hale, Hendon, Mill Hill, West Hendon.

1918-1945

No national reviews took place between the Representation of the People Act 1918 which enfranchised this constituency and the next such Act in 1945. Later national reviews took place by the newly-established Boundary Commissions for the four countries of United Kingdom for the elections of 1950, 1974, 1983, 1997 and 2010. As can be seen from the map, during the early period the seat spanned the area made up of the present seat and primarily the two neighbours to east and west, Chipping Barnet and Harrow East.

2010 review

Under the Fifth Review of Westminster Constituencies, looking at the population subset North London, and as a consequence of abolishing ward-sharing, Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's recommendation that the shared part of Underhill be transferred to the constituency of Chipping Barnet, parts of the wards Golders Green and Finchley Church End be transferred to Finchley and Golders Green and that shared parts of Mill Hill ward be received from the named seats (to the north-east and south-east).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	Conservative
	1935	Reginald Blair	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Hendon North and Hendon South
1997		constituency recreated
	1997	Andrew Dismore	Labour
	2010	Matthew Offord	Conservative

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Hendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	19,635	42.3	+5.2
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	19,529	42.1	−3.0
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Harris	5,734	12.4	−1.7
	UKIP	Robin Lambert	958	2.1	+0.5
	Green	Andrew Newby	518	1.1	−0.7
Majority			106	0.2
Turnout			46,374	58.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+4.1

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Hendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	18,596	44.4	−8.1
	Conservative	Richard Evans	15,897	38.0	+3.7
	Liberal Democrat	Nahid Boethe	5,831	13.9	+2.3
	Green	David Williams	754	1.8	+1.8
	UKIP	Melvyn Smallman	637	1.5	+0.5
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	George Weiss	68	0.2	+0.2
	Progressive Democratic Party	Michael Stewart	56	0.1	−0.2
Majority			2,699	6.5
Turnout			41,839	58.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.5

General Election 2001: Hendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	21,432	52.5	+3.1
	Conservative	Richard Evans	14,015	34.3	-2.7
	Liberal Democrat	Wayne Casey	4,724	11.6	+0.7
	UKIP	Craig Crosbie	409	1.0	+0.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Stella Taylor	164	0.4	+0.1
	Progressive Democratic Party	Michael Stewart	107	0.3	N/A
Majority			7,417	18.2
Turnout			40,851	52.2	-13.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Hendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	24,683	49.3	N/A
	Conservative	Sir John Gorst	18,528	37.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Wayne Casey	5,427	10.8	N/A
	Referendum Party	S. Rabbow	978	2.0	N/A
	UKIP	B. Wright	267	0.5	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Stella Taylor	153	0.3	N/A
Majority			6,155	12.3	N/A
Turnout				65.7	N/A

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935 164,802
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Reginald Blair	69,762	65.78
	Labour	Mrs Amber Blanco-White	28,375	26.75
	Liberal	Basil E Goldstone	7,920	7.47
Majority			41,387	39.02
Turnout				64.35
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931 113,780
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	66,305	81.25
	Labour	Mrs Amber Blanco-White	15,305	18.75
Majority			51,000	62.49
Turnout				71.73
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

Notes and References

Notes

References

• Iain Dale, ed. (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X. 
• The Times House of Commons 1945. 1945.