Hornsey and Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency)

Hornsey and Wood Green
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hornsey and Wood Green in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	79,878 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1983 (1983)
Member of Parliament	Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat)
Number of members	One
Created from	Hornsey and Wood Green
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Hornsey and Wood Green is a borough constituency in the London Borough of Haringey 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.

Boundaries

The boundary changes which took effect for the 1997 general election were unchanged for the 2010 general election. The constituency currently comprises ten electoral wards: Alexandra, Bounds Green, Crouch End, Fortis Green, Highgate, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, Noel Park, Stroud Green, and Woodside.

Constituency profile

The constituency takes in the western part of the London Borough of Haringey, stretching from leafy Highgate in the south west of the seat, through the mainly affluent Muswell Hill, through Crouch End and on to the more deprived Wood Green in the north east corner of the seat. This is a fashionable and trendy area, though there are also concentrated pockets of council housing and a diverse ethnic population, including Jewish, Cypriot and Afro-Caribbean communities.

History

The constituency was created in 1983 from the former seats of Hornsey & Wood Green. In those boundary changes the Wood Green seat was broadly divided into two, with half being merged with Hornsey and the rest being transferred to the neighbouring constituency of Tottenham, to the east. A smaller part of the Hornsey seat was also transferred to Tottenham at the same time.

Since its creation the seat has been successively represented by Members of Parliament from all three of the UK's main political parties. This was a Conservative seat until 1992 but by 1997 had become what looked like a rock solid Labour seat, with Barbara Roche enjoying a majority of over 20,000. The Liberal Democrats however have supplanted the Conservatives as the alternative to Labour here, both at Parliamentary level where they won the seat in 2005 and have held it since, and at local level (Haringey borough council is split almost straight down the middle in political terms – the western part that forms this seat is solidly Liberal Democrat, while the eastern part that forms Tottenham is solidly Labour).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Hugh Rossi	Conservative
	1992	Barbara Roche	Labour
	2005	Lynne Featherstone	Liberal Democrat

Election results

General Election 2010: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Lynne Featherstone	25,595	46.5	+3.2
	Labour	Karen Jennings	18,720	34.0	-4.3
	Conservative	Richard Merrin	9,174	16.7	+4.0
	Green	Pete McAskie	1,261	2.3	-2.7
	Independent	Stephane de Roche	201	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Rohen Kapur	91	0.2	N/A
Majority			6,875	12.5
Turnout			55,042	68.9	+7.1
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	3.7

General Election 2005: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Lynne Featherstone	20,512	43.3	+17.5
	Labour	Barbara Roche	18,117	38.3	-11.6
	Conservative	Peter Forrest	6,014	12.7	-3.0
	Green	Jayne Forbes	2,377	5.0	-0.1
	UKIP	Roy Freshwater	310	0.7	N/A
Majority			2,395	5.1
Turnout			47,330	61.8	+3.8
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing	14.6

General Election 2001: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Roche	21,967	49.9	-11.9
	Liberal Democrat	Lynne Featherstone	11,353	25.8	+14.5
	Conservative	Jason Hollands	6,921	15.7	-6.2
	Green	Jayne Forbes	2,228	5.1	+2.7
	Socialist Alliance	Louise Christian	1,106	2.5	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Ella Rule	294	0.7	-0.5
	Reform 2000	Erdil Ataman	194	0.4	N/A
Majority			10,614	24.1
Turnout			44,063	58.0	-11.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Roche	31,792	61.7	+13.3
	Conservative	Helena Hart	11,293	21.9	-17.2
	Liberal Democrat	Lynne Featherstone	5,794	11.3	+1.3
	Green	Hilary Jago	1,214	2.4	n/a
	Referendum Party	R Miller	808	1.6	n/a
	Socialist Labour	Pat Sikorski	586	1.1	n/a
Majority			20,499	39.8
Turnout				69.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Roche	27,020	48.5	+8.5
	Conservative	Andrew Boff	21,843	39.2	-3.8
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Dunphy	5,547	9.9	-5.2
	Green	E Crosby	1,051	1.9	0.0
	Natural Law	P Davies	197	0.35	n/a
	Revolutionary Communist	William Massey	89	0.16	n/a
Majority			5,177	9.3
Turnout				75.7	+2.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1987: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Hugh Rossi	25,397	43.0	+0.5
	Labour	Barbara Roche	23,681	40.0	+5.0
	Social Democrat	D Eden	8,928	15.1	-5.8
	Green	E Crosby	1,154	1.9	+0.3
Majority			1,779	3.0	-4.5
Turnout				73.3	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Hornsey and Wood Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Hugh Rossi	22,323	42.5
	Labour	V Veness	18,424	35.0
	Social Democrat	M Burrell	10,995	20.9
	Green	P Lang	854	1.6
Majority			3,899	7.5
Turnout				71.2

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London