Ilford South (UK Parliament constituency)

Ilford South
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ilford South in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	86,401 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Ilford
Current constituency
Created	1945 (1945)
Member of Parliament	Mike Gapes (Labour Co-operative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Ilford
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Ilford South 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.

Boundaries

Ilford South in Essex, showing boundaries used from 1945 to 1950.

Ilford South comprises the southern part of the town of Ilford, including Cranbrook, Seven Kings,and Goodmayes, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is bordered to the east by Dagenham & Rainham, to the south by Barking and to the north by Ilford North.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1945	Jim Ranger	Labour
	1950	Albert Cooper	Conservative
	1966	Arnold Shaw	Labour
	1970	Albert Cooper	Conservative
	Feb 1974	Arnold Shaw	Labour
	1979	Neil Thorne	Conservative
	1992	Mike Gapes	Labour Co-op

Election results

Elections in 2010s

General Election 2010: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Michael Gapes	25,311	49.4	+0.6
	Conservative	Toby Boutle	14,014	27.4	+0.1
	Liberal Democrat	Anood Al-Samerai	8,679	17.0	-3.6
	Green	Wilson Chowdhry	1,319	2.6	N/A
	UKIP	Terry Murray	1,132	2.2	+0.6
	Save King George Hospital	John Jestico	746	1.5	N/A
Majority			11,297	22.1	-0.5
Turnout			51,201	58.0	+4.4
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	+0.2

Elections in 2000s

General Election 2005: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Mike Gapes	20,856	48.9	-10.7
	Conservative	Stephen Metcalfe	11,628	27.2	+1.5
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Lake	8,761	20.5	+9.2
	British Public Party	Kashif Rana	763	1.8	+1.8
	UKIP	Colin Taylor	685	1.6	-1.8
Majority			9,228	21.6
Turnout			42,693	53.6	-0.7
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	6.1

General Election 2001: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Mike Gapes	24,619	59.6	+1.1
	Conservative	Suresh Kumar	10,622	25.7	-4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Ralph Scott	4,647	11.3	+5.0
	UKIP	Harun Khan	1,407	3.4	N/A
Majority			13,997	33.9
Turnout			41,295	54.3	-15.9
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Elections in 1990s

General Election 1997: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Mike Gapes	29,973	58.5
	Conservative	Neil Thorne	15,073	30.1
	Liberal Democrat	Aina Khan	3,152	6.3
	Referendum Party	David Hodges	1,073	2.1
	Socialist Labour	Bruce Ramsey	868	1.7
	BNP	Aron Owens	580	1.2
Majority
Turnout
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Mike Gapes	19,418	45.4
	Conservative	Neil Thorne	19,016	44.4
	Liberal Democrat	G.G. Hogarth	4,126	9.6
	Natural Law	B. Nandkishore	269	0.6
Majority
Turnout				76.7
	Labour Co-op gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in 1980s

General Election 1987: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Thorne	20,351	48.4
	Labour	K.H. Jones	15,779	37.5
	Liberal	R.J. Scott	5,928	14.1
Majority
Turnout				71.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Ilford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Thorne	18,672	45.5
	Labour	J.H. Hogben	14,106	34.4
	Liberal	R.J. Scott	7,999	19.5
	BNP	R.A. Martin	235	0.6
Majority
Turnout				70.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London