Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Tottenham Borough constituency
Tottenham shown within Greater London
Created:	1885, 1950
MP:	David Lammy
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

Tottenham 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

The constituency is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London. It covers the borough's central and eastern area, including some of the former Borough of Hornsey.

The constituency comprises nine wards:

Bruce Grove, Harringay, Northumberland Park, St. Ann's, Seven Sisters, Tottenham Green, Tottenham Hale, West Green and White Hart Lane.

Constituency profile

A cosmopolitan, inner city seat in the borough of Haringey, Tottenham has a large ethnic minority population - around a fifth of residents are black, and there is a large Muslim population. The percentage of white residents understates the variation of this seat, since that itself includes Russians, Cypriots, Irish, Eastern European and Jewish communties.

The seat covers Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, Harringay, West Green, Seven Sisters, Bruce Grove and Northumberland Park. To the east is the River Lea and the Tottenham marshes, to the south the seat takes in Finsbury Park. The constituency includes the Broadwater Farm estate, notorious for the 1985 riots. The estate underwent a massive facelift following the riots and is no longer a crime blackspot, but other areas of the seat like Tottenham Green continue to be blighted by social problems.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1885-1918

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Joseph Howard	Liberal
	1906	Percy Alden	Radical Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished: see Tottenham North and Tottenham South

MPs 1950-present

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Frederick Messer	Labour Co-op
	1959	Alan Brown	Labour
	1961		Independent
	1962		Conservative
	1964	Norman Atkinson	Labour
	1987	Bernie Grant	Labour
	2000 by-election	David Lammy	Labour

Election results

2010 elections

General Election 2010: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	24,128	59.3	+1.4
	Liberal Democrat	David Schmitz	7,197	17.7	+0.9
	Conservative	Sean Sullivan	6,064	14.9	+1.4
	Trade Unionist & Socialist	Jenny Sutton	1,057	2.6	N/A
	Green	Anne Gray	980	2.4	-2.2
	UKIP	Winston McKenzie	466	1.1	N/A
	Independent People Together	Neville Watson	265	0.7	N/A
	Christian	Abimbola Kadara	262	0.6	N/A
	Independent	Sheik Thompson	143	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Errol Carr	125	0.3	N/A
Majority			16,931	41.6	+0.5
Turnout			40,687	58.2	+10.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.2

2000 elections

General Election 2005: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	18,343	57.9	−9.6
	Liberal Democrat	Wayne Hoban	5,309	16.8	+7.3
	Conservative	William MacDougall	4,278	13.5	−0.4
	Respect	Janet Alder	2,014	6.4	N/A
	Green	Pete McAskie	1,457	4.6	0.0
	Socialist Labour	Jaamit Durrani	263	0.8	N/A
Majority			13,034	41.1
Turnout			31,664	47.8	−0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.4

General Election 2001: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	21,317	67.5	-1.8
	Conservative	Uma Fernandes	4,401	13.9	-1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Meher Khan	3,008	9.5	-1.3
	Green	Peter Budge	1,443	4.6	+1.8
	Socialist Alliance	Weyman Bennett	1,162	3.7	N/A
	Reform 2000	Unver Shefki	270	0.9	N/A
Majority			16,916	53.6
Turnout			31,601	48.2	-8.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Tottenham by-election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	8,785	53.5	-15.8
	Liberal Democrat	Duncan Hames	3,139	19.1	+1.3
	Conservative	Jane Ellison	2,634	16.0	+0.3
	Socialist Alliance	Weyman Bennett	885	5.4	N/A
	Green	Peter Budge	606	3.7	+0.9
	Reform 2000	Erol Basarik	177	1.1	N/A
	UKIP	Ashwin Tanna	136	0.8	N/A
	Independent Conservative	Dorian de Braâm	55	0.3	N/A
Majority			5,646	34.4
Turnout			16,417	25.4
	Labour hold		Swing

1990 elections

General Election 1997: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernie Grant	26,121	69.3
	Conservative	Andrew Scantlebury	5,921	15.7
	Liberal Democrat	Neil Hughes	4,064	10.8
	Green	Peter Budge	1,059	2.8
	ProLife Alliance	Leelan Tay	210	0.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Christopher Anglin	181	0.5
	Socialist Equality	Tania Kent	148	0.4
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernie Grant	25,309	56.5
	Conservative	A Charalambous	13,341	29.8
	Liberal Democrat	A l'Estrange	5,120	11.4
	Green	Peter Budge	903	2.0
	Natural Law	M Obomanu	150	0.3
Majority			11,698	26.70
Turnout				65.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernie Grant	21,921	43.6
	Conservative	P L Murphy	17,780	35.4
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	S Etherington	8,983	17.8
	Green	D Nicholls	744	1.5
	Gaitskell Labour	P Nealon	638	1.3
	Workers Revolutionary	C L Dixon	205	0.4
Majority			4,141	8.2
Turnout				66.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	22,423	52.0
	Conservative	P Murphy	13,027	30.2
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	A l'Estrange	6,990	16.2
	Independent Conservative	W G Hurry	652	1.5
Majority			8,285	18.95
Turnout				74.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	16,299	56.9
	Conservative	N H M Carrington	9,166	32.00
	Liberal	K Alexander	2,177	7.6
	National Front	C S Mates	833	2.9
	Workers Revolutionary	E D J Gutteridge	94	0.3
	Fellowship	G A Rolph	71	0.3
Majority			7,133	24.91
Turnout				61.17
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	15,708	58.8
	Conservative	P Lilley	6,492	24.3
	Liberal	K Alexander	2,288	8.6
	National Front	R W Painter	2,211	8.28
Majority			9,216	34,5
Turnout				56.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	16,999	54.8
	Conservative	J A Croft	7,873	25.4
	Liberal	K Papatheodotou	2,478	8.0
	National Independence	P Coney	1,373	4.2
	National Front	R Painter	1,270	4.1
	Social Democrat	J Martin	763	2.5
	Independent Conservative	K Squire	274	0.9
Majority			9.126	29.41
Turnout				65.62
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• Tottenham by-election, 2000
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London