Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing Central and Acton
Ealing Central and Acton
Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Ealing Central and Acton in Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	69,828 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Rupa Huq (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North

Ealing Central and Acton is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rupa Huq of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Constituency profile

The seat takes in an eastern third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the large town (or London district) of Acton and equally bustling Ealing town centre, with their residential side streets, education establishments, small industrial estates, sports areas, part of the Grand Union Canal and parks, centred primarily north of the Uxbridge Road (A40).

Acton and Ealing have an increasing proportion of young working families on middle or high incomes supported by the seat's many tube stations and other good transport connections and having generally low levels of crime and deprivation. However, in the north of the seat is a main railway into Marylebone and Euston stations adjoining the Wormwood Scrubs common and neighbourhood which bears its name — this remains to date one of the more stubbornly highest deprivation index-rated areas in the borough, a situation which is planned to be alleviated by the Old Oak Common railway station proposal, as part of the Crossrail and HS2 projects.^[2]

Notionally, the new seat for 2010 (if votes were cast as in 2005) would have resulted in a very close three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties.^[3] Alternative estimates suggest that the seat would have had a tiny Labour majority in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.^{[n 3]} According to the BBC, Ealing Central and Acton will be a key seat in the 2015 general election.^[4] It is 56th on the list of Labour target seats.^[5]

Boundaries

The constituency has electoral wards:

Acton Central, Ealing Broadway, Ealing Common, East Acton, Hanger Hill, South Acton, Southfield, Walpole in London Borough of Ealing

The Boundary Commission's review led to the seat's creation for the 2010 General Election largely as a successor seat for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush. This seat was won by a Labour candidate and various population changes in the borough as well as the statutory preference to remove the cross-border element of another borough from the constituency resulted in the change.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[6]	Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2010	Angie Bray	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2015	Rupa Huq	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Ealing Central and Acton^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq^[9]	22,002	43.2	+13.1
	Conservative	Angie Bray	21,728	42.7	+4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball^[9]	3,106	6.1	−21.5
	UKIP	Peter Florence^[10]^[11]	1,926	3.8	+2.2
	Green	Tom Sharman^[12]	1,841	3.6	+2.1
	Independent	Jonathan Notley	125	0.2	n/a
	Workers Revolutionary	Scott Dore	73	0.1	n/a
	Above and Beyond Party	Tammy Rendle	54	0.1	n/a
	Europeans Party	Andrzej Rygielski	39	0.1	n/a
Majority			274	0.5
Turnout			50,894	71.4	+3.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+4.2

General Election 2010: Ealing Central and Acton^[13]^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angie Bray	17,944	38.0	+6.8
	Labour	Bassam Mahfouz	14,228	30.1	−3.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball	13,041	27.6	−3.0
	UKIP	Julie Carter	765	1.6	N/A
	Green	Sarah Edwards	737	1.6	−3.3
	Christian	Suzanne Fernandes	295	0.6	N/A
	Independent Ealing Acton Communities Public Services	Sam Akaki	190	0.4	N/A
Majority			3,716	7.9
Turnout			47,200	67.52
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Notes

^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
^ Based upon the notional outcome of an election fought with electoral wards from the various previous seats fought in the previous election.

References

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
^ Ealing Borough Council website
^ "UKPollingReport Election Guide 2010 » Ealing Central and Acton". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
^ Hollins, Victoria (7 April 2015). "Ealing Central and Acton is key election battleground". BBC News. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ "Labour's 106 battleground target seats for 2015". Labour List. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200643/elections-results/2023/uk_parliamentary_election_7_may_2015/2 3Aug15
^ ^a ^b "UK ELECTION RESULTS". electionresults.blogspot.co.uk.
^ "Peter Florence". ukip-ealing-central-acton.org.
^ "Peter Florence's CV, Ealing Central and Acton, MP candidate, UK Independence Party (UKIP) - Democracy Club CVs". democracyclub.org.uk.
^ "London Green Party - 2015 General Election". greenparty.org.uk.
^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 26 July 2013 suggested (help)
^ http://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200643/elections-results/590/parliamentary_election/4

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[2] A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

[3] As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

[6] Based upon the notional outcome of an election fought with electoral wards from the various previous seats fought in the previous election.

[1] "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

[4] Ealing Borough Council website

[UKPollingReport-5] "UKPollingReport Election Guide 2010 » Ealing Central and Acton". ukpollingreport.co.uk.

[Hollins-7] Hollins, Victoria (7 April 2015). "Ealing Central and Acton is key election battleground". BBC News. Retrieved 8 April 2015.

[Labour_list-8] "Labour's 106 battleground target seats for 2015". Labour List. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2015.

[rayment-9] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)

[electoralcalculus2015-10] "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[11] ttp://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200643/elections-results/2023/uk_parliamentary_election_7_may_2015/2 3Aug15

[electionresults.blogspot.co.uk-12] "UK ELECTION RESULTS". electionresults.blogspot.co.uk.

[13] "Peter Florence". ukip-ealing-central-acton.org.

[14] "Peter Florence's CV, Ealing Central and Acton, MP candidate, UK Independence Party (UKIP) - Democracy Club CVs". democracyclub.org.uk.

[15] "London Green Party - 2015 General Election". greenparty.org.uk.

[electoralcalculus2010-16] "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 26 July 2013 suggested (help)

[17] ttp://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/200643/elections-results/590/parliamentary_election/4

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