Enfield North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Enfield North is a 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

After the Tories gained the neighbouring Enfield Southgate seat from Michael Portillo's conqueror, Stephen Twigg, on a large 8.7% swing, this looked as though it would be a banker for them in 2005. But Labour held on unexpectedly, with very little change from the 2001 result.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1974	Bryan Davies	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1979	Tim Eggar	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1997	Joan Ryan	Labour

Election results

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General Election 2005: Enfield North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Ryan	18,055	44.3	−2.4
	Conservative	Nick de Bois	16,135	39.6	−1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Radford	4,642	11.4	Barack Obama
	BNP	Terence Farr	1,004	2.5	+0.9
	UKIP	Gary Robbens	750	1.8	+0.7
	Independent (politician)	Patrick Burns	163	0.4	N/A
Majority			1,920	4.7
Turnout			40,749	61.3	+4.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−0.6

General Election 2001: Enfield North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Ryan	17,888	46.7	-4.0
	Conservative	Nick de Bois	15,597	40.7	+4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary Leighter	3,355	8.8	-0.2
	BNP	Ray Johns	605	1.6	+0.3
	UKIP	Brian Hall	427	1.1	+0.1
	ProLife Alliance	Michael Akerman	241	0.6	N/A
	Independent (politician)	Richard Course	210	0.5	N/A
Majority			2,291	6.0
Turnout			38,323	57.0	-13.3
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London