County Greater London Created 2010 Member of parliament Rupa Huq | Electorate 69,828 (December 2010) European Parliament constituency London Number of members 1 | |
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Created from Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North Replaced by Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North | ||
Ealing Central and Acton is a constituency created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rupa Huq of the Labour Party.
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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).
Political history
The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies created the seat by selecting wards for the year 2010 to equalise electorates. Here if votes were cast as in 2005 this seat would produce a three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties. An analysis of intervening local results indicated that the seat would, if no voters were swung nor new voters introduced, present a tiny Labour majority.
In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray, a Conservative, won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.
According to the BBC, heavy campaigning in the the 2015 general election was expected by leading figures and regional activists of the two largest political parties; — at the time 56th on the list of Labour target seats. In a mixed election for two-way targets of the two largest parties, Labour's Rupa Huq won the constituency. The 2015 result gave the seat the 2nd most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.
Boundaries
The constituency has electoral wards:
The constituency was created with an electorate close to the electoral quota of 69,703 for 2006.