County Greater London Major settlements Ilford Created from Ilford Member of parliament Wes Streeting Number of members 1 Party Labour Party | Electorate 72,702 (December 2010) Created 1945 European Parliament constituency London Major settlement Ilford Replaced by Ilford | |
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Ilford North is a constituency created in 1945 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Wes Streeting, a Labour Party MP.
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History
The seat was created for the 1945 General Election, from the northern part of the former Ilford seat.
Constituency profile
The area before 1900 was semi-rural. All districts are urban but interspersed with many parks and a few small nature reserves and are connected to Central London by surface rail and by the Central line (London Underground) which forms an end loop around Hainault tube station. The vast majority of Ilford North's housing is houses of terraced or semi-detached type having typically small and narrow gardens. As at the 2011 census mid-rise apartments in modest landscaped grounds form the bulk of the type of flats in the seat as opposed to tower blocks.
Political history
The seat has wavered in its electoral winner-takes-all results — seeing seven phases since 1945 of Labour Party or Conservative Party representation in the House of Commons. The 2015 result made the seat the 8th narrowest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority, and in any election in first past the post a 1.2% majority would be considered marginal.
Boundaries
1945-1950: The Municipal Borough of Ilford wards of Barkingside, North Hainault, Seven Kings, and South Hainault.
1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Ilford wards of Barkingside, Clayhall, Fairlop, North Hainault, Seven Kings, and South Hainault.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Redbridge wards of Aldborough, Barkingside, Chadwell, Fairlop, Hainault, and Seven Kings.
1983-1997: As above plus Fullwell
1997-present: Aldborough, Barkingside, Bridge, Clayhall, Fairlop, Fullwell, Hainault, and Roding.