European Parliament constituency London Number of members 1 | Electorate 71,954 (December 2010) | |
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Created from Uxbridge (most), Ruislip-Northwood (part) | ||
Uxbridge and South Ruislip is a constituency created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Boris Johnson, a Conservative, who has served as Foreign Secretary in the cabinet since 13 July 2016 and former Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.
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History
Most of the constituency came from that of Uxbridge which was first established under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, however parts of the seat came from Ruislip-Northwood and Hayes and Harlington, both of which had been carved out of the Uxbridge seat in 1950. The 1950 changes reflecting the growth in population across the area during the period from 1918, the previous national reorganisation of seats.
The Conservative party won in 2010 and 2015 by a margin of about 25%, and since 1970 the fourteen parliamentary elections in this constituency and its predecessor (the constituency of Uxbridge) were won by the Conservatives. The 2015 result gave the seat the 149th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.
In 2010 for the locally selected Conservative standing John Randall, born in Uxbridge, the one-party swing in the seat was 0.1% greater than that seen nationally — enough on the newly drawn constituency boundaries to provide 48.3% of the vote, and a majority of more than 11,000 votes. In the 2010 and 2015 elections three (of 8 and 13 candidates respectively) attained 5% of the vote or more, to retain their deposits.
Boundaries
The boundaries of the constituency changed prior to the general election in 2010 as Parliament approved the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. Ickenham and parts of West Ruislip were allocated to the Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner new seat. Treating the constituency as the direct successor to the Uxbridge seat, it gained the electoral wards:
The seat comprises the following electoral wards;
The Boundary Commission for England 2018 review (see also Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies) has provisionally recommended that the successor for the current constituency, shall duly be named Hillingdon and Uxbridge:
Constituency profile
The seat has three tube stations, and spacious urban districts of Outer London. The area, in contrast to Hayes and inner western suburbs, is without brutalist tower blocks, and is instead beside the Colne Valley regional park. The highest density of buildings is found close to historic Uxbridge town centre, a London hub in a seat that is ethnically diverse and prosperous, including on its outskirts Brunel University. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.
Members of Parliament
John Randall, MP for the seat since its creation in 2010 and for the old Uxbridge seat since a by-election in 1997, announced in July 2014 that he would be retiring at the May 2015 general election. On 12 September 2014 Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, was selected to be the Conservative candidate at the general election. Johnson has been Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Theresa May since July 2016.