Chelsea and Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)
| Chelsea and Fulham | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Interactive map of boundaries from 2024 | |
 Location within Greater London | |
| County | Greater London |
| Population | 105,697 (2011 census)[1] |
| Electorate | 76,481 (2023)[2] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Ben Coleman (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham |
Chelsea and Fulham is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Ben Coleman of the Labour Party.
Boundaries
[edit]2010–2024
[edit]Following the review of parliamentary representation in London, the boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham were paired for constituency allocation purposes and allocated three seats between them.
This broke the previous pairings of Kensington and Chelsea with the City of Westminster, and of Hammersmith and Fulham with the London Borough of Ealing, and therefore abolished the seats Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea with their "spillover" cross-boundary seats of Regents Park and Kensington North and Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush.
The historical constituency of Kensington was recreated, and the Hammersmith seat was also revived.
The new constituency of Chelsea and Fulham was made up of the following electoral wards:[3]
- From the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham: Fulham Broadway, Munster, Palace Riverside, Parsons Green and Walham, Sands End, Town.
- From the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: Brompton and Hans Town, Chelsea Riverside, Redcliffe, Royal Hospital, Stanley.
2024-present
[edit]Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of:
- The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham wards of Fulham Reach, Fulham Town, Lillie, Munster, Palace & Hurlingham, Parsons Green & Sandford, Sands End, Walham Green, and West Kensington.
- The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea wards of Chelsea Riverside, Redcliffe, Royal Hospital, and Stanley.[4]
The new boundaries reflect revised local authority ward structures. To bring the electorate within the permitted range, the Hammersmith and Fulham wards of Fulham Reach and West Kensington were transferred in from the abolished constituency of Hammersmith. The whole of the Kensington and Chelsea ward of Brompton and Hans Town is now included in the new constituency of Kensington and Bayswater.
Political history
[edit]The constituency includes affluent areas and opulent private housing. The small amount of social housing in the constituency is concentrated in the smaller than ward-size Worlds End Estate. An alternative in-depth analysis, of local elections, confirms one ward has seen opposition members in elections since the 1980s, of 11 wards forming the seat. At the 2010 election, only five other constituencies voted more strongly for the Conservative Party: Richmond (Yorkshire), Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, Windsor (Berkshire), Hampshire North East and Chesham and Amersham also in Buckinghamshire.[5]
Somewhat surprisingly, however, in the 2017 United Kingdom general election the Conservative majority in Chelsea and Fulham was almost halved from 16,022 to 8,188, making it only the eighth-safest Conservative seat in Greater London (with several other seats such as Romford and Bexleyheath and Crayford proving safer for the Tories despite previously electing Labour MPs in the Blair era, whilst Chelsea never did).
In the early 1960s the Chelsea Labour Party (old boundaries) created the National Campaign for the Young Chronic Sick, led by constituency member (Mr) Marsh Dickson, which generated national TV and newspaper coverage leading to the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 promoted as a Private Members Bill by Alf Morris MP.
Constituency profile
[edit]The football grounds at Stamford Bridge and Craven Cottage are in the seat, which is the chosen home of many of London's elite footballers, as well as other wealthy celebrities. The constituency includes the fashionable King's Road thoroughfare, a key destination for shopping and culture.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Election | Member[6] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Greg Hands | Conservative | |
| 2024 | Ben Coleman | Labour | |
Elections
[edit]For results of predecessor seats, see Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham.
Elections in the 2020s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ben Coleman | 18,556 | 39.4 | +10.3 | |
| Conservative | Greg Hands | 18,404 | 39.1 | –6.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Blaise Baquiche | 3,611 | 7.7 | –16.1 | |
| Reform UK | Anthony Goodwin | 3,144 | 6.7 | +6.4 | |
| Green | Mona Crocker | 2,798 | 5.9 | +5.5 | |
| Workers Party | Sabi Patwary | 538 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Heritage | David Poulden | 65 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 152 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 47,116 | 60.1 | −11.6 | ||
| Registered electors | 78,468 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |  8.4
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Elections in the 2010s
[edit]| 2019 notional result[8] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 24,909 | 45.5 | |
| Labour | 15,916 | 29.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 13,053 | 23.8 | |
| Others | 500 | 0.9 | |
| Green | 228 | 0.4 | |
| Brexit Party | 175 | 0.3 | |
| Turnout | 54,781 | 71.6 | |
| Electorate | 76,481 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Greg Hands | 23,345 | 49.9 | –2.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nicola Horlick | 12,104 | 25.9 | +14.9 | |
| Labour | Matt Uberoi | 10,872 | 23.2 | –10.0 | |
| Animal Welfare | Sam Morland | 500 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,241 | 24.0 | +4.6 | ||
| Turnout | 46,821 | 69.8 | +3.7 | ||
| Registered electors | 67,110 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –8.8 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Greg Hands | 22,179 | 52.6 | –10.3 | |
| Labour | Alan De'Ath | 13,991 | 33.2 | +10.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Louise Rowntree | 4,627 | 11.0 | +5.8 | |
| Green | Bill Cashmore | 807 | 1.9 | –1.8 | |
| UKIP | Alasdair Seton-Marsden | 524 | 1.2 | –3.9 | |
| Majority | 8,188 | 19.4 | –20.4 | ||
| Turnout | 42,128 | 66.1 | +2.7 | ||
| Registered electors | 63,728 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –10.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Greg Hands | 25,322 | 62.9 | +2.4 | |
| Labour | Alexandra Sanderson | 9,300 | 23.1 | +4.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Simon Bailey | 2,091 | 5.2 | –11.0 | |
| UKIP | Adrian Noble | 2,039 | 5.1 | +3.9 | |
| Green | Guy Rubin | 1,474 | 3.7 | +2.0 | |
| Majority | 16,022 | 39.8 | –2.2 | ||
| Turnout | 40,226 | 63.4 | +3.3 | ||
| Registered electors | 63,478 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –1.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Greg Hands | 24,093 | 60.5 | ||
| Labour | Alex Hilton | 7,371 | 18.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Dirk Hazell | 6,473 | 16.2 | ||
| Green | Julia Stephenson | 671 | 1.7 | ||
| UKIP | Tim Gittos | 478 | 1.2 | ||
| BNP | Brian McDonald | 388 | 1.0 | ||
| New Independent Conservative | Roland Courtenay | 196 | 0.5 | ||
| English Democrat | George Roseman | 169 | 0.4 | ||
| Blue Environment | Godfrey Spickernell | 17 | 0.0 | ||
| Majority | 16,722 | 42.0 | |||
| Turnout | 39,856 | 60.1 | |||
| Registered electors | 66,257 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
The new seat of Chelsea and Fulham was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election, when it had a notional Conservative majority of over 10,000 based on 2005 election results.[17]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Chelsea and Fulham: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – London". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Seat Details". Electoral Calculus. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 3 London region.
- ^ "Majority Sorted Seats". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)
- ^ "Statement of Person Nominated and Notice of Poll: Chelsea and Fulham Constituency" (PDF). Hammersmith and Fulham Council. 7 June 2024.
- ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Candidates for Chelsea and Fulham Constituency 2019 general election" (PDF). London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ "Candidates for Chelsea and Fulham Constituency 2017 general election". Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
- ^ "Chelsea and Fulham Parliamentary constituency". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ election result "General Election 7 May 2015 - Hammersmith & Fulham". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015. 3Aug15
- ^ "Chelsea & Fulham parliamentary constituency - Election 2017". Archived from the original on 11 November 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Times Online guide to the Chelsea and Fulham constituency Archived April 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit]- nomis Constituency Profile for Chelsea and Fulham — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
- Chelsea and Fulham UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Chelsea and Fulham UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK
