Chipping Barnet (UK Parliament constituency)

{{{name}}}
[[{{{type}}} constituency]] for the House of Commons
Current constituency
Created	{{{year}}}
Member of Parliament	None

Chipping Barnet is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom's House of Commons. It is strongly Conservative and withstood the Labour landslide of 1997.

Boundaries

The constituency was created in 1974 from the former seat of Barnet. It covers the north-eastern third of the London Borough of Barnet including High Barnet, Arkley, New Barnet, East Barnet, Totteridge, Whetstone, Friern Barnet and parts of Cockfosters and Southgate.

Members of Parliament

Before 1974, see Barnet (1945–1974)

Year		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Feb 1974	Reginald Maudling	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1979	Sir Sydney Chapman	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	2005	Theresa Villiers	Conservative

Elections

General Election 2005: Chipping Barnet

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Theresa Villiers	19,744	46.6	+0.2
	Labour	Pauline Coakley-Webb	13,784	32.5	–7.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Hooker	6,671	15.7	+2.1
	Green	Audrey Poppy	1,199	2.8	+2.8
	UKIP	Victor Kaye	924	2.2	+2.2
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	Rainbow George Weiss	59	0.1	+0.1
Majority			5,960	14.1
Turnout			42,381	64.1	+3.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.8

General Election 2001: Chipping Barnet

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sydney Chapman	19,702	46.4	+3.4
	Labour	Damien Welfare	17,001	40.0	–0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Hooker	5,753	13.6	+1.2
Majority			2,701	6.4
Turnout			42,456	60.4	–11.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.2

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London