Croydon South (UK Parliament constituency)
Croydon South is a United Kingdom parliamentary constituency created in 1974 represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament since 2015 by Chris Philp, a Conservative.[n 1]
Croydon South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Croydon South in Greater London | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 82,010 (May 2015)[1] |
Major settlements | Coulsdon and Purley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Chris Philp (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | East Surrey |
Political history
In 1974 a Croydon South constituency created in 1950 was renamed Croydon Central and the current Croydon South was created out of northernmost parts of East Surrey, which since 1965 had joined Greater London.
The constituency has had three Conservative MPs. Sir William Clark, who had represented East Surrey in the previous Parliament, won the election in February 1974, and served until 1992 when he was succeeded by Richard Ottaway. In October 2012, Ottaway stated his intention to stand down at the next election and was succeeded by Chris Philp in May 2015 .[2][1] Boundary changes have been minor and the 2015 result made the seat the 145th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.[3] At the 2015 general election, it was one of the Conservative's safest seats in Greater London.[4]
Constituency profile
Croydon South consists of affluent suburbia, including a significant minority of large houses with gardens on the North Downs escarpment. It has many well-to-do businesspeople taking advantage of the fast commuter trains to the City and Gatwick Airport, plus a significant proportion of retired people.
The village-like Selsdon – one of the few places in the seat where transport links are poor – has a place on the political map having spawned the phrase 'Selsdon Man', its swing and voters first seen as an ideal bellwether for the national swing by the Conservative Party. The Purley Way, which runs mainly through Waddon, has become home to large retail estates for out-of-town shopping and leisure. Waddon is the sole Labour ward in the constituency – one of its councillors, Andrew Pelling, the former Conservative MP for Croydon Central, defected to the Labour Party.
At the southern end of the constituency, Coulsdon has much in common with the residual county of Surrey of which it was a more intrinsically associated part until 1965 as it was excluded from Croydon County Borough on the county borough's creation in 1889.
Boundaries
Dates | Local authority/authorities | wards |
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1974-1983 | London Borough of Croydon | Coulsdon East, Purley, Sanderstead and Selsdon, Sanderstead North, Woodcote and Coulsdon West |
1983-1997 | London Borough of Croydon | Coulsdon East, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Woodcote and Coulsdon West |
1997-2010 | London Borough of Croydon | Coulsdon East, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Waddon, Woodcote and Coulsdon West |
2010–present | London Borough of Croydon | Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards, Waddon |
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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February 1974 | Sir William Clark | Conservative | |
1992 | Sir Richard Ottaway | Conservative | |
2015 | Chris Philp | Conservative |
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 30,985 | 52.2 | -2.2 | |
Labour | Olga Fitzroy | 18,646 | 31.4 | -4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Jones | 7,503 | 12.6 | +6.9 | |
Green | Peter Underwood | 1,782 | 3.0 | +1.2 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 442 | 0.7 | -1.1 | |
Majority | 12,339 | 20.8 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,358 | 70.7 | -2.7 | ||
Registered electors | 83,977 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Philp | 33,334 | 54.4 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Jennifer Brathwaite | 21,928 | 35.8 | +11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Jones | 3,541 | 5.8 | -0.2 | |
Green | Catherine Shelley | 1,125 | 1.8 | -1.9 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 1,116 | 1.8 | -8.7 | |
CPA | David Omamogho | 213 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 11,406 | 18.6 | -11.1 | ||
Turnout | 61,247 | 73.3 | +2.9 | ||
Registered electors | 83,518 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 31,448 | 54.5 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Emily Benn | 14,308 | 24.8 | +4.8 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 6,068 | 10.5 | +6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gill Hickson | 3,448 | 6.0 | -16.9 | |
Green | Peter Underwood | 2,154 | 3.7 | +2.0 | |
Putting Croydon First! | Mark Samuel | 221 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Class War | Jon Bigger[10] | 65 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,140 | 29.7 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 57,712 | 70.4 | +1.1 | ||
Registered electors | 82,010 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 28,684 | 50.9 | -1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Rix | 12,866 | 22.8 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Jane Avis | 11,287 | 20.0 | -4.0 | |
UKIP | Jeffrey Bolter | 2,504 | 4.4 | +2.3 | |
Green | Gordon Ross | 981 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 15,818 | 28.1 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 56,322 | 69.3 | +5.8 | ||
Registered electors | 81,303 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 25,320 | 51.8 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Paul Smith | 11,792 | 24.1 | –5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sandra Lawman | 10,049 | 20.6 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | James Feisenberger | 1,054 | 2.2 | 0.0 | |
Veritas | Graham Dare | 497 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
The People's Choice! | Mark Samuel | 185 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 13,528 | 27.7 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,897 | 63.6 | +2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 75,812 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 22,169 | 49.2 | +1.9 | |
Labour | Gerry Ryan | 13,472 | 29.9 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna-Nicolett Gallop | 8,226 | 18.3 | –2.9 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 998 | 2.2 | +1.6 | |
The People's Choice! | Mark Samuel | 195 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 8,697 | 19.3 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 45,060 | 61.4 | –12.0 | ||
Registered electors | 73,372 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | –1.3 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 25,649 | 47.3 | -14.3 | |
Labour | Charlie Burling | 13,719 | 25.3 | +9.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steven Gauge | 11,441 | 21.1 | -0.5 | |
Referendum | Tony Barber | 2,631 | 4.9 | N/A | |
BNP | Paul Ferguson | 354 | 0.7 | N/A | |
UK Independent | A.G. Harker | 309 | 0.6 | N/A | |
The People's Choice! | Mark Samuel | 96 | 0.2 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 11,930 | 22.0 | -18.7 | ||
Turnout | 54,199 | 73.5 | -4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 73,787 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -11.70 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 31,993 | 63.7 | -0.35 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Billenness | 11,568 | 23.0 | -1.32 | |
Labour | Helen Salmon | 6,444 | 12.8 | +3.05 | |
The People's Choice! | Mark Samuel | 239 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 20,425 | 40.7 | +0.97 | ||
Turnout | 50,244 | 77.6 | +3.88 | ||
Registered electors | 64,768 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 30,732 | 64.05 | -1.1 | |
Alliance | George Morrison | 11,669 | 24.32 | -2.75 | |
Labour | Geraint Davies | 4,679 | 9.75 | +1.96 | |
Green | Paul Baldwin | 900 | 1.88 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,063 | 39.73 | +1.66 | ||
Turnout | 47,980 | 73.72 | +2.67 | ||
Registered electors | 65,085 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 29,842[12] | 65.14 | +0.28 | |
Alliance | J Forrest | 12,402 | 27.07 | +6.05 | |
Labour | RCE Brooks | 3,568 | 7.79 | -5.34 | |
Majority | 17,440 | 38.07 | -5.77 | ||
Turnout | 46,702 | 71.05 | -5.69 | ||
Registered electors | 64,482 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 30,874 | 64.86 | +7.00 | |
Liberal | Peter Billenness | 10,006 | 21.02 | -4.90 | |
Labour | JM Bloom | 6,249 | 13.13 | -3.09 | |
National Front | R Dummer | 469 | 0.99 | N/A | |
Majority | 20,868 | 43.84 | +11.90 | ||
Turnout | 47,598 | 76.74 | +2.82 | ||
Registered electors | 62,022 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 25,703 | 57.86 | -1.24 | |
Liberal | D Nunneley | 11,514 | 25.92 | -1.78 | |
Labour | DW Keene | 7,203 | 16.22 | +2.02 | |
Majority | 14,189 | 31.94 | -0.46 | ||
Turnout | 44,420 | 73.92 | -8.38 | ||
Registered electors | 60,090 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 28,915 | 59.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | J.P. Coleman | 13,048 | 26.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Henry Hodge | 6,965 | 14.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,867 | 32.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,928 | 82.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 59,447 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Notes and references
Notes
- As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
References
- "DECLARATION OF RESULT OF POLL" (PDF). 2011 Electorate Figures. London Borough of Croydon. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- "Conservative MP Richard Ottaway to step down at election". BBC News. 27 October 2012.
- Conservative Members of Parliament 2015 UK Political.info; Retrieved 29 January 2017
- "Election 2015: Croydon South". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- https://www.croydon.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%20and%20Notice%20of%20Poll%20Croydon%20South.pdf
- STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED AND NOTICE OF POLL Croydon Council, 11 May 2017
- "Croydon South parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
- http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf
- "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- "Jon Bigger – Croydon South". Class War.
- "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- "UK General Election results June 1983:Croydon South". PoliticalResources.net. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
External links
- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)