Chipping Barnet (UK Parliament constituency)

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Chipping Barnet Borough constituency
Chipping Barnet shown within Greater London
Created:	1945
MP:	Theresa Villiers
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also 5 External links 5.1 2005 candidates' websites

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency 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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Previous constituency: Barnet (1945–1974)
• 1974 — 1979: Reginald Maudling, Conservative (renamed to Chipping Barnet in 1974)
• 1979 — 2005: Sydney Chapman, Conservative
• 2005 — present: Theresa Villiers, Conservative

[edit] 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
	UK Independence	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

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

[edit] External links

[edit] 2005 candidates' websites

• Pauline Coakley-Webb - Labour
• Sean Hooker - Liberal Democrat
• Theresa Villiers - Conservative

Constituencies in Greater London
Labour	Barking | Battersea | Brent North | Brent South | Brentford and Isleworth | Camberwell and Peckham | Croydon North | Dagenham | Dulwich and West Norwood | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush | Ealing North | Ealing Southall | East Ham | Edmonton | Eltham | Enfield North | Erith and Thamesmead | Feltham and Heston | Finchley and Golders Green | Greenwich and Woolwich | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Hampstead and Highgate | Harrow East | Harrow West | Hayes and Harlington | Hendon | Holborn and St. Pancras | Ilford South | Islington North | Islington South and Finsbury | Lewisham Deptford | Lewisham East | Lewisham West | Leyton and Wanstead | Mitcham and Morden | Poplar and Canning Town | Regent's Park and Kensington North | Streatham | Tooting | Tottenham | Vauxhall | Walthamstow | West Ham
Conservative	Beckenham | Bexleyheath and Crayford | Bromley and Chislehurst | Chingford and Woodford Green | Chipping Barnet | Cities of London and Westminster | Croydon Central | Croydon South | Enfield Southgate | Hammersmith and Fulham | Hornchurch | Ilford North | Kensington and Chelsea | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Orpington | Putney | Romford | Ruislip-Northwood | Upminster | Uxbridge | Wimbledon
Liberal Democrat	Brent East | Carshalton and Wallington | Hornsey and Wood Green | Kingston and Surbiton | Richmond Park | North Southwark and Bermondsey | Sutton and Cheam | Twickenham
Respect	Bethnal Green and Bow
London European constituency: Conservative (3) | Labour (3) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1) | Green (1)