Croydon North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Croydon North Borough constituency
Croydon North shown within Greater London
Created:	1918, 1997
MP:	Malcolm Wicks
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

Croydon North is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, covering the north west of the London Borough of Croydon. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The current Member of Parliament is Malcolm Wicks of the Labour Party, who has one of the largest Labour majorities in London, despite being the first ever Labour MP for the area.

The seat was created at the 1997 general election from the former Croydon North West and part of the former Croydon North-East constituencies. There had previously been a Croydon North constituency from 1918 until 1955.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 2000s 3.2 Elections in the 1990s 3.3 Elections in the 1950s 3.4 Elections in the 1940s 3.5 Elections in the 1930s 3.6 Elections in the 1920s 4 See also 5 Sources

[edit] Boundaries

This electorate includes Thornton Heath, Norbury, West Croydon, Selhurst and parts of South and Upper Norwood.

Croydon's three constituencies are contiguous with the boundaries of the London Borough of Croydon. The constituency borders the seats of Carshalton and Wallington, Mitcham and Morden, Streatham, Dulwich and West Norwood and Beckenham, as well as Croydon Central and Croydon South.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in South London, the Boundary Commission have made minor changes to the existing Croydon constituencies. In the modified North division, the electoral wards used in the formation are:

• Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Norbury, Selhurst, South Norwood, Thornton Heath, Upper Norwood, and West Thornton.

If the boundary changes had been in existence at the 2005 general election, it would have had the largest electorate after Isle of Wight in England at 86,178. In the boundary changes, it receives over 2,500 electors from Croydon Central.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	George Oldroyd Borwick	Conservative
	1922	Glyn Mason	Conservative
	1940	Henry Willink	Conservative
	1948	Fred Harris	Conservative
1955		Constituency abolished
1997		Constituency re-established
	1997	Malcolm Wicks	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	23,555	53.7	−9.8
	Conservative	Tariq Ahmad	9,667	22.0	−1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Gee-Turner	7,560	17.2	+6.8
	Green	Shasha Khan	1,248	2.8	N/A
	UKIP	Henry Pearce	770	1.8	+0.4
	Croydon Pensions Alliance	Peter Gibson	394	0.9	N/A
	Veritas	Winston McKenzie	324	0.7	N/A
	Independent	Farhan Rasheed	197	0.4	N/A
	The People's Choice	Michelle Chambers	132	0.3	N/A
Majority			13,888	31.7
Turnout			43,847	52.3	−0.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.3

General Election 2001: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	26,610	63.5	+1.4
	Conservative	Simon Allison	9,752	23.3	-3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra Lawman	4,375	10.4	+2.7
	UKIP	Alan Smith	606	1.4	+0.7
	Socialist Alliance	Don Madgwick	539	1.3	N/A
Majority			16,858	40.2
Turnout			41,882	53.2	-15.0
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Wicks	32,672	62.2	N/A
	Conservative	Ian Martin	14,274	27.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Morris	4,066	7.7	N/A
	Referendum Party	R. Billis	1,155	2.2	N/A
	UKIP	James Feisenberger	396	0.8	N/A
Majority			18,398		N/A
Turnout				68.2	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1951: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Harris	29,984	55.5	+2.1
	Labour	Reginald Prentice	19,738	36.6	+0.1
	Liberal	Brian Collins	4,272	7.9	-2.3
Majority			10,246	19.0
Turnout			53,994
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.0

General Election 1950: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Harris	29,420	53.4
	Labour	Reginald Prentice	20,116	36.5
	Liberal	F. O. H. Rowlands	5,600	10.2
Majority			9,304	16.9
Turnout			55,136
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

1948 By-election: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Harris	36,200	54.0	+13.9
	Labour	Hon. Harold Nicolson	24,536	36.6	-3.5
	Liberal	Donald Bennett	6,321	9.4	-9.4
Majority			11,664	17.4	+16.3
Turnout			67,057
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.7

General Election 1945: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Willink	23,417	41.1	-26.0
	Labour	Marian Billson	22,810	40.1	+7.2
	Liberal	John Howard	10,714	18.8	+18.8
Majority			607	1.1	-33.0
Turnout			56,941
	Conservative hold		Swing	-16.6 v. 1935

1940 By-election: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Henry Willink	14,163	90.7	N/A
	Independent	A. L. Lucas	1,445	9.3	N/A
Majority			12,718	81.4	N/A
Turnout			15,608
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glyn Mason	36,383	67.1	-13.8
	Labour	F. Mitchell	17,872	32.9	+13.8
Majority			18,511	34.1	-27.6
Turnout			54,255
	Conservative hold		Swing	-13.8

General Election 1931: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glyn Mason	45,595	80.9	+30.5
	Labour	H. W. Ray	10,795	19.1	-7.4
Majority			34,800	61.7	+37.8
Turnout			56,490
	Conservative hold		Swing	+19.0

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glyn Mason	26,336	50.4	-19.9
	Labour	Gilbert Foan	13,852	26.5	-3.2
	Liberal	C. W. Nunneley	12,053	23.1	+23.1
Majority			12,484	23.9
Turnout			52,241
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.3

General Election 1924: Croydon North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Glyn Mason	25,972	70.3
	Labour	Gilbert Foan	10,954	29.7
Majority			15,018	40.7
Turnout			36,926
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

[edit] Sources

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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)