Harrow West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Harrow West Borough constituency

Harrow West shown within Greater London
Created:	1945
MP:	Gareth Thomas
Party:	Labour Co-operative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater London
EP constituency:	London

Harrow West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

A safe Conservative seat until Labour's landslide in 1997, the area is famous for Harrow School.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England have created a modified Harrow West constituency to deal with population changes. The upmarket area of Pinner has been moved to a new constituency called Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, making Harrow West a stronger Labour seat at the expense of the Conservatives than in 2005.

The electoral wards used in the modified Harrow West constituency are:

Greenhill, Harrow on the Hill, Headstone North, Headstone South, Marlborough, Rayners Lane, Roxbourne, Roxeth and West Harrow

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1945	Norman Adolph Henry Bower,	Conservative
1951	Sir Albert Braithwaite	Conservative
1960	John Page	Conservative
1987	Robert Gurth Hughes	Conservative
1997	Gareth Thomas	Labour, then Labour Co-operative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Harrow West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Gareth Thomas	20,298	42.5	−7.1
	Conservative	Mike Freer	18,270	38.3	+1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Noyce	8,188	17.1	+4.2
	UKIP	Janice Cronin	576	1.2	+0.1
	Independent	Berjis Daver	427	0.9	N/A
Majority			2,028	4.2
Turnout			47,759	64.3	+1.3
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	−4.5

General Election 2001: Harrow West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gareth Thomas	23,142	49.6	+8.1
	Conservative	Daniel Finkelstein	16,986	36.4	-2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Noyce	5,995	12.9	-2.6
	UKIP	Peter Kefford	525	1.1	N/A
Majority			6,156	13.2
Turnout			46,648	63.0	-9.8
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

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)