Ealing Central and Acton is a constituency created in 2010,[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rupa Huq,[n 2] who was elected as a Labour MP, suspended from the party in September 2022 following alleged racist comments,[2] and reinstated in March 2023.[3]
Ealing Central and Acton | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 69,828 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Rupa Huq (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North |
The seat takes in an eastern third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the commercial centres of Acton and Ealing. There are suburban residential side streets, educational establishments, small industrial estates, sports areas, part of the Grand Union Canal and parks, centred around the Uxbridge Road (A4020). This is one of the more affluent seats in London.[4]
The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies created the seat by selecting wards for the year 2010 to equalise electorates. Here, if votes were cast as in 2005, this seat would have produced a three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties.[5] An analysis of intervening local results indicated that the seat would, if no voters were swung nor new voters introduced, present a tiny Labour majority.
In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray, a Conservative, won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.[n 3]
According to the BBC, heavy campaigning in the 2015 general election was expected by leading figures and regional activists of the two largest political parties;[6] at the time it was 56th on the list of Labour target seats.[7] In a mixed election for two-way targets of the two largest parties, Labour's Rupa Huq won the constituency. The 2015 result gave the seat the 2nd most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[8]
In April 2017, the Green Party announced that it would not stand a candidate in this constituency for the 2017 general election and instead lend its support to the sitting MP, Rupa Huq.[9][10]
The constituency consists of the following electoral wards of the London Borough of Ealing:
The constituency was created with an electorate close to the electoral quota of 69,703 for 2006.[11]
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 4 May 2022):
The two Hammersmith and Fulham wards will be added from Hammersmith (to be abolished), offset by the transfer of the Ealing Borough ward of Walpole to Ealing Southall.
Election | Member[13] | Party | |
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2010 | Angie Bray | Conservative | |
2015 | Rupa Huq | Labour | |
2022 | Independent | ||
2023 | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Windsor-Clive | ||||
Labour | Rupa Huq[14] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Alastair Mitton[15] | ||||
Reform UK | Felix Orrell[16] | ||||
SDP | Stephen Balogh[17] | ||||
Workers Party | Nada Jarche[18] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rupa Huq | 28,132 | 51.3 | 8.4 | |
Conservative | Julian Gallant | 14,832 | 27.1 | 7.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sonul Badiani | 9,444 | 17.2 | 11.7 | |
Green | Kate Crossland | 1,735 | 3.2 | N/A | |
Brexit Party | Samir Alsoodani | 664 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,300 | 24.2 | 0.8 | ||
Turnout | 54,807 | 72.6 | 2.0 | ||
Registered electors | 75,510 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rupa Huq | 33,037 | 59.7 | 16.5 | |
Conservative | Joy Morrissey | 19,230 | 34.7 | 8.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Ball | 3,075 | 5.6 | 0.5 | |
Majority | 13,807 | 25.0 | 24.5 | ||
Turnout | 55,342 | 74.6 | 3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 74,200 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rupa Huq | 22,002 | 43.2 | 13.1 | |
Conservative | Angie Bray | 21,728 | 42.7 | 4.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Ball | 3,106 | 6.1 | 21.5 | |
UKIP | Peter Florence | 1,926 | 3.8 | 2.2 | |
Green | Tom Sharman[26] | 1,841 | 3.6 | 2.1 | |
Independent | Jonathan Notley | 125 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Scott Dore | 73 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Above and Beyond Party | Tammy Rendle | 54 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Europeans Party | Andrzej Rygielski | 39 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 274 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,894 | 71.4 | 3.9 | ||
Registered electors | 71,422 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angie Bray | 17,944 | 38.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Bassam Mahfouz | 14,228 | 30.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Ball | 13,041 | 27.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Julie Carter | 765 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Green | Sarah Edwards | 737 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Christian | Suzanne Fernandes | 295 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Independent Ealing Acton Communities Public Services | Sam Akaki | 190 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,716 | 7.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,200 | 67.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 70,251 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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