Lewisham East is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Heidi Alexander of the Labour Party.[n 2]
History
Lewisham East was first contested in the 1918 general election, and from 1945-1950 was represented by the former Labour cabinet minister Herbert Morrison. The seat was abolished in 1950 but recreated in 1974 and until 1997 was a marginal seat. The area collectively has swung a long way against the Conservatives since the 1983 to 1992 period when the Conservative Minister for Sport Colin Moynihan served the seat - Conservatives in 2010 found themselves for the first time in third place, meanwhile the Liberal Democrat share of the vote increased to 28.2% in 2010. In 2014 Labour won a landslide victory at the local council elections with the Liberal Democrats losing all ten council seats and the Conservatives losing their only seat. On the same date Steve Bullock was reelected as Mayor of Lewisham, a position that he has held since the position was created in 2002. Conservative Party candidate Simon Nundy came second in the election, the first time that the Conservative Party candidate has beaten the Liberal Democrats into third place since 2002. The opposition candidates for incumbent MP Heidi Alexander at the 2015 General Election include Julia Fletcher[1] and Störm Poorun [2]
In terms of share of the vote, this seat received the 43rd largest Labour vote in 2010, of the 650 constituencies.[2]
Constituency profile
This is a set of neighbourhoods in the inner London Borough of Lewisham, stretching from the relatively affluent former village of Blackheath is in the north-east of the borough that has much more in common with the leafier parts of Greenwich than neighbouring Lewisham - indeed some of the area marked on maps as Blackheath is in that borough.[3] Extending further south, Lewisham East then takes in some areas of high social deprivation[4] fairly close to Lewisham town centre, and the Rushey Green side of Catford, a low-to-middle income area famous for opening one of the first indoor shopping malls in England.
At the southern end of the seat is Grove Park, one of the quieter and more upmarket parts of Lewisham Borough, which, unlike the rest of Lewisham, has had a tendency to elect conservative Conservative councillors. As the constituency profile changes to a more affluent and metropolitan electorate wards such as Grove Park, Lee Green and Catford South have become target wards, but overall this is a safe Labour seat, typical of inner South East London.
Boundaries
Lewisham East in the County of London 1918-49
A map showing the wards of Lewisham Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916.
1918-1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath, Church, Lewisham Park, Manor, and South; and the part of each of the Catford and Lewisham Village wards lying to the east of the Mid-Kent Branch of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
1974-1983: The London Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath and Lewisham Village, Grove Park, Lewisham Park, Manor Lee, St Andrew, St Mildred Lee, South Lee, Southend, and Whitefoot.
1983-2010: The London Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath, Churchdown, Downham, Grove Park, Hither Green, Manor Lee, St Margaret, St Mildred, and Whitefoot.
2010-present: The London Borough of Lewisham wards of Blackheath, Catford South, Downham, Grove Park, Lee Green, Rushey Green, and Whitefoot.
Boundary review
The new wards and boundaries of the Lewisham East UK Parliament constituency (red) shown within the London Borough of Lewisham (yellow)
The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies (2008) of the Boundary Commission was approved for the 2010 election by Parliament creating a replacement constituency to Lewisham West, this time cross-borough and named Lewisham West and Penge, which meant consequential changes to the other seats in the borough.
- Lewisham East received:
- Catford South, and parts of Rushey Green and Whitefoot wards from the former constituency of Lewisham West.
- Part of Rushey Green from Lewisham, Deptford
- Lewisham East lost:
- Part of Lewisham Central to Lewisham, Deptford.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in 2010s
Elections in 2000s
Elections in 1990s
Elections in 1980s
Elections in 1970s
Election in 1940s
Elections in 1930s
Elections in 1920s
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
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- ↑ General Election Results from the Electoral Commission
- ↑ Detailed Map of Blackheath Ordnance survey website
- ↑ 2001 Census including the 2000-compiled Index of Multiple Deprivation and more recent indicators
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=23&RPID=38836300 27Jul15
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000787
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- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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