Tooting (UK Parliament constituency)

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Tooting
Borough constituency
Image:TootingConstituency.png
Tooting shown within Greater London
Created: 1974
MP: Sadiq Khan
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Greater London
EP constituency: London

Tooting 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.

The constituency is confusingly named, as it comprises the towns of Tooting, Balham and Earlsfield.

Contents

Boundaries

Tooting is the southern third of the London Borough of Wandsworth. As well as Tooting itself, it also includes the districts of Earlsfield, Furzedown and Streatham Park and part of Balham (that part broadly west of the railway line, but also including the streets around Nightingale Square). The entirety of Wandsworth Common is in the Tooting constituency.

Tooting is bordered by the following constituencies:

History

The constituency was created in 1974. Previously it comprised parts of the old constituencies of Battersea South, Wandsworth Central and Streatham.

Members of Parliament

Election results

General Election 2005: Tooting
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sadiq Khan 17.914 43.1 -11.0
Conservative James Bethell 12.533 30.2 +3.8
Liberal Democrats Stephanie Dearden 8.110 19.5 +4.6
Green Siobhan Vitelli 1.695 4.1 +0.5
Respect Ali Zaidi 700 1.7 +1.7
UK Independence Strachan McDonald 424 1.0 +1.0
Independent Ian Perkin 192 0.5 +0.5
Majority 5.381 12.9
Turnout 41.568 59.0 +4.1
Labour hold Swing
General Election 2001: Tooting
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Cox 20,332 54.1 -5.6
Conservative Alexander Nicoll 9,932 26.4 -0.7
Liberal Democrats Simon James 5,583 14.9 +5.5
Green Matthew Ledbury 1,744 4.6 +3.5
Majority 10,400 27.7
Turnout 37,591 54.9 -14.4
Labour hold Swing

See also

External links

Links to political pages

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)


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