Hendon (UK Parliament constituency)

Hendon
Hendon
Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Hendon in Greater London for the 2010 general election
County	Greater London
Electorate	74,329 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	Matthew Offord (Conservative)
Seats	One
Created from	Hendon North and parts of Hendon South
1918–1945
Seats	One
Created from	Harrow
Replaced by	Harrow East, Harrow West, Hendon North, Hendon South and Wembley North

Hendon /ˈhɛndʊn/ is a constituency created in 1997 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Matthew Offord of the Conservative Party.^{[n 1]} An earlier version of the seat existed between 1918-45.^{[n 2]}

History

First creation

The first incarnation of the constituency was created for the 1918 General Election. By 1941 the estimated electorate was the largest at 217,900.^[2] For the 1945 general election the areas of the constituency were thus divided between North and South new entities and contributions to other new seats, including the principal part of Harrow East. The 1918-1945 was a period of near-full adult franchise and saw the most significant adult population increase nationally within the constituency, this coincided with a period of major residential building locally.

Second creation

In the boundary change legislation passed to implement the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for the 1997 General Election the London Borough of Barnet's parliamentary representation was reduced from four seats to three and the Hendon North constituency was combined with a northern part of the Hendon South constituency, creating the present Hendon constituency. A south-eastern swathe of former Hendon South was placed into Finchley and Golders Green. Within 10% of the average electorate, the seat avoided malapportionment that would otherwise exist by way of two undersized constituencies.

Immediate notional history

Including the period of division of the present area (1945—97) the various general elections were won by Conservatives except for the victory of Barbara Ayrton-Gould (Labour), in Hendon North (1945–50).

The last Liberal or Liberal Democrat to serve the area of either Hendon seat was in 1910. Neither independent candidates nor those of any other political party than the three main parties mentioned have won the seat or its predecessors.

Summary of results since 1997

On the restoration of a seat named Hendon, Andrew Dismore seized the seat during a landslide win for the Labour Party. Since its 1997 formation Hendon has been a national bellwether constituency. The 2010 winner's majority was 106 votes. The 2015 result gave the seat the 37th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.^[3]

Boundaries

1918–45: The Urban Districts of Hendon and Kingsbury, and the Rural District of Hendon.

1997–present: The London Borough of Barnet wards of Burnt Oak, Colindale, Edgware, Hale, Hendon, Mill Hill, and West Hendon.

1918-45

No national reviews took place between the Representation of the People Act 1918 which enfranchised this constituency and the next such Act in 1945. Later national reviews took place by the newly established Boundary Commissions for the four countries of United Kingdom for the elections of 1950, 1974, 1983, 1997 and 2010. As can be seen from the map, during the early period the seat spanned the area made up of the present seat and primarily the two neighbours to east and west, Chipping Barnet and Harrow East.

2010 review

Under the Fifth Review of Westminster Constituencies, looking at the population subset North London, and as a consequence of abolishing ward-sharing, Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's recommendation that the shared part of Underhill be transferred to the constituency of Chipping Barnet, parts of the wards Golders Green and Finchley Church End be transferred to Finchley and Golders Green and that shared parts of Mill Hill ward be received from the named seats (to the north-east and south-east).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[4]	Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1918	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1935	Reginald Blair	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Hendon North and Hendon South
1997		constituency recreated
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1997	Andrew Dismore	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2010	Matthew Offord	Conservative

Election results

Elections 1997-2017

General Election 2017: Hendon^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	25,078	48.0	−1.0
	Labour	Mike Katz	24,006	46.0	+4.5
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Hill	1,985	3.8	+1.6
	Green	Carmen Legarda	578	1.1	−0.9
	UKIP	Sabriye Warsame	568	1.1	−4.1
Majority			1,072	2.0	−5.4
Turnout			52,185	68.5	+5.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.7

General Election 2015: Hendon^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	24,328	49.0	+6.7
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	20,604	41.5	−0.6
	UKIP	Raymond Shamash^[8]	2,595	5.2	+3.2
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Hill	1,088	2.2	−10.2
	Green	Ben Samuel	1,015	2.0	+0.9
Majority			3,724	7.5	+7.3
Turnout			49,630	65.9	+7.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.6

General Election 2010: Hendon^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	19,635	42.3	+5.2
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	19,529	42.1	−3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Harris	5,734	12.4	−1.7
	UKIP	Robin Lambert	958	2.1	+0.5
	Green	Andrew Newby	518	1.1	−0.7
Majority			106	0.2
Turnout			46,374	58.8	+0.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+4.1

General Election 2005: Hendon^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	18,596	44.4	−8.1
	Conservative	Richard Evans	15,897	38.0	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Nahid Boethe	5,831	13.9	+2.3
	Green	David G. Williams	754	1.8	+1.8
	UKIP	Melvyn Smallman	637	1.5	+0.5
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	George Weiss	68	0.2	+0.2
	Progressive Democratic Party	Michael Stewart	56	0.1	−0.2
Majority			2,699	6.5
Turnout			41,839	58.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.5

General Election 2001: Hendon^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	21,432	52.5	+3.1
	Conservative	Richard Evans	14,015	34.3	−2.7
	Liberal Democrats	Wayne Casey	4,724	11.6	+0.7
	UKIP	Craig Crosbie	409	1.0	+0.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Stella Taylor	164	0.4	+0.1
	Progressive Democratic Party	Michael Stewart	107	0.3	N/A
Majority			7,417	18.2
Turnout			40,851	52.2	−13.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Hendon^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	24,683	49.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	John Gorst	18,528	37.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Wayne Casey	5,427	10.8	N/A
	Referendum	Stanley Rabbow	978	2.0	N/A
	UKIP	B.P. Wright	267	0.5	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Stella Taylor	153	0.3	N/A
Majority			6,155	12.3	N/A
Turnout			50,036	65.7	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Hendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Reginald Blair	69,762	65.78
	Labour	Amber Blanco White	28,375	26.75
	Liberal	Basil Goldstone	7,920	7.47
Majority			41,387	39.02
Turnout				64.35
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Hendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	66,305	81.25
	Labour	Amber Blanco White	15,305	18.75
Majority			51,000	62.49
Turnout				71.73
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Hendon ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	31,758	52.3
	Labour	Robert Lyons	15,434	25.5
	Liberal	Margery Corbett Ashby	13,449	22.2
Majority			16,324	26.8
Turnout				72.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Hendon ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Lloyd-Graeme	13,278	51.9	−10.9
	Liberal	J. M. Robertson	7,324	28.6	+8.2
	Labour	Charles Latham	5,005	19.5	+2.7
Majority			5,954	23.3	−3.5
Turnout				67.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.6

Notes

^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^ As with all constituencies, Hendon (created 1997) elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years. The first incarnation of Hendon was among the vast majority after 1918 which elected one MP.

References

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ The Guinness Book Of Records 1980
^ List of Conservative MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 2017-01-29
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
^ "Hendon parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-08-21. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 9Jul15
^ "Controversial UKIP candidate to challenge Hendon seat".
^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ http://www.barnet.gov.uk/hendon-constituency-candidates2010.pdf
^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

Iain Dale, ed. (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
The Times House of Commons 1945. 1945.

[2] A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

[3] As with all constituencies, Hendon (created 1997) elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years. The first incarnation of Hendon was among the vast majority after 1918 which elected one MP.

[1] "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[4] The Guinness Book Of Records 1980

[5] List of Conservative MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 2017-01-29

[rayment-6] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)

[7] "Hendon parliamentary constituency". BBC News.

[electoralcalculus-8] "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[9] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-08-21. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 9Jul15

[10] "Controversial UKIP candidate to challenge Hendon seat".

[electoralcalculus2010-11] "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[12] ttp://www.barnet.gov.uk/hendon-constituency-candidates2010.pdf

[electoralcalculus2005-13] "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

[electoralcalculus2001-14] "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

[electoralcalculus1997-15] "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

[auto-16] British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

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