Croydon South (UK Parliament constituency)
Croydon South is a constituency[n 1] created in 1974 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Chris Philp, a Conservative.[n 2]
Croydon South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Croydon South in Greater London | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 82,010 (May 2015)[1] |
Major settlements | Coulsdon and Purley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Chris Philp (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | East Surrey |
Political history
In 1974, the original Croydon South constituency created in 1918 was renamed Croydon Central and the current Croydon South was created from the northwestern part of East Surrey, covering Purley and Coulsdon, which had become parts of Greater London in 1965.
Since its creation, the constituency has been represented by three Conservative MPs. Sir William Clark, who had represented East Surrey since 1970, won the new seat in February 1974, and held it until his retirement in 1992. His successor, Sir Richard Ottaway, then held the seat until 2015, when he stood down and was succeeded by Chris Philp.[2][1] Boundary changes have been minor and the 2015 result made the seat the 145th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.[3] At the 2015 general election, it was one of the Conservatives' safest seats in Greater London.[4]
Constituency profile
Croydon South consists of affluent suburbia, including a significant minority of large houses with gardens on the North Downs escarpment. It has many well-to-do commuters taking advantage of the fast trains to the City and Gatwick Airport, plus a significant proportion of retired people.
The village-like Selsdon – one of the few places in the seat where transport links are poor – has a place on the political map having spawned the phrase 'Selsdon Man', its swing and voters first seen as an ideal bellwether for the national swing by the Conservative Party. The Purley Way, which runs mainly through Waddon, has become home to large retail estates for out-of-town shopping and leisure. Waddon is the sole Labour ward in the constituency – one of its councillors, Andrew Pelling, the former Conservative MP for Croydon Central, defected to the Labour Party.
At the southern end of the constituency, Coulsdon has much in common with the residual county of Surrey of which it was a more intrinsically associated part until 1965 as it was excluded from Croydon County Borough on the county borough's creation in 1889.
Boundaries
Dates | Local authority | Wards |
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1974–1983 | London Borough of Croydon | Coulsdon East, Purley, Sanderstead and Selsdon, Sanderstead North, Woodcote and Coulsdon West |
1983–1997 | Coulsdon East, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Woodcote and Coulsdon West | |
1997–2010 | Coulsdon East, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Waddon, Woodcote and Coulsdon West | |
2010–Next United Kingdom general election | Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards, Waddon | |
Next United Kingdom general election– | Coulsdon Town, Kenley, Old Coulsdon, Park Hill & Whitgift, Purley & Woodcote, Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown, Sanderstead, South Croydon |
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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February 1974 | Sir William Clark | Conservative | |
1992 | Sir Richard Ottaway | Conservative | |
2015 | Chris Philp | Conservative |
Election results
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | ||||
Labour | Ben Taylor | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors |
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 30,985 | 52.2 | -2.2 | |
Labour | Olga FitzRoy | 18,646 | 31.4 | -4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Jones | 7,503 | 12.6 | +6.8 | |
Green | Peter Underwood | 1,782 | 3.0 | +1.2 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 442 | 0.7 | -1.1 | |
Majority | 12,339 | 20.8 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,358 | 70.7 | -2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 83,977 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 33,334 | 54.4 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Jennifer Brathwaite | 21,928 | 35.8 | +11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Jones | 3,541 | 5.8 | -0.2 | |
Green | Catherine Shelley | 1,125 | 1.8 | -1.9 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 1,116 | 1.8 | -8.7 | |
CPA | David Omamogho | 213 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 11,406 | 18.6 | -11.1 | ||
Turnout | 61,247 | 73.3 | +2.9 | ||
Registered electors | 83,518 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Philp | 31,448 | 54.5 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Emily Benn | 14,308 | 24.8 | +4.8 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 6,068 | 10.5 | +6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gill Hickson | 3,448 | 6.0 | -16.8 | |
Green | Peter Underwood | 2,154 | 3.7 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 221 | 0.4 | New | |
Class War | Jon Bigger[11] | 65 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 17,140 | 29.7 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 57,712 | 70.4 | +1.1 | ||
Registered electors | 82,010 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 28,684 | 50.9 | -1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Rix | 12,866 | 22.8 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Jane Avis | 11,287 | 20.0 | -4.0 | |
UKIP | Jeffrey Bolter | 2,504 | 4.4 | +2.3 | |
Green | Gordon Ross | 981 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 15,818 | 28.1 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 56,322 | 69.3 | +5.8 | ||
Registered electors | 81,303 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 25,320 | 51.8 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Paul Smith | 11,792 | 24.1 | –5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sandra Lawman | 10,049 | 20.6 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | James Feisenberger | 1,054 | 2.2 | 0.0 | |
Veritas | Graham Dare | 497 | 1.0 | New | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 185 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 13,528 | 27.7 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,897 | 63.6 | +2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 75,812 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 22,169 | 49.2 | +1.9 | |
Labour | Gerry Ryan | 13,472 | 29.9 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna-Nicolett Gallop | 8,226 | 18.3 | –2.8 | |
UKIP | Kathleen Garner | 998 | 2.2 | New | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 195 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 8,697 | 19.3 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 45,060 | 61.4 | –12.1 | ||
Registered electors | 73,372 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | –1.3 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 25,649 | 47.3 | -14.3 | |
Labour | Charlie Burling | 13,719 | 25.3 | +9.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Steven Gauge | 11,441 | 21.1 | -0.5 | |
Referendum | Tony Barber | 2,631 | 4.9 | New | |
BNP | Paul Ferguson | 354 | 0.7 | New | |
Independent | A.G. Harker | 309 | 0.6 | New | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 96 | 0.2 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 11,930 | 22.0 | -18.7 | ||
Turnout | 54,199 | 73.5 | -4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 73,787 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -11.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Ottaway | 31,993 | 63.7 | -0.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Billenness | 11,568 | 23.0 | -1.3 | |
Labour | Helen Salmon | 6,444 | 12.8 | +3.0 | |
Independent | Mark Samuel | 239 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 20,425 | 40.7 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 50,244 | 77.6 | +3.9 | ||
Registered electors | 64,768 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 30,732 | 64.1 | -1.0 | |
Liberal | George Morrison | 11,669 | 24.3 | -2.8 | |
Labour | Geraint Davies | 4,679 | 9.8 | +2.0 | |
Green | Paul Baldwin | 900 | 1.9 | New | |
Majority | 19,063 | 39.8 | +1.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,980 | 73.7 | +2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 65,085 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 29,842 | 65.1 | +0.2 | |
Liberal | J Forrest | 12,402 | 27.1 | +6.1 | |
Labour | RCE Brooks | 3,568 | 7.8 | -5.3 | |
Majority | 17,440 | 38.0 | -5.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,702 | 71.1 | -5.7 | ||
Registered electors | 64,482 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.9 | |||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 30,874 | 64.9 | +7.0 | |
Liberal | Peter Billenness | 10,006 | 21.0 | -4.9 | |
Labour | JM Bloom | 6,249 | 13.1 | -3.1 | |
National Front | R Dummer | 469 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 20,868 | 43.9 | +11.9 | ||
Turnout | 47,598 | 76.7 | +2.8 | ||
Registered electors | 62,022 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 25,703 | 57.9 | -1.2 | |
Liberal | D Nunneley | 11,514 | 25.9 | -0.8 | |
Labour | DW Keene | 7,203 | 16.2 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 14,189 | 32.0 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,420 | 73.9 | -8.4 | ||
Registered electors | 60,090 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Clark | 28,915 | 59.1 | ||
Liberal | J.P. Coleman | 13,048 | 26.7 | ||
Labour | Henry Hodge | 6,965 | 14.2 | ||
Majority | 15,867 | 32.4 | |||
Turnout | 48,928 | 82.3 | |||
Registered electors | 59,447 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Notes
- A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- As with all constituencies, Croydon South elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
References
- "DECLARATION OF RESULT OF POLL" (PDF). 2011 Electorate Figures. London Borough of Croydon. 7 May 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- "Conservative MP Richard Ottaway to step down at election". BBC News. 27 October 2012. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- "Conservative Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- "Election 2015: Croydon South". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- https://www.croydon.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%20and%20Notice%20of%20Poll%20Croydon%20South.pdf
- "Commons Briefing Paper 8749. General Election 2019: results and analysis" (PDF). London: House of Commons Library. 28 January 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED AND NOTICE OF POLL" (PDF). Croydon London Borough Council. 11 May 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- "Croydon South parliamentary constituency". BBC News. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- "Commons Briefing Paper 7979. General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF) (Second ed.). House of Commons Library. 29 January 2019 [7 April 2018]. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2019.
- "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- "Jon Bigger – Croydon South". Class War. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- "UK General Election results June 1983:Croydon South". PoliticalResources.net. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
External links
- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)