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| Ilford South | |
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| Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Interactive map of boundaries from 2024 | |
 Location within Greater London | |
| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 74,065 (2023)[1] |
| Major settlements | Ilford |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1945 |
| Member of Parliament | Jas Athwal (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Ilford |
Ilford South is a constituency[n 1] created in 1945, and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jas Athwal of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Constituency profile
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The seat covers Ilford town centre and the surrounding suburbs, and the housing is predominantly semi-detached with little high-rise development. There is significant commuting to central London via the four stations on the Elizabeth line. The seat is ethnically diverse including white, black and Asian communities.[2]
Ilford South | |
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| Racial makeup (2021)[3] | |
| • Asian | 61.2% |
| • White | 19.8% |
| • Black | 9.9% |
| • Other | 5.8% |
| • Mixed | 3.3% |
This constituency was created in 1945. The previous MP since 1992, Mike Gapes, who before defecting to Change UK, was the fourth Labour Party MP, each of whose tenures was interspersed or preceded by one of a Conservative MP serving the area. Regarded as a key marginal seat for decades, under Gapes's tenure Ilford South became a very safe seat for the Labour Party; in every election since 1997 it has been won by a majority of over 20% by Labour, and in 2017 they secured over 75% of the vote in the constituency.
The 2015 result made the seat the 38th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[4] The narrowest result since 1997 (inclusive) was in 2005 at a majority of 21.6%; the 2017 majority is the greatest ever achieved in the seat, at 54.9%.
Map of boundaries 2010–2024
1945–1950: The Borough of Ilford wards of Clementswood, Cranbrook, Goodmayes, Loxford, and Park.
1950–1974: The Borough of Ilford wards of Clementswood, Cranbrook, Goodmayes, Loxford, Mayfield, and Park.
1974–1983: The London Borough of Redbridge wards of Clementswood, Cranbrook, Goodmayes, Ilford, Mayfield, and Park.
1983–1997: As above substituting Ilford and Park with reshaped wards Loxford, Newbury, and Valentines.
1997–2024: As above plus Chadwell and Seven Kings wards.
2024–present: The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham ward of Chadwell Heath, and the London Borough of Redbridge wards of Chadwell, Clementswood, Goodmayes, Ilford Town, Loxford, Mayfield, Newbury, and Seven Kings.[5]
- The Cranbrook and Valentines wards were transferred to Ilford North, with the small part of Wanstead Park ward going to Leyton and Wanstead. To partly compensate, the Chadwell Heath ward was transferred from Dagenham and Rainham.
Members of Parliament
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| Election | Member[6] | Party | |
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| 1945 | Jim Ranger | Labour | |
| 1950 | Albert Cooper | Conservative | |
| 1966 | Arnold Shaw | Labour | |
| 1970 | Albert Cooper | Conservative | |
| February 1974 | Arnold Shaw | Labour | |
| 1979 | Neil Thorne | Conservative | |
| 1992 | Mike Gapes | Labour | |
| February 2019 | The Independent Group for Change | ||
| 2019 | Sam Tarry | Labour | |
| 2024 | Jas Athwal | Labour |
Elections in the 2020s
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Elections in the 2010s
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| 2019 notional result[9] | |||
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| Party | Vote | % | |
| Labour | 30,246 | 65.2 | |
| Conservative | 9,837 | 21.2 | |
| Others | 3,082 | 6.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1,546 | 3.3 | |
| Brexit Party | 1,034 | 2.2 | |
| Green | 623 | 1.3 | |
| Turnout | 46,368 | 62.6 | |
| Electorate | 74,065 |
Elections in the 2000s
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Elections in the 1990s
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Elections in the 1980s
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Elections in the 1970s
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Elections in the 1960s
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Elections in the 1950s
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Elections in the 1940s
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- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – London". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
- ^ "UK POLLING REPORT survey and polling news from YouGov's Anthony Wells". Archived from the original on 6 August 2022.
- ^ Population by detailed ethnic group in Ilford South https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/topic/home-affairs/communities/demography/census/
- ^ "Labour Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 3 London region.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"
- ^ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED, NOTICE OF POLL AND SITUATION OF POLLING STATIONS" (PDF). Redbridge Council. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Ilford South – General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Ilford South Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll Archived 15 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine London Borough of Redbridge
- ^ "Ilford South parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
- ^ "General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "UK ELECTION RESULTS: ILFORD SOUTH 2015".
- ^ "Election 2015 – Ilford Recorder". Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ "Prospective General Election Candidates | Green Party". Green Party Members' Website.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "General Election Results from the Electoral Commission".
- ^ Election Expenses. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1980. p. 19. ISBN 0102374805.
- ^ Stevenson, Graham. "Dave Kelly". Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
- Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
- Ilford South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Ilford South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Ilford South UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK