Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)

Poplar and Limehouse
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Poplar and Limehouse in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	74,919 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010 (2010)
Member of Parliament	Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Poplar & Canning Town, Bethnal Green & Bow
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Poplar and Limehouse is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first past the post system of election.

This seat was created following the review of parliamentary representation in North London by the Boundary Commission for England; and first contested in the 2010 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 External links

Boundaries

The electoral wards used to create the new seat of Poplar and Limehouse are entirely within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. A number of alternative names, including "Tower Hamlets South" and "Poplar and Millwall" were rejected following public consultation.

• The constituency comprises the wards of Blackwall and Cubitt Town, Bromley-by-Bow, East India and Lansbury, Limehouse, Mile End East, Millwall, St Katharine’s and Wapping, & Shadwell.
• The seat is almost exclusively within the boundaries of the old Poplar and Canning Town constituency, with the only new additions being the western end of Shadwell Ward and the whole of St Katharine's & Wapping Ward which used to be part of Bethnal Green and Bow.
• The areas of the old Poplar and Canning Town seat within the London Borough of Newham were moved from the seat and transferred into East Ham (5.1% of Poplar and Canning Town) and West Ham (24.9%).^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [3]	Party
	2010	Jim Fitzpatrick	Labour

Election results

This constituency was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election.

General Election 2010: Poplar and Limehouse[4][5][6][7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Fitzpatrick*	18,679	40.0	+4.7
	Conservative	Tim Archer	12,649	27.1	+2.6
	Respect	George Galloway*	8,460	17.5	-0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Jonathan Fryer	5,209	11.2	-2.8
	UKIP	Wayne Lochner	565	1.2	+1.2
	English Democrats	Andrew Osborne	470	1.0	+1.0
	Green	Chris Smith	449	1.0	-1.7
	Independent	Kabir Mahmud	293	0.6	+0.6
	Independent	Mohammed Hoque	167	0.4	+0.4
	Independent	Jim Thornton	59	0.1	+0.1
Majority			6,030	12.9
Turnout			46,700	62.3	+12.2
	Labour win (new seat)

* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

Notes and references

External links

• Tim Archer
• Jim Fitzpatrick
• Jonathan Fryer
• George Galloway
• Andrew Osborne
• Jim Thornton
• Kabir Mahmud
• Documentary on the 2010 election by Catch21

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