Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Tottenham
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Tottenham in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	79,172 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, Harringay, West Green, Seven Sisters, Bruce Grove and Northumberland Park
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Rt Hon David Lammy (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Tottenham North and Tottenham South
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Tottenham North and Tottenham South
Created from	Middlesex
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Tottenham /ˈtɒtᵊnəm/^[2]^[3] is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Rt Hon David Lammy, a member of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1885-1918: The parish of Tottenham, and the area included in the Parliamentary Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Hackney, Shoreditch, and Tower Hamlets.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Tottenham wards of Bruce Grove and Stoneleigh, Chestnuts, Green Lanes, Stamford Hill, Town Hall, and West Green.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Bruce Grove, Green Lanes, High Cross, Seven Sisters, South Tottenham, Tottenham Central, and West Green.

1983-2010: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Bruce Grove, Coleraine, Green Lanes, Harringay, High Cross, Park, Seven Sisters, South Tottenham, Tottenham Central, West Green, and White Hart Lane.

2010-present: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Bruce Grove, Harringay, Northumberland Park, St Ann’s, Seven Sisters, Tottenham Green, Tottenham Hale, West Green, and White Hart Lane.

The constituency is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, covering the borough's central and eastern area.

History

1950-date

This constituency was recreated to allow for a narrower, more focussed seat on the largest town or London District itself, of Tottenham. Parts of two wards were in the former Borough of Hornsey which had a seat, abolished in 1983 to make way for Hornsey and Wood Green.

Political history

During this modern period of existence, Tottenham has been a safe Labour seat,^{[n 3]} however one member in the early 1960s, Alan Brown, defected to become independent in opposition^{[n 4]} and then, crossing the floor, a Conservative but failed by a wide margin to win re-election in 1964 under this new party status. The closest result in the whole period was in 1987 when the Labour candidate won by 8.2% of the vote ahead of the Conservative runner-up.

Since 2005, and reflecting a gradual swing, the runner-up in general elections has been a Liberal Democrat.

Prominent frontbenchers

Rt Hon David Lammy, the present member was Minister of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills until the change of government in 2010.

Constituency profile

A cosmopolitan, inner-city seat in the London Borough of Haringey, Tottenham has a large ethnic minority population - around a fifth of the residents are black, and there is a large Muslim population. Excluding the South of the Constituency, The percentage of white residents understates the ethnic variety of this constituency, similar to the borough as a whole^[4] which includes major Cypriot, Irish, Eastern European, Jewish and Russian communities. The seat has a large central shopping area and the major London football club, Tottenham Hotspur F.C. ('Spurs').

The seat covers Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, Harringay, West Green, Seven Sisters, Bruce Grove and Northumberland Park. To the east is the River Lea with its valley trail and the Tottenham marshes, while to the south the seat takes in Finsbury Park. The constituency includes the Broadwater Farm estate, notorious for the 1985 riots, following which the estate underwent a massive facelift and is no longer a crime blackspot, but other areas of the seat like Northumberland Park continue to be blighted by social problems, including overcrowding.

The proportion of people workless and registered as jobseekers was in November 2012 significantly higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 8.0% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian. Though this is not the case in the southern side of the constituency. At that time the London average was similar to the national average, at 4.0%.^[5]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1885-1918

	Member^[6]	Party
1885	Joseph Howard	Conservative
1906	Percy Alden	Liberal
1918	constituency abolished: see Tottenham North and Tottenham South

MPs 1950-present

	Member^[6]	Party
1950	Frederick Messer	Labour Co-op
1959	Alan Grahame Brown	Labour
1961		Independent
1962		Conservative
1964	Norman Atkinson	Labour
1987	Bernie Grant	Labour
2000 by-election	Rt Hon David Lammy	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Tottenham^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	28,654	67.3	+8.0
	Conservative	Stefan Mrozinski	5,090	12.0	−2.9
	Green	Dee Searle^[9]	3,931	9.2	+6.8
	Liberal Democrat	Turhan Ozen	1,756	4.1	−13.6
	UKIP	Tariq Saeed	1,512	3.6	+2.4
	TUSC	Jenny Sutton^[10]	1,324	3.1	+0.5
	Peace	Tania Mahmood^[11]	291	0.7	+0.7
Majority			23,564	55.4	+13.8
Turnout			42,558	60.1	+1.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.4

General Election 2010: Tottenham^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	24,128	59.3	+1.4
	Liberal Democrat	David Schmitz	7,197	17.7	+0.9
	Conservative	Sean Sullivan	6,064	14.9	+1.4
	TUSC	Jenny Sutton	1,057	2.6	N/A
	Green	Anne Gray	980	2.4	−2.2
	UKIP	Winston McKenzie	466	1.1	N/A
	Independent People Together	Neville Watson	265	0.7	N/A
	Christian	Abimbola Kadara	262	0.6	N/A
	Independent	Sheik Thompson	143	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Errol Carr	125	0.3	N/A
Majority			16,931	41.6	+0.5
Turnout			40,687	58.2	+10.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.2

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Tottenham^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	18,343	57.9	−9.6
	Liberal Democrat	Wayne Hoban	5,309	16.8	+7.3
	Conservative	William F. MacDougall	4,278	13.5	−0.4
	Respect	Miss Janet Alder	2,014	6.4	N/A
	Green	Pete H. McAskie	1,457	4.6	0.0
	Socialist Labour	Jaamit Durrani	263	0.8	N/A
Majority			13,034	41.1
Turnout			31,664	47.8	−0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.4

General Election 2001: Tottenham^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	21,317	67.5	−1.8
	Conservative	Mrs. Uma N. Fernandes	4,401	13.9	−1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Mrs. Meher Khan	3,008	9.5	−1.3
	Green	Peter Budge	1,443	4.6	+1.8
	Socialist Alliance	Weyman Bennett	1,162	3.7	N/A
	Reform 2000	Unver T. Shefki	270	0.9	N/A
Majority			16,916	53.6
Turnout			31,601	48.2	−8.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Tottenham by-election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lammy	8,785	53.5	−15.8
	Liberal Democrat	Duncan Hames	3,139	19.1	+1.3
	Conservative	Jane Ellison	2,634	16.0	+0.3
	Socialist Alliance	Weyman Bennett	885	5.4	N/A
	Green	Peter Budge	606	3.7	+0.9
	Reform 2000	Erol Basarik	177	1.1	N/A
	UKIP	Ashwin Tanna	136	0.8	N/A
	Independent Conservative	Dorian L.D. de Braâm	55	0.3	N/A
Majority			5,646	34.4
Turnout			16,417	25.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Tottenham^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernie Grant	26,121	69.3	+12.8
	Conservative	Andrew R. Scantlebury	5,921	15.7	−14.1
	Liberal Democrat	Neil Hughes	4,064	10.8	−0.6
	Green	Peter Budge	1,059	2.8	+0.8
	ProLife Alliance	Mrs. Leelan L.E. Tay	210	0.5	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Christopher F. Anglin	181	0.5	N/A
	Socialist Equality	Mrs. Tania Kent	148	0.4	N/A
Majority			20,200	53.6
Turnout			37,704	56.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+14.3

General Election 1992: Tottenham^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernie Grant	25,309	56.5	+12.9
	Conservative	Andrew L. Charalambous	13,341	29.8	−5.6
	Liberal Democrat	Alex S.G. l'Estrange	5,120	11.4	−6.4
	Green	Peter Budge	903	2.0	+0.5
	Natural Law	Mrs. Margaret Obomanu	150	0.3	N/A
Majority			11,698	26.7
Turnout			44,823	65.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Tottenham^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernie Grant	21,921	43.6	−8.4
	Conservative	Peter Laurence Murphy	17,780	35.4	+5.2
	Liberal	Stuart James Etherington	8,983	17.8	+1.6
	Green	Darren John Nicholls	744	1.5	N/A
	Gaitskell Labour	Peter Joseph Nealon	638	1.3	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Miss Claire Louise Dixon	205	0.4	N/A
Majority			4,141	8.2
Turnout			50,271	66.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Tottenham^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	22,423	52.0	−4.9
	Conservative	Peter L. Murphy	13,027	30.2	−1.8
	Liberal	Alex S.G. l'Estrange	6,990	16.2	+8.6
	Independent Conservative	W.G. Hurry	652	1.5	N/A
Majority			9,396	21.8
Turnout			43,092	63.4	+2.2
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.6

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	16,299	56.9	−1.9
	Conservative	Matthew Hadrian Marshall Carrington	9,166	32.0	+7.7
	Liberal	Katherine Alexander	2,177	7.6	−1.0
	National Front	C.S. Mates	833	2.9	−5.4
	Workers Revolutionary	Eric D.J. Gutteridge	94	0.3	N/A
	Fellowship	Geoffrey A. Rolph	71	0.3	N/A
Majority			7,133	24.9
Turnout			28,640	61.2	+5.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.8

General Election October 1974: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	15,708	58.8	+4.0
	Conservative	Peter Lilley	6,492	24.3	−1.1
	Liberal	Katherine Alexander	2,288	8.6	+0.6
	National Front	Roy Painter	2,211	8.3	+4.2
Majority			9,216	34,5
Turnout			26,699	56.2	−9.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	16,999	54.8	−6.5
	Conservative	J.A. Croft	7,873	25.4	−13.3
	Liberal	K. Papatheodotou	2,478	8.0	N/A
	National Independence	P. Coney	1,373	4.2	N/A
	National Front	Roy Painter	1,270	4.1	N/A
	Social Democrat	J. Martin	763	2.5	N/A
	Independent Conservative	K. Squire	274	0.9	N/A
Majority			9.126	29.4
Turnout			48,029	65.6	+10.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.4

General Election 1970: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	17,367	61.3	−4.0
	Conservative	Leo T Simmonds	10,975	38.7	+4.0
Majority			6,392	22.5
Turnout			28,342	55.2	−4.6
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.0

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	17,367	65.3	+10.6
	Conservative	Hugh John Maxwell Dykes	11,222	34.7	+2.1
Majority			9,889	30.6
Turnout			28,589	59.8	−4.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.3

General Election 1964: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman Atkinson	19,458	54.7	+2.8
	Conservative	Alan Grahame Brown	11,577	32.6	−3.9
	Liberal	Laurence G Lepley	4,526	12.7	+1.0
Majority			7,881	22.2
Turnout			35,561	63.9	−8.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.4

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Grahame Brown	22,325	51.9	−8.1
	Conservative	David James George Hennessy	15,688	36.5	−3.5
	Liberal	Laurence G Lepley	5,030	11.7	N/A
Majority			6,637	15.4
Turnout			43,043	72.0	+1.8
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.3

General Election 1955: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frederick Messer	26,363	60.0	−2.4
	Conservative	Ian Montagu Fraser	17,753	40.0	+2.4
Majority			8,883	20.0
Turnout			44,116	70.2	−9.6
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.4

General Election 1951: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frederick Messer	33,312	62.4	+5.5
	Conservative	Patrick J Faulkner	20,061	37.6	+6.5
Majority			13,251	24.8
Turnout			53,373	79.8	−1.2
	Labour hold		Swing	−0.5

General Election 1950: Tottenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frederick Messer	30,901	56.9	N/A
	Conservative	Patrick J Faulkner	16,862	31.1	N/A
	Liberal	Richard De Courcy Allen	5,665	10.4	N/A
	Communist	G. Cross	802	1.5	N/A
Majority			14,039	25.9	N/A
Turnout			54,230	81.0	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Elections in the 1910s

Percy Alden

General Election December 1910 Tottenham^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alden	12,046	52.4	+1.3
	Conservative	Edward Vyse Sturdy	10,945	47.6	-1.3
Majority			1,101	4.8	+2.6
Turnout				78.6	-3.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.3

General Election January 1910 Tottenham^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alden	12,302	51.1	-7.6
	Conservative	Edward Vyse Sturdy	11,787	48.9	+7.6
Majority			515	2.2	-15.2
Turnout				82.3	+9.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	-7.6

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906 Tottenham^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Alden	9,956	58.7	+21.3
	Conservative	Horace Whitehead Chatterton	7,009	41.3	-21.3
Majority			2,947	17.4	-7.8
Turnout				72.5
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+21.3

George Hay Morgan

General Election 1900 Tottenham ^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Howard	6,721	62.6
	Liberal	George Hay Morgan	4,009	37.4
Majority			2,712	25.2
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

Notes

↑ 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.
↑ Most often since 1950 the Labour party candidate has achieved an absolute majority.
↑ During the Conservative Government 1957-1964

References

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "Tottenham". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ How to pronounce place names with "ham" in them
↑ 2011 census interactive maps
↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14001002
↑ london.greenparty.org.uk/elections/2015-general-election.html
↑ http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/jenny-sutton-for-tottenham-next-may?commentId=844301%3AComment%3A709940
↑ "tottenham-parliamentary-constituency". Retrieved 11 April 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "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.
↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
1 2 3 4 British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

Constituencies in London (73)

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Conservative (27)	Battersea Beckenham Bexleyheath and Crayford Bromley and Chislehurst Chelsea and Fulham Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon South Enfield Southgate Finchley and Golders Green Harrow East Hendon Hornchurch and Upminster Kensington Kingston and Surbiton Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Putney Richmond Park Romford Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner Sutton and Cheam Twickenham Uxbridge and South Ruislip Wimbledon

Liberal Democrats (1)	Carshalton and Wallington

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Historic constituencies in London

1974	Acton Barking Battersea North Battersea South Beckenham Bermondsey Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing North Edmonton Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney Central Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith North Hampstead Harrow Central Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras South Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford North Ilford South Islington Central Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Central Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Orpington Paddington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond Romford Ruislip-Northwood St Marylebone St Pancras North Sidcup Southall Stepney and Poplar Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wimbledon Wood Green Woolwich East Woolwich West

1983	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Stepney Bexleyheath Bow and Poplar Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Carshalton and Wallington Chelsea Chingford Chipping Barnet Chislehurst City of London and Westminster South Croydon Central Croydon North East Croydon North West Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich Ealing Acton Ealing North Ealing Southall Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Crayford Feltham and Heston Finchley Fulham Greenwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon North Hendon South Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington Kingston-upon-Thames Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton Mitcham and Morden Newham North East Newham North West Newham South Norwood Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Peckham Putney Ravensbourne Richmond and Barnes Romford Ruislip-Northwood Southwark and Bermondsey Streatham Surbiton Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Westminster North Wimbledon Woolwich

1997	Barking Battersea Beckenham Bethnal Green and Bow Bexleyheath and Crayford Brent East Brent North Brent South Brentford and Isleworth Bromley and Chislehurst Camberwell and Peckham Carshalton and Wallington Chingford and Woodford Green Chipping Barnet Cities of London and Westminster Croydon Central Croydon North Croydon South Dagenham Dulwich and West Norwood Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush Ealing North Ealing Southall East Ham Edmonton Eltham Enfield North Enfield Southgate Erith and Thamesmead Feltham and Heston Finchley and Golders Green Greenwich and Woolwich Hackney North and Stoke Newington Hackney South and Shoreditch Hammersmith and Fulham Hampstead and Highgate Harrow East Harrow West Hayes and Harlington Hendon Holborn and St Pancras Hornchurch Hornsey and Wood Green Ilford North Ilford South Islington North Islington South and Finsbury Kensington and Chelsea Kingston and Surbiton Lewisham Deptford Lewisham East Lewisham West Leyton and Wanstead Mitcham and Morden North Southwark and Bermondsey Old Bexley and Sidcup Orpington Poplar and Canning Town Putney Regent's Park and Kensington North Richmond Park Romford Ruislip-Northwood Streatham Sutton and Cheam Tooting Tottenham Twickenham Upminster Uxbridge Vauxhall Walthamstow West Ham Wimbledon

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