General Election 2024 London seats: Who will be my MP in...Ealing Central and Acton?
Millions of voters across London will go the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:
Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):
Kate Crossland - Green Party
Alastair Mitton - Liberal Democrats
Felix Orrell - Reform UK
James Windsor-Clive - Conservatives
Summary:
This suburban constituency was created in 2010 when Conservative Angie Bray won.
Five years later, Labour’s Rupa Huq gained it in a knife-edge contest, winning by just 274 votes.
Since then she has built up majorities of more than 13,000 at both Theresa May’s June 2017 snap election, when the Greens decided not to field a candidate against her, and at the Brexit December 2019 poll which was so disastrous for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.
Ms Huq, unlike many other MPs, has spoken up in the past for suburbia.
Area: The constituency includes seven Ealing wards including Ealing Broadway, Ealing Common, East Acton, Hanger Hill, North Acton, South Acton and Southfield, and two from Hammersmith and Fulham; College Park & Old Oak, and Wormholt.
I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check
Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): As this constituency has shifted east, it has become more Labour. The party won it in 2019 with 51.3 per cent of the vote, with the Tories on 27.1 per cent, and Lib Dems 17.2 per cent. Under the new boundaries it would have been 52.3 per cent Labour, 25.6 per cent Conservative and 17.4 per cent Lib Dem.
YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour win.
Evening Standard view: Always looked likely to be a Labour win, even more certain given boundary changes.
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