Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency)

The seat takes in an eastern third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the commercial centres of Acton and Ealing. There are suburban residential side streets, educational establishments, small industrial estates, sports areas, part of the Grand Union Canal and parks, centred around the Uxbridge Road (A4020). This is one of the more affluent seats in London.^[4]

The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies created the seat by selecting wards for the year 2010 to equalise electorates. Here, if votes were cast as in 2005, this seat would have produced a three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties.^[5] An analysis of intervening local results indicated that the seat would, if no voters were swung nor new voters introduced, present a tiny Labour majority.

2010 campaign

In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray, a Conservative, won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.^{[n 3]}

2015

According to the BBC, heavy campaigning in the 2015 general election was expected by leading figures and regional activists of the two largest political parties;^[6] at the time it was 56th on the list of Labour target seats.^[7] In a mixed election for two-way targets of the two largest parties, Labour's Rupa Huq won the constituency. The 2015 result gave the seat the 2nd most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.^[8]

2017

In April 2017, the Green Party announced that it would not stand a candidate in this constituency for the 2017 general election and instead lend its support to the sitting MP, Rupa Huq.^[9][10]

Map of present boundaries

The constituency consists of the following electoral wards of the London Borough of Ealing:

• Acton Central, Ealing Broadway, Ealing Common, East Acton, Hanger Hill, South Acton, Southfield, and Walpole

The constituency was created with an electorate close to the electoral quota of 69,703 for 2006.^[11]

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 4 May 2022):

• The London Borough of Ealing wards of: Ealing Broadway; Ealing Common; East Acton; Hanger Hill; North Acton; South Acton; Southfield.

• The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham wards of: College Park & Old Oak; Wormholt.^[12]

The two Hammersmith and Fulham wards will be added from Hammersmith (to be abolished), offset by the transfer of the Ealing Borough ward of Walpole to Ealing Southall.

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Ealing Central and Acton^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	28,132	51.3	8.4
	Conservative	Julian Gallant	14,832	27.1	7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sonul Badiani	9,444	17.2	11.7
	Green	Kate Crossland	1,735	3.2	N/A
	Brexit Party	Samir Alsoodani	664	1.2	N/A
Majority			13,300	24.2	0.8
Turnout			54,807	72.6	2.0
Registered electors			75,510
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.3

General election 2017: Ealing Central and Acton^[19][20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	33,037	59.7	16.5
	Conservative	Joy Morrissey	19,230	34.7	8.0
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball	3,075	5.6	0.5
Majority			13,807	25.0	24.5
Turnout			55,342	74.6	3.2
Registered electors			74,200
	Labour hold		Swing	+12.2

General election 2015: Ealing Central and Acton^[22][23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	22,002	43.2	13.1
	Conservative	Angie Bray	21,728	42.7	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball	3,106	6.1	21.5
	UKIP	Peter Florence	1,926	3.8	2.2
	Green	Tom Sharman[25]	1,841	3.6	2.1
	Independent	Jonathan Notley	125	0.2	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Scott Dore	73	0.1	N/A
	Above and Beyond Party	Tammy Rendle	54	0.1	N/A
	Europeans Party	Andrzej Rygielski	39	0.1	N/A
Majority			274	0.5	N/A
Turnout			50,894	71.4	3.9
Registered electors			71,422
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+4.2

• List of parliamentary constituencies in London

• Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
• Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)

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