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| Established | February 28, 1974 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RBH November 08, 2021 03:50pm |
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Tooting is the southernmost of the three seats within the London borough of Wandsworth - all are held by Labour, but this is the safest with a 10,400 majority for retiring veteran MP, Tom Cox. Mr Cox - who has represented Tooting since 1974 and would have been 80 at the end of the next Parliament - is standing down. He has been replaced as candidate by a young, Muslim lawyer, Sadiq Khan, the chair of Liberty, who has not hidden his opposition to the war in Iraq and the current anti-terror laws. There is slightly above average unemployment here. Owner-occupation has been increasing in line with national trends rather than rapidly as in the other two Wandsworth seats. By and large this is a young (almost 75% under 45), working age (74%) predominantly white (73%), lower managerial, home owning (55%) or privately renting (27.5% - the fifth highest in the country) population. What marks Tooting out from its Wandsworth neighbours is the higher concentration of ethnic minority communities - particularly of south Asian origin - and these tend to vote Labour in local as well as national elections. Seven Labour councillors and two Conservatives sit for the three wards of Tooting, Graveney and Furzedown.
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