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Ealing Acton & Shepherd's Bush
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| Established | May 01, 1997 |
| Disbanded | May 01, 2010 |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RBH September 11, 2021 03:21pm |
| Description | This seat is to the west of London and is made up of the eastern part of the borough of Ealing and the northern part of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was a creation of the 1995 Boundary Commission which transferred in five wards of a Labour persuasion and removed two Tory-vote areas from the old seat. Within its boundaries are White City, the BBC's west London home, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, Queen's Park Rangers Football Club and the upwardly-mobile areas around Shepherd's Bush and Goldhawk Road. It is an ethnically and socially mixed community. Just over 30% of the inhabitants come from ethnic minority communities. Housing tenure is pretty much equally divided between owner-occupation and renting, with 16.4% local authority ownership. This is mainly in the estates round White City and Wormwood Scrubs which are for Labour. From 1945-1974 the Acton area was Labour - except for a short period following a 1968 by-election. In 1974 the affluent suburbs of the abolished Ealing South went into the new Ealing Acton seat and this enabled the Tories, in the shape of the cycling baronet Sir George Young, to succeed against the tide. He held on here until the seat's abolition in 1997 when he was selected and elected for North West Hampshire. This seat had one of the highest numbers (10) of candidates in 1997 who polled only 5% of the vote between them. Labour's Clive Soley, who had moved over from the old Hammersmith seat, won with a majority of 15,650. This fell to 10,789 in 2001 - a majority of 29%. Mr Soley has been chairman of the Labour Party since 1997 but is standing down this time. The constituency will again be abolished at the next election and three seats in Ealing (including Acton) will be revived. Shepherd's Bush will once again go back into the Hammersmith seat.
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