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Lewisham West
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| Established | December 14, 1918 |
| Disbanded | May 01, 2010 |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RBH May 24, 2021 01:47am |
| Description | Lewisham West and neighbouring Lewisham East have both been marginal seats, moving together between Conservative and Labour in 1983 and 1992. Traditionally, West was extremely marginal: it changed hands before that in 1974, 1970, 1966, 1950 and 1945. Its present MP is Labour former government Whip, Jim Dowd. In his maiden speech to the Commons he called it "a fairly anonymous part of inner suburban London". And it is the most suburban of the three Lewisham seats, centred round Forest Hill, Sydenham and Catford. At the southern end it borders leafy Bromley and Beckenham, while to the north it is hard up against inner city Deptford. Socially and economically, however, it is mixed. Two-thirds of the population are white but it is in the top ten of constituencies with the largest Chinese community. It also ranks third highest in the list of those who commute to work by train. Household tenure is divided almost equally between flats and housing and between renting and ownership - just under a quarter are council tenants. The boundary commission proposals are to form a cross-borough boundary constituency with parts of Bromley to make Lewisham West and Penge.
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