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| Established | May 01, 1997 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RBH September 11, 2021 04:05pm |
| Description | This is very much a constituency of two halves. Leyton has something of the feel of the inner-city in an outer London borough, which is now beginning to be gentrified. It has lots of rented accommodation, much of it council-owned. Wanstead, on the other hand, is much more suburban, owner-occupied, non-manual and green. It contributes 15,000 of the 60,000 odd electorate and is recently most famous for protests over the construction of the M11 motorway. The two areas sit rather uneasily together since the constituency was created during the 1995 boundary review. There is an interesting electoral history. Several of the Wanstead wards were once part of Winston's Churchill's last Parliamentary seat. In the mid-1960s, the then Labour foreign secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, was parachuted into Leyton to contest a by-election. Having been defeated a year earlier in the 1964 election campaign in Smethwick, he managed to lose here as well. Gordon Walker did win Leyton in 1966 and held it for eight years, but his successor defected to the SDP a few month's after the party's creation, only to lose the seat in 1983. Harry Cohen has been Labour's MP here for 20 years.
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