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Leyton & Wanstead - History
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| Established | May 01, 1997 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| 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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| Date |
Type |
Results
[Show Primaries]
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| Jul 04, 2024 |
General Election |
| | Calvin Bailey
20,755
47.46%
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| Charlotte Lafferty
6,791
15.53%
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| Gloria Croxall
4,846
11.08%
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| Shanell Johnson
4,173
9.54%
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| Tara Copeland
2,815
6.44%
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| David Kenton Sandground
2,475
5.66%
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| Mahtab Anwar Aziz
1,633
3.73%
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| | | Simon Mark Bezer
244
0.56%
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| John Cryer(I)
0
0.00%
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| Dec 12, 2019 |
General Election |
| | John Cryer(I)
28,836
64.73%
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| Noshaba Khiljee
8,028
18.02%
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| Ben Sims
4,666
10.47%
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| Ashley Gunstock
1,805
4.05%
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| Zulf Jannaty
785
1.76%
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| Henry Scott
427
0.96%
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| Jun 08, 2017 |
General Election |
| | John Cryer(I)
32,234
69.81%
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| Laura Farris
9,627
20.85%
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| Ben Sims
2,961
6.41%
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| Ashley Gunstock
1,351
2.93%
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| May 07, 2015 |
General Election |
| | John Cryer(I)
23,858
58.61%
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| Matthew Scott
8,939
21.96%
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| Ashley Gunstock
2,974
7.31%
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| Rosamund Beattie
2,341
5.75%
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| Carl Quilliam
2,304
5.66%
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| Mahtab Anwar Aziz
289
0.71%
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| May 06, 2010 |
General Election |
| | John Cryer
17,511
43.60%
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| Farooq Qureshi
11,095
27.63%
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| Edwin Northover
8,928
22.23%
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| Graham Wood
1,080
2.69%
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| Ashley Gunstock
562
1.40%
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| Jim Clift
561
1.40%
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| Sonika Bhatti
342
0.85%
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| | | Martin Levin
80
0.20%
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| May 05, 2005 |
General Election |
| | Harry Cohen(I)
15,234
45.79%
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| Meher Khan
8,377
25.18%
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| Julien Foster
7,393
22.22%
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| Ashley Gunstock
1,522
4.57%
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| Nick Jones
591
1.78%
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| Marc Robertson
155
0.47%
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| Jun 07, 2001 |
General Election |
| | Harry Cohen(I)
19,558
58.00%
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| Edwards Heckels
6,654
19.73%
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| Alexander Wilcock
5,389
15.98%
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| Ashley Gunstock
1,030
3.05%
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| Sally Labern
709
2.10%
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| Michael Skaife D'Ingurthorpe
378
1.12%
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| May 01, 1997 |
General Election |
| | Harry Cohen(I)
23,922
60.84%
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| Robert Vaudry
8,736
22.22%
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| Charles Anglin
5,920
15.06%
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| Sean Duffy
488
1.24%
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| Abdul Khaliq Mian
256
0.65%
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