Ealing Central and Acton (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing Central and Acton is a constituency created in 2010,^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rupa Huq,^{[n 2]} who was elected as a Labour MP, suspended from the party in September 2022 following alleged racist comments,^[2] and reinstated in March 2023.^[3]

Ealing Central and Acton
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Location within Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	75,399 (2023)[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Rupa Huq (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Ealing Southall, Ealing North

Constituency profile

The seat takes in an eastern third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the commercial centres of Acton and Ealing. There are suburban residential side streets, educational establishments, small industrial estates, sports areas, part of the Grand Union Canal and parks, centred around the Uxbridge Road (A4020). This is one of the more affluent seats in London.^[4]

Political history

The Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies created the seat by selecting wards for the year 2010 to equalise electorates. Here, if votes were cast as in 2005, this seat would have produced a three-way marginal between the Conservative (32.8%), Labour (32.6%), and Liberal Democrats (29.7%) parties.^[5] An analysis of intervening local results indicated that the seat would, if no voters were swung nor new voters introduced, present a tiny Labour majority.

2010 campaign

In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray, a Conservative, won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.^{[n 3]}

2015

According to the BBC, heavy campaigning in the 2015 general election was expected by leading figures and regional activists of the two largest political parties;^[6] at the time it was 56th on the list of Labour target seats.^[7] In a mixed election for two-way targets of the two largest parties, Labour's Rupa Huq won the constituency. The 2015 result gave the seat the 2nd most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.^[8]

2017

In April 2017, the Green Party announced that it would not stand a candidate in this constituency for the 2017 general election and instead lend its support to the sitting MP, Rupa Huq.^[9][10]

Boundaries

2010–2024

The constituency consisted of the following electoral wards of the London Borough of Ealing:

• Acton Central, Ealing Broadway, Ealing Common, East Acton, Hanger Hill, South Acton, Southfield, and Walpole

The constituency was created with an electorate close to the electoral quota of 69,703 for 2006.^[11]

Current

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of:

• The London Borough of Ealing wards of: Ealing Broadway; Ealing Common; East Acton; Hanger Hill; North Acton; South Acton; Southfield.

• The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham wards of: College Park & Old Oak; Wormholt.^[12]

The two Hammersmith and Fulham wards were added from Hammersmith (abolished), offset by the transfer of the Ealing Borough ward of Walpole to Ealing Southall.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[13]	Party
	2010	Angie Bray	Conservative
	2015	Rupa Huq	Labour
	2022		Independent
	2023		Labour

Election results

Election results 2010-2024

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Ealing Central and Acton^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	22,340	46.8	–5.5
	Conservative	James Windsor-Clive	8,345	17.5	–8.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alastair Mitton	6,056	12.7	–4.6
	Green	Kate Crossland	5,444	11.4	+8.0
	Reform UK	Felix Orrell	3,105	6.5	+5.1
	Workers Party	Nada Jarche	1,766	3.7	N/A
	SDP	Stephen Balogh	410	0.9	N/A
	Independent	Julie Carter	303	0.6	N/A
Majority			13,995	29.3	+2.6
Turnout			47,769	60.9	–9.4
Registered electors			78,436
	Labour hold		Swing	1.3

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result[15]
Party		Vote	%
	Labour	27,707	52.3
	Conservative	13,574	25.6
	Liberal Democrats	9,191	17.3
	Green	1,793	3.4
	Brexit Party	720	1.4
Turnout		52,985	70.3
Electorate		75,399

General election 2019: Ealing Central and Acton^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	28,132	51.3	8.4
	Conservative	Julian Gallant	14,832	27.1	7.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sonul Badiani	9,444	17.2	11.7
	Green	Kate Crossland	1,735	3.2	N/A
	Brexit Party	Samir Alsoodani	664	1.2	N/A
Majority			13,300	24.2	0.8
Turnout			54,807	72.6	2.0
Registered electors			75,510
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.3

General election 2017: Ealing Central and Acton^[17][18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	33,037	59.7	16.5
	Conservative	Joy Morrissey	19,230	34.7	8.0
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball	3,075	5.6	0.5
Majority			13,807	25.0	24.5
Turnout			55,342	74.6	3.2
Registered electors			74,200
	Labour hold		Swing	+12.2

General election 2015: Ealing Central and Acton^[20][21][22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rupa Huq	22,002	43.2	13.1
	Conservative	Angie Bray	21,728	42.7	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball	3,106	6.1	21.5
	UKIP	Peter Florence	1,926	3.8	2.2
	Green	Tom Sharman[23]	1,841	3.6	2.1
	Independent	Jonathan Notley	125	0.2	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Scott Dore	73	0.1	N/A
	Above and Beyond Party	Tammy Rendle	54	0.1	N/A
	Europeans Party	Andrzej Rygielski	39	0.1	N/A
Majority			274	0.5	N/A
Turnout			50,894	71.4	3.9
Registered electors			71,422
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+4.2

See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Ealing Central and Acton

General election 2010: Ealing Central and Acton^[24][25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angie Bray	17,944	38.0	+5.2
	Labour	Bassam Mahfouz	14,228	30.1	–1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Ball	13,041	27.6	–1.2
	UKIP	Julie Carter	765	1.6	N/A
	Green	Sarah Edwards	737	1.6	N/A
	Christian	Suzanne Fernandes	295	0.6	N/A
	Independent Ealing Acton Communities Public Services	Sam Akaki	190	0.4	N/A
Majority			3,716	7.9	N/A
Rejected ballots			218
Turnout			47,418	67.5	+14.2
Registered electors			70,251
	Conservative win (new seat)

2005 notional result
Party		Vote	%
	Labour	12,916	32.8
	Conservative	12,381	31.5
	Liberal Democrats	11,342	28.8
	Others	2,706	6.9
Turnout		39,345	53.3
Electorate		69,548

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in London

Notes

1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
3. Based upon the notional outcome of an election fought with electoral wards from the various previous seats fought in the previous election.