is a
Constituency represented in the
House Of Commons of the
Parliament Of The United Kingdom . It elects one
Member Of Parliament (MP) by the
First Past The Post system of election.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in
South London , the
Boundary Commission For England has made minor changes to the existing Greenwich and Woolwich constituency. The modified seat consists of seven electoral
Wards from the
London Borough Of Greenwich ;
- Blackheath Westcombe, Charlton, Glyndon, Greenwich West, Peninsula, Woolwich Riverside, and Woolwich Common.
The seat was created in the
1997 boundary changes, and consists of the whole of the old
Greenwich seat (once represented by
Gladstone ), and the western half of the old
Woolwich seat.
The Greenwich seat was a safe
Labour seat for much of the
Twentieth Century , though it had been a safe
Liberal seat throughout most of the
Nineteenth Century . In
1987 it was unexpectedly won by the
SDP in a byelection, though was narrowly regained by Labour in
1992 .
The Woolwich seat (and its 'Woolwich East' predecessor) was a similar safe-Liberal-seat-turned-safe-Labour-seat. Its Labour
MP Christopher Mayhew defected to the Liberals in
1974 before being defeated, and his successor Labour MP,
John Cartwright , defected to the
SDP in
1981 . He held the seat at the
1983 and 1987 general elections, but narrowly lost it to Labour in 1992, like the neighbouring Greenwich seat.
The
Conservatives have never held Woolwich or Woolwich East at any point.
Greenwich and Woolwich
Greenwich
Woolwich
Woolwich East
Woolwich West
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Liberal Democrats (UK)
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Chirstopher Le Breton
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7,381
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207
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+51
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Conservative Party (UK)
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Alistair Craig
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7,142
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201
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+09
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Green Party of England and Wales
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David Sharman
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1,579
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44
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''N/A''
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United Kingdom Independence Party
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Stan Gain
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709
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20
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&minus01
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Independent (politician)
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Purvarani Nagalingam
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61
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02
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''N/A''
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Labour Party (UK)
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&minus82
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Labour Party (UK)
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Nick Raynsford
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19,691
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605
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-29
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Conservative Party (UK)
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Richard Forsdyke
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6,258
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192
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+07
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Liberal Democrats (UK)
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Russell Pyne
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5,082
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156
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+31
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United Kingdom Independence Party
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Stan Gain
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672
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21
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''N/A''
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Socialist Alliance (England)
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Kirstie Paton
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481
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15
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''N/A''
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Socialist Labour Party (UK)
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Margaret Sharkey
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352
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11
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''N/A''
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Labour Party (UK)
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Nick Raynsford
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25,630
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634
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''N/A''
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Conservative Party (UK)
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Michael Mitchell
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7,502
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186
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''N/A''
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Liberal Democrats (UK)
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Cherry Luxton
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5,049
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125
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''N/A''
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Referendum Party
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D Ellison
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1,670
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41
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''N/A''
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Labour Party (UK)
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''N/A''
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