Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner is a constituency in Greater London represented in the

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since

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David Simmonds David Timothy Simmonds is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he is a former councillor on Hillingdon London Borough Council, ...

, a

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History

Parliament accepted the

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and created this constituency for General Election 2010. In this election it was won by the previous member for Ruislip, Northwood. ;Predecessor seat This seat is at its core the successor to Ruislip-Northwood which had an unbroken history as a

safe seat with non- marginal majorities running from its 1950 creation. This Conservative success was only bolstered by the addition of generally highly Conservative, highly affluent

Pinner Pinner is a London suburb in the London borough of Harrow, Greater London, England, northwest of Charing Cross, close to the border with Hillingdon, historically in the county of Middlesex. The population was 31,130 in 2011. Originally a med ...

in 2010. ;Political history The 2015 result was greater than the previous majority, having seen a major fall in the vote of the Liberal Democrats, of 11.7% less than national swing against the party of 15.7%, and made the seat the 57th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. Since 2015, the Conservative vote share has been slowly declining, while the Liberal Democrat vote share has been steadily rising.

Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in

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has created a new seat of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner to deal with population changes. It includes parts of the Harrow West constituency and much of the former Ruislip-Northwood constituency. This constituency has electoral wards: *Eastcote and East

Ruislip Ruislip ( ) is an area in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London, and in the historic county of Middlesex. Ruislip lies west-north-west of Charing Cross, London. The manor of Ruislip appears in the Domesday Book, and some of the ear ...

, Harefield, Ickenham, Northwood, Northwood Hills, West Ruislip ''in the

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'' *

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, Pinner South ''in the

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'' The only other three-place constituency name in England is Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford in Yorkshire.

Constituency profile

The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of two local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is higher than the national average and lower than average reliance upon

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. At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 1.6% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 3.6%. This was the third lowest in the capital behind Richmond Park and Kingston & Surbiton. The borough contributing to the bulk of the seat's statistics are given first. *A low for the capital 22.7/23.5% of the two boroughs' populations were without a car *19.1%/16.8 of the population without qualifications and a high 28%/36.8% at the 2011 census had a level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure 62.9%/65.2% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census across the two London Boroughs.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

:* ''Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament''

Notes

References

External links

Politics Resources
(Election results from 1922 onwards)

(Election results from 1955 onwards) {{Coord, 51.60, -0.45, type:adm2nd_dim:12000_region:GB-HIL, display=title Politics of the London Borough of Hillingdon Parliamentary constituencies in London Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010