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Vauxhall
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Vauxhall in Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	88,659 (December 2019)
Major settlements	North Lambeth, Vauxhall, Stockwell, Kennington, Clapham, Brixton (part)
1950–2024
Seats	One
Created from	Kennington and Lambeth North
Replaced by	Clapham and Brixton Hill, Vauxhall and Camberwell Green

Vauxhall was a constituency in London. It was represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by members of the Labour Party for the whole of its creation from 1950 until its abolition for the 2024 general election.

Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the majority of the constituency was incorporated into the new seat of Vauxhall and Camberwell Green, with the wards of Clapham Town, Ferndale and Larkhall being included in the new constituency of Clapham and Brixton Hill.

Boundaries

1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Marsh, Oval, Prince's, and Vauxhall.

1974–1983: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

1983–1997: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Angell, Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

2010–2024: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

Vauxhall was wholly within the London Borough of Lambeth. The core of the constituency, unchanged from the former Lambeth North, was delimited by the River Thames to the west and north and the boundary with Southwark to the east.

Constituency profile

The seat included all of Vauxhall, North Lambeth, Stockwell, Kennington and some of Brixton and north Clapham. Its landmarks included the London Eye, The Oval cricket ground, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, SIS building and the National Theatre. Among Britain's most ethnically diverse constituencies, Vauxhall had sizable Jamaican, Portuguese, Ghanaian and Ecuadorian communities.

At just over 6% of the population, Vauxhall (which was located in the London Borough of Lambeth) had the largest proportion of LGBT+ people in the country as of 2016.

Political history

The area has consistently voted in parliamentary elections for Labour Members of Parliament since 1929, except in 1931. This includes the results of the former seat of Lambeth North, which had near-identical boundaries.

Since a 1989 by-election, the seat had been represented by Kate Hoey. Continuing a history as a safe seat for Labour, since her 1989 election, Hoey consistently achieved majorities of 9,100 to 20,200 votes. The 2015 result made the seat the 105th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.

Despite Hoey being a prominent campaigner for leaving the European Union, Vauxhall voted to remain in the EU by 77.6% in the national referendum on 23 June 2016. This made it the strongest pro-EU constituency to be represented by a pro-Brexit MP. In the 2017 general election, this led to her seat being targeted by pro-Remain organisations and high-profile individuals seeking to oust her in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat candidate. There had been a change.org petition calling for Hoey's deselection as the Labour candidate for the seat; however, due to party rules this was unsuccessful. In the 2017 election, Hoey significantly increased her majority to the largest the seat had ever seen; the Liberal Democrat vote total more than trebled, and they moved back into second place having fallen to fourth behind the Conservatives and the Greens in 2015. In May 2018, Hoey's local party passed a vote of no confidence in her, vowing to deselect the MP as well. On 8 July 2019 Hoey announced that she would retire from the House of Commons, and would not seek re-election as a Labour candidate at the next general election.

Prominent frontbenchers

George Strauss was appointed Minister of Supply from 1947 to 1951 during the Attlee Ministry. Kate Hoey was Minister for Sport (1999–2001) during the Blair Ministry.

Local government results

The constituency shared boundaries with the Vauxhall electoral division for election of councillors to the Greater London Council at elections in 1973, 1977 and 1981.

The local government wards in the constituency are currently entirely represented by Labour on Lambeth London Borough Council.

A single Conservative councillor represented the Clapham Town ward from 2002 until losing their seat by sixty votes in the 2006 Council Elections.

Three Liberal Democrat councillors represented the Bishop's ward from 1990 to 2014; they subsequently lost the three ward seats to Labour, as did the sole Liberal Democrat councilors in the Oval and Vassall wards. They failed to gain them back in 2018.

At the 2018 council elections, Labour won all of the ward seats in the constituency. The Liberal Democrats finished second in the wards of Bishop's, Oval, Stockwell and Prince's. The Conservatives finished the runner up in Clapham Town and the Green Party in Vassall, Ferndale and Larkhall.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

13.6% was the largest vote share increase in a Labour held seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 2017 general election. UKIP stood down their candidate in order to ensure Hoey was re-elected.

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in London

Notes

1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

References

1. Lambeth Democracy (13 December 2019). "All 3 constituencies in #Lambeth have now been confirmed and announced. Dulwich & West Norwood, Vauxhall and Streatham have all been won by Labour candidates. #GE2019" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
2. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – London | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
3. "State of the Borough 2016" (PDF). Lambeth Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
4. "Labour Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018.
5. "EU REF. Results for Lambeth.xlsx" (PDF). Lambeth Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
6. "Pro-EU campaigners draw up 'attack list' of Brexiteer MPs they want to unseat in the general election". The Independent. 25 April 2017. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022.
7. White, Roland (19 February 2017). "Kexit's a way off for Vauxhall remoaners". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
8. Zeffman, Henry (25 April 2017). "Farron shrugs off gay sex row to target veteran's seat". The Times. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
9. "Kate Hoey vows to fight deselection". BBC News. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
10. "Kate Hoey to stand down as MP for Vauxhall at next election". ITV News. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
11. "Under-Secretary of State (Hansard)".
12. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "V"
13. "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF).
14. "Statement of Persons Nominated, Notice of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations" (PDF). lambeth.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2022.
15. "General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF) (2nd ed.). UK Parliament. 29 January 2019. p. 92.
16. "General Election 2019: results and analysis" (PDF). UK Parliament (2nd ed.). 28 January 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
17. Cobb, Jason (29 April 2017). "UKip steps aside in Vauxhall so as not to clash with Brexiteer Hoey in general election". Brixton Buzz. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
18. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
19. "Election results for Vauxhall, 7 May 2015". moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk. 7 May 2015.
20. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
21. "BBC News - UK POLITICS - Roger Liddle, centre stage once more". 26 October 2001.
22. ^ Election Expenses. Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1980. p. 17. ISBN 0102374805.

External links

• Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
• Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
• Vauxhall UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
• Vauxhall UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK

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• Parliamentary constituencies in London (historic)
• Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1950
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2024
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