Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)

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Poplar and Limehouse
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Poplar and Limehouse in Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	74,919 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Poplar & Canning Town, Bethnal Green & Bow

Poplar and Limehouse is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first past the post system of election.

This seat was created following the review of parliamentary representation in North London by the Boundary Commission for England; and first contested in the 2010 general election.

Boundaries

The electoral wards used to create the new seat of Poplar and Limehouse are entirely within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. A number of alternative names, including "Tower Hamlets South" and "Poplar and Millwall" were rejected following public consultation.

The constituency comprises the wards of Blackwall and Cubitt Town, Bromley-by-Bow, East India and Lansbury, Limehouse, Mile End East, Millwall, St Katharine’s and Wapping, & Shadwell.
The seat is almost exclusively within the boundaries of the old Poplar and Canning Town constituency, with the only new additions being the western end of Shadwell Ward and the whole of St Katharine's & Wapping Ward which used to be part of Bethnal Green and Bow.
The areas of the old Poplar and Canning Town seat within the London Borough of Newham were moved from the seat and transferred into East Ham (5.1% of Poplar and Canning Town) and West Ham (24.9%).

Constituency profile

This east London seat covers the Isle of Dogs and the Canary Wharf development. To the north it covers Bromley-by-Bow and the Eastern half of Mile End, once home to a Jewish community, now dominated by Bangladeshi Muslims. To the west it stretches up to the boundaries of the City of London, and includes the Tower of London. The tower at One Canada Square, until 2010 the tallest building in the UK, is another landmark within the seat.

This is a seat of contrasts, from extreme deprivation in the north of the constituency to the gleaming skyscrapers and dockside developments of Canary Wharf in the south (although even in the areas surrounding Canary Wharf there are still working class areas).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2010	Jim Fitzpatrick	Labour

Election results

This constituency was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election.

General Election 2010: Poplar and Limehouse
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Fitzpatrick*	18,679	40.0	+4.7
	Conservative	Tim Archer	12,649	27.1	+2.6
	Respect	George Galloway*	8,460	17.5	−0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Fryer	5,209	11.2	−2.8
	UKIP	Wayne Lochner	565	1.2	+1.2
	English Democrat	Andrew Osborne	470	1.0	+1.0
	Green	Chris Smith	449	1.0	−1.7
	Independent	Kabir Mahmud	293	0.6	+0.6
	Independent	Mohammed Hoque	167	0.4	+0.4
	Independent	Jim Thornton	59	0.1	+0.1
Majority			6,030	12.9
Turnout			46,700	62.3	+12.2
	Labour win (new seat)

* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

Notes and references

"Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/index.html?bdy_nolon_summary.html
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
Statement of Persons Nominated, Tower Hamlets Council
Poplar and Limehouse, UKPollingReport
ED Candidate list
BBC News (2010-05-07). Election 2010 | Constituency | Poplar & Limehouse. Retrieved 2010-05-07.

External links

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v t e London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Wards	Bethnal Green Blackwall and Cubitt Town Bow East Bow West Bromley North Bromley South Canary Wharf Island Gardens Lansbury Limehouse Mile End Poplar Shadwell Spitalfields and Banglatown St Dunstan's St Katharine's and Wapping St Peter's Stepney Green Weavers Whitechapel
Notable locations	Brick Lane Christ Church, Spitalfields Dennis Severs' House East Smithfield Fish Island Fournier Street London Museum Docklands Museum of Immigration and Diversity Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Ragged School Museum Royal London Museum and Archives Jack the Ripper Museum St Katharine Docks Spitalfields City Farm Stepney City Farm Tower Bridge Tower of London Traitors' Gate Whitechapel Art Gallery Young V&A
Street markets	Petticoat Lane Brick Lane Columbia Road Old Spitalfields Roman Road
Parks and open spaces	Altab Ali Park Bartlett Park Island Gardens Langdon Park Mile End Park Mudchute Sir John McDougall Gardens Tower Hamlets Cemetery Victoria Park
Governance	London borough council Directly elected mayor Civic mayor/speaker of council Constituencies: Bethnal Green and Bow Poplar and Limehouse
Bridges and tunnels	Blackwall Tunnel Greenwich foot tunnel Rotherhithe Tunnel Tower Bridge
Tube and rail stations	Aldgate East All Saints Bethnal Green Bethnal Green Blackwall Bow Church Bow Road Bromley-by-Bow Cambridge Heath Canary Wharf (DLR) Canary Wharf (Elizabeth line) Canary Wharf (tube) Crossharbour Devons Road East India Heron Quays Island Gardens Langdon Park Limehouse Mile End Mudchute Poplar Shadwell Shadwell South Quay Stepney Green Tower Gateway Tower Hill Wapping West India Quay Westferry Whitechapel
Other topics	Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Schools
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