Chingford (UK Parliament constituency)

Chingford
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Greater London
February 1974 (February 1974)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Chingford & Woodford Green, Walthamstow
Created from	Epping and Walthamstow East

Chingford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency existed from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. It was held by the Conservative Party throughout this period. Both of its former Members of Parliament are well known, being Norman Tebbit and Iain Duncan Smith.

Boundaries

The seat was created out of the old Epping and Walthamstow East constituencies, and no part of it was ever in the post-1974 administrative county of Essex.

On its abolition in 1997 it consisted of seven electoral wards of the Borough of Waltham Forest: Chapel End, Chingford Green, Endlebury, Hale End, Hatch Lane, Larkswood, and Valley.

It was replaced by the new Chingford and Woodford Green constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	Feb 1974	Norman Tebbit	Conservative
	1992	Iain Duncan Smith	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Chingford & Woodford Green and Walthamstow

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Chingford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Duncan Smith	25,730	59.2	−3.0
	Labour	PJ Dawe	10,792	24.8	+9.6
	Liberal Democrat	SG Banks	5,705	13.1	−7.9
	Liberal	DW Green	602	1.4	−19.6
	Green	JM Baguley	575	1.3	−0.1
	Independent	Rev. CM Johns	41	0.1	+0.1
Majority			14,938	34.4	−6.8
Turnout			43,445	78.3	+1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−6.3

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Epping	UK Parliament constituency Feb 1974 – 1997	Succeeded by Chingford and Woodford Green
Preceded by Walthamstow East