Ealing Southall (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing, Southall (also Ealing Southall) is a constituency^{[n 1]} created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Deirdre Costigan of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Ealing, Southall
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Location within Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	75,085 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Southall, Norwood Green, Northfields, Dormers Wells, Hanwell
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of Parliament	Deirdre Costigan (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Southall

Constituency profile

The majority of Ealing Southall's housing is little-embellished low-rise, where private gardens and rooms tend to be smaller than the central part of the London Borough of Ealing

The constituency has relatively good road and rail transport, and numerous small to medium-size green spaces,^[2] and has had as many as three tube stations at its eastern extremes of its boundaries. Southall and Norwood Green, forming the western bulk of the seat, feature a high British Asian proportion of the population since the 1960s. British Indian ethnicity is the largest single ethnic group. British Asians account for 51% of the population, as at the 2011 census,^[3] the majority of this minority is of Indian ethnicity (29.6%), with significant Hindu and Muslim populations, with the highest number of Sikh residents in any constituency in Britain at over 20%.^[4] The Afro-Caribbean community amounts to 8% according to the latest census statistics. The seat has generally modest incomes and the vast majority of housing is modest terraced, semi-detached or mid-rise 20th century blocks of flats. The east of the seat is formed by Hanwell and West Ealing.

Ealing Southall
Religion (2021)[5]
• Christian	28.7%
• Sikh	21.1%
• Muslim	20.5%
• No religion	12.3%
• Hindu	11.0%
• Not answered	5.0%
• Other	0.7%
• Buddhist	0.6%
• Jewish	0.1%

Political history

The seat has been served by three successive Labour Party MPs since its inception in 1983, with majorities ranging between 13.8% and 49% of the vote; the latter was achieved in 2017, which was not a landslide year for the party. The length of tenure and size of majorities mean that practical analyses consider Ealing Southall a safe seat. The 2015 result made the seat the 25th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.^[6] The larger predecessor seat, created in 1945, was held by Labour throughout its existence.

Boundaries

The constituency takes in the south western third of the London Borough of Ealing in west London and is traversed by the Great Western Main Line (railway). The other Ealing constituencies are Ealing North, and Ealing Central and Acton.

1983–1997: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Ealing Common, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.

2010–2024: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Lady Margaret, Northfield, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway, and Southall Green.

For the 2010 general election, the Boundary Commission for England made minor changes. Part of Greenford Broadway ward and tiny parts of Hobbayne ward and Dormers Wells ward were transferred from the constituency of Ealing North to Ealing, Southall. Tiny parts of Hobbayne ward and Dormers Wells ward were also transferred to Ealing North. Walpole ward, and parts of Ealing Broadway ward and Ealing Common ward were transferred from the seat into new Ealing Central and Acton.

2024–present: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Hanwell Broadway, Lady Margaret, Northfield, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway, Southall Green, Southall West and Walpole.^[7]

To bring the electorate within the permitted range, Walpole ward was transferred in from Ealing Central and Acton.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[8]	Party
	1983	Syd Bidwell	Labour
	1992	Piara Khabra	Labour
	2007 by-election	Virendra Sharma	Labour
	2024	Deirdre Costigan	Labour

Elections

Election results 1983-2024

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Ealing Southall ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Deirdre Costigan	23,000	49.1	–10.6
	Conservative	Georgie Callé	7,207	15.4	–8.5
	Green	Neil Reynolds	4,356	9.3	+5.5
	Workers Party	Darshan Azad	4,237	9.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Tariq Mahmood	2,832	6.0	–3.8
	Reform UK	Steve Chilcott	2,585	5.5	+3.6
	Independent	Niko Omilana	740	1.6	N/A
	Independent	Sangeet Bhail	557	1.2	N/A
	Rejoin EU	Peter Ward	475	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Joe Bhangu	319	0.7	N/A
	Independent	Jaginder Singh	295	0.6	N/A
	Independent	Pedro Da Conceicao	213	0.5	N/A
Majority			15,793	33.7	−2.1
Turnout			46,816	59.5	−8.4
Registered electors			78,669
	Labour hold		Swing	1.1

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result[10]
Party		Vote	%
	Labour	30,469	59.7
	Conservative	12,203	23.9
	Liberal Democrats	4,995	9.8
	Green	1,928	3.8
	Brexit Party	946	1.9
	Others	457	0.9
Turnout		50,998	67.9
Electorate		75,085

General election 2019: Ealing Southall^[11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	25,678	60.8	−9.5
	Conservative	Tom Bennett	9,594	22.7	+1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Tariq Mahmood	3,933	9.3	+5.1
	Green	Darren Moore	1,688	4.0	+1.7
	Brexit Party	Rosamund Beattie	867	2.1	N/A
	CPA	Suzanne Fernandes	287	0.7	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Hassan Zulkifal	170	0.4	−0.4
Majority			16,084	38.1	−10.9
Turnout			42,217	65.4	−3.9
Registered electors			64,580
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.4

General election 2017: Ealing Southall^[13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	31,720	70.3	+5.3
	Conservative	Fabio Conti	9,630	21.3	−0.4
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bakhai	1,892	4.2	+0.6
	Green	Peter Ward	1,037	2.3	−2.3
	UKIP	John Poynton	504	1.1	−3.0
	Workers Revolutionary	Arjinder Thiara	362	0.8	N/A
Majority			22,090	49.0	+5.7
Turnout			45,145	69.3	+3.2
Registered electors			65,188
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.8

General election 2015: Ealing Southall^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	28,147	65.0	+13.5
	Conservative	James Symes	9,387	21.7	−8.1
	Green	Jas Mahal[16]	2,007	4.6	+3.0
	UKIP	John Poynton	1,769	4.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Kavya Kaushik	1,550	3.6	−11.3
	National Liberal	Jagdeesh Singh	461	1.1	N/A
Majority			18,760	43.3	+21.6
Turnout			43,321	66.1	−4.7
Registered electors			65,606
	Labour hold		Swing	+10.8

General election 2010: Ealing Southall^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	22,024	51.5	−5.8
	Conservative	Gurcharan Singh	12,733	29.8	+10.8
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bakhai	6,383	14.9	−3.3
	Green	Suneil Basu	705	1.6	−3.1
	Christian	Mehboob Anil	503	1.2	N/A
Majority			9,291	21.7	−2.6
Turnout			42,348	63.2	+7.6
Registered electors			66,970
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.3

Elections in the 2000s

2007 Ealing Southall by-election^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Virendra Sharma	15,188	41.5	−7.7
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bakhai	10,118	27.7	+3.3
	Conservative	Tony Lit	8,230	22.5	+0.9
	Green	Sarah Edwards	1,135	3.1	−1.5
	Respect	Salvinder Dhillon	588	1.6	N/A
	UKIP	K. T. Rajan	285	0.8	N/A
	Christian Vote	Yaqub Masih	280	0.8	N/A
	Independent	Jasdev Rai	275	0.8	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	John Cartwright	188	0.5	N/A
	English Democrat	Sati Chaggar	152	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Gulbash Singh	92	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Kuldeep Grewal	87	0.2	N/A
Majority			5,070	13.8	−10.5
Turnout			36,618	42.9	−13.3
Registered electors			85,262
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.4

General election 2005: Ealing Southall^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	22,937	48.8	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bakhai	11,497	24.4	+14.4
	Conservative	Mark D.Y. Nicholson	10,147	21.6	+3.3
	Green	Sarah J. Edwards	2,175	4.6	+0.1
	Workers Revolutionary	Malkiat Bilku	289	0.6	N/A
Majority			11,440	24.4	−4.8
Turnout			47,045	56.2	−0.6
Registered electors			83,246
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.6

General election 2001: Ealing Southall^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	22,239	47.5	−12.5
	Conservative	Daniel Kawczynski	8,556	18.3	−2.5
	Independent	Avtar Lit	5,764	12.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Baldev Sharma	4,680	10.0	−0.4
	Green	Margaret Cook	2,119	4.5	+2.8
	Independent	Salvinder Singh Dhillon	1,214	2.6	N/A
	Independent	Mushtaq Choudhry	1,166	2.5	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Harpal Brar	921	2.0	−1.9
	Independent	Mohammed Bhutta	169	0.4	N/A
Majority			13,683	29.2	−10.0
Turnout			46,828	56.9	−10.9
Registered electors			82,373
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.0

At the 2001 Election, the Electoral Commissions book "Election 2001" ISBN 978-1-84275-020-9 records the following three candidates with party names rejected for not being recorded on the register of political parties:

• Dhillon – Independent Community Candidate Empowering Change
• Bhutta – Qari
• Lit – Chairman of Sunrise Radio

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Ealing Southall^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	32,791	60.0	+12.6
	Conservative	John Penrose	11,368	20.8	−12.8
	Liberal Democrats	Nikki F. Thomson	5,687	10.4	+2.7
	Socialist Labour	Harpal Brar	2,107	3.9	N/A
	Green	Nicholas Goodwin	934	1.7	−0.2
	Referendum	Bruce Cherry	854	1.6	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Kinga M. Klepacka	473	0.9	N/A
	UKIP	Richard G.C. Mead	428	0.8	N/A
Majority			21,423	39.2	+25.4
Turnout			54,642	66.9	−8.6
Registered electors			81,704
	Labour hold		Swing	+12.7

General election 1992: Ealing Southall^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Piara Khabra	23,476	47.4	−3.3
	Conservative	Philip C. Treleaven	16,610	33.6	−1.9
	True Labour	Syd Bidwell	4,665	9.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Pash Nandhra	3,790	7.7	−5.6
	Green	Nicholas Goodwin	964	1.9	N/A
Majority			6,866	13.8	−1.4
Turnout			49,505	75.5	+5.8
Registered electors			65,574
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.7

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Ealing Southall^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Syd Bidwell	26,480	50.7	−1.6
	Conservative	Michael Truman	18,503	35.5	+5.0
	Liberal	Monica Howes	6,947	13.3	−2.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Richard Lugg	256	0.5	N/A
Majority			7,977	15.2	−6.6
Turnout			52,186	69.7	−1.7
Registered electors			74,843
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.3

General election 1983: Ealing Southall^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Syd Bidwell	26,664	52.3	−2.1
	Conservative	Nigel G.T. Linacre	15,548	30.5	−2.4
	Liberal	Mahmud Nadeen	8,059	15.8	+8.3
	National Front	E. Pendrous	555	1.1	N/A
	Independent	S.S. Paul	150	0.3	N/A
Majority			11,116	21.8	+0.3
Turnout			50,976	71.4
Registered electors			71,441
	Labour win (new seat)

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in London
• 2007 Ealing Southall by-election

Notes

1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.