Hendon (UK Parliament constituency)

Hendon (/ˈhɛndən/) is a constituency^{[n 1]} in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by David Pinto-Duschinsky of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]} It was created for the 1997 general election; an earlier version of the seat existed between 1918 and 1945.

Hendon
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Location within Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	71,496 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Hendon, Colindale, Burnt Oak, Mill Hill, Edgware
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	David Pinto-Duschinsky (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Hendon North and parts of Hendon South
1918–1945
Seats	One
Created from	Harrow
Replaced by	Harrow East, Harrow West, Hendon North, Hendon South and Wembley North

In 2024, Pinto-Duschinsky won Hendon from the Conservatives by a margin of just 15 votes, making Hendon the most marginal seat in the United Kingdom.^[2]

History

1918–1945

The first incarnation of the constituency was created for the 1918 general election. By 1941, the estimated electorate reached 217,900.^[3] For the 1945 general election, the areas of the constituency were thus divided between North and South new entities and contributions to other new seats, including the principal part of Harrow East. The 1918–1945 was a period of near-full adult franchise and saw the most significant adult population increase nationally within the constituency, this coincided with a period of major residential building locally.

Since 1997

In the boundary change legislation passed to implement the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for the 1997 general election, the London Borough of Barnet's parliamentary representation was reduced from four seats to three and the Hendon North constituency was combined with a northern part of the Hendon South constituency, creating the present Hendon constituency. A south-eastern swathe of former Hendon South was placed into Finchley and Golders Green. Within 10% of the average electorate, the seat avoided malapportionment that would otherwise exist by way of two undersized constituencies.

Including the period of division of the present area (1945—97) the various general elections up to 1997 were won by Conservatives, except for the 1945 victory of Barbara Ayrton-Gould (Labour), in Hendon North (1945–50). The last Liberal or Liberal Democrat to serve the area of either Hendon seat was in 1910. Only these three parties have won the seat or its predecessors.

Constituency profile

The constituency has been a Conservative-Labour bellwether since 1997. Andrew Dismore won the seat in 1997 as part of a nationwide landslide victory for the Labour Party. Matthew Offord won the seat for the Conservatives in 2010 by only 106 votes. The 2015 result gave the seat the 37th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.^[4]

The constituency includes the most deprived areas of the generally affluent London Borough of Barnet – Colindale, West Hendon and Burnt Oak.^[5] It is more ethnically diverse than the other Barnet constituencies and has a large Jewish population.^[6]

Boundaries

Hendon in Middlesex 1918–45

Map of boundaries 1997 to 2024

1918–45

The constituency covered the Urban Districts of Hendon and Kingsbury, and Hendon Rural District.

No national reviews took place between the Representation of the People Act 1918 which enfranchised this constituency and the next such Act in 1945. Later national reviews took place by the newly established Boundary Commissions for the four countries of United Kingdom for the elections of 1950, 1974, 1983, 1997 and 2010. As can be seen from the map, during the early period the seat spanned the area made up of the present seat and primarily the two neighbours to east and west, Chipping Barnet and Harrow East.

1997–2024

The London Borough of Barnet wards of Burnt Oak, Colindale, Edgware, Hale, Hendon, Mill Hill, and West Hendon.

Current

Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the London Borough of Barnet wards of:

• Burnt Oak, Colindale North, Colindale South, Edgware, Hendon, Mill Hill, and West Hendon.^[7][8][9]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[10]	Party
	1918	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	Conservative
	1935	Reginald Blair	Conservative
1945		constituency abolished: see Hendon North and Hendon South
1997		constituency recreated
	1997	Andrew Dismore	Labour
	2010	Matthew Offord	Conservative
	2024	David Pinto-Duschinsky	Labour

Elections

Election results 1997-2024

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Hendon^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Pinto-Duschinsky	15,855	38.43	2.5
	Conservative	Ameet Jogia	15,840	38.39	10.5
	Reform UK	Joshua Pearl	3,038	7.4	N/A
	Green	Gabrielle Bailey	2,667	6.5	4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Clareine Enderby	1,966	4.8	3.8
	Workers Party	Imtiaz Palekar	1,518	3.7	N/A
	Rejoin EU	Ben Rend	233	0.6	N/A
	SDP	Jane Gibson	139	0.3	N/A
Majority			15	0.04	N/A
Turnout			41,256	55.1	8.7
Registered electors			74,865
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	4.0

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result[12]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	22,299	48.9
	Labour	18,638	40.9
	Liberal Democrats	3,909	8.6
	Green	747	1.6
Turnout		45,593	63.8
Electorate		71,496

General election 2019: Hendon^[13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	26,878	48.8	+0.8
	Labour	David Pinto-Duschinsky	22,648	41.1	–4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Clareine Enderby	4,628	8.4	+4.6
	Green	Portia Vincent-Kirby	921	1.7	+0.6
Majority			4,230	7.7	+5.7
Turnout			55,075	66.6	–1.6
Registered electors			82,661
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.8

General election 2017: Hendon^[15][16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	25,078	48.0	–1.0
	Labour	Mike Katz	24,006	46.0	+4.5
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Hill	1,985	3.8	+1.6
	Green	Carmen Legarda	578	1.1	–0.9
	UKIP	Sabriye Warsame	568	1.1	–4.1
Majority			1,072	2.0	–5.5
Turnout			52,185	68.2	+2.3
Registered electors			76,522
	Conservative hold		Swing	–2.7

General election 2015: Hendon^[17][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	24,328	49.0	+6.7
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	20,604	41.5	−0.6
	UKIP	Raymond Shamash[19]	2,595	5.2	+3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Hill	1,088	2.2	−10.2
	Green	Ben Samuel	1,015	2.0	+0.9
Majority			3,724	7.5	+7.3
Turnout			49,630	65.9	+7.1
Registered electors			75,285
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.6

See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Hendon

General election 2010: Hendon^[20][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	19,635	42.3	+5.2
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	19,529	42.1	−3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Harris	5,734	12.4	−1.7
	UKIP	Robin Lambert	958	2.1	+0.5
	Green	Andrew Newby	518	1.1	−0.7
Majority			106	0.2	N/A
Turnout			46,374	58.8	+0.5
Registered electors			72,943
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	-4.1

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Hendon^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	18,596	44.4	−8.1
	Conservative	Richard Evans	15,897	38.0	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Nahid Boethe	5,831	13.9	+2.3
	Green	David G. Williams	754	1.8	N/A
	UKIP	Melvyn Smallman	637	1.5	+0.5
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	George Weiss	68	0.2	N/A
	Progressive Democratic Party	Michael Stewart	56	0.1	−0.2
Majority			2,699	6.4	−11.8
Turnout			41,839	58.3	+6.1
Registered electors			71,924
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.5

General election 2001: Hendon^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	21,432	52.5	+3.2
	Conservative	Richard Evans	14,015	34.3	−2.7
	Liberal Democrats	Wayne Casey	4,724	11.6	+0.8
	UKIP	Craig Crosbie	409	1.0	+0.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Stella Taylor	164	0.4	+0.1
	Progressive Democratic Party	Michael Stewart	107	0.3	N/A
Majority			7,417	18.2	+5.9
Turnout			40,851	52.2	−13.5
Registered electors			78,213
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.9

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Hendon^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Dismore	24,683	49.3
	Conservative	John Gorst	18,528	37.0
	Liberal Democrats	Wayne Casey	5,427	10.8
	Referendum	Stanley Rabbow	978	2.0
	UKIP	Bernard P. Wright[25]	267	0.5
	Workers Revolutionary	Stella Taylor	153	0.3
Majority			6,155	12.3
Turnout			50,036	65.7
Registered electors			76,264
	Labour win (new seat)

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Hendon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Reginald Blair	69,762	65.78	−15.47
	Labour	Amber Blanco White	28,375	26.75	+8.00
	Liberal	Basil Goldstone	7,920	7.47	N/A
Majority			41,387	39.03	−23.47
Turnout			106,057	64.35	−7.38
Registered electors			164,802
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1931: Hendon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	66,305	81.25	+28.95
	Labour	Amber Blanco White	15,305	18.75	−6.75
Majority			51,000	62.50	+35.70
Turnout			81,610	71.73	−0.27
Registered electors			113,780
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

Corbett Ashby

General election 1929: Hendon^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	31,758	52.3	−11.5
	Labour	Robert Lyons	15,434	25.5	+8.0
	Liberal	Margery Corbett Ashby	13,449	22.2	+3.5
Majority			16,324	26.8	−18.3
Turnout			60,641	72.0	−2.9
Registered electors			84,212
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.8

General election 1924: Hendon ^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Lloyd-Greame	19,183	63.8	+11.9
	Liberal	Archibald John Blue	5,618	18.7	−9.9
	Labour	J. Allen Skinner	5,267	17.5	−2.0
Majority			13,565	45.1	+21.8
Turnout			30,068	74.9	+7.6
Registered electors			40,163
	Unionist hold		Swing	+10.9

General election 1923: Hendon ^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Lloyd-Greame	13,278	51.9	−10.9
	Liberal	J. M. Robertson	7,324	28.6	+8.2
	Labour	Charles Latham	5,005	19.5	+2.7
Majority			5,954	23.3	−19.1
Turnout			25,607	67.3	−8.5
Registered electors			38,065
	Unionist hold		Swing	-9.6

General election 1922: Hendon ^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Lloyd-Greame	17,402	62.8	−10.6
	Liberal	Douglas Young	5,650	20.4	N/A
	Labour	Charles Latham	4,669	16.8	+0.7
Majority			11,752	42.4	−14.9
Turnout			27,721	75.8	+16.4
Registered electors			36,558
	Unionist hold		Swing	-5.7

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Hendon ^[26][27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Philip Lloyd-Greame	14,431	73.4
	Labour	Frank Bailey	3,159	16.1
	Women's Parliamentary League	Edith How-Martyn	2,067	10.5
Majority			11,272	57.3
Turnout			19,657	59.4
Registered electors			33,117
	Unionist win (new seat)

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in London

Notes

1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer).
2. As with all constituencies, Hendon elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years. The first incarnation of Hendon was among the vast majority after 1918 which elected one MP.