CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Cities of London and Westminster' is a constituency covering the area comprising the City of London and southern portion of the City of Westminster in Central London. It is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

Boundaries

Boundary review

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

Boundaries

The constituency covers the entire City of London and most of the City of Westminster lying South of the Marylebone Road and the Westway. In Westminster covers the areas of Westminster, Pimlico, Victoria, Belgravia, Knightsbridge, St. James, Soho, parts of Covent Garden, parts of Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Edgware Road, Paddington and Bayswater.
The constituency covers the commercial, historical and touristic heart of London, including the Square Mile, St. Paul's Cathedral, Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park.
There are few people who live in the City of London's financial district and in the West End. Mayfair, Belgravia and Knightsbridge rank among Europe's wealthiest residential districts. Around half the electorate are in the more socially mixed areas of Bayswater and Pimlico, or the former council estates of Westminster proper.
Even at the 1997 general election, a Labour landslide, the constituency returned a Conservative MP by a majority of several thousand; it can be considered a Conservative safe seat.

Boundary review

The Boundary Commission for England has formed two constituencies without pairing with another London Borough following their review of parliamentary representation in North London. The Bayswater area will be removed from this constituency and paired with those portions of Regent's Park and Kensington North which are within the City of Westminster to reform the Westminster North seat which existed prior to 1997. The remainder of the constituency will be renamed Cities of London and Westminster South, which was also the case prior to 1997.
The political effect of these changes will be to make this constituency safer for the Conservatives while creating a Westminster North seat which is highly competitive between the Conservative and Labour parties.
The electoral wards used in the creation of the modified Cities of London and Westminster constituency are:

★ The City of London

★ The City of Westminster wards of Bryanston and Dorset Square, Churchill, Hyde Park, Knightsbridge and Belgravia, Marylebone High Street, St James's, Tachbrook, Vincent Square, Warwick and West End.

Members of Parliament

The seat is currently held by Mark Field for the Conservative Party.

Year		Member	Party
	1950	Sir William Harold Webbe	Conservative
	1959	Sir Harry Hylton-Foster	Conservative/Speaker
	1965	John Smith	Conservative
	1970	Christopher Tugendhat	Conservative
1974		''constituency renamed: City of London and Westminster South''
	1974	Christopher Tugendhat	Conservative
	1977	Peter Brooke	Conservative
1997		''constituency renamed: Cities of London and Westminster''
	1997	Peter Brooke	Conservative
	2001	Mark Field	Conservative

Election results

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London