Croydon East (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1950–1955 and 2024 onwards

Croydon East
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Boundary within Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	75,346 (2023) ^[1]
Major settlements	Addiscombe, New Addington, Selsdon, Shirley, Woodside
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Natasha Irons (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Croydon Central and Croydon South
1950–1955
Seats	One
Created from	Croydon North and Croydon South
Replaced by	Croydon North East and Croydon South

Croydon East is a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1955 by the first past the post system of election.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election.^[2] It primarily comprises the abolished Croydon Central constituency – excluding Croydon town centre.

Politics and history

Croydon East was a short-lived seat for the 1950 general election, creating three seats in the County Borough of Croydon from the previous two, taking in areas from the East Surrey constituency to the south. Croydon East took in areas of the former Croydon North and Croydon South constituencies, and East Surrey. It bordered Croydon West, Croydon North and East Surrey, and, when created, Beckenham.

All three Croydon constituencies were abolished at the 1955 general election, re-creating Croydon South and creating Croydon North East and Croydon North West seats.

For all of its history Croydon East had Conservative Members of Parliament. It saw three elections: the 1950 general election, the 1951 general election and a 1954 by-election. Prior to 1950, Croydon South had been held by Labour but most of its voters were re-drawn into Croydon West.

Boundaries

Dates	Local authority	Map	Wards
1950–1955	County Borough of Croydon		Addington, Addiscombe, East, South Norwood, and Woodside
2024-present	London Borough of Croydon		Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, New Addington North, New Addington South, Selsdon & Addington Village, Selsdon Vale & Forestdale, Shirley North, Shirley South, Woodside (polling districts WDS2, WDS3, WDS4, WDS5 and WDS6).^[3]

Members of Parliament

	Member	Party	Notes
1950	Herbert Williams	Conservative	Died July 1954
1954 by-election	John Hughes-Hallett	Conservative
1955	constituency abolished
2024	Natasha Irons	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Croydon East^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Natasha Irons	18,541	42.4	–5.7
	Conservative	Jason Cummings	11,716	26.8	–14.6
	Reform UK	Scott Holman	5,862	13.4	+11.7
	Green	Peter Underwood	4,097	9.4	+7.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Pelling	3,563	8.1	+1.5
Majority			6,825	15.6	+8.9
Turnout			43,779	57.1	–10.1
Registered electors			76,660
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.5

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result^[5]
Party		Vote	%
	Labour	24,340	48.1
	Conservative	20,927	41.3
	Liberal Democrats	3,341	6.6
	Green	1,177	2.3
	Brexit Party	837	1.7

Turnout		50,622	67.2
Electorate		75,346

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Croydon East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Herbert Williams	29,484	53.3
	Labour	Marion Billson	20,903	37.8
	Liberal	George Laing Gray	4,882	8.8
Majority			8,581	15.5
Turnout			55,269
	Conservative win (new seat)

General election 1951: Croydon East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Williams	32,282	58.8	+5.5
	Labour	Alexander Bain	22,615	41.2	+3.4
Majority			9,667	17.6	+2.1
Turnout			54,897
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.0

1954 Croydon East by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Hughes-Hallett	21,640	56.6	−2.2
	Labour	JW Wellwood	13,546	35.4	−5.8
	Liberal	James Walters	3,060	8.0	New
Majority			8,094	21.2	+3.6
Turnout			38,460	57.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.8

References

^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – London". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – London | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 3 London region.
^ "Candidate information". Croydon Council. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

Sources

The Times House of Commons 1950. 1950. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)