Millions of voters across London are going to the polls to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:
DULWICH AND WEST NORWOOD
Estimated declaration time 4.15am
Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):
Leon Cook - Conservatives
Pete Elliott - Green Party
Donna Harris - Liberal Democrats
Helen Hayes - Labour Party
Gary Stevens - Reform UK
Summary:
Intriguing constituency as the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and most recently the Greens have come runners-up to Labour here.
The seat was created in 1997 and held by the late Dame Tessa Jowell, who was Culture Secretary and Olympics minister, until 2015.
After she retired, Helen Hayes became the MP, winning here with a majority of 27,310 in 2019, and who has campaigned for a clampdown on zombie and other dangerous knives.
It had the third highest Remain vote in the UK in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Area: This constituency has the five Lambeth wards of Coldharbour, Gipsy Hill, Herne Hill, Knight’s Hill, and Thurlow Park, as well as three from Southwark including Champion Hill, Dulwich Village, and Dulwich Wood.
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Dulwich and West Norwood constituency map. Purple shaded area: Current constituency boundary. Green outlines new constituency boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors | © CARTOBoundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): The most interesting aspect of boundary changes in this constituency comes down to points of a percentage. Labour won in 2019 with 65.5 per cent of the votes, with the Greens second on 16.5 per cent, just ahead of the Tories on 16.4 per cent. The new constituency would have been 64.5 per cent Labour, the Conservatives narrowly ahead on 16.6 per cent of the Greens on 16.2 per cent.
YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour hold
Evening Standard view: Forget about Labour, they’ll win here. Far more interesting is who comes second, the Greens, Tories or Lib Dems.
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