General Election 2024 London seats: Who will be my MP in....Battersea?
Millions of voters across London will go the polls on July 4 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:
BATTERSEA
Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):
Francis Chubb - Liberal Democrats
Marsha de Cordova - Labour Party
Barry Edwards - Reform UK
Tom Pridham - Conservatives
Joe Taylor - Green Party
Summary: Battersea was a bellwether seat for three decades, between 1987 and 2017, always going with the party of Government. Marsha de Cordova bucked this trend by winning it for Labour from Conservative Jane Ellison in 2017, and increased her majority to 5,668 in 2019.
This was Boris Johnson’s “get Brexit done” election. Battersea backed Remain in 2016 by around three quarters, the biggest vote against leaving the European Union in a constituency held by a Tory MP at the time.
Given the failures to deliver on the promises of Breixteers eight years ago, this looks like an even harder seat for the Tories to challenge to win.
Area: The constituency includes Balham, Fairfield (part of), Latchmere, Northcote, Queenstown, Shaftesbury and St Mary’s Park
I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check
Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Boundary changes have made this more of a Labour seat. At the 2019 General Election, the result was 45.5 per cent Labour, 36.1 per cent Tory, and 15.3 per cent Lib Dem. The changes would have made it 46.4 per cent Labour, 35.4 per cent Conservative, and 15.1 per cent Lib Dem.
YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour hold
Evening Standard view: Given the favourable boundary changes, and the fact that Labour can get out an army of activists in seats like this, it looks firmly like staying Red.
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