Who will be my MP in… Croydon West?

Millions of voters in London will go to the polls on July 4 to elect a new government. The Standard looks at the key battleground and other places in the capital and has published an interactive map. Here we shine the spotlight:

CROYDON WEST

Candidates for the main parties (in alphabetical order):

Simon Fox – Conservatives

Jahir Hussain – Liberal Democrats

Sarah Jones – Labor Party

Vinayak Malhotra – Reform Britain

Ria Patel – Green Party

summary:

Rewind to 1950 to 1955 and the Croydon West constituency had a brief previous existence, held for five years by Conservative Richard Thompson.

Big boundary changes have affected the Croydon area for this election.

So this new Croydon West seat now includes part of the former Croydon North constituency as well as Croydon town center and Waddon.

In the 2019 election, Labour’s Steve Reed won Croydon North with a huge majority of 24,673 people.

Croydon West is contested by Labour’s Sarah Jones, who won Croydon Central in 2019 with a much smaller majority of 5,949.

Mr Reed moved to fight Streatham and Croydon North, admittedly all quite confused.

Area: This constituency includes the wards of Bensham Manor, Broad Green, Fairfield, Selhurst, South Norwood, Waddon, West Thornton and Woodside (part of).

Not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check

Impact of boundary changes (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Sarah Jones won Croydon Central with 50.2% of the vote in 2019, with the Tories getting 39.2% and the Lib Dems 6.5%. In the new seat of Croydon West, the result would have been 66.7 per cent Labour, 21.5 per cent Tory and seven per cent Lib Dem.

YouGov MRP poll prediction: Retention of work

Standard Evening View: Labour’s Sarah Jones looks like a winner of boundary changes as she contests this safe seat for the party, having previously won marginal Croydon Central by just under 6,000 votes five years ago.

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