Hammersmith was a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament represented from 2010 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Andy Slaughter, a member of the Labour Party.

Under the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, the majority of the constituency was incorporated into the newly created seat of Hammersmith and Chiswick.

Boundaries

1885–1918 1885–1918: The parishes of St Peter and St Paul, Hammersmith.

The parliamentary borough of Hammersmith was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and consisted of the civil parish of Hammersmith (in Middlesex only until 1889 when it fell within the approximately that became part of the County of London under the Local Government Act 1888). Like almost all seats created from 1885 it returned one Member of Parliament.Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, (48 & 49 Vict.) c. 23, Schedule 4 This was the first parliamentary constituency to be based on the town, which from 1868 to 1885 was at the westernmost part of Chelsea and previously had been part of the parliamentary county of Middlesex. In 1900 the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith was formed, but this did not affect the constituency's boundaries.F A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.I: Southern England, London, 1979

The seat bordered to the west the Ealing seat, to the north the large Harrow division of Middlesex seat, to the east Kensington North and Kensington South and to the south the large Kingston division of Surrey and, to the southeast, Fulham. In 1918 the Hammersmith constituency was divided into Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South constituencies.

1983–1997 The second parliamentary borough constituency of Hammersmith was created in 1983.The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983 No. 417) By then the area was part of Greater London and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (both created in 1965). The constituency consisted of ten wards of the London borough, namely Addison, Broadway, Brook Green, College Park and Old Oak, Coningham, Grove, Ravenscourt, Starch Green, White City and Shepherds Bush, and Wormholt. The seat was entirely formed from the previous Hammersmith North constituency.

BBC Television Centre, Shepherd's Bush Market and the Hammersmith Apollo was in this version of the constituency for its 14-year existence, however Westfield London shopping centre had not yet been built.

The constituency was abolished in 1997 and mostly replaced by Hammersmith and Fulham. A northern slice of the seat became part of Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush. The new Hammersmith and Fulham constituency included the town centres of both Hammersmith and Fulham.The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995 No. 1626)

2010–2024 Following a review of parliamentary boundaries in North London, the Boundary Commission for England recreated the Hammersmith constituency for the 2010 general election, following major changes in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The review also created new seats of Chelsea and Fulham and Kensington.

The 2010 Hammersmith constituency was made up of the following ten electoral wards of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham: Addison, Askew, Avonmore and Brook Green, College Park and Old Oak, Fulham Reach, Hammersmith Broadway, North End, Ravenscourt Park, Shepherds Bush Green, and Wormholt and White City.

The 2005 notional result was Labour 44.6%, Conservative 31.1% and Liberal Democrat 19.2%.Hammersmith UK Polling Report

Constituency profile The constituency includes the western part of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, stretching from Wormwood Scrubs down to the River Thames. It takes in the commercial and business hub of Hammersmith itself, parts of northwestern Fulham, the western part of Earl's Court (the Exhibition Centre itself straddles the boundary between this constituency and the Kensington seat), West Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, and White City. The seat has northern areas with a much higher proportion of social housing dependency than the London average and overall this leads to the seat having slightly higher rates of unemployment and underemployment.

In 1981, 18.2% of the population was non-White. Political history since 2010 The Labour Party candidate took a marginal majority of 7.5% of the vote in 2010. Slaughter's majority in 2015, 13.6%, made it the 156th safest of the party's 232 seats by percentage of majority. In 2017, Slaughter increased his majority to 35.7%. In 2019, Slaughter's majority slipped slightly to 34.4%

Members of Parliament ElectionMemberPartyNotes1885 Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy 1900 William Bull 1918 Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South1983 Clive Soley previously MP for Hammersmith North 1979–1983, later Baron Soley1997 Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith and Fulham2010 Andy Slaughter previously MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush 2005–2010

Election results Elections in the 2010s

* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament for the seat of Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush

2005 notional result Party Vote % Labour 18,409 45.1 Conservative 13,676 33.5 Liberal Democrats 7,622 18.7 Others 1,132 2.8Turnout40,83959.9Electorate68,198

Election results 1983–1992

Both Starks and Knott were official candidates of their respective local parties and both supported the Alliance between the Liberals and the SDP, however Starks was given endorsement by both the national parties.

1979 notional result Party Vote % Labour 17,241 48.2 Conservative 13,735 38.4 Liberal 4,147 11.6 Others 655 1.8Turnout35,778Electorate

Election Results 1885–1918 Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1880s

See also parliamentary constituencies in London Hammersmith and Fulham

Notes

References

External links Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards) Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards) British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974) Debrett’s Illustrated Heraldic and Biographical House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886 Debrett’s House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1901 Debrett’s House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1918 Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972) British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)

Hammersmith UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK