| Leyton and Wanstead | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Map1: | LeytonWanstead2007 |
| Map Entity: | Greater London |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Type: | Borough |
| Electorate: | 71,330 (2023)[1] |
| Region: | England |
| County: | Greater London |
| European: | London |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
Leyton and Wanstead is a constituency in Greater London created in 1997 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Calvin Bailey of the Labour Party.
Uniting for general elections areas from the boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest in inner north-east London, the constituency covers Leyton, Wanstead & Leytonstone. The seat was created for the 1997 election succeeding the Leyton constituency, with parts of what had been the formerly safe Conservative Wanstead and Woodford constituency. It has an electorate of approximately 60,000.
1997–2017: The following electoral wards:
2017–2024: Following a review of ward boundaries which became effective in May 2017,[2] the parts in the London Borough of Redbridge comprised the Wanstead Village ward, most of the Wanstead Park ward and part of the South Woodford ward.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency was expanded to include the whole of the Wanstead Park and South Woodford wards.[3]
Following a local government boundary review in Waltham Forest which came into effect in May 2022,[4] [5] the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election:
The seat arose from the enacting of the recommendations of the fourth periodic review of Westminster constituencies of the Boundary Commission for England to take account of demographic population change and seek to equalise electorates whilst in preference retaining the historic connections with the local authorities of the United Kingdom.
This seat combines deprived and economic-cycle vulnerable areas around Leyton[8] with the more affluent, resilient Wanstead area. It is an ethnically diverse area, with the biggest minority groups being Pakistani British and Caribbean British, although it has fewer ethnic minority constituents than in the London Borough of Newham.[9]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Harry Cohen | Labour | |
| 2010 | John Cryer | ||
| 2024 | Calvin Bailey | ||
| 2019 notional result[10] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| 30,823 | 63.1 | ||
| 9,702 | 19.9 | ||
| 5,209 | 10.7 | ||
| 1,868 | 3.8 | ||
| 836 | 1.7 | ||
| Others | 427 | 0.9 | |
| Turnout | 48,865 | 68.5 | |
| Electorate | 71,330 | ||