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Post by finsobruce on Apr 16, 2020 17:33:14 GMT
Noel Park resident here. 
The number of Greek cypriots diminishes all the time (generally supposed to be heading northwards, but probably just dispersing generally as immigrant populations do). I think every East European country is represented hereabouts (one of my upstairs neighbours is Hungarian) and we even had an Albanian bookshop/centre on Wightman road (although that was just the other side of the constituency boundary).
The old Wood Green seat was Tory, from its creation in 1918 to its being a very much against the trend Labour gain in 1950. The gain can certainly be explained by the fact that the seat became coterminus with Wood Green borough, with Southgate borough removed, but it remained reasonably marginal until its demise in 1983. The Wood Green wards (Noel Park, Woodside, Bounds Green - which was Bowes Park) were also marginal at the time with the Tories often having a majority of the councillors there until 1994, something which seems incredible now.
Harringay ward was part of Hornsey constituency until the 1983 election when it was moved into Tottenham
Wood Green was not a Labour gain in 1950. Conservative MP Beverley Baxter followed most of his constituents from Wood Green to the new Southgate seat after boundary changes. the fact that there were boundary changes and the Tory MP chose to go to a new seat, does not mean that this was not a gain. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 16, 2020 17:37:54 GMT
Wood Green was not a Labour gain in 1950. Conservative MP Beverley Baxter followed most of his constituents from Wood Green to the new Southgate seat after boundary changes. And indeed Labour MP William Irving followed most of his constituents from Tottenham North to the new Wood Green seat I think in John Chanin's Tottenham write up he says that the unified Tottenham constituency had never been Tory - It was, just by defection when Allen Graham Brown went Tory not that long after being elected in 1959. I was told that the issue at dispute was control of the Trades Hall company or the Co-op party or something like that, but I suspect it was down to the fact that he had been a surprise winner of the selection, which was until the 80s, if not in the gift of the Engineering Union, certainly regarded as somewhere they could get their nominee selected without too much trouble. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 16, 2020 17:41:35 GMT
it certainly did Pete. I remember having a long-ish argument with someone that NP and WHL were historically Wood Green and not Tottenham. Yes but not Wood Green borough Just so - Wood Green borough itself was 'independent' run until Labour won control of it in 1950. This was presumably the same sort of movement that had Southgate UDC controlled by independents rather than the Tory party for a long time. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 27, 2022 21:05:53 GMT
Notional result 2019 on the proposed new boundaries (Hornsey) | Lab | 29436 | 56.6% | | LD | 12665 | 24.4% | | Con | 7182 | 13.8% | | Grn | 2007 | 3.9% | | BxP | 468 | 0.9% | | Oth | 223 | 0.4% | | | | | | Majority | 16771 | 32.3% |
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Post by Robert Waller on Dec 3, 2022 19:51:03 GMT
2021 Census
Owner occupied 46.1% 525/573
Private rented 34.2% 39/573
Social rented 19.8% 162/573
White 67.4%
Black 10.4%
Asian 8.1%
Jewish 3.6% 13/650
Managerial & professional 46.8% 24/573
Routine & Semi-routine 13.8% 552/573
Degree level 57.5% 11/573
No qualifications 13.4% 504/573
2011
Owner occupied 46.8% 531/573
Private rented 33.4% 23/573
Social rented 19.8% 185/573
White 71%, Black 11%, Asian 8.2%, Sth Asian 4%
Jewish 3.4% 15/650
Managerial & professional 47.0%
Routine & Semi-routine 13.2%
Degree level 52.0% 8/573
No qualifications 12.4% 559/573
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