Ilford North (UK Parliament constituency)

Ilford North
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ilford North in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	72,702 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Ilford
Current constituency
Created	1945
Member of parliament	Wes Streeting (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Ilford
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Ilford North is a constituency created in 1945 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Wes Streeting, a Labour Party MP.

The seat was created for the 1945 General Election, from the northern part of the former Ilford seat.

The area before 1900 was semi-rural. All districts are urban but interspersed with many parks and a few small nature reserves and are connected to Central London by surface rail and by the Central line (London Underground) which forms an end loop around Hainault tube station. The vast majority of Ilford North's housing is houses of terraced or semi-detached type having typically small and narrow gardens. As at the 2011 census mid-rise apartments in modest landscaped grounds form the bulk of the type of flats in the seat as opposed to tower blocks.

The seat has wavered in its electoral winner-takes-all results — seeing seven phases since 1945 of Labour Party or Conservative Party representation in the House of Commons. The 2015 result made the seat the 8th narrowest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority, and in any election in first past the post a 1.2% majority would be considered marginal.

1945-1950: The Municipal Borough of Ilford wards of Barkingside, North Hainault, Seven Kings, and South Hainault.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Ilford wards of Barkingside, Clayhall, Fairlop, North Hainault, Seven Kings, and South Hainault.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Redbridge wards of Aldborough, Barkingside, Chadwell, Fairlop, Hainault, and Seven Kings.

1983-1997: As above plus Fullwell