Chelsea and Fulham | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Chelsea and Fulham in Greater London.
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County | Greater London |
Population | 105,697 (2011 census) |
Electorate | 62,958 (December 2010) |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Greg Hands (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Chelsea and Fulham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Greg Hands of the Conservative Party.
Chelsea and Fulham constituency is made up of the following electoral wards:
Following the review of parliamentary representation to seek equal representation in London, the boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham were paired for constituency allocation purposes and allocated three seats between them.
This broke the previous pairings of Kensington and Chelsea with the City of Westminster, and of Hammersmith and Fulham with the London Borough of Ealing, and therefore abolished the mainstay but not comprehensive seats Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea as the "spillover" cross-boundary seats of Regents Park and Kensington North and Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush.
Kensington was recreated, having previously been a constituency historically — equally the Hammersmith seat was revived.