Ealing Southall (UK Parliament constituency)

Ealing, Southall
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ealing, Southall in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	65,768 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Southall, Norwood Green, Northfields, Dormers Wells
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Virendra Sharma (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Southall
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Ealing, Southall (also Ealing Southall) is a constituency created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2007 by Virendra Sharma of the Labour Party.

The constituency has relatively good road and rail transport, and numerous small to medium-size green spaces, and has had as many as three tube stations at its eastern extremes of its boundaries. Southall and Norwood Green, forming the western bulk of the seat, feature a high British Asian proportion of the population since the 1960s. British Indian ethnicity is the largest single ethnic group. British Asians account for 51% of the population, as at the 2011 census, the majority of this minority is of Indian ethnicity (29.6%). The Afro-Caribbean community amounts to 8% according to the latest census statistics. The seat has generally modest incomes and the vast majority of housing is modest terraced, semi-detached or mid-rise 20th century blocks of flats. The east of the seat is formed by Hanwell and diminutive West Ealing.

The seat has been seen three successive Labour Party MPs since inception in 1983. The majorities have ranged between 13.8% of the vote and 43.3% of the vote, which was not achieved in a landslide year; in 2015. The length of tenure and size of majorities mean that practical analyses consider Ealing Southall a safe seat. The 2015 result made the seat the 25th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. The larger predecessor seat, created in 1945, was held by Labour throughout its existence.

1983–1997: The London Borough of Ealing wards of Dormers Wells, Elthorne, Glebe, Mount Pleasant, Northcote, Northfield, Walpole, and Waxlow.