East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)

East Ham
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Ham in GreaterLondon.
County	Greater London
Electorate	91,531 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Stephen Timms (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Newham North East, Newham South
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

East Ham is a constituency in the London Borough of Newham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Stephen Timms of the Labour Party.

The seat was formed in 1997 when Newham North East was replaced by the seat and by part of Newham South.

East Ham's wards have long been Labour strongholds: Ron Leighton was MP for the old Newham North East from 1979 until his death in 1994, Stephen Timms has represented the seat since. The RESPECT Coalition stood a candidate once, hoping to benefit from opposition to the Iraq war in the 2005 general election which saw elsewhere their first MP, and took second place. At the 2010 general election, Stephen Timms received the most individual votes of any MP (35,471) and largest majority (27,826) of any MP.

Comprising the eastern part of the London Borough of Newham, East Ham is, as of 2010, the safest Labour seat in London and sixth-safest in the country. Every component ward has only Labour councillors (resulting from local elections), and their general election candidates have achieved an absolute majority on all four elections against a wide assortment of political parties at each election.