Finchley and Golders Green (UK Parliament constituency)

Finchley and Golders Green
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Finchley and Golders Green in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	71,595 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Mike Freer (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Finchley, Hendon South
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Finchley and Golders Green is a constituency created in 1997 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since 2010, its MP has been Mike Freer, a Conservative.

1997-2010: The London Borough of Barnet wards of Childs Hill, East Finchley, Finchley, Garden Suburb, Golders Green, St Paul's, and Woodhouse.

2010-present: As above; less St Paul's, plus West Finchley and replacing Finchley with Finchley Church End.

The constituency covers Finchley, Golders Green, Childs Hill and Hampstead Garden Suburb in the London Borough of Barnet. It was created in 1997 largely replacing the [[Finchley (UK Parliament constituency)|the abolished constituency of Finchley] — plus major parts of abolished Hendon South, less some of its wards transferred to the Chipping Barnet seat which covers Barnet. Specifically the creation saw the removal of Friern Barnet and addition of Golders Green, Childs Hill and Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Under a review of parliamentary representation, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended in a boundary report published in 2007 that:

These changes took effect at the 2010 general election.

Most of the constituency's territory was previously in the abolished Finchley seat, created in 1918, represented by former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher between 1959 and her retirement from the House of Commons in 1992; although boundary changes meant that she never again attained her large majority of 1959, and was re-elected by a 10-point margin in 1974, she was nonetheless returned by majorities exceeding 9,000 votes at General Elections throughout her premiership. Since the 1992 nominal result, and officially from its creation, the seat has been a national bellwether.