Orpington (UK Parliament constituency)

Orpington
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Orpington in Greater London for the 2010 general election.
County	Greater London
Electorate	68,221 (December 2010)
Major settlements	St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray (part), Orpington, Petts Wood and Biggin Hill
Current constituency
Created	1945
Member of parliament	Jo Johnson (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Chislehurst and Dartford
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Orpington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jo Johnson, a Conservative.

Orpington was created in a minor boundary review enacted at the 1945 general election.

The seats of Dartford and Chislehurst had both seen their electorate grow enormously since the 1918 review and were treated as one and divided into four, creating the additional seats of Bexley and this one in 1945.

The seat has changed a little in subsequent boundary reviews since 1945. For the 1997 general election the Ravensbourne seat which had emerged in the west by Bromley was divided between three constituencies which before then overshot the London Borough of Bromley, adding to Orpington the community of Biggin Hill.

The seat is famous for its 1962 by-election when it was taken in a shock result and substantial victory by the Liberal Party candidate Eric Lubbock.

1945-1974: The Urban District of Orpington, and part of the Rural District of Dartford.