Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Tottenham
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Tottenham in Greater London.
County	Greater London
Electorate	79,172 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Tottenham
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Rt Hon David Lammy (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Tottenham North and Tottenham South
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Tottenham North and Tottenham South
Created from	Middlesex
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	London

Tottenham /ˈtɒtnəm, -tənəm/ is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Rt Hon David Lammy, a member of the Labour Party. The 1885 to 1918 version of the seat is also covered by this article.

1885-1918: The parish of Tottenham, and the area [small exclaves] included in the Parliamentary Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Hackney, Shoreditch, and Tower Hamlets.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Tottenham wards of Bruce Grove and Stoneleigh, Chestnuts, Green Lanes, Stamford Hill, Town Hall, and West Green.

1974-1983: The London Borough of Haringey wards of Bruce Grove, Green Lanes, High Cross, Seven Sisters, South Tottenham, Tottenham Central, and West Green.

1983-2010: As above plus Coleraine, Harringay, Park, and White Hart Lane.

2010-present:

From 2018 (proposed): As above plus Stroud Green.

The constituency is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, covering the borough's central and eastern area.

The seat sided with the Conservative party candidate until the January-to-February-held 1906 election, a party noted for the gradual social reforms of Benjamin Disraeli in the early 1880s, particularly in education and urban deprivation. By the time of the United Kingdom general election, 1906 the Liberal Party (UK) was at its final apex and stood on the moral high ground on issues of free trade and abhorrences in the Boer War which turned the seat in the Liberal landslide result of that year to the party's candidate. The two elections in 1910 (before a near eight-year long hiatus in elections due to World War I) were one-member parliamentary majority results nationally between the two then-dominant parties but the Liberal Party's People's Budget proposed at the first 1910 election saw Liberal incumbent Alden narrowly returned to serve Tottenham and again at the end of the year.