General Election London 2024 seats: Who will be my MP in...Eltham and Chislehurst?

Nicholas Cecil
·2 min read
Labour’s Clive Efford and Conservative Charlie Davis who are vying to be the next MP for Eltham and Chislehurst (ES Composite)
Labour’s Clive Efford and Conservative Charlie Davis who are vying to be the next MP for Eltham and Chislehurst (ES Composite)
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Millions of voters across London will go to the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:

ELTHAM AND CHISLEHURST

Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):

Ulysse Lucien Abbate - Liberal Democrats

Charlie Davis - Conservatives

Clive Efford - Labour Party

Sam Gabriel - Green Party

Mark George Simpson - Reform UK

Summary: Big changes here. So big in fact that on paper it looks like a Labour-leaning marginal seat has become a Tory-leaning marginal.

Former black cab driver Clive Efford represented Eltham for Labour since 1997, having won the seat in the first Blair landslide from Conservative Peter Bottomley, now knighted and Father of the House until Parliament was dissolved.

Mr Efford held the seat in 2019 with a majority of 3,197.

If the Tories were on the up, he could have been in trouble in this old seat and even more in this new constituency, but it looks a challenge for the Tories to win this time around given how badly they are doing in the polls.

Area: This constituency includes six Greenwich wards of Coldharbour and New Eltham, Eltham North, Eltham South, Eltham West, Kidbrooke with Hornfair, and Middle Park and Sutcliffe, as well as two from Bromley; Chislehurst, and Mottingham and Chislehurst North.

I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check

New constituency of Eltham and Chislehurst (Google Maps)
New constituency of Eltham and Chislehurst (Google Maps)

Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Few parts of London have been so dramatically affected by boundary changes. Labour won the seat of Eltham in 2019 with 47 per cent of the vote, with the Tories on 39.7 per cent, and Lib Dems 6.7 per cent. However, the new constituency would have been 46.9 per cent Conservative, 40.1 per cent Labour and 7.5 per cent Lib Dem.

YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour

Evening Standard view: If the Conservatives got their act together in London they could be winning seats like this new constituency. But at the moment it does not look like it will be taxi for black cab driver Clive Efford

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