Battersea (UK Parliament Constituency) - Boundaries

Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of-

• "No. 2 Ward of Battersea Parish,
• No. 3 Ward of Battersea Parish, and
• So much of No. 4 Ward of Battersea Parish as lies to the north of a line drawn along the centre of Battersea Rise, and to the west of a line drawn along the centre of the St. John's Road."

Battersea is an unusually-shaped constituency due to it following the Thames as it snakes into and out of central London, covering the north-eastern third of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

It takes in all of the district of Battersea including the park and riverside, and stretches out eastwards to include Nine Elms and Queenstown; and westwards to include most of Wandsworth town, including the riverside, the Town Hall and East Hill in Fairfield ward. But Battersea also stretches south between Wandsworth Common and Clapham Common to include Balham ward, which is actually only the eastern end of Balham (the rest being in Tooting). It is no longer the safe Labour seat it used to be as the area had a considerable influx of young professionals, or yuppies, in the mid-1980s which swung it towards the Conservatives. It returned to Labour in 1997, but had a reduced majority for Labour in 2005, and was regained by the Tories in 2010.

It is bordered by the constituencies of-

• Putney
• Tooting
• Hammersmith & Fulham
• Kensington & Chelsea
• Cities of London & Westminster
• Vauxhall
• Streatham