Constituency Profile
The seat takes in the innermost third of the London Borough of Ealing – including the Acton area and the centre of Ealing itself.
Acton and Ealing have both become bases for young families, thanks to the good transport connections and low crime levels – though the very edge of the seat goes along the perimeter fencing of the prison at Wormwood Scrubs.
Notionally, the seat would have been a very close three-way marginal in 2005 between the Conservative Party (32.8%), Labour Party (32.6%) and the Liberal Democrats (29.7%). Alternative estimates suggest that the seat would have had a tiny Labour majority in 2005.
In the 2010 general election, Angie Bray won the seat with a majority of 3,716, representing a notional swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 5%.
Read more about this topic: Ealing Central And Acton (UK Parliament Constituency)
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