Greenwich and Woolwich | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Greenwich and Woolwich in Greater London.
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County | Greater London |
Electorate | 66,982 (December 2010) |
Major settlements | Greenwich, Woolwich and Charlton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Matthew Pennycook (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Greenwich, Woolwich |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | London |
Greenwich and Woolwich /ˈɡrʔnʔ[unsupported input] ʔnd wʔlʔ[unsupported input]/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Matthew Pennycook of the Labour Party.
The seat while dominated in the south by expansive and panoramic Greenwich Park retains constituent connections to work at the former Royal Docks by and Gas Works in North Greenwich and has a considerable social dependency in its Greenwich and Woolwich town centres, including in social housing, heightened by an acute demand for housing, particularly in the western half, SE10 due to architecturally-rich conservation areas and very close proximity to Canary Wharf and City of London.
The constituency was created in 1997 by the merger of the whole of the former seat of Greenwich and the western half of the former seat of Woolwich. It has been won since 1997 by a Labour candidate, whose greatest majority of the votes cast 44.8% in 1997. The 2010 general election produced the slimmest majority of 24.7% of the vote.