Uk Parliament Constituency Dagenham And Rainham

Dates	Maps	Electoral wards	Local authority
2010–Next United Kingdom general election		(North to south) Whalebone, Chadwell Heath, Heath, Eastbrook, Village, River	London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
		Elm Park, Rainham and Wennington, South Hornchurch	London Borough of Havering
Next United Kingdom general election–

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward boundaries in place at 1 December 2020, and enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the Chadwell Heath ward will be moved to Ilford South. To compensate, the Barking and Dagenham Borough ward of Valence and parts of the Havering Borough wards of St Andrew's and Hacton (mainly to the west of Abbs Cross Lane and South End Road) will be transferred in from Barking, and Hornchurch and Upminster respectively.

Following local government boundary reviews in Barking and Dagenham, and Havering which came into effect in May 2022, the constituency will now comprise the following from the next general election:

• The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham wards of: Alibon (part); Beam; Chadwell Heath (small part); Eastbrook and Rush Green; Goresbrook (small part); Heath; Parsloes; (small part); Valence (majority); Village; Whalebone
• The London Borough of Havering wards of: Beam Park; Elm Park; Rainham and Wennington; South Hornchurch; and a very small part of Hacton ward.

Before 1945 the Dagenham area was part of the Romford constituency. The MP for the latter seat since 1935, Labour's John Parker, continued to represent Dagenham until 1983. Parker was the last serving MP to have been elected before the Second World War, and with 48 years in Parliament, was the longest-serving Labour MP in history, a record he held until December 2017. The seat was first contested in the 2010 general election which resulted from the Boundary Commission's report that recommended merging the majority of the former constituencies of Dagenham and Hornchurch and added to existing electoral wards a small part of River ward was also transferred from Barking.

In 2010 Labour's Jon Cruddas took the seat gaining a marginal 5.9% win, facing a strong nominal (ward-by-ward) Lab–Con swing measured against the previous forerunner seats and candidates. BNP candidate Michael Barnbrook came third with 11.2% of the vote, his party's second-best showing in the election. In 2015, Cruddas, incumbent won an 11.6% majority; the runner-up party changed to being UKIP closely followed by the Conservative candidate.

In 2019, Cruddas' majority was cut to just 293 votes, the lowest Labour majority in Dagenham ever, which has been represented by Labour MPs since 1945.

The electoral wards in both boroughs were redrawn in 2022 and subsequently the constituency no longer aligns with ward boundaries.

The constituency may retain significant pockets of poverty indicated by a high ranking in the Index of Multiple Deprivation compiled in the year 2000 however average incomes were in four large wards close to the national average. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham saw the most rapid decrease in people of White British ethnicity in the 10 years to the 2011 census, of 31.4 percentage points. However the same dataset shows that 58.3% of people are white in the seat, which is similar to the Greater London average. An established area of settlement for British people of Asian ethnicity with 15.9% of this background, the neighbouring London Borough of Newham has a much higher proportion of residents with Asian heritage, 43.5%.

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Dagenham and Rainham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Cruddas	19,468	44.5	5.6
	Conservative	Damian White	19,175	43.8	3.9
	Brexit Party	Tom Bewick	2,887	6.6	New
	Liberal Democrats	Sam Fisk	1,182	2.7	1.7
	Green	Azzees Minott	602	1.4	0.2
	Independent	Ron Emin	212	0.5	New
	Independent	Terry London	209	0.5	0.3
Majority			293	0.7	9.5
Turnout			43,735	61.7	3.2
Registered electors			71,045
	Labour hold		Swing	4.8

General election 2017: Dagenham and Rainham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Cruddas	22,958	50.1	8.7
	Conservative	Julie Marson	18,306	39.9	15.5
	UKIP	Peter Harris	3,246	7.1	22.7
	Green	Denis Breading	544	1.2	0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Fryer	465	1.0	0.7
	BNP	Paul Sturdy	239	0.5	0.1
	Concordia	Terence London	85	0.2	New
Majority			4,652	10.2	1.4
Turnout			45,843	64.9	2.6
Registered electors			70,616
	Labour hold		Swing	3.4

General election 2015: Dagenham and Rainham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Cruddas	17,830	41.4	1.1
	UKIP	Peter Harris	12,850	29.8	26.3
	Conservative	Julie Marson	10,492	24.4	9.9
	Green	Kate Simpson	806	1.9	1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Denise Capstick	717	1.7	6.9
	BNP	Tess Culnane	151	0.4	10.8
	Independent	Terry London	133	0.3	New
	English Democrat	Kim Gandy	71	0.2	New
Majority			4,980	11.6	5.6
Turnout			43,050	62.3	0.9
Registered electors			69,128
	Labour hold		Swing	12.6

* Served as MP for Dagenham in the 2005–2010 Parliament

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