Chingford & Woodford Green
2015 Result:
Conservative: 20999 (47.9%)
Labour: 12613 (28.8%)
Lib Dem: 2400 (5.5%)
Green: 1854 (4.2%)
UKIP: 5644 (12.9%)
TUSC: 241 (0.6%)
Others: 53 (0.1%)
MAJORITY: 8386 (19.1%)
Category: Safe Conservative seat
Geography: Greater London. Part of Waltham Forest council and part of Redbridge council.
Main population centres: Chingford, Woodford Green.
Profile: A north-east London seat straddling the boundary between Waltham Forest and Redbridge. This is white, owner-occupied Tory suburbia on the edge of Epping Forest and alongside the Chingford reservoirs in the Lee Valley. The majority of the seat is made up of Chingford; Woodford is split between Leyton and Wanstead, Ilford North and this seat, with the part west of the Central Line coming under Chingford and Woodford Green.
Politics: A safe Conservative seat represented by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, but perhaps more associated with his predecessor for the Chingford portion of the seat, Norman Tebbit.

Con: | 22743 (53%) |
Lab: | 9780 (23%) |
LDem: | 7242 (17%) |
BNP: | 1288 (3%) |
Oth: | 2053 (5%) |
MAJ: | 12963 (30%) |
Con: | 20555 (53%) |
Lab: | 9914 (26%) |
LDem: | 6832 (18%) |
UKIP: | 1078 (3%) |
Oth: | 269 (1%) |
MAJ: | 10641 (28%) |
Con: | 17834 (48%) |
Lab: | 12347 (33%) |
LDem: | 5739 (16%) |
BNP: | 1062 (3%) |
MAJ: | 5487 (15%) |
Con: | 21109 (47%) |
Lab: | 15395 (35%) |
LDem: | 6885 (15%) |
Oth: | 1059 (2%) |
MAJ: | 5714 (13%) |












IDS only 2% up in Chingford according to Datapraxis and therefore a squeeze could see a Labour gain.
Tom Newton Dunn of the Sun reporting Boris Johnson went to Chingford this afternoon to campaign with IDS. He thinks sending in the PM must mean IDS and CCHQ are worried about losing.
Unlike Wycombe, this is feasible for Labour. However, I think IDS will still scrape through.
Surely will if Ilford North is in danger.
I wonder when the last time the architect of Universal Credit actually went to a job centre?
I know you are joking, but IDS had the wherewithal to marry a woman from a very wealthy family. He must be a nice guy privately because he sure as hell isn’t my idea of a trophy husband.
I remember the old Wanstead and Woodford seat that used to consistently send Tories to Parliament with over 50% of the popular vote
Wanstead has since been paired with Leyton and is now monolithically Labour whereas this seat is very marginally Tory and has been so since its creation in 1997 so I wondering what happened to all those Tory voters . They can’t have all moved to Essex
Quite a few are in the cemetery.
I did IDS a dis-service actually as the Tories did get a couple of 5-figure majorities in 2005 and 2010
Could have a fight on his hands this time though now that Labour have selected a fashionable candidate