Croydon North
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 24193 (53.7%)
Conservative: 9982 (22.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 7716 (17.1%)
Other: 3129 (6.9%)
Majority: 14210 (31.6%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 9667 (22%)
Labour: 23555 (53.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 7560 (17.2%)
Green: 1248 (2.8%)
UKIP: 770 (1.8%)
Other: 1047 (2.4%)
Majority: 13888 (31.7%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 9752 (23.3%)
Labour: 26610 (63.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 4375 (10.4%)
UKIP: 606 (1.4%)
Other: 539 (1.3%)
Majority: 16858 (40.3%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 14274 (27.2%)
Labour: 32672 (62.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 4066 (7.7%)
Referendum: 1155 (2.2%)
Other: 396 (0.8%)
Majority: 18398 (35%)
Boundary changes
Current MP: Malcolm Wicks (Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: 
Shasha Khan (Green) Director in a family business and runs a dance music record label. Contested Croydon North 2005.
Jason Hadden (Conservative) Works as a solicitor advocate and for BPP.
Henry Pearce (UKIP) contested Croydon North 2005.
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 119419
Male: 47.8%
Female: 52.2%
Under 18: 25.2%
Over 60: 14.8%
Born outside UK: 32%
White: 50.7%
Black: 23.9%
Asian: 19.3%
Mixed: 4.6%
Other: 1.4%
Christian: 59.5%
Hindu: 8.6%
Muslim: 9.1%
Sikh: 0.6%
Full time students: 5%
Graduates 16-74: 23.5%
No Qualifications 16-74: 23.9%
Owner-Occupied: 63.7%
Social Housing: 18.3% (Council: 10.5%, Housing Ass.: 7.9%)
Privately Rented: 15.4%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 10.4%
Fair enough - on reflection, it’s difficult to see any chance of Labour success in Cheam, either locally or nationally, although, as Pete says, it might have been a Chipping Barnet kind of result in 1997 - and espeically in 2001.
I would have thought Kingston and Surbiton would been like Chipping Barnet. Labour would have probably had a lot of seats on the council. In 1994 and 1998 it could have even been a Labour council. Labour could have had all the Hook, Tolworth and Chessington wards, Malden Manor, Canbury and Norbiton. They may have won Surbiton Hill and maybe Grove and Burlington as well. Unlike Sutton and Cheam I believe Kingston could have some left-leaning middle class votes. As Kingston is more like Putney and Wimbledon.
Croydon Advertiser this week reports that Marianne Bowness (the Unity Party) is intending to stand in Croydon North. Her partner, Winston McKenzie, will stand in Croydon Central. This means that they have swapped constituencies compared with 2005, when they were the other way round.
Labour regained Canbury in 1998 from the Lib Dems over the issue of the LD Council allowing a developer to cut down the Poplar Trees in Canbury Gardens (subject to a legal agreement with the LD council).
In 2002, the LD’s regained the ward but in 2006 Canbury split 2 Con/ 1 LD.
Canbury had Tory councillors in the late 1960’s but boundary changes in 1978 removed some of the pleasant Thameside roads to Tudor Ward and brought in most of the abolished Labour Park ward - resulting in this seat being out of reach of the Conservatives till 2006 - following massive gentrification.
This week’s Croydon Post says that Raymond Morris (a friend of Winston McKenzie) has joined Unity and will be the candidate in Croydon North, so Marianne Bowness has been transferred to be the prospective candidate for Croydon South instead.