Croydon South
2010 Results:
Conservative: 28684 (50.93%)
Labour: 11287 (20.04%)
Liberal Democrat: 12866 (22.84%)
UKIP: 2504 (4.45%)
Green: 981 (1.74%)
Majority: 15818 (28.09%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 26617 (51.9%)
Labour: 12374 (24.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 10415 (20.3%)
Other: 1853 (3.6%)
Majority: 14243 (27.8%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 25320 (51.8%)
Labour: 11792 (24.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 10049 (20.6%)
UKIP: 1054 (2.2%)
Other: 682 (1.4%)
Majority: 13528 (27.7%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 22169 (49.2%)
Labour: 13472 (29.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 8226 (18.3%)
UKIP: 998 (2.2%)
Other: 195 (0.4%)
Majority: 8697 (19.3%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 25649 (47.3%)
Labour: 13719 (25.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 11441 (21.1%)
Referendum: 2631 (4.9%)
Other: 759 (1.4%)
Majority: 11930 (22%)
Boundary changes: Gains part of Selsdon & Ballards, part of Croham and a small part of Waddon.
Profile: A seat in the far south of London that has more in common with residential Surrey than the inner city. Apart from Waddon in the north of the seat, which contains a large council estate and tower blocks and sometimes returns Labour councillors, this seat consists of affluent, leafy dormitory suburbs for Croydon and London, places like Coulson, Purley, Sanderstead and Selsdon (the site of the 1969 meeting that set free-market policies for the Conservative party and lead to the phrase “Selsdon man” and the later founding of the Selsdon Group).
This is a safe Conservative seat, held by the Tories since its creation in 1974 (the previous Croydon South seat, once held by Labour`s David Winnick, is a different seat that corresponds to what is now Croydon Central).
Current MP: Richard Ottaway(Conservative) born 1945, Bristol. Educated at Backwell School and Bristol University. Former Royal Naval Officer and solicitor. MP for Nottingham North 1983-1987. First elected as MP for Croydon South in 1992 (more information at They work for you)
Richard Ottaway(Conservative) born 1945, Bristol. Educated at Backwell School and Bristol University. Former Royal Naval Officer and solicitor. MP for Nottingham North 1983-1987. First elected as MP for Croydon South in 1992 (more information at They work for you)
Jane Avis (Labour) 
Simon Rix (Liberal Democrat) Book publisher
Gordon Ross (Green) Born Luton, 1965. Educated at St Georges School, Harpenden and Dundee University. Transport surveyor.
Jeffrey Bolter (UKIP)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 103848
Male: 48.5%
Female: 51.5%
Under 18: 23%
Over 60: 19.9%
Born outside UK: 14.2%
White: 84.9%
Black: 4.4%
Asian: 6.4%
Mixed: 2.7%
Other: 1.6%
Christian: 70.8%
Hindu: 3.1%
Muslim: 2.6%
Full time students: 3%
Graduates 16-74: 25.5%
No Qualifications 16-74: 19.3%
Owner-Occupied: 79.5%
Social Housing: 9.9% (Council: 6.4%, Housing Ass.: 3.4%)
Privately Rented: 8.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 5.7%
Harry, have you tried the election-maps.co.uk website?
It seems to me extremely unlikely that the southern parts of this seat like Purley, Selsdon, Coulsdon & Sanderstead will see much change in the foreseeable future – the population hasn’t changed there much at all.
Indeed – but change in the northern wards is happening quickly. I cannot see any other party taking this seat in the near future, but, in a 1997-style landslide, the Conservative majority may well be much lower than in 1997 – and some hypthetical seat uniting most of Croydon South and New Addington could even be winnable in a “normal” landslide year for Labour in a decade or so.
I may have read elsewhere – not on this site – that it is split between other wards and constituencies (part of the site in Carshalton and Wallington?) Is this correct?
Broadly speaking, the airport buildings were in modern Croydon, along the Purley Way, and the airfield lay in modern Sutton – the part of Beddington South ward to the east of Foresters Drive and to the south of Stafford Road. Most of the Sutton section was replaced by the Roundshaw estate; the airport is commemorated by the aeronautical names of the streets.