Feltham and Heston
2010 Results:
Conservative: 16516 (33.66%)
Labour: 21174 (43.63%)
Liberal Democrat: 6669 (13.59%)
BNP: 1714 (3.49%)
UKIP: 992 (2.02%)
Green: 530 (1.08%)
Independent: 853 (1.74%)
Others: 78 (0.16%)
Majority: 4658 (9.97%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 19166 (48.3%)
Conservative: 11405 (28.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 6516 (16.4%)
Other: 2626 (6.6%)
Majority: 7760 (19.5%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 10921 (29.3%)
Labour: 17741 (47.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 6177 (16.6%)
Green: 815 (2.2%)
UKIP: 612 (1.6%)
Other: 1016 (2.7%)
Majority: 6820 (18.3%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 8749 (24.2%)
Labour: 21406 (59.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 4998 (13.8%)
Other: 1024 (2.8%)
Majority: 12657 (35%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 12563 (26.9%)
Labour: 27836 (59.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 4264 (9.1%)
Referendum: 1099 (2.4%)
Other: 859 (1.8%)
Majority: 15273 (32.8%)
Boundary changes: Minor changes to bring boundaries into line with ward boundaries. Gains parts of Heston East, Heston Central and Hounslow West.
Profile: Feltham and Heston are the south and east of Heathrow airport respectively, and the airport is both a major source of local employment and, due to its possible expansion, a major political issue locally. Feltham was traditionally an area of blue collar Labour strength, but with the right to buy it is increasingly owner-occupied and has become the more Conservative half of the seat. It is also home to Feltham Young Offenders Institute. Heston meanwhile, once the more Conservative part of the seat, is now hom to a large Sikh community and strongly Labour.
The seat was Conservative between 1983 and 1992, but in 1997 and 2001 Labour managed to secure a huge majority with nearing 60% of the vote. The Conservatives enjoyed an 8.4% swing in 2005 and have enjoyed success at local elections, but the Labour majority is still substantial and further bolstered by the boundary changes. It would take an even larger swing than in 2005 for the Conservatives to take the seat.
Current MP: Alan Keen(Labour) born 1937, Lewisham. Educated at St William Turner School, Redcar. Former computer systems analyst and manager. Hounslow councillor 1986-1990. MP for Feltham and Heston since 1992. PPS to Stephen Timms 1999-2001. He is married to Ann Keen, MP for Brentford and Isleworth (more information at They work for you)
Mark Bowen (Conservative) IT project leader for British Airways. Deputy leader of Hounslow council. Contested Feltham and Heston 2005.Alan Keen(Labour) born 1937, Lewisham. Educated at St William Turner School, Redcar. Former computer systems analyst and manager. Hounslow councillor 1986-1990. MP for Feltham and Heston since 1992. PPS to Stephen Timms 1999-2001. He is married to Ann Keen, MP for Brentford and Isleworth (more information at They work for you)
Munira Wilson (Liberal Democrat) born 1978, London. Educated at Cambridge University. Former accountant and researcher for Nick Clegg MP. Richmond upon Thames councillor since 2006.
Elizabeth Anstis (Green) Contested Feltham and Heston 2005.
Jerry Shadbolt (UKIP) Born 1956. Formerly served in the Royal Navy.John Donnelly (BNP)Matthew Linley (Workers Revolutionary)Asa Khaira (Independent)Dharmendra Pati (Independent)Roger Williams (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 106998
Male: 49.6%
Female: 50.4%
Under 18: 25.7%
Over 60: 15.4%
Born outside UK: 29%
White: 59.8%
Black: 4.1%
Asian: 30.7%
Mixed: 2.8%
Other: 2.7%
Christian: 48.8%
Hindu: 8.5%
Muslim: 10.1%
Sikh: 12.1%
Full time students: 5.1%
Graduates 16-74: 19.3%
No Qualifications 16-74: 28.8%
Owner-Occupied: 62.4%
Social Housing: 25.7% (Council: 18.4%, Housing Ass.: 7.3%)
Privately Rented: 8.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 6%
This result showed how split the constituency is – Bowen won all the “Feltham” wards but lost all the “Heston” ones.
Things threatened to turn pretty nasty when Alan Keen made his victory speech – he clearly holds Hounslow in contempt, and it’s pretty obvious that he got in because of his party rather than because of his standing as an MP. Even the ITV London news journo described him (off-camera) as a “disgrace”.
Pete, does Heston West ward still cover the site of the aerodrome? Apparently some of the site is now used for housing and industrial estates, and the M4 motorway with its large service areas cuts across the aerodrome east-west, but a substantial area to the north of the M4 is home to a golf course.
Yes all those areas you describe are in Heston West
‘Yes all those areas you describe are in Heston West’
That fits in with what you have previously told me, ‘from 1955 when the Feltham seat was created it included parts of the Heston & Isleworth UD including the Heston West ward which covered the site of the aerodrome’
If Heston and the Aerodrome were in the Twickenham constituency from 1918 to 1945, then that seat must have been very large by today’s standards
It corresponds to roughly one and a half present day constituencies – effectively the northern halves of Twickenham and Feltham & Heston and the western half of Brentford & Isleworth – so large but not so large as some other Middlesex seats such as Harrow or Hendon. Certainly it had a fairly average electorate of about 35,000 at the start of the period but had grown greatly to over 90,000 by 1935. Again though this grwoth was nothing like so massive as that affecting Harrow or Hendon