Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by David Simmonds, a Conservative.
Constituency profile
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner is a constituency in Greater London in England, covering parts of the boroughs of Hillingdon and Harrow. It includes the suburbs of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner and the outlying village of Harefield.
This constituency covers suburbs and villages on the outer fringes of London, around north-west of the city centre. The area consists of highly-affluent suburban neighbourhoods developed during the interwar period, nicknamed Metro-land after the Metropolitan Railway (now the London Underground's Metropolitan line) which serves the area. Most residents live in large detached or semi-detached homes and the average house price is double the UK average; in 2021, Northwood was named by the Office for National Statistics as the place with the most expensive properties in the UK.
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner has above-average populations of middle-aged adults and retirees and a low proportion of young adults. Residents have high levels of income and homeownership and the child poverty rate is very low. They are generally well-educated and a high proportion work in the health and education sectors. The percentage of residents claiming unemployment benefits is low.
The constituency is ethnically diverse. White people made up 55% of the population at the 2021 census, around one-fifth of whom were of non-British origin including large Irish and Romanian communities. Asians, mostly of Indian origin, were the largest ethnic minority group at 32%. They were mostly concentrated in Pinner where they made up just under half the population.
At the local borough council level, all seats in this constituency are represented by Conservative councillors. An estimated 53% of voters in Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner supported remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, higher than the UK-wide figure of 48%.
History Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's fifth periodic review of Westminster constituencies and created this constituency for General Election 2010. In this election it was won by the previous member for Ruislip, Northwood.
Predecessor seat This seat is at its core the successor to Ruislip-Northwood which had an unbroken history as a Conservative safe seat with non-marginal majorities running from its 1950 creation. This Conservative success was only bolstered by the addition of generally highly Conservative, highly affluent Pinner in 2010.
Political history The 2015 result was greater than the previous majority, having seen a major fall in the vote of the Liberal Democrats, of 11.7% less than national swing against the party of 15.7%, and made the seat the 57th safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. Since 2015, the Conservative vote share has been slowly declining, while the Liberal Democrat and Labour vote share has been steadily rising.
Boundaries
2010–2024 Following their 2007 review of parliamentary representation in North London, the Boundary Commission for England created the new seat of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner to deal with population changes. It included parts of the Harrow West constituency and much of the former Ruislip-Northwood constituency.
This constituency had electoral wards:
Eastcote and East Ruislip, Harefield, Ickenham, Northwood; Northwood Hills, West Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon Hatch End, Pinner, Pinner South in the London Borough of Harrow
The only other three-place constituency name in England at the time was Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford in Yorkshire. Current Further to the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of:
The London Borough of Harrow wards of: Hatch End; Pinner; Pinner South.
The London Borough of Hillingdon wards of: Eastcote; Harefield Village; Northwood; Northwood Hills; Ruislip.
The Borough of Hillingdon ward of Ickenham and South Harefield was transferred to Uxbridge and South Ruislip, partly offset by minor expansions into neighbouring seats as a result of ward boundary changes.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 2010 Nick Hurd Conservative 2019 David Simmonds Conservative
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
2019 notional result Party Vote % Conservative 28,916 55.3 Labour 13,106 25.1 Liberal Democrats 7,920 15.2 Green 1,381 2.6 Others 884 1.7 Brexit Party 49 0.1Turnout52,25672.4Electorate72,168
* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
See also Parliamentary constituencies in London
Notes
References
External links Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards) Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards) Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK