Stop me if you’ve heard this before…
As part of the government’s drive to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600 and make parliamentary constituencies more equally sized, the Boundary Commission has now published it’s final recommendations.
At the moment there are two seats in Newham – East Ham and West Ham. Each contains 10 of the 20 wards in the borough. But both seats are very large – in fact West Ham is the largest in London, with more than 80,000 voters. By contrast, the Kensington seat has only 55,000.
The Boundary Commission’s recommendation divides Newham between four seats, ripping apart West Ham and dividing it the bulk of it between three new constituencies. East Ham loses a couple of wards to a new seat, but gains Green Street West.
The exact make-up of the new constituencies, with wards, boroughs and current voters:
Poplar and Canning Town
| Canning Town North | Newham | 8,333 |
| Canning Town South | Newham | 8,543 |
| Custom House | Newham | 6,971 |
| Plaistow North | Newham | 8,215 |
| Plaistow South | Newham | 8,290 |
| Blackwall & Cubitt Town | Tower Hamlets | 7,284 |
| Canary Wharf | Tower Hamlets | 6,517 |
| Island Gardens | Tower Hamlets | 7,220 |
| Lansbury | Tower Hamlets | 9,623 |
| Limehouse | Tower Hamlets | 3,659 |
| Poplar | Tower Hamlets | 3,418 |
| Total | 78,073 |
East Ham
| Boleyn | Newham | 8,696 |
| East Ham Central | Newham | 8,867 |
| East Ham North | Newham | 8,682 |
| East Ham South | Newham | 8,347 |
| Green Street East | Newham | 8,875 |
| Green Street West | Newham | 8,752 |
| Little Ilford | Newham | 8,873 |
| Manor Park | Newham | 8,636 |
| Wall End | Newham | 8,418 |
| Total | 78,146 |
Leyton and Stratford
| Forest Gate North | Newham | 8,392 |
| Forest Gate South | Newham | 8,862 |
| Stratford & New Town | Newham | 12,471 |
| West Ham | Newham | 8,073 |
| Cann Hall | Waltham Forest | 6,921 |
| Cathall | Waltham Forest | 6,515 |
| Grove Green | Waltham Forest | 7,387 |
| Leyton | Waltham Forest | 8,067 |
| Leytonstone | Waltham Forest | 7,691 |
| Total | 74,379 |
Barking and Beckton
| Abbey | Barking & Dagenham | 7,039 |
| Becontree | Barking & Dagenham | 7,631 |
| Eastbury | Barking & Dagenham | 6,652 |
| Gascoigne | Barking & Dagenham | 5,598 |
| Goresbrook | Barking & Dagenham | 6,637 |
| Longbridge | Barking & Dagenham | 7,599 |
| Mayesbrook | Barking & Dagenham | 6,013 |
| Parsloes | Barking & Dagenham | 5,836 |
| Thames | Barking & Dagenham | 6,625 |
| Beckton | Newham | 7,335 |
| Royal Docks | Newham | 6,081 |
| Total | 73,046 |
These recommendations now go to parliament. If they’re approved, the next general election will be fought on these boundaries.
forestgatedotnet 
Those electorate figures are hopelessly out of date.
Indeed. Stratford and New Town is way off. But those are the figures the Boundary Commission used.
Newham Recorder “The fourth constituency would see Beckton and Royal Docks wards coupled with wards in Barking and Dagenham and total 73,046 voters.”
Effectively Beckton and Royal Docks, would be part of a Barking and Dagenham constituency.
Stephen Timms is quoted in the Newham Recorder saying “If you live in Britannia Village you don’t feel an affinity with Barking and Dagenham because you’re part of Newham,” he said.”
I find Stephen Timms highly remarks highly offensive. What did he do for Britannia Village, other then to stab the community in the back, by supporting more expansion at the London City Airport. An economy working for the few and not the many.
It is only right he should loose representation and local s should get a new MP, who will stick up for residents.
Source: http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/politics/mp-dismisses-constituencies-shake-up-1-5693218