Enfield Southgate

Enfield Southgate is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Bambos Charalambous, a member of the Labour PartyHistoryFrom 1950 to the February 1974 general election, this constituency was known as Southgate. The seat gained national attention in the 1997 general election when Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Defence was unexpectedly defeated on a massive swing. Portillo had been widely expected to contest the Conservative leadership and his defeat the media took to epitomise the Labour landslide victory. The victorious candidate, Stephen Twigg, increased his majority at the following election. In the 2005 general election, Twigg's majority was the largest overturned, with a swing of 8. 7% to the Conservative candidate David Burrowes. The 2015 result gave the seat the 60th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority, with Labour gaining the seat in the 2017 general election on a substantial 9. 7% swing. Enfield Southgate is one of four constituencies, the others being Croydon Central, Peterborough and Reading East, which elected Labour MPs in 2017 having not done so since 2001.

Enfield Southgate is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Bambos Charalambous, a member of the Labour PartyHistoryFrom 1950 to the February 1974 general election, this constituency was known as Southgate. The seat gained national attention in the 1997 general election when Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Defence was unexpectedly defeated on a massive swing. Portillo had been widely expected to contest the Conservative leadership and his defeat the media took to epitomise the Labour landslide victory. The victorious candidate, Stephen Twigg, increased his majority at the following election. In the 2005 general election, Twigg's majority was the largest overturned, with a swing of 8. 7% to the Conservative candidate David Burrowes. The 2015 result gave the seat the 60th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority, with Labour gaining the seat in the 2017 general election on a substantial 9. 7% swing. Enfield Southgate is one of four constituencies, the others being Croydon Central, Peterborough and Reading East, which elected Labour MPs in 2017 having not done so since 2001.