# Hammersmith (UK Parliament constituency)

Hammersmith was a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament represented from 2010 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Andy Slaughter, a member of the Labour Party.
Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the majority of the constituency was incorporated into the newly created seat of Hammersmith and Chiswick.

## Boundaries
### 1885–1918

1885–1918: The parishes of St Peter and St Paul, Hammersmith.
The parliamentary borough of Hammersmith was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and consisted of the civil parish of Hammersmith (in Middlesex only until 1889 when it fell within the approximately 30,000 acres (120 km$^2$) that became part of the County of London under the Local Government Act 1888). Like almost all seats created from 1885 it returned one Member of Parliament. This was the first parliamentary constituency to be based on the town, which from 1868 to 1885 was at the westernmost part of Chelsea and previously had been part of the parliamentary county of Middlesex. In 1900 the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith was formed, but this did not affect the constituency's boundaries.
The seat bordered to the west the Ealing seat, to the north the large Harrow division of Middlesex seat, to the east Kensington North and Kensington South and to the south the large Kingston division of Surrey and, to the southeast, Fulham. In 1918 the Hammersmith constituency was divided into Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South constituencies.

### 1983–1997

The second parliamentary borough constituency of Hammersmith was created in 1983. By then the area was part of Greater London and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (both created in 1965). The constituency consisted of ten wards of the London borough, namely Addison, Broadway, Brook Green, College Park and Old Oak, Coningham, Grove, Ravenscourt, Starch Green, White City and Shepherds Bush, and Wormholt. The seat was entirely formed from the previous Hammersmith North constituency.
BBC Television Centre, Shepherd's Bush Market and the Hammersmith Apollo was in this version of the constituency for its 14-year existence, however Westfield London shopping centre had not yet been built.
The constituency was abolished in 1997 and mostly replaced by Hammersmith and Fulham. A northern slice of the seat became part of Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush. The new Hammersmith and Fulham constituency included the town centres of both Hammersmith and Fulham.

### 2010–2024

Following a review of parliamentary boundaries in North London, the Boundary Commission for England recreated the Hammersmith constituency for the 2010 general election, following major changes in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The review also created new seats of Chelsea and Fulham and Kensington.
The 2010 Hammersmith constituency was made up of the following ten electoral wards of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham: Addison, Askew, Avonmore and Brook Green, College Park and Old Oak, Fulham Reach, Hammersmith Broadway, North End, Ravenscourt Park, Shepherds Bush Green, and Wormholt and White City.
The 2005 notional result was Labour 44.6%, Conservative 31.1% and Liberal Democrat 19.2%.

## Constituency profile

The constituency includes the western part of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, stretching from Wormwood Scrubs down to the River Thames. It takes in the commercial and business hub of Hammersmith itself, parts of northwestern Fulham, the western part of Earl's Court (the Exhibition Centre itself straddles the boundary between this constituency and the Kensington seat), West Kensington, Shepherd's Bush, and White City. The seat has northern areas with a much higher proportion of social housing dependency than the London average and overall this leads to the seat having slightly higher rates of unemployment and underemployment.

### Political history since 2010

The Labour Party candidate took a marginal majority of 7.5% of the vote in 2010. Slaughter's majority in 2015, 13.6%, made it the 156th safest of the party's 232 seats by percentage of majority. In 2017, Slaughter increased his majority to 35.7%. In 2019, Slaughter's majority slipped slightly to 34.4%

## Members of Parliament

| Election | Member | Party | Party | Notes |
| 1885 | Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy | | Conservative | |
| 1900 | William Bull | | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith North and Hammersmith South |
| 1983 | Clive Soley | | Labour | previously MP for Hammersmith North 1979–1983, later Baron Soley |
| 1997 | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith and Fulham | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith and Fulham | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith and Fulham | Constituency abolished: see Hammersmith and Fulham |
| 2010 | Andy Slaughter | | Labour | previously MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush 2005–2010 |

## Election results
### Elections in the 2010s

2019 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Andy Slaughter | 30,074 | 57.9 | −6.0 |
| | Conservative | Xingang Wang | 12,227 | 23.5 | −4.7 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jessie Venegas | 6,947 | 13.4 | +8.0 |
| | Green | Alex Horn | 1,744 | 3.4 | +1.9 |
| | Brexit Party | James Keyse | 974 | 1.9 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 17,847 | 34.4 | −1.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 51,966 | 69.8 | −2.0 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 74,759 | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | −0.7 | |
2017 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Andy Slaughter | 33,375 | 63.9 | +13.9 |
| | Conservative | Charlie Dewhirst | 14,724 | 28.2 | −8.2 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Joyce Onstad | 2,802 | 5.4 | +0.8 |
| | Green | Alex Horn | 800 | 1.5 | −2.9 |
| | UKIP | Jack Bovill | 507 | 1.0 | −3.4 |
| | Independent | Jagdeosingh Hauzaree | 44 | 0.1 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 18,651 | 35.7 | +22.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 52,252 | 71.8 | +5.4 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 72,803 | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | +11.0 | |
2015 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Andy Slaughter | 23,981 | 50.0 | +6.1 |
| | Conservative | Charlie Dewhirst | 17,463 | 36.4 | 0.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Millicent Scott | 2,224 | 4.6 | −11.3 |
| | Green | David Akan | 2,105 | 4.4 | +2.9 |
| | UKIP | Richard Wood | 2,105 | 4.4 | +3.2 |
| | Independent | Stephen Brennan | 82 | 0.2 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,518 | 13.6 | +6.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 47,960 | 66.4 | +0.8 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 72,254 | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 | |
2010 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Andy Slaughter* | 20,810 | 43.9 | –1.2 |
| | Conservative | Shaun Bailey | 17,261 | 36.4 | +2.9 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Merlene Emerson | 7,567 | 15.9 | –2.7 |
| | Green | Rollo Miles | 696 | 1.5 | New |
| | UKIP | Vanessa Crichton | 551 | 1.2 | New |
| | BNP | James Searle | 432 | 0.9 | New |
| | Independent | Stephen Brennan | 135 | 0.3 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 3,549 | 7.5 | –4.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 47,452 | 65.6 | +5.7 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 72,348 | | |
| | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
    * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament for the seat of Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
2005 notional result :
| Party | Party | Vote | % |
| | Labour | 18,409 | 45.1 |
| | Conservative | 13,676 | 33.5 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 7,622 | 18.7 |
| | Others | 1,132 | 2.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | 40,839 | 59.9 |
| Electorate | Electorate | 68,198 |

### Election results 1983–1992

1992 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Clive Soley | 17,329 | 51.0 | +6.0 |
| | Conservative | Tony Hennessey | 12,575 | 37.0 | −1.1 |
| | Liberal Democrats | John Bates | 3,380 | 10.0 | −4.9 |
| | Green | Roger Crosskey | 546 | 1.6 | +0.3 |
| | Natural Law | Kevin Turner | 89 | 0.3 | New |
| | Anti-Federalist League | Helen Szamuely | 41 | 0.1 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 4,754 | 14.0 | +7.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 33,960 | 71.5 | −1.2 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 47,229 | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | +3.6 | |
1987 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Clive Soley | 15,811 | 45.0 | +3.5 |
| | Conservative | Nirj Deva | 13,396 | 38.1 | +2.6 |
| | Liberal | Simon Knott | 5,241 | 14.9 | +9.1 |
| | Green | David Kirk | 453 | 1.3 | +0.3 |
| | Red Front | John Fitzpatrick | 125 | 0.4 | New |
| | Humanist | Melanie Carrick | 98 | 0.3 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 2,415 | 6.9 | +0.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 35,124 | 72.7 | +1.5 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 48,285 | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
1983 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Clive Soley | 13,645 | 41.5 | −6.7 |
| | Conservative | Nick Mansfield | 11,691 | 35.5 | −2.9 |
| | SDP | Michael Starks | 4,925 | 15.0 | New |
| | Liberal | Simon Knott | 1,912 | 5.8 | −5.8 |
| | Ecology | Deborah Sutherland | 325 | 1.0 | New |
| | National Front | Lilian Bennett | 250 | 0.8 | −0.5 |
| | Workers Revolutionary | Claire Dixon | 81 | 0.3 | −0.3 |
| | Independent | Peter Dick | 73 | 0.2 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,954 | 5.9 | −3.9 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 32,902 | 71.3 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 46,178 | | |
| | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
* Both Starks and Knott were official candidates of their respective local parties and both supported the Alliance between the Liberals and the SDP, however Starks was given endorsement by both the national parties.
1979 notional result :
| Party | Party | Vote | % |
| | Labour | 17,241 | 48.2 |
| | Conservative | 13,735 | 38.4 |
| | Liberal | 4,147 | 11.6 |
| | Others | 655 | 1.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | 35,778 | |
| Electorate | Electorate | |

### Election Results 1885–1918
#### Elections in the 1910s

December 1910 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Bull | 5,807 | 55.6 | +1.0 |
| | Liberal | George Blaiklock | 4,645 | 44.4 | −1.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,162 | 11.2 | +2.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 10,452 | 72.8 | −13.2 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 14,362 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 | |
January 1910 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Bull | 6,668 | 54.6 | +6.2 |
| | Liberal | George Blaiklock | 5,542 | 45.4 | +2.2 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,126 | 9.2 | +4.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 12,210 | 85.0 | +9.6 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 14,362 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +4.2 | |

#### Elections in the 1900s

1906 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Bull | 5,111 | 48.4 | −23.2 |
| | Liberal | George Blaiklock | 4,562 | 43.2 | +14.8 |
| | Independent Labour | George Belt | 885 | 8.4 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 549 | 5.2 | −38.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 10,558 | 75.4 | +17.0 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 14,007 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | −19.0 | |
1900 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | William Bull | 5,458 | 71.6 | +10.8 |
| | Liberal | Michael Emil Lange | 2,166 | 28.4 | −10.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 3,292 | 43.2 | +21.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,624 | 58.4 | −8.3 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 13,064 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +10.8 | |

#### Elections in the 1890s

1895 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Walter Goldsworthy | 5,017 | 60.8 | +6.7 |
| | Lib-Lab | W. C. Steadman | 3,238 | 39.2 | −6.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,779 | 21.6 | +13.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,255 | 66.7 | −3.6 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 12,378 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +6.7 | |
1892 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Walter Goldsworthy | 4,387 | 54.1 | −8.7 |
| | Lib-Lab | Frank Smith | 3,718 | 45.9 | +8.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 669 | 8.2 | −17.4 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,105 | 70.3 | +4.2 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 11,534 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | -8.7 | |

#### Elections in the 1880s

1886 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Walter Goldsworthy | 3,991 | 62.8 | +4.9 |
| | Liberal | Frank Dethridge | 2,362 | 37.2 | −4.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,629 | 25.6 | +9.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 6,353 | 66.1 | −10.5 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 9,611 | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | +4.9 | |
1885 general election: Hammersmith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Walter Goldsworthy | 4,264 | 57.9 | |
| | Liberal | Thomas Chatfeild Clarke | 3,095 | 42.1 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,169 | 15.8 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,359 | 76.6 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 9,611 | | |
| | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) |