Tooting
Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons
County	Greater London
Electorate	76,986 (2023)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1974 (1974)
Member of Parliament	Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Wandsworth Central Battersea South (reduced in 1974, abolished 1983) Streatham (small parts of, with regular interchanges since)

Tooting is aconstituency^{[n 1]} created in 1974 in Greater London. It is represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since 2016 byRosena Allin-Khan, a member of theLabour Party.

Map of current boundaries

1974–1983: The London Borough of Wandsworth wards of Bedford, Furzedown, Graveney, Springfield, and Tooting.

1983–2010: As above plus Earlsfield, and Nightingale

2010–2022: As above minus Springfield, plus Wandsworth Common.

Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2022,^[2][3] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the London Borough of Wandsworth from the 2024 general election:

• Balham (part); Furzedown; South Balham; Tooting Bec; Tooting Broadway; Trinity; Wandle; Wandsworth Common; and a small part of Wandsworth Town.^[4]

The2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward structure in place at 1 December 2020, left the boundaries unchanged.^[5]

Tooting is the south-eastern third of theLondon Borough of Wandsworth. In addition to Tooting, it includes the districts of Earlsfield, Furzedown and Streatham Park and part of Balham.^{[n 2]} The constituency includes part ofWandsworth Common, a rectangular open space that lends its name to one of the seven wards.^[6]

Tooting between 2010 and 2024 was bordered to the west byPutney andWimbledon; to the other three compass points byMitcham and Morden,Streatham andBattersea.

Following boundary changes first used for the2024 general election, Tooting is bordered to the west byPutney andWimbledon, to the south byMitcham and Morden, to the east byStreatham and Croydon North and to the north byBattersea andClapham and Brixton Hill.

The constituency was created for the February 1974 election from areas which, prior to that election, were withinBattersea South,Streatham andWandsworth Central.

Held byLabour since its creation, Tooting was a target seat for theConservatives at the2010 general election after the party made gains in local elections. However,Sadiq Khan was able to retain the seat for Labour. The Conservatives have generally performed best in the northern half of the seat - Balham, Earlsfield and Wandsworth Common - whereas Labour are strongest in the southern half, which covers Tooting itself and Furzedown.

The 2015 general election result gave the seat the twenty-fourth-mostmarginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.^[7] Had the majority obtained by Allin-Khan at her 2016 by-election win been part of the 2015 results, the seat would have been the 136th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.^[7]

In the2016 referendum to leave the European Union, theconstituency voted remain by 74.7%.^[8]

Local government indications

As in the other two constituencies located in the London Borough of Wandsworth, voters have in part supported the Conservatives at local level; however, the southern area has strong enough Labour support to have consistently returned at least seven Labour councillors since 1992.

Sadiq Khan, a solicitor by profession, was theMinister of State for Transport andMinister of State for Communities in thegovernment of Gordon Brown. In opposition after 2010, he became the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. He was the Labour Party's candidate in the2016 London mayoral election, and was subsequently elected asMayor of London. Following his election, Khan announced his intention to resign as MP for Tooting, and on 9 May 2016 he was appointed to the ancient office ofCrown Steward and Bailiff of The Three Chiltern Hundreds, triggering a by-election.^[9]

The modern Tooting constituency is a simplified name, as it contains much ofBalham,Wandsworth Common andEarlsfield, yet the southernmost parts of the area that self-identifies asTooting are actually in theLondon Borough of Merton and so in theMitcham and Morden seat.

Transport links toCentral London are good, and the population has expanded steadily due to the area's popularity with commuters looking for affordable property.

Unemployment benefit claimants and registered jobseekers, in November 2012 were lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation byThe Guardian.^[10]

General election 2024: Tooting^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rosena Allin-Khan	29,209	55.2	2.5
	Conservative	Ethan Brooks	9,722	18.4	9.8
	Green	Nick Humberstone	5,672	10.7	6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Trounson	4,438	8.4	5.8
	Reform	Andrew Price	2,546	4.8	4.0
	Workers Party	Tarik Hussain	807	1.5	New
	Rejoin EU	Jas Alduk	370	0.7	New
	Independent	Davinder Jamus	179	0.3	New
Majority			19,487	36.8	12.3
Turnout			52,943	69.6	6.4
Registered electors			76,082
	Labourhold		Swing	6.2

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