Battersea (UK Parliament constituency)
| Battersea | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Battersea in Greater London for the 2024 general election | |
| County | Greater London |
| Population | 110,400 (2022) |
| Electorate | 71,949 (March 2020) |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1983 |
| Member of Parliament | Marsha de Cordova (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Battersea North and Battersea South |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Seats | One |
| Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
| Created from | Mid Surrey |
| Replaced by | Battersea North and Battersea South |
Battersea is a constituency in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It has been represented since 2017 by Marsha de Cordova of the Labour Party.
The seat has had two periods of existence (1885–1918 and 1983 to date). In the first Parliament after the seat's re-creation it was Labour-represented, bucking the national result, thereafter from 1987 until 2017 the affiliation of the winning candidate was that of the winning party nationally – a 30-year bellwether.
In the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union, the constituency voted remain by an estimated 77%, the highest by a constituency with a Conservative MP at the time.