Vauxhall is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons by Florence Eshalomi of Labour Co-op since her election in 2019.

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Vauxhall
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Vauxhall in Greater London
County	Greater London
Electorate	88,659 (December 2019)[1]
Major settlements	North Lambeth Vauxhall Stockwell Kennington Clapham Brixton (part)
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of Parliament	Florence Eshalomi (Labour Co-op)
Seats	One
Created from	Kennington and Lambeth North

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Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to major boundary changes. It will lose the wards of Clapham Town, Ferndale and Larkhall to the new constituency of Clapham and Brixton Hill, partly offset by the addition of the Borough of Southwark wards of Camberwell Green and Newington. As a consequence, it will be renamed Vauxhall and Camberwell Green, to be first contested at the next general election.^[2]

1950–1974: The Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Marsh, Oval, Prince's, and Vauxhall.

1974–1983: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

1983–1997: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

1997–2010: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Angell, Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

2010–present: The London Borough of Lambeth wards of Bishop's, Clapham Town, Ferndale, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Stockwell, and Vassall.

Vauxhall is wholly within the London Borough of Lambeth. The core of the constituency, unchanged from the former Lambeth North, is delimited by the River Thames to the west and north and the boundary with Southwark to the east.^{[citation needed]}

The seat includes all of Vauxhall, North Lambeth, Stockwell, Kennington and some of Brixton and north Clapham. Its landmarks include the London Eye, The Oval cricket ground, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, SIS building and the National Theatre. Among Britain's most ethnically diverse constituencies, Vauxhall has sizable Jamaican, Portuguese, Ghanaian and Ecuadorian communities.

At just over 6% of the population, Vauxhall (which is located in the London Borough of Lambeth) has the largest proportion of LGBT+ people in the country.^[3]

The area has consistently voted in parliamentary elections for Labour Members of Parliament since 1929, except in 1931. This includes the results of the former seat of Lambeth North, which had near-identical boundaries.^{[citation needed]}

Since a 1989 by-election, the seat had been represented by Kate Hoey. Continuing a history as a safe seat for Labour, since her 1989 election, Hoey consistently achieved majorities of 9,100 to 20,200 votes. The 2015 result made the seat the 105th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.^[4]

Despite Hoey being a prominent campaigner for leaving the European Union, Vauxhall voted to remain in the EU by 77.6% in the national referendum on 23 June 2016.^[5] This made it the strongest pro-EU constituency to be represented by a pro-Brexit MP. In the 2017 general election, this led to her seat being targeted by pro-Remain organisations and high-profile individuals seeking to oust her in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat candidate.^[6] There had been a change.org petition calling for Hoey's deselection as the Labour candidate for the seat; however, due to party rules this was unsuccessful.^[7][8] In the 2017 election, Hoey significantly increased her majority to the largest the seat had ever seen; the Liberal Democrat vote total more than trebled, and they moved back into second place having fallen to fourth behind the Conservatives and the Greens in 2015. In May 2018, Hoey's local party passed a vote of no confidence in her, vowing to deselect the MP as well.^[9] On 8 July 2019 Hoey announced that she would retire from the House of Commons, and would not seek re-election as a Labour candidate at the next general election.^[10]

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