Chingford & Woodford Green.

Chingford and Woodford Green sits in north-east London, a suburban seat of some 121,000 residents with a median age of 39 and a degree-educated share of about two in five. It is split across two London borough authorities: Waltham Forest, which holds the larger part of the seat and roughly two-thirds of its population, and Redbridge to the east, which accounts for the remainder. The built-up areas of both boroughs dominate, with only a small dispersed fringe; this is a seat of streets and suburbs rather than towns or open country. Around three in five residents are recorded as White in the Census, below the London norm.

The local political picture leans Conservative at ward level. Of the nineteen most-recent ward contests across the seat, contested in May 2026, the Conservatives took sixteen and Labour three, with Labour's wins clustered in the Churchfields area. Turnouts varied widely between wards. The parliamentary contest tells a tighter story: the Conservatives held the seat in 2024 on 35.6 per cent, with Labour the runner-up on 25.8 per cent -- a margin that, on the figures available, has widened since 2019, when the two parties finished within three points of each other. The sitting MP, Iain Duncan Smith, has represented the area since 1992.

The seat appears Conservative-leaning but not settled, with recent coverage dominated by May's borough elections and shifting control across both councils. Vehicle crime stands out, running well above the local average, alongside higher recorded burglary and drug offences. The broader direction-of-travel looks contested rather than safe.