Hornchurch and Upminster is a constituency[n 1] in Greater London most recently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament[n 2] by Julia Lopez, a member of the Conservative Party, currently Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who succeeded Angela Watkinson in 2017.
The constituency is composed of the London Borough of Havering wards of Cranham, Emerson Park, Gooshays, Hacton, Harold Wood, Heaton, St Andrew's, Upminster.
[3][4] The seat was the proposal of the Boundary Commission's fifth periodic review of Westminster constituencies in 2008–9 and was after consultation accepted by Parliament.
[5] Most output areas have high levels of retired constituents by Greater London standards, and the borough as a whole is similar to the London Borough of Bromley in that it has high levels of home ownership, on statistics compiled in the 2011 UK Census.
[7] At the 2015 general election, the constituency was one of five in Greater London where the UK Independence Party came in second place.