Norwood (electoral division)

It was planned to use the same boundaries as the Westminster Parliament constituencies for election of councillors to the Greater London Council (GLC), as had been the practice for elections to the predecessor London County Council, but those that existed in 1965 crossed the Greater London boundary. Until new constituencies could be settled, the 32 London boroughs were used as electoral areas. The London Borough of Lambeth formed the Lambeth electoral division. This was used for the Greater London Council elections in 1964, 1967 and 1970.

The new constituencies were settled following the Second Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and the new electoral division matched the boundaries of the Norwood parliamentary constituency.^[1]

The area was in a long-term period of population decline that was yet to reverse. The electorate reduced from 52,983 in 1973 to 47,603 in 1981. It covered an area of 800 hectares (8.0 km²).

The Norwood constituency was used for the Greater London Council elections in 1973,^[2] 1977^[3] and 1981.^[4] One councillor was elected at each election using first-past-the-post voting.^[5] Ken Livingstone, who was elected from the constituency in 1973, was Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 to 1986. He was later elected to represent Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977 and Paddington in 1981.