19.6% as the party dropped to third place. This was the eighth-worst decline among the 630 Labour candidates. The Liberal Democrats, who came second in the seat for the first time, increased their vote share by 25.3%, the third-largest increase of their candidates. They were partly helped by the Green Party's choice to stand aside locally via the Unite to Remain electoral pact. Despite the Conservative share of the vote going down 3%, their majority quadrupled from 2017. Constituency profile The area is relatively green and hilly for London and has many tube stations. Finchley and Golders Green were overwhelmingly built on in the first half of the 20th century when at the fringe of London. The area has since the heyday of the railways had little industry or large headquarters of its own, the non-commuting economy being in public service, high street retail, leisure and hospitality, domestic/commercial premises tradespeople, plus home-based media, digital economy and arts workers. Commuters take in many people in the financial, medical and legal professions and some people ancillary to central London's diverse economy. In southern parts of the London Borough of Barnet, private and one-family housing still exceeds the London average; houses tend to have gardens exceeding their footprint, yet there are also many older, subdivided, townhouses and shared or modest-size family flats. The proportion of social and assured or supported rental housing is lower than the London average. Most residents have quite high incomes largely to meet the cost of mortgages and rent, are very well educated, and middle-class – it retains many Labour Party supporters in East and West Finchley. Over 20% of residents are Jewish, the highest of any seat. Members of Parliament According to Rallings and Thrasher, the boundary changes which came into force for the general election of 2010 meant that this seat notionally already had a Conservative majority, albeit a very small one. Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s See also Finchley (UK Parliament constituency), approximate predecessor Hendon South (UK Parliament constituency), half of which was merged with Finchley List of parliamentary constituencies in London Notes References External links Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards) Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards) Politics of the London Borough of Barnet Parliamentary constituencies in London Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997 Finchley Golders Green