Ilford is a district in the London Borough of Redbridge in East London, England. It is a suburban development situated 9.1 miles (14.6 km) east north-east of Charing Cross. It is one of ten major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan.

Ilford was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge in East London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1945 general election, when it was replaced by the new Ilford North and Ilford South constituencies.