Carshalton and Wallington | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Population | 95,322 (2011 census) [1] |
Electorate | 69,916 (May 2015) [2] |
Major settlements | Beddington, Carshalton and Wallington |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Elliot Colburn (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Carshalton |
Carshalton and Wallington [lower-alpha 1] is a constituency (also known as a seat) represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2019 by Elliot Colburn, a Conservative.
The seat was created at the 1983 general election, replacing the former seat of Carshalton.
From 1997 to 2010 Liberal Democrat majorities were between 2.5% and 15%, contextually marginal in the light of local political history. The large national swing against the Conservatives in 1997 of −11.2% compared to −16.2% expressed locally. This ended the seat's spell of three widely perceived "strong" or "safe" victories – the weakest lead seen by outgoing MP Forman was 18.9% in 1992. Results since 2015 have been very marginal majorities.
The Liberal Democrats 2010 to 2015 coalition proved very unpopular in most other places prompting an unprecedented swing against the party nationally. The coalition saw no meeting of the party's tuition fees abolition policy and a quite austere credit crunch recovery in fiscal policy. No other seat in the southern half of England, aside from North Norfolk (on its fringe), was retained by a Liberal Democrat in 2015. The seat became one of eight connected to the party. The result placed the seat ahead of seats the party lost that had returned a Liberal Democrat or Liberal for decades, such as Truro and St Austell, its member (or that for its direct predecessor version, Truro) having had the party's allegiance since 1974. In 2019, this seat was one of three Liberal Democrat seats gained by the Conservatives (albeit two went the other way). Brake, the losing incumbent was party spokesman on Brexit. The party fiercely campaigned against this; however, this seat voted to leave in the 2016 referendum.
Demographically this zone of London has little social housing and much of the housing, overwhelmingly semi-detached or detached, is to some extent considered to be in the stockbroker belt; some of the south of the seat has fine views from the slopes of the Downs and many small parks and recreation grounds characterise the district.
1983–2010: The London Borough of Sutton wards of Beddington North, Beddington South, Carshalton Beeches, Carshalton Central, Carshalton North, Clockhouse, St Helier North, St Helier South, Wallington North, Wallington South, Wandle Valley, Woodcote, and Wrythe Green.
2010–present: The London Borough of Sutton wards of Beddington North, Beddington South, Carshalton Central, Carshalton South and Clockhouse, St Helier, The Wrythe, Wallington North, Wallington South, and Wandle Valley.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the boundaries of the constituency from the 2024 general election will be virtually unchanged. However, following a review of local authority ward boundaries which came into effect on 4 May 2022, the composition of the seat will now be composed of the following London Borough of Sutton wards:
Beddington; Carshalton Central; Carshalton South & Clockhouse; Hackbridge; St. Helier East; St. Helier West; South Beddington & Roundshaw; The Wrythe; Wallington North; Wallington South. [3]
Election | Member [4] [5] | Party | |
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1983 | Nigel Forman | Conservative | |
1997 | Tom Brake | Liberal Democrats | |
2019 | Elliot Colburn | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Bobby Dean [6] | ||||
Workers Party | Mian Faisal Akbar [7] | ||||
Labour | Hersh Thaker [8] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Elliot Colburn | 20,822 | 42.4 | 4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 20,193 | 41.1 | 0.1 | |
Labour | Ahmad Wattoo | 6,081 | 12.4 | 6.0 | |
Brexit Party | James Woudhuysen | 1,043 | 2.1 | New | |
Green | Tracey Hague | 759 | 1.5 | 0.5 | |
CPA | Ashley Dickenson | 200 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 629 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,098 | 67.3 | 4.3 | ||
Registered electors | 72,926 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | 2.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 20,819 | 41.0 | 6.1 | |
Conservative | Matthew Maxwell-Scott | 19,450 | 38.3 | 6.6 | |
Labour | Emine Ibrahim | 9,360 | 18.4 | 3.4 | |
Green | Shasha Khan | 501 | 1.0 | 2.2 | |
Independent | Nick Mattey | 434 | 0.9 | New | |
CPA | Ashley Dickenson | 189 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 1,369 | 2.7 | 0.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,753 | 71.6 | 3.6 | ||
Registered electors | 70,849 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 16,603 | 34.9 | 13.4 | |
Conservative | Matthew Maxwell-Scott | 15,093 | 31.7 | 5.1 | |
Labour | Siobhan Tate | 7,150 | 15.0 | 6.3 | |
UKIP | William Main-Ian | 7,049 | 14.8 | 11.9 | |
Green | Ross Hemingway | 1,492 | 3.2 | 2.4 | |
CPA | Ashley Dickenson | 177 | 0.4 | New | |
National Front | Richard Edmonds | 49 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 1,510 | 3.2 | 8.3 | ||
Turnout | 47,613 | 68.0 | 1.0 | ||
Registered electors | 69,981 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 4.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 22,180 | 48.3 | 7.9 | |
Conservative | Kenneth Andrew | 16,920 | 36.8 | 0.6 | |
Labour | Shafi Khan | 4,015 | 8.7 | 8.6 | |
UKIP | Frank Day | 1,348 | 2.9 | 0.3 | |
BNP | Charlotte Lewis | 1,100 | 2.4 | New | |
Green | George Dow | 355 | 0.8 | 1.4 | |
Majority | 5,260 | 11.5 | 9.0 | ||
Turnout | 45,918 | 69.0 | 4.8 | ||
Registered electors | 66,524 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 4.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 17,357 | 40.3 | −4.7 | |
Conservative | Kenneth Andrew | 16,289 | 37.8 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Andrew Theobald | 7,396 | 17.2 | −1.2 | |
UKIP | Francis Day | 1,111 | 2.6 | +1.4 | |
Green | Robert Steel | 908 | 2.1 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 1,068 | 2.5 | -8.7 | ||
Turnout | 43,061 | 63.5 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 67,243 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | −4.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 18,289 | 45.0 | +6.8 | |
Conservative | Kenneth Andrew | 13,742 | 33.8 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Margaret Cooper | 7,466 | 18.4 | −5.5 | |
Green | Simon Dixon | 614 | 1.5 | +0.7 | |
UKIP | Martin Haley | 501 | 1.2 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 4,547 | 11.2 | +6.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,612 | 60.3 | −13.0 | ||
Registered electors | 67,337 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 18,490 | 38.2 | +7.3 | |
Conservative | Nigel Forman | 16,223 | 33.5 | −16.2 | |
Labour | Andrew Theobald | 11,565 | 23.9 | +6.2 | |
Referendum | Julian Storey | 1,289 | 2.7 | New | |
Green | Peter Hickson | 377 | 0.8 | -0.4 | |
BNP | Gary Ritchie | 261 | 0.5 | New | |
UKIP | Leslie Povey | 218 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 2,267 | 4.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,424 | 73.3 | −7.6 | ||
Registered electors | 66,064 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | +11.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Forman | 26,243 | 49.7 | −4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Brake | 16,300 | 30.9 | +4.7 | |
Labour | Margaret Moran | 9,333 | 17.7 | −0.5 | |
Green | Robert Steel | 614 | 1.2 | −0.4 | |
Loony Green | Daniel Bamford | 266 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 9,943 | 18.8 | -9.0 | ||
Turnout | 52,756 | 80.9 | +6.7 | ||
Registered electors | 65,179 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Forman | 27,984 | 54.0 | +2.7 | |
SDP | John Grant | 13,575 | 26.2 | −3.4 | |
Labour | Johanna Baker | 9,440 | 18.2 | +0.7 | |
Green | Robert Steel | 843 | 1.6 | ±0.0 | |
Majority | 14,409 | 27.8 | +6.1 | ||
Turnout | 51,842 | 74.2 | +3.0 | ||
Registered electors | 69,906 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nigel Forman | 25,396 | 51.3 | ||
SDP | Bryan James Monroe Ensor | 14,641 | 29.6 | ||
Labour | Johanna Baker | 8,655 | 17.5 | ||
Ecology | Robert Steel | 784 | 1.6 | ||
Majority | 10,755 | 21.7 | |||
Turnout | 49,476 | 71.2 | |||
Registered electors | 69,542 | ||||
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