Carshalton & Wallington
2015 Result:
Conservative: 15093 (31.7%)
Labour: 7150 (15%)
Lib Dem: 16603 (34.9%)
Green: 1492 (3.1%)
UKIP: 7049 (14.8%)
Others: 226 (0.5%)
MAJORITY: 1510 (3.2%)
Category: Marginal Liberal Democrat seat
Geography: Greater London. Part of the Sutton council area.
Main population centres: Carshalton, Wallington.
Profile: An affluent residential seat, but less so than some of the other Liberal Democrat strongholds in south-west London - this is more middle-of-the-road suburbia than it is luxury. There are also substantial council estates here, with the Roundshaw development on the old Croydon Airport site and the southern half of the large St Helier estate.
Politics: Once a solid Conservative seat this fell to the Liberal Democrats in 1997. The old core of Labour support has been squeezed by the Con-Lib Dem contest, with the old areas of Labour strength on the council estates now bases of Lib Dem support.
| Con: | 16920 (37%) |
| Lab: | 4015 (9%) |
| LDem: | 22180 (48%) |
| UKIP: | 1348 (3%) |
| Oth: | 1455 (3%) |
| MAJ: | 5260 (11%) |
| Con: | 16289 (38%) |
| Lab: | 7396 (17%) |
| LDem: | 17357 (40%) |
| UKIP: | 1111 (3%) |
| Oth: | 908 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 1068 (2%) |
| Con: | 13742 (34%) |
| Lab: | 7466 (18%) |
| LDem: | 18289 (45%) |
| GRN: | 614 (2%) |
| Oth: | 501 (1%) |
| MAJ: | 4547 (11%) |
| Con: | 16223 (34%) |
| Lab: | 11565 (24%) |
| LDem: | 18490 (38%) |
| Oth: | 856 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 2267 (5%) |
*There were boundary changes after 2005
Maxwell Scott fails again. Poor chap.
This seat has reverted to almost exactly the same result as in 2005. LibDem and Lab are up by 1% since then, with Con unchanged.
Tories came back strongly here despite this being the more pro EU half of the borough. Brexit clearly didn’t play much in the lcoal elections.
I meant Sutton and Cheam, the LDs held up better in this seat.
The divide is quite interesting overall, Labour didn’t quite make it in Wandle Valley and St Helier.