Richmond Park
2015 Result:
Conservative: 34404 (58.2%)
Labour: 7296 (12.3%)
Lib Dem: 11389 (19.3%)
Green: 3548 (6%)
UKIP: 2464 (4.2%)
MAJORITY: 23015 (38.9%)
Category: Safe Conservative seat
Geography: Greater London. Part of Richmond upon Thames council area and part of Kingston upon Thames council area.
Main population centres: East Sheen, Mortlake, Richmond, Ham, Kew, Barnes, Petersham, Coombe.
Profile: Richmond Park is a large royal park in south-west London, home to a herd of over 600 deer. The electorate of the Richmond Park consituency consists of the residential areas bordering it - Richmond itself, the riverside communities of Kew and Barnes and, to the south of the park, Kingston upon Thames. It is an affluent, middle-class suburban seat, characterised by desirable period houses, large gardens and huge property prices. The seat also contains Kew Gardens, the National Archives and Kingston University. The majority of planes landing at Heathrow airport descend over Barnes and Kew and the potential expansion of Heathrow airport is an important local issue.
Politics: The Richmond Park seat was created in 1997 from the merger of Richmond and Barnes and part of Kingston upon Thames, leaving the Kingston MP and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont to go on his doomed run up to Harrogate. Along with Twickenham and Kingston and Surbiton it formed part of a wedge of Liberal Democrat strength in South-West London until falling to Zac Goldsmith in 2010.
| Con: | 29461 (50%) |
| Lab: | 2979 (5%) |
| LDem: | 25370 (43%) |
| UKIP: | 669 (1%) |
| Oth: | 789 (1%) |
| MAJ: | 4091 (7%) |
| Con: | 20280 (39%) |
| Lab: | 4768 (9%) |
| LDem: | 24011 (47%) |
| GRN: | 1379 (3%) |
| Oth: | 936 (2%) |
| MAJ: | 3731 (7%) |
| Con: | 18480 (38%) |
| Lab: | 5541 (11%) |
| LDem: | 23444 (48%) |
| GRN: | 1223 (2%) |
| Oth: | 463 (1%) |
| MAJ: | 4964 (10%) |
| Con: | 22442 (39%) |
| Lab: | 7172 (13%) |
| LDem: | 25393 (45%) |
| Oth: | 379 (1%) |
| MAJ: | 2951 (5%) |
*There were boundary changes after 2005
This was always likely to happen, mainly a reversion to 2006.
The interesting thing here being how well the alliance worked with the Greens.
Lib Dems probably narrow favourites to win this seat back next time.
Kingston Upon Thames was an ever larger victory for the LDs.
I’m worried about this seat at the next election, hopefully Zac Goldsmith can hang on
Prior to 2010 this seat seemed almost tailor-made for a Tory like Zak Goldsmith – and that’s because people mistook him for a liberal Tory with sound green credentials
Since then it’s become quite obvious that’s he’s nothing of the sort and holds similar right-wing views to his father – Brexit, tax cuts, anti immigration etc
He;’ll have a hard job hanging on here after Brexit
He’s a weird mix, certainly, but the mayoral campaign he chose to run turned me right off him. The worst thing is I still don’t think he believed in any of those dogwhistles himself, but he was prepared to run with them anyway. Genuine racists are deplorable but misguided. But those who know racism is wrong but are nonetheless prepared to fan the flames… that’s utterly shameful.
The Real Joe James B –
Not my post above.
Suspect the Dalek post is the same person aswell.