Carshalton and Wallington (UK Parliament constituency)


Carshalton and Wallington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2019 by Elliot Colburn, a Conservative.
The constituency was created at the 1983 general election, replacing the former seat of Carshalton.

Political history

Results since 1997 may well, given the seat's volatility in result, be more helpfully viewed as marginal majorities for the victor rather than emphatic. A national swing against the Conservatives in 1997 ended their three terms of widely-perceived "strong" or "safe" Conservative victories.
Later results soon disproved assumptions of it being a safe seat for the Liberal Democrats, who had retained it since 1997. Following their role in the coalition government, there was a large swing against the party nationally, and no other seat in the southern half of England, aside from North Norfolk, was retained by a Liberal Democrat in 2015. This transformed the constituency into one the party's eight most secure seats, by virtue of those eight being the few retained by the party. The result placed Carshalton and Wallington ahead of seats the party lost that had returned a Liberal Democrat or Liberal for decades, such as Truro and St Austell, its member having had the party's allegiance since 1974. In 2019, this seat was one of several Liberal Democrat seats gained by the Conservatives, in an election which saw two seats change hands in the opposite direction. Brake, the losing incumbent, was the Liberal Democrats' spokesman on Brexit. The party had fiercely campaigned against Britain's departure from the European Union; however, this seat voted to leave in the 2016 referendum.

Boundaries

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.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s