Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wimbledon is a constituency covering the district of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton in south-west London. It is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Boundaries

Wimbledon is a constituency name made world-famous by the presence of the UK Open Tennis Championships held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon Park, which is in the north of the constituency.

Largely because of this, and the affluence of Wimbledon village, which nestles around Wimbledon Common and Cannizaro Park, there is often a mistaken picture of Wimbledon as a safe Conservative area. But even during the 1980s when the Conservatives were winning big majorities nationally and locally, they were doing so mainly because the sizeable non-Tory vote was split fairly evenly between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

Go down Wimbledon Hill and you find a very different Wimbledon to that of the Village and the Park; around the Broadway there is a much less affluent area of smaller terraced homes. These are Labour areas; but nevertheless it was a surprise when they gained the seat in 1997 and again in 2001, though Labour had once before represented the seat in a previous landslide victory in 1945.

Wimbledon has fairly unclear boundaries which cut across Wimbledon Common and split the Southfields grid in half. To the east the boundary roughly follows the edge of the Rivers Wandle and then Graveney down to Colliers Wood and Morden, and then zig zags along the edge of Mitcham and St Helier until reaching Raynes Park; the constituency's western boundary.

Wimbledon is bordered by the constituencies of:

• Mitcham & Morden
• Putney
• Tooting
• Richmond Park
• Kingston & Surbiton

Members of Parliament

• Stephen Hammond, Conservative (2005-present)
• Roger Casale, Labour (1997-2005)
• Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes, Conservative (1987-1997)
• Sir Michael Havers, Conservative (1970-1987)
• Sir Cyril Black, Conservative (1950-1970)
• Anthony Palmer, Labour (1945-1950)
• Sir John Power, Conservative (1924-1945)
• Sir Joseph Hood (1918-1924)
• Sir Stuart Auchinloss Coats (1916-1918)
• Henry Chaplin (1907-1916)
• Charles Eric Hambro (1900-1907)
• Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor (1885-1900)

Election results

General Election 2005: Wimbledon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Hammond	17,886	41.2	+4.6
	Labour	Roger Casale	15,585	35.9	−9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Gee	7,868	18.1	+5.1
	Green	Giles Barrow	1,374	3.2	+0.8
	UKIP	Andrew Mills	408	0.9	−0.1
	Independent	Christopher Coverdale	211	0.5	+0.5
	Tiger's Eye - the Party for Kids	Alastair Wilson	50	0.1	+0.1
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	George Weiss	22	0.1	+0.1
Majority			2,301	5.3
Turnout			43,404	68.1	+3.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	7.2

General Election 2001: Wimbledon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Casale	18,806	45.7	+3.0
	Conservative	Stephen Hammond	15,062	36.6	−0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Pierce	5,341	13.0	−3.6
	Green	Rajeev Thacker	1,007	2.4	+1.5
	CPA	Roger Glencross	479	1.2	N/A
	UKIP	Mariana Bell	414	1.0	N/A
Majority			3,744	9.1
Turnout			41,109	64.3	−11.1
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

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