Esher and Walton

Esher and Walton
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Esher and Walton in Surrey.
Location of Surrey within England.
County	Surrey
Electorate	76,962 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Esher, Walton-on-Thames
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Dominic Raab (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Esher Chertsey & Walton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Esher and Walton /ˈiːʃər ənd wɔːltən/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The current MP is Dominic Raab of the Conservative Party. Since 1906 the seats to which its wards (and/or civil parishes) contributed have elected Conservative MPs and the lowest majority since the 1930s has been 16.1%. It is a safe Conservative seat.

Since the constituency's creation in 1997 it has consisted of the Borough of Elmbridge wards of Claygate, Cobham and Downside, Cobham Fairmile, Esher, Hersham North, Hersham South, Hinchley Wood, Long Ditton, Molesey East, Molesey North, Molesey South, Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, Walton Ambleside, Walton Central, Walton North, Walton South, and Weston Green.

The constituency is in the north of Surrey, bordering Greater London, in the affluent London commuter belt. It is partly rural, with heathland and reservoirs, as well as towns such as Esher and Walton-on-Thames, and lower density Cobham, Claygate and Molesey and the villages of Oxshott and Thames Ditton. The constituency occupies all but the far west of the Borough of Elmbridge. A majority of its housing is on private planned estates, with larger gardens on average than in most boroughs of Greater London. The South Western Main Line passes through the middle of the seat, with fast trains to central London, and the seat has low unemployment. The area of the seat includes the last non-tidal section of the River Thames, wooded Esher Commons, the River Mole and Sandown Park racecourse.