Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency)
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Wimbledon in Greater London.
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| County | Greater London |
| Electorate | 65,936 (December 2010) |
| Major settlements | Morden |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1885 |
| Member of parliament | Stephen Hammond (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Mid Surrey |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | London |
Wimbledon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Stephen Hammond, a Conservative.
The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 from the northeastern part of the former Mid Surrey constituency that elected two MPs. The constituency covered a much larger area than it does today and was reduced in 1918 to create the Mitcham constituency and in 1950 to create Merton and Morden.
Since 1885 the seat has elected Conservative MPs, except for 1945-1950 and 1997-2005, when in landslide years for Labour, its candidate won the seat. While the 2005 majority was marginal, the 2010 majority was 24.1% of the vote, which in majority terms only suggests a safe seat.
In terms of other parties, in 2010 the second-placed candidate was a Liberal Democrat. If including their two predecessor parties this result was their highest share of the vote since 1987, at 25%.
Apart from the three 'main parties' none others have to date reached the 5% of the vote threshold, which is the current retention of deposit threshold.
1885-1918: The Sessional Division of Croydon except so much as is within a district of the Metropolis, the parishes of Caterham, Chelsham, Farley, Warlingham, Merton, and Wimbledon, so much of the Parliamentary Borough of Deptford as is in Surrey, and the area of the Parliamentary Boroughs of Battersea and Clapham, Camberwell, Lambeth, Newington, Southwark, and Wandsworth.
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