Given the unfortunate tendency for incumbent ex-Tories to lose in 2019 no matter where they stood (Grieve-Gauke-Soubry-Wollaston-Sandbach), I suspect he (Sam Gyimah) would still have not held the seat. But it was unfortunate that he chose three-way marginal Kensington: maybe if he had stood in Winchester for instance (LD from 1997-2010) he would have had a chance of winning that and getting rid of the (IMO) rather patronising and duplicitous incumbent.By the way, their leader - Ed Davey. Think over-worked civil servant from Caterham and you are not far wrong (I note Caterham has LibDem councillors). Is this an opportunity to ask why Sam Gymah didn't contest east Surrey for the LibDems?
Depends on your definition of Surrey I guess, these were historically Surrey but now Greater London. If one is to include these two, one should also include Twickenham presumably.well thats false as they have 2 MPs in Surrey right now, and thats a fall.
Richmond Park
Kingston & Surbiton
The former is also Greater London while the latter is still Surrey I think. (The 2019 result for the former is really odd - very strange to see a London seat swing towards the Tories, particularly one which presumably - with a Lib Dem background - is socially liberal).Back in 2010 they additionally had :
Carshalton & Wallington
Sutton & Cheam.
Did they also take Epsom at one point, maybe 1997 or 2001? They did take Guildford for one term (2001) and incredibly also got close to taking Surrey South West (basically Farnham and Haslemere) in the same sort of era.
It's really sad the way Surrey voted in 2019. It wasn't just the 'red wall' which caused the result, it was affluent remain seats in the southeast deciding they didn't really want to remain so much after all and were paranoid about Corbyn - even though a Lab/Lib coalition would I suspect have been very moderate.
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