Constituency Profile
This is the affluent, leafy western part of the London Borough of Enfield. It is more cosmopolitan than the Conservative suburbs of south-east London - there are sizeable Jewish, Muslim and Cypriot communities. The Bowes Park area to the south of the constituency is solidly Labour, but overall Southgate tends to be a middle-class Conservative area. To the north the seat becomes semi-rural as it takes in Trent Park and the campus of Middlesex University and stretches into the hugely expensive Hadley Wood area. There are small pockets of deprivation to the south of the constituency.
Read more about this topic: Enfield Southgate (UK Parliament Constituency)
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