Constituency Profile
Putney is a desirable area of South-West London, with Wimbledon to the south (the Southfields ward extends down as far as the famous All England Club) and the River Thames to the north, with Fulham lying across the river - their respective parish churches sitting iconically on either side of Putney Bridge.
The parliamentary seat contains some very affluent neighbourhoods, though the edge of the seat near Wandsworth town centre is more mixed, and Roehampton, famous for its polytechnic, now a university, has large council estates.
Between 1998 and 2005, when the Conservatives regained the seat, Putney had a unique distinction of being the only seat in the country where every single component ward elected a full slate of Conservative councillors, yet the constituency had a Labour MP.
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