Constituency Profile
The seat is comfortably suburban and the village in particular is full of large, expensive houses and open green spaces, though the area around Merton Abbey and South Wimbledon is more downmarket.
The All-England lawn tennis club where the Championships are played is located at the northern edge of the seat, by Wimbledon Park, and the decidedly upmarket setting seems unpromising territory for any party other than the Conservatives - as has been the case for much of the seat's life.
Wimbledon includes the southern terminus of the District Line, and it is possible to travel continuously for 20 stops through Conservative-held constituencies before reaching Tower Hill.
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