CARSHALTON AND WALLINGTON

Carshalton & Wallington has had an exchange of three wards with Sutton & Cheam, which has had a nominal effect. This is number 19 on the Tory hit list as they will be hoping to take this from the urrent Lib Dem MP.

BNP Charlotte Lewis
Conservative Ken Andrew
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake
UKIP Frank Day
Labour Shafiqul Khan
Green Bob Steel

The BNP last fought this seat in 1997

Liberal Democrat Tom Brake 18,490 38.18
Conservative Nigel Forman 16,223 33.5
Labour A Theobald 11,565 23.88
Referendum Party J Storey 1,289 2.66
Green P Hickson 377 0.78
BNP G Ritchie 261 0.54
UKIP L Povey 218 0.45
Majority 2,267 4.68
Turnout 48,424 73.3


General Election 2005:
Liberal Democrat Tom Brake 17,357 40.3 −4.7
Conservative Ken Andrew 16,289 37.8 +4.0
Labour Andrew Theobald 7,396 17.2 −1.2
UKIP Francis Day 1,111 2.6 +1.4
Green Bob Steel 908 2.1 +0.6
Majority 1,068 2.5
Turnout 43,061 63.5 +3.

Carshalton & Wallington is a district of Sutton Council and so have been only been able to find the vote split for the Sutton Council. Still a good showing when the BNP is only a few hundred votes behind Labour.
British National Party 2926
Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship 1241
Conservative Party 13112
English Democrats Party 1056
Jury Team 162
Liberal Democrats 12836
No2EU: Yes To Democracy 504
Pro Democracy: Libertas.eu 235
Socialist Labour Party 234
The Green Party 3134
The Labour Party 3190
The Socialist Party of Great Britain 66
United Kingdom Independence Party 8257
Yes 2 Europe 55
Gene Alcantara 38
Steven Cheung 127
Jan Jananayagam 1664
Sohale Rahman 29
Haroon Saad 9

Rejected Ballots 225

Turnout 36.55%
A good increase in vote since 1997, this will be difficult with it being a two horse race for the seat, but it will be good for the local people to have a BNP candidate to vote for.