Epsom & Ewell.

Epsom and Ewell sits in commuter Surrey, a relatively affluent and well-educated seat where close to half of residents hold a degree and the median age is a little above forty. Its two largest towns, Epsom and Ewell, together account for around three-fifths of the population, with Ashtead, Worcester Park and Stoneleigh, and Leatherhead forming a band of smaller towns and the village of Langley Vale at the southern edge. This is a network of established towns rather than a single dominant centre or open countryside. Local services are run by two district authorities -- Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, which covers fourteen of the seat's wards, and Mole Valley District Council, which covers a further five.

That divided geography is mirrored in an unusually fragmented local politics. Across the most recent ward contests the largest single bloc has been the various Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell, which took seventeen wards and dominate the borough's politics, while the Liberal Democrats won seven, several Mole Valley seats among them, and Labour and the Conservatives trailed. Turnouts ran fairly typically for district polls. At the parliamentary level the seat moved sharply in 2024: the Liberal Democrats took it on 37.9 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives on 31.2, having trailed the Conservatives by thirty points five years earlier. Helen Maguire has held the seat for the Liberal Democrats since then, speaking most often on defence and the economy.

On the figures available the seat appears genuinely in flux rather than settled, a former Conservative holding that turned Liberal Democrat and where residents' groups, not the national parties, run the towns. Recent local coverage has been dominated by the coming abolition of the district councils and their replacement by a single larger unitary authority, a structural change that has crowded out most other business. For now the parliamentary contest looks competitive rather than safe in either direction.