Richmond Park.

Richmond Park is a south-west London seat of just under 75,000 electors and around 113,000 residents, affluent and unusually well-qualified, with close to two-thirds of adults holding a degree and a median age of 41. Two riverside towns dominate it. Richmond upon Thames, with some 76,000 people, accounts for more than two-thirds of the seat; Kingston upon Thames, at roughly 34,000, makes up most of the rest, leaving only a thin rural and dispersed fringe. Local services are run by two London borough authorities, Richmond upon Thames, which holds seven of the seat's wards, and Kingston upon Thames, which holds five. A seat split across two boroughs is itself a defining feature of the place.

That two-borough geography sits beneath a settled local politics. Across the 33 most recent ward contests, the Liberal Democrats took 31 and the Conservatives two, both in Coombe Hill, in polling held in May 2026 -- a picture that appears to point firmly in the Liberal Democrat direction. The parliamentary pattern runs the same way. In 2024 the Liberal Democrats won 55.4 per cent against 22.1 per cent for the Conservatives, the runners-up, having already led by a narrower margin in 2019. The sitting member, Sarah Olney, has held the seat for the Liberal Democrats since 2019.

On the figures available the seat looks comfortably held rather than contested, with both ward and general-election results moving in one direction. Recent local coverage has carried a markedly administrative, infrastructure-focused tenor, dwelling on utility reliability and council budgets rather than national controversy, and the seat keeps a low national profile. Within that quiet, vehicle crime appears to run well above the local average, and burglary somewhat above it. The balance of evidence leaves Richmond Park among the more securely aligned seats in the capital.