Twickenham Toby Jessel 21,956 9,065 26,237 0 886 Twickenham 29,652 6,194 23,531 0 434 Conservative The phenomenally successful local election activity of the Liberal Democrats (or rather, their predecessors) which started in Richmond spread over the river into the Twickenham sector of the outer south-west London borough of Richmond upon Thames in the early 1980s. Now, ironically, the long-cherished Liberal Democrat hopes in Richmond itself have been dampened by the boundary changes which have brought some of the most Conservative parts of Norman Lamont's abolished Kingston constituency into that seat. Instead the best Lib Dem hope in the area - and indeed in the whole of London - is now Twickenham. Do not be misled by the Establishment image of this homeland of English Rugby Union. This is indeed a thoroughly middle-class seat, but one that consistently elects a huge majority of Liberal Democrat councillors - and either will, or will come near to, electing Lib Dem candidate Vincent Cable to Parliament in place of long-serving Tory MP Toby Jessel, if the Conservatives do badly at the next election.

	6,319	14.86	9.03	165
	7,650	17.99	11.17	161
	8,080	19.00	11.25	169
	2,158	5.07	14.70	35
	14,444	33.97	10.45	325
	143	0.34	2.81	12
	1,144	2.69	8.01	34
	919	2.16	15.25	14
	114	0.27	7.13	4
	1,149	2.70	10.17	27