Elliot Colburn is the Conservative MP for Carshalton and Wallington, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019. He gained the seat off the Liberal Democrats with a majority of 629.
The Carshalton and Wallington constituency is found within the county of Greater London to the west of Croydon on the border with Surrey. Found close to the North Downs, this seat includes the communities of Beddington, Carshalton and Wallington. This is a relatively affluent area of the capital in which owner occupancy is high.
As with many areas of south west London, the electoral battles here are closely fought affairs between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. This seat had been held by the Lib Dems solidly between 1997 and 2019. However, unlike other areas of south West London, some 56% of voters here had backed Brexit in the 2016 Eu referendum. Where the Lib Dems, did well elsewhere in south west London, in a surprise result, here they lost one of their most long standing seats to the Conservatives.
Born in 1992, Elliot Colburn grew up in Carshalton and studied law with politics at the University of Aberystwyth.
Colburn is one of the Conservative Party’s youngest MPs having been elected at the age of just 26.
He worked as a Parliamentary Assistant for MP Paul Scully and as a public affairs officer for the South West London Health and Care Partnership, before being elected to Parliament.
He was elected to Sutton Borough Council in 2018.
Colburn is openly gay and a supporter of trans rights. He has been subject to homophobic abuse in the past, and is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Global LGBT Rights, and Hate Crime.
He supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum. He is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Micromobility.
In 2022, he suggested that if he was the PM he would have been considering his position over ‘partygate’.
Email – elliot.colburn.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.elliotcolburn.co.uk
Twitter – @ElliotColburn
