[1] Uplands exists within the federal electoral district of London North Centre.

It is currently represented by Terence Kernaghan of the New Democratic Party, first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022.

Within Uplands itself, the primary commercial development is at or adjacent to the Masonville Place shopping mall, which was built in the 1985 at the southeast corner of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street.

[3] A second smaller commercial development, the Stoneybrook Shopping Plaza, is located at the northwest corner of Fanshawe Park Road and Adelaide Street.

It is bordered by the residential neighbourhoods of Masonville, Sunningdale, Stoney Creek and Stoneybrook.