Its first AM was Angie Bray, who subsequently served as MP for Ealing Central and Acton.

He was succeeded in 2016 by Tony Devenish, who has been a councillor for Knightsbridge and Belgravia in Westminster (part of the GLA seat) since 2006.

At the time of the 2016 London Assembly elections, two of the MPs for the five parliamentary constituencies covered by this seat were members of the Labour Party, and the other three from the Conservatives; Labour have always been the main challenger in the corresponding GLA seat.

It includes a number of affluent areas which have tended to vote for Conservative candidates in local and general elections, accounting for the results to date.

[2] Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.