Bobby Dean, MP for Carshalton and Wallington
Bobby Dean has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons; House of Commons Commission; Restoration and Renewal Client Board; Members Estimate Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (Opposition Department) | 2025 to now | Now |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| House of Commons Commission | 2026 to now | Now |
| Restoration and Renewal Client Board | 2026 to now | Now |
| Members Estimate Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Modernisation Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Treasury Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Bobby Dean has 6 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Simon Ruddick - £948.00 | 27 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | National Liberal Club - £1,140.00 | 20 Jan 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Switzerland between 17 September 2025 and 18 September 2025 | 30 Oct 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | National Liberal Club Ltd - £1,475.85 | 6 Sep 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Councillor on Sutton Council, (unpaid since 30 July 2024 and previously registered under Category 1) | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Director of Right To Manage company, looking after the block of flats I live in. | 2 Aug 2024 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Bobby Dean asked 39 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
100 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Bobby Dean represents Carshalton and Wallington. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Liberal Democrat
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Bobby Dean won with 43% of the votes, and Elliot Colburn (Conservative) came second with 26%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bobby Dean | Liberal Democrat | 20,126 | 43.1% |
| Elliot Colburn | Conservative | 12,221 | 26.2% |
| Hersh Thaker | Labour | 6,108 | 13.1% |
| Elizabeth Cooper | Reform UK | 5,941 | 12.7% |
| Tracey Hague | Green Party | 1,517 | 3.3% |
| Atif Abdul Rashid | Workers Party of Britain | 441 | 0.9% |
| Ashley Dickenson | Christian Peoples Alliance | 231 | 0.5% |
| Steve Kelleher | Social Democratic Party | 85 | 0.2% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Bobby Dean took part in 188 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Bobby Dean voted the same way as their party in 186 of the 186 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | For | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this