Editing Purley, London (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Riddlesdown view.JPG|thumb|upright=1.3|Riddlesdown]]
Purley lies within the [[Croydon South (UK Parliament constituency)|Croydon South parliamentary constituency]], where voters have consistently returned [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] MPs to the local seat since 1974. Purley has been staunchly conservative and its amalgamation into the London borough of Croydon in 1965 helped consolidate the middle class domination of that borough.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saunders |first1=Peter |title=Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation |date=21 December 2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-41773-0 |page=212 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NPYeww-U_UC&dq=purley+conservative+since+1965+council&pg=PA212 |access-date=12 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref> The Purley electoral ward returned Conservative party councillors in [[Croydon London Borough Council elections]] from 1965 up until the reorganisation of 2018.  In 2018, Purley was split into two wards; [[Purley & Woodcote (ward)|Purley and Woodcote]], and [[Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown (ward)|Purley Oaks and Riddlesdown]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/34123/Croydon_FinalRecommendations_20170705.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411025644/http://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/34123/Croydon_FinalRecommendations_20170705.pdf |archive-date=2018-04-11 |url-status=live|title=Final recommendations on the new electoral arrangements for Croydon Borough of Croydon. |access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>