Bromley and Biggin Hill | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 70,418 (2023) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Peter Fortune (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Bromley and Chislehurst, Beckenham, Orpington |
Bromley and Biggin Hill is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election.
The seat comprises the prosperous town of Bromley and its surrounding leafy suburbs, the free-standing town of Biggin Hill, and a rural area between the two. Levels of education and employment are higher than national averages. [3] It is a marginal Conservative-Labour seat.
The constituency was defined as comprising the following wards of the London Borough of Bromley as they existed on 1 December 2020:
1.Area marked “5” on the map of the Bromley and Biggin Hill constituency produced by the Boundary Commission for England [5]
It covers the following areas: [6]
Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2022, [7] [8] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the London Borough of Bromley from the 2024 general election:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Fortune | 15,929 | 34.0 | –20.4 | |
Labour | Oana Olaru-Holmes | 15,627 | 33.4 | +8.3 | |
Reform UK | Alan Cook | 8,203 | 17.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Julie Ireland | 4,352 | 9.3 | –6.7 | |
Green | Caroline Sandes | 2,583 | 5.5 | +1.8 | |
Climate | Karen Miller | 94 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 302 | 0.6 | –28.7 | ||
Turnout | 46,788 | 66.2 | –3.5 | ||
Registered electors | 70,713 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 14.4 |
2019 notional result [11] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 26,710 | 54.4 | |
Labour | 12,330 | 25.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 7,838 | 16.0 | |
Green | 1,806 | 3.7 | |
Others | 374 | 0.7 | |
Turnout | 49,058 | 69.7 | |
Electorate | 70,418 |
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