Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket (UK Parliament constituency)
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Boundary of Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in the East of England
County Suffolk
Electorate 75,655 (2023) [1]
Major settlements Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket, Thurston, Elmswell
Current constituency
Created 2024
Member of Parliament Peter Prinsley (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Bury St Edmunds & West Suffolk (part)

Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament represented since its creation for the 2024 general election by Peter Prinsley of the Labour Party. [2] The constituency is named for the Suffolk towns of Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. [3]

Contents

Boundaries

The constituency is composed of the following:

Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket contains the majority of the abolished Bury St Edmunds constituency and a small area to the north transferred from the West Suffolk constituency. [5]

The constituency covers Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket and smaller settlements on the A14 corridor.

History

The newly created constituency was notionally a safe Conservative seat, with an estimated majority of 22,085 votes (41.7%) based on the results of the 2019 election. The predecessor seat of Bury St Edmunds had not elected a non-Conservative MP since it elected one Liberal at the 1880 election, and none at all since becoming a single-member constituency in 1885.

However, at the 2024 election the Tories suffered an above-average swing against them of 21.6% and won less than half their vote share from 2019, turning their notional majority of over 22,000 into a Labour majority of 1,452. Along with the party gaining Suffolk Coastal, this was the first time since it won Sudbury in 1945 that Labour had won any Suffolk constituencies not centred on Ipswich or Lowestoft.

Members of Parliament

Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk prior to 2024

ElectionMemberParty
2024 Peter Prinsley Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Prinsley 16,745 32.9 +12.1
Conservative Will Tanner 15,29330.1–32.9
Reform UK Scott Hussey8,59516.9N/A
Green Emma Buckmaster5,76111.3–1.1
Liberal Democrats Peter McDonald3,1546.2+5.1
Independent Jeremy Lee8191.6N/A
Rejoin EU Richard Baker-Howard3500.7N/A
Communist Darren Turner1760.4N/A
Majority1,4522.85N/A
Turnout 50,89365.6–3.8
Registered electors 77,599
Labour gain from Conservative Swing Increase2.svg21.6

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [7]
PartyVote %
Conservative 33,02362.9
Labour 10,93820.8
Green 6,52012.4
Others1,4352.7
Liberal Democrats 5651.1
Turnout52,48169.4
Electorate75,655

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References

  1. ↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – Eastern". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "Eastern | Boundary Commission for England". Boundary Commission for England . Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  3. ↑ "Revealed: Proposed boundaries for Norfolk and Suffolk election shake-up". Eastern Daily Press. 2023-07-01. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  4. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule I Part 2 Eastern region.
  5. ↑ "New Seat Details - Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  6. ↑ "Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket - General Election Results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament . Retrieved 11 July 2024.
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