Dorking and Horley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
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County | Surrey |
Electorate | 70,317 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Dorking and Horley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Chris Coghlan (Liberal Democrats) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Mole Valley |
Dorking and Horley is a new constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested in the 2024 general election. [3]
The constituency is named for the towns of Dorking and Horley in Surrey.
The constituency is composed of the following wards: [4]
It comprises the following areas of Surrey: [4]
Mole Valley prior to 2024
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Chris Coghlan | Liberal Democrats | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Chris Coghlan | 20,921 | 41.9 | +9.8 | |
Conservative | Marisa Heath | 15,530 | 31.1 | −20.1 | |
Reform UK | Craig Young | 6,898 | 13.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Nadia Burrell | 4,053 | 8.1 | −1.8 | |
Green | Lisa Scott | 2,563 | 5.1 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 5,391 | 10.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,965 | 70.1 | –7.4 | ||
Registered electors | 71,300 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | +15.0 | |||
2019 notional result [7] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 27,883 | 51.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 17,502 | 32.1 | |
Labour | 5,415 | 9.9 | |
Green | 2,302 | 4.2 | |
Others | 1,393 | 2.7 | |
Turnout | 54,495 | 77.5 | |
Electorate | 70,317 |
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