Dorking and Horley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Surrey |
Electorate | 70,317 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Dorking, Horley, Great Bookham |
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] since when it has been represented by Chris Coghlan of the Liberal Democrats.
The constituency is named for the towns of Dorking and Horley in Surrey.
The constituency is defined as being composed of the following as they existed on 1 December 2020:
Following local government boundary reviews in Mole Valley [5] [6] and Waverley [7] [8] which came into effect in May 2023, the constituency is now composed of the following from the 2024 general election:
The seat comprises the following areas of Surrey: [9]
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 [12] | |||
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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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