Ely and East Cambridgeshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Electorate | 76,279 [1] |
Major settlements | Ely, Littleport, Soham |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | South East Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire, North East Cambridgeshire (part) |
Ely and East Cambridgeshire is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The bulk of the electorate, including the city of Ely and the town of Soham, was derived from about two-thirds of the abolished constituency of South East Cambridgeshire, with the addition of areas from North East Cambridgeshire (Littleport, Sutton-in-the-Isle and Downham Villages) and South Cambridgeshire (Cottenham).
A full list of wards in the Ely & East Cambridgeshire Parliamentary constituency are as follows:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDP | Robert Bayley | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Charlotte Cane | ||||
Green | Andy Cogan | ||||
Reform UK | Ryan Coogan | ||||
Conservative | Lucy Frazer | ||||
Monster Raving Loony | Hoo-Ray Henry | ||||
Labour | Elizabeth McWilliams | ||||
Independent | Obi Monye | ||||
Independent | Rob Rawlins | ||||
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