Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundaries since 2024 | |
County | Lincolnshire |
Major settlements | Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Melanie Onn (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from |
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Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election and has been represented in Parliament by Melanie Onn of the Labour Party since then. [2]
The constituency name refers to the Lincolnshire towns of Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes. [3]
The constituency composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise the following: [5]
Great Grimsby prior to 2024
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Melanie Onn | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Melanie Onn | 15,336 | 41.9 | +9.7 | |
Reform UK | Oliver Freeston | 10,533 | 28.8 | +23.9 | |
Conservative | Lia Nici | 8,269 | 22.6 | −33.0 | |
Green | Ed Fraser | 1,115 | 3.0 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Craig Lawson | 1,036 | 2.8 | −2.1 | |
TUSC | Mark Gee | 222 | 0.6 | N/A | |
SDP | Christopher Stephenson | 108 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,803 | 13.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 36,619 | 46.4 | −7.7 | ||
Registered electors | 78,875 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
2019 notional result [8] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 23,178 | 55.6 | |
Labour | 13,419 | 32.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2,052 | 4.9 | |
Brexit Party | 2,049 | 4.9 | |
Green | 821 | 2.0 | |
Others | 156 | 0.4 | |
Turnout | 41,675 | 54.1 | |
Electorate | 77,050 |
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