Kensington and Bayswater | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Electorate | 75,980 (2023) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Joe Powell (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Kensington, Cities of London and Westminster & Chelsea and Fulham |
Kensington and Bayswater is a new constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Proposed in 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, [2] which was made into law on 29 November 2023, [3] it was first contested at the 2024 general election.
The constituency name comes from the Central London areas of Kensington and Bayswater.
The constituency comprises the following wards: [4]
This means that it consists of nearly all the (former) constituency of Kensington, two wards primarily from the abolished Westminster North constituency and the southern half of the Brompton & Hans Town ward, which was transferred from the Chelsea and Fulham constituency. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joe Powell | 17,025 | 40.6 | +1.6 | |
Conservative | Felicity Buchan | 14,122 | 33.7 | –4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | William Houngbo | 2,910 | 6.9 | –13.3 | |
Green | Mona Adam | 2,732 | 6.5 | +5.1 | |
Reform UK | Marc Burca | 2,514 | 6.0 | +5.2 | |
Independent | Emma Dent Coad | 1,824 | 4.4 | N/A | |
Rejoin EU | John Stevens | 486 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Party of Women | Una O'Mahony | 116 | 0.3 | N/A | |
CPA | Roger Phillips | 114 | 0.3 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Emperor of India Prince Ankit Love | 65 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,903 | 6.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 41,908 | 54.2 | –17.9 | ||
Registered electors | 77,306 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 3.1 | |||
2019 notional result [8] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 21,394 | 39.0 | |
Conservative | 21,004 | 38.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 11,048 | 20.2 | |
Green | 769 | 1.4 | |
Brexit Party | 453 | 0.8 | |
Others | 145 | 0.3 | |
Turnout | 54,813 | 72.1 | |
Electorate | 75,980 |
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