List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

The ceremonial county of East Sussex , (which includes the unitary authority of Brighton & Hove) is divided into 8 Parliamentary constituencies - 4 Borough constituencies and 4 County constituencies.

Constituencies

Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

   Conservative †   Labour ‡   Liberal Democrat ¤   Green ♣

Constituency [nb 1]	Electorate [1]	Majority [2] [nb 2]	Member of Parliament [2]		Nearest opposition [2]		Electoral wards [3] [4]	Map
Bexhill and Battle CC	81,963	26,059		Huw Merriman †		Christine Bayliss ‡	Rother District Council: Battle Town, Central, Collington, Crowhurst, Darwell, Ewhurst and Sedlescombe, Kewhurst, Old Town, Rother Levels, Sackville, St Marks, St Michaels, St Stephens, Salehurst, Sidley, Ticehurst and Etchingham. Wealden District Council: Cross In Hand/Five Ashes, Heathfield East, Heathfield North and Central, Herstmonceux, Ninfield and Hooe with Wartling, Pevensey and Westham.
Brighton, Kemptown BC	69,833	8,061		Lloyd Russell-Moyle ‡		Joe Miller †	Brighton and Hove City Council: East Brighton, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean, Queen's Park, Rottingdean Coastal, Woodingdean. Lewes District Council: East Saltdean and Telscombe Cliffs, Peacehaven East, Peacehaven North, Peacehaven West.
Brighton, Pavilion BC	79,057	19,940		Caroline Lucas ♣		Adam Imanpour ‡	Brighton and Hove City Council: Hanover and Elm Grove, Hollingbury and Stanmer, Patcham, Preston Park, Regency, St Peter's and North Laine, Withdean.
Eastbourne BC	79,307	4,331		Caroline Ansell †		Stephen Lloyd ¤	Eastbourne Borough Council: Devonshire, Hampden Park, Langney, Meads, Old Town, Ratton, St Anthony's, Sovereign, Upperton; Wealden District Council: Willingdon
Hastings and Rye CC	80,524	4,043		Sally-Ann Hart †		Peter Chowney ‡	Hastings Borough Council: Ashdown, Baird, Braybrooke, Castle, Central St Leonards, Conquest, Gensing, Hollington, Maze Hill, Old Hastings, Ore, St Helens, Silverhill, Tressell, West St Leonards, Wishing Tree. Rother District Council: Brede Valley, Eastern Rother, Marsham, Rye.
Hove BC	74,313	17,044		Peter Kyle ‡		Robert Nemeth †	Brighton and Hove City Council: Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, Goldsmid, Hangleton and Knoll, North Portslade, South Portslade, Stanford, Westbourne, Wish.
Lewes CC	71,503	2,457		Maria Caulfield †		Oli Henman ¤	Lewes District Council: Barcombe and Hamsey, Chailey and Wivelsfield, Ditchling and Westmeston, Kingston, Lewes Bridge, Lewes Castle, Lewes Priory, Newhaven Denton and Meeching, Newhaven Valley, Newick, Ouse Valley and Ringmer, Plumpton, Streat, East Chiltington and St John (Without), Seaford Central, Seaford East, Seaford North, Seaford South, Seaford West. Wealden District Council: Alfriston, East Dean, Polegate North, Polegate South.
Wealden CC	82,998	25,655		Nus Ghani †		Chris Bowers ¤	Wealden District Council: Buxted and Maresfield, Chiddingly and East Hoathly, Crowborough East, Crowborough Jarvis Brook, Crowborough North, Crowborough St. Johns, Crowborough West, Danehill/Fletching/Nutley, Forest Row, Framfield, Frant/Withyham, Hailsham Central and North, Hailsham East, Hailsham South and West, Hartfield, Hellingly, Horam, Mayfield, Rotherfield, Uckfield Central, Uckfield New Town, Uckfield North, Uckfield Ridgewood, Wadhurst.

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the existing 8 constituencies in East Sussex, with minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with those of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.

Name	Boundaries 1997-2010	Boundaries 2010–present
Bexhill and Battle CC Brighton, Kemptown BC Brighton, Pavilion BC Eastbourne BC Hastings and Rye CC Hove BC Lewes CC Wealden CC	Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex	Proposed Revision

Proposed boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021 and published their initial proposals on 8 June 2021. ^[5]

The commission has proposed that East Sussex be combined with West Sussex as a sub-region of the South East Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named East Grinstead and Uckfield. The resultant changes to existing constituencies would entail the abolition of Wealden and the creation of the new constituency of Hailsham and Crowborough. Although its boundaries are unchanged, it is proposed that Hove is renamed Hove and Brighton West. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

The following constituencies are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Brighton and Hove

• Brighton Kemptown BC (part)
• Brighton Pavilion BC
• Hove and Brighton West BC

Containing electoral wards from Eastbourne

• Eastbourne BC

Containing electoral wards from Hastings

• Hastings and Rye CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Lewes

• Brighton Kemptown BC (part)
• East Grinstead and Uckfield CC (part)¹
• Lewes CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Rother

• Bexhill and Battle CC (part)
• Hastings and Rye CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Wealden

• Bexhill and Battle CC (part)
• East Grinstead and Uckfield CC (part)¹
• Hailsham and Crowborough CC
• Lewes CC (part)

¹ Also contains part of Mid Sussex District in West Sussex

Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 ^[9]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising East Sussex in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	197,728	44.2%	0.1%	5	1
Labour	121,935	27.3%	4.9%	2	0
Liberal Democrats	75,754	16.9%	2.8%	0	1
Greens	45,128	10.1%	2.3%	1	0
Brexit	4,738	1.1%	new	0	0
Others	1,898	0.4%	1.2%	0	0
Total	447,181	100.0		8

Percentage votes

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	58.4	57.8	52.8	39.4	39.6	39.8	40.9	42.3	44.3	44.2
Labour	13.6	15.2	17.5	29.2	30.2	25.4	20.1	22.9	32.2	27.3
Liberal Democrat 1	27.2	26.3	27.5	24.0	24.0	26.3	28.0	12.9	14.1	16.9
Green Party	-	*	*	*	*	*	5.7	10.1	7.8	10.1
UKIP	-	-	-	*	*	*	2.8	11.6	1.3	*
Brexit Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.1
Other	0.9	0.7	2.1	7.4	6.2	8.6	2.4	0.3	0.3	0.4

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	8	8	8	3	3	3	5	6	4	5
Labour	0	0	0	4	4	4	0	1	2	2
Liberal Democrat 1	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	1	0
Greens	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Total	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

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Historic representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

The Local Government Act 1972 moved the District of Mid Sussex into West Sussex from East Sussex. This change was put into effect in the Parliamentary constituency boundaries for the 1983 boundary changes.

1885 to 1918

   Conservative    Liberal

Constituency	1885	1886	86	89	1892	93	1895	1900	03	05	1906	08	Jan 1910	10	Dec 1910	11	14
Brighton (Two members)	Smith		Robertson	Loder						Villiers			Tryon
	Marriott					Vernon-Wentworth					Ridsdale		Rice			Gordon	Thomas-Stanford
East Grinstead	Gregory	Gathorne-Hardy					Goschen				Corbett		Cautley
Eastbourne	Field							Hogg			Beaumont		Gwynne
Hastings	Brassey	Noble					Lucas-Shadwell	Freeman-Thomas			H. du Cros	A. du Cros
Lewes	Aubrey-Fletcher													Campion
Rye	Brookfield								Hutchinson		Courthope

1918 to 1950

   Conservative

Constituency	1918	21	1922	1923	24	1924	25	1929	1931	32	35	1935	36	37	40	41	44	1945
Brighton (Two members)	Tryon														Erskine	Marlowe
	Thomas-Stanford		Rawson														Teeling
East Grinstead	Cautley												Clarke
Eastbourne	Gwynne					Lloyd	Hall	Marjoribanks		Slater	Taylor
Hastings	Lyon	Percy												Hely-Hutchinson				Cooper-Key
Lewes	Campion				T. P. Beamish				Loder				T. P. Beamish					T. V. Beamish
Rye	Courthope																	Cuthbert

1950 to 1983

   Conservative    Labour

Constituency	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	65	1966	69	1970	73	Feb 1974	Oct 1974	1979
Brighton Kemptown	Johnson			James	Hobden				Bowden
Brighton Pavilion	Teeling							Amery
East Grinstead	Clarke		Emmet			Johnson Smith
Eastbourne	Taylor										Gow
Hastings	Cooper-Key								Warren
Hove	Marlowe					Maddan				Sainsbury
Lewes	Beamish										Rathbone
Rye			Irvine
Sussex Mid											Renton

1983 to present

   Conservative    Green    Independent    Labour    Liberal Democrats

Constituency	1983	1987	90	1992	1997	01	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	18	19	2019
Brighton Kemptown	Bowden				Turner				Kirby		Russell-Moyle
Brighton Pavilion	Amery			Spencer	Lepper				Lucas
Hastings and Rye	Warren			Lait	Foster				Rudd				→	Hart
Hove	Sainsbury				Caplin			Barlow	Weatherley	Kyle
Lewes	Rathbone				Baker					Caulfield
Eastbourne	Gow		Bellotti	Waterson					Lloyd	Ansell	Lloyd	→		Ansell
Bexhill and Battle	Wardle					→	Barker			Merriman
Wealden	Johnson Smith						Hendry			Ghani

See also

• East Sussex portal

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in the South East (region)

Notes

1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

1. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information . Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
4. Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
5. "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
6. Donnelly, Luke (2021-06-08). "How Sussex's constituency map is set to change forever". sussexlive. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
7. "The Sussex border changes planned that would affect where you live". The Argus. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
8. "Initial proposals for new Parliamentary constituency boundaries in the South East region | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
9. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".