North East Somerset and Hanham | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Somerset and Gloucestershire |
Electorate | 73,113 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Hanham Keynsham |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Dan Norris (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | North East Somerset Kingswood |
North East Somerset and Hanham 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 was first contested in the 2024 general election. [3] It is currently represented by Dan Norris of the Labour Party.
The seat is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The following areas of Somerset and Gloucestershire make up the constituency: [5]
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Dan Norris | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dan Norris [8] | 20,739 | 40.6 | +14.4 | |
Conservative | Jacob Rees-Mogg [9] | 15,420 | 30.2 | −24.5 | |
Reform UK | Paul MacDonnell [10] | 7,424 | 14.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Dine Romero [11] | 3,878 | 7.6 | −7.4 | |
Green | Edmund Cannon [12] | 3,222 | 6.3 | +3.9 | |
Independent | Nicholas Hales | 231 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Barmy Brunch | 211 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,319 | 10.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,125 | 69.2 | −9.4 | ||
Registered electors | 73,887 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 19.5 |
2019 notional result [13] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 31,435 | 54.7 | |
Labour | 15,046 | 26.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 8,625 | 15.0 | |
Green | 1,370 | 2.4 | |
Others | 961 | 1.7 | |
Turnout | 57,437 | 78.6 | |
Electorate | 73,113 |
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