Worthing West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Sussex |
Electorate | 76,293 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Beccy Cooper (Labour) |
Created from |
Worthing West is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Beccy Cooper of the Labour Party. She defeated the long serving incumbent Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative who was the Father of the House of Commons from 2019. [n 2]
The constituency covers the central and western two-thirds portion of Worthing, plus the villages of Ferring, East Preston and Rustington in the district of Arun. The eastern parts of the town are in the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The 2023 Boundary Review proposes to expand the area of the constituency to include the ward of Angmering & Findon while losing the wards of Rustington East and Rustington West. [3]
The seat was created in 1997 as Worthing and Shoreham were re-divided.
Before 1945, this exact land was in the Horsham and Worthing seat.
The MP from 1997 to 2024 was the Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley. He represented the Woolwich West and related Eltham in south-east London from 1975 to 1997. The current MP since 2024 is the Labour member Beccy Cooper.
In the timing of the 2019 results this seat gave the Conservatives a majority, being the 326th counted up.
Worthing prior to 1997
Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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1997 | Peter Bottomley | Conservative | |
2024 | Beccy Cooper | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Labour | Beccy Cooper | 20,519 | 40.2 | ||
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 16,570 | 32.5 | ||
Reform UK | Edmund Rooke | 7,562 | 14.8 | ||
Green | Sonya Mallin | 3,274 | 6.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Morag Chugg | 2,708 | 5.3 | ||
Independent | Kathryn Attwood | 364 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 3,949 | 7.7 | |||
Turnout | 50,997 | 66.2 | |||
Labour win (new boundaries) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 30,475 | 55.8 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Beccy Cooper | 15,652 | 28.6 | −4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jamie Bennett | 6,024 | 11.0 | +5.5 | |
Green | Joanne Paul | 2,008 | 3.7 | +0.7 | |
Independent | David Aherne | 489 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,823 | 27.2 | +5.0 | ||
Turnout | 54,648 | 69.5 | −0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 30,181 | 55.4 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Beccy Cooper | 18,091 | 33.2 | +17.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 2,982 | 5.5 | −3.3 | |
UKIP | Mark Withers | 1,635 | 3.0 | −15.3 | |
Green | Benjamin Cornish | 1,614 | 3.0 | −2.8 | |
Majority | 12,090 | 22.2 | −11.0 | ||
Turnout | 54,614 | 70.2 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 26,124 | 51.5 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 9,269 | 18.3 | +12.3 | |
Labour | Jim Deen | 7,955 | 15.7 | +3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 4,477 | 8.8 | −19.1 | |
Green | David Aherne | 2,938 | 5.8 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 16,855 | 33.2 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,763 | 67.1 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 25,416 | 51.7 | +4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 13,687 | 27.9 | +1.2 | |
Labour | Ian Ross | 5,800 | 11.8 | −7.4 | |
UKIP | John Wallace | 2,924 | 6.0 | +0.7 | |
Green | David Aherne | 996 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Christian | Stuart Dearsley | 300 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,729 | 23.8 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,123 | 64.7 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 21,383 | 47.6 | +0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Claire Potter | 12,004 | 26.7 | +0.2 | |
Labour | Antony Bignell | 8,630 | 19.2 | −2.3 | |
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 2,374 | 5.3 | +0.8 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Chris Baldwin | 515 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,379 | 20.9 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 44,906 | 62.6 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 20,508 | 47.5 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Walsh | 11,471 | 26.5 | −4.6 | |
Labour | Alan Butcher | 9,270 | 21.5 | +5.3 | |
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 1,960 | 4.5 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 9,037 | 21.0 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 43,209 | 59.7 | −12.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 23,733 | 46.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Hare | 16,020 | 31.1 | ||
Labour | John Adams | 8,347 | 16.2 | ||
Referendum | Nick John | 2,313 | 4.5 | ||
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 1,029 | 2.0 | ||
Majority | 7,713 | 15.0 | |||
Turnout | 51,442 | 71.8 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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