Kensington and Bayswater | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater London |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
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, [1] which was made into law on 29 November 2023, [2] it will first be 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: [3]
This means that it consist of the nearly all of the (former) constituency of Kensington, and two wards of the previous Cities of London and Westminster constituency and the southern half of the Queen's Gate ward, which belonged to the previous Chelsea and Fulham constituency. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Mona Adam [5] | ||||
Conservative | Felicity Buchan [6] | ||||
Reform UK | Marc Burca [7] | ||||
Workers Party | Garry Cattle [8] | ||||
Independent | Emma Dent Coad [9] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | William Houngbo [10] | ||||
Labour | Joe Powell [11] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
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