List of Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

Last updated March 30, 2022

The county of Surrey is divided into 11 Parliamentary constituencies (sub-classified into four of borough type and seven of county status affecting the level of expenses permitted and status of returning officer). The county saw the vast bulk of its population and seats removed on the creation of the County of London in 1889 and its wider replacement the county of Greater London in 1965. Reflecting its mainly suburban and rural nature, all seats covering the present definition of Surrey have been held by Conservative MPs at each general election since 1885, with the exception of two Liberals in 1906 and 1 Liberal Democrat in 2001.

Constituencies

† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 2]}
East Surrey	83,148	24,040	Claire Coutinho†	Alex Ehmann¤
Epsom and Ewell	81,138	17,873	Chris Grayling†	Stephen Gee¤
Esher and Walton	81,184	2,743	Dominic Raab†	Monica Harding¤
Guildford	77,729	3,337	Angela Richardson†	Zöe Franklin¤
Mole Valley	74,665	12,011	Sir Paul Beresford†	Paul Kennedy¤
Reigate	74,242	18,310	Crispin Blunt†	Susan Gregory‡
Runnymede and Weybridge	77,196	18,270	Ben Spencer†	Robert King‡
South West Surrey	79,096	8,817	Jeremy Hunt†	Paul Follows¤
Spelthorne	70,929	18,393	Kwasi Kwarteng†	Pavitar Mann‡
Surrey Heath	81,349	18,349	Michael Gove†	Alasdair Pinkerton¤
Woking	75,424	9,767	Jonathan Lord†	Will Forster¤

Historic List of Constituencies in Surrey

Used from 1950 to 1974

Chertsey
Dorking
Epsom
Esher
Farnham
Guildford
Reigate
East Surrey
Spelthorne (previous county: Middlesex abolished in 1965)
Woking

Eleven other seats fell within the north-east of Surrey until 1965, forming the metropolitan part closest to London and the majority of the population (shown in the Historical Representation tables below). These were moved into Greater London leaving a predominantly suburban and rural content.

Used from 1974 to 1983

Used from 1983 to 1997

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the existing 11 constituencies in Surrey, with only very minor changes to four of them.

Name	Boundaries 1997-2010	Boundaries 2010–present
East Surrey CC Epsom and Ewell BC Esher and Walton BC Guildford CC Mole Valley CC Reigate BC Runnymede and Weybridge CC South West Surrey CC Spelthorne BC Surrey Heath CC Woking CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey	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.^[3]

The commission has proposed that Surrey be combined with Berkshire and Hampshire as a sub-region of the South East Region. As a result, the majority of the abolished constituency of South West Surrey would be combined with parts of the current constituency of East Hampshire to form a new cross-county boundary constituency named Farnham and Bordon. The remainder of South West Surrey would be combined with parts of Guildford, Mole Valley and Surrey Heath to form the new constituency of Godalming and Ash. The town of Egham in the borough of Runnymede would be included in the Berkshire constituency of Windsor, resulting in the proposal to rename Runneymede and Weybridge to Weybridge and Chertsey. Following changes to Mole Valley, it is proposed that this constituency is renamed Dorking and Horley.^[4]^[5]^[6]

The following constituencies are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Elmbridge

Esher and Walton BC
Weybridge and Chertsey CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Epsom and Ewell

Epsom and Ewell BC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Guildford

Containing electoral wards from Mole Valley

Dorking and Horley CC (part)
Epsom and Ewell BC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Reigate and Banstead

Dorking and Horley CC (part)
East Surrey CC (part)
Reigate BC

Containing electoral wards from Runnymede

Weybridge and Chertsey CC (part)
Windsor CC (parts also in the boroughs of Slough, and Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire)

Containing electoral wards from Spelthorne

Spelthorne BC

Containing electoral wards from Surrey Heath

Surrey Heath CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Tandridge

East Surrey CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Waverley

Farnham and Bordon CC (part)
Godalming and Ash CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Woking

Woking CC

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^[7]

2019

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

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	336,561	53.7%	4.9%	11	0
Liberal Democrats	179,581	28.6%	15.3%	0	0
Labour	79,895	12.7%	8.5%	0	0
Greens	17,165	2.7%	0.4%	0	0
Others	13,670	2.3%	2.3%	0	0
Total	626,872	100.0		11

Percentage votes

Note that before 1974 Surrey included a considerable part of what is now London.

Election year	1924	1929	1935	1945	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	71.8	53.8	69.8	49.9	55.8	61.0	62.4	59.9	51.6	50.1	55.6	50.2	50.5	59.3	59.4	60.6	59.9	46.2	47.6	50.5	55.2	58.1	58.6	53.7
Labour	4.6	20.5	26.3	40.7	34.4	36.8	34.9	29.9	29.9	33.3	30.3	20.1	23.5	20.2	11.0	11.4	13.6	22.3	21.8	16.7	9.8	13.0	21.2	12.7
Liberal Democrat ¹	23.6	25.7	3.9	9.0	9.8	2.3	2.7	10.3	18.4	16.5	13.8	29.3	25.6	19.8	28.6	27.6	25.5	24.5	27.0	28.4	28.5	9.8	13.3	28.6
Green Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	0.6	4.6	2.3	2.7
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	4.8	12.9	2.0	*
Other	-	-	-	0.4	0.03	-	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.1	0.4	1.1	7.0	3.6	4.4	1.1	1.6	2.6	2.2

¹pre-1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Accurate vote percentages cannot be obtained for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1923 and 1931 because at least one candidate stood unopposed.

Seats

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11
Liberal Democrat ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Total	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

¹1974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

General Election 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010 results

The following tables show the results for all Surrey constituencies in the General Elections in 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010. The results are given as percentages.

2019	Con	Lib Dem	Lab	Green	UKIP	Other
East Surrey	59.7	19.4	13.8	3.9	-	3.2
Epsom and Ewell	53.5	23.5	17.2	3.4	-	2.4
Esher and Walton	49.4	45.0	4.5	-	-	1.2
Guildford	44.9	39.2	7.7	-	-	8.2
Mole Valley	55.4	34.3	5.2	3.3	0.8	0.9
Reigate	53.9	19.4	19.5	6.0	1.2	-
Runnymede and Weybridge	54.9	17.3	20.6	3.5	0.9	2.8
South West Surrey	53.3	38.7	7.9	-	-	-
Spelthorne	58.9	15.1	21.7	4.3	-	-
Surrey Heath	58.6	27.3	9.2	3.8	1.1	-
Woking	48.9	30.8	16.4	2.8	1.1	-
Average	53.8	28.6	12.7	2.7	0.5	1.7

2017	Con	Lab	Lib Dem	UKIP	Green	Others
East Surrey	59.6	19.2	10.5	3.8	1.9	5.0
Epsom and Ewell	59.6	25.0	12.5	-	2.9	-
Esher and Walton	58.6	19.7	17.3	1.7	1.8	0.8
Guildford	54.6	19.0	23.9	-	2.1	0.5
Mole Valley	61.9	13.9	19.3	2.4	2.6	-
Reigate	57.4	24.7	10.9	2.9	4.1	-
Runnymede and Weybridge	60.9	25.9	7.3	3.2	2.6	-
South West Surrey	55.7	12.6	9.9	1.8	-	20.0
Spelthorne	57.3	30.5	5.5	4.6	2.2	-
Surrey Heath	64.2	21.1	10.8	-	3.9	-
Woking	54.1	23.9	17.6	2.1	2.0	0.4
Average	58.5	21.9	12.8	2.5	2.4	2.4

2015	Con	Lab	UKIP	Lib Dem	Green	Others
East Surrey	57.4	11.8	17.0	9.2	3.8	0.6
Epsom and Ewell	58.3	15.5	12.5	8.8	3.7	1.3
Esher and Walton	62.9	12.7	9.7	9.4	4.1	1.1
Guildford	57.1	12.1	8.8	15.5	4.7	1.8
Mole Valley	60.6	8.3	11.2	14.5	5.4	--
Reigate	56.8	12.8	13.3	10.5	6.7	--
Runnymede and Weybridge	59.7	15.5	13.9	6.7	4.1	--
South West Surrey	59.9	9.5	9.9	6.3	5.4	9.1
Spelthorne	49.7	18.6	20.9	6.4	3.5	1.0
Surrey Heath	59.9	11.2	14.3	9.1	4.4	1.2
Woking	56.2	16.1	11.3	11.6	4.1	0.6
Average	58.0	13.1	13.0	9.8	4.5	1.5

2010	Con	Lib Dem	Lab	UKIP	Others
East Surrey	56.7	25.9	9.0	6.9	1.5
Epsom and Ewell	56.2	26.8	11.9	4.6	0.5
Esher and Walton	58.9	24.8	10.7	3.3	2.3
Guildford	53.3	39.3	5.1	1.8	0.5
Mole Valley	57.5	28.7	7.0	5.1	1.6
Reigate	53.4	26.2	11.3	4.2	5.4
Runnymede and Weybridge	55.9	21.6	13.4	6.5	2.5
South West Surrey	58.7	30.2	6.0	2.6	2.6
Spelthorne	47.1	25.9	16.5	8.5	2.2
Surrey Heath	57.6	25.8	10.2	6.3	--
Woking	50.3	37.4	8.0	3.8	0.5
Average	55.1	28.4	9.9	4.9	1.8

Maps

1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019

Historical 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.

1885 to 1918

Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist National Party

Constituency	1885	86	92	1892	95	1895	97	99	1900	03	04	1906	07	09	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	12	16	17
Chertsey	Hankey		Combe				Leigh-Bennett			Fyler	Bingham	Marnham			Macmaster
Croydon	Grantham	Herbert			Ritchie							Arnold-Forster		Hermon-Hodge		Malcolm
Epsom	Cubitt			Bucknill				W. Keswick									H. Keswick
Guildford	Brodrick											Cowan			Horne
Kingston upon Thames	Ellis			Temple		Skewes-Cox						Cave
Reigate	Lawrence			Cubitt								Brodie			Rawson				→
Wimbledon	Bonsor								Hambro				Chaplin					Coats

Note the 15 other seats of Surrey created in 1885 which primarily or wholly lay in the 1889-created County of London are not included in this list.

1918 to 1950 (12, then 14 MPs)

Conservative Independent Conservative Labour

Constituency	1918	19	22	1922	23	1923	1924	28	31	1931	32	1935	37	40	1945	47	48
Chertsey	Macmaster		Richardson							Boyd-Carpenter			Marsden
Croydon North†	Borwick			Mason										Willink			Harris
Croydon South†	Malcolm	Smith				Mitchell-Thomson					Williams				Rees-Williams
Epsom	Blades							Southby								McCorquodale
Farnham	Samuel												Nicholson
Guildford	Horne			Buckingham					Rhys			Jarvis
Kingston upon Thames†	Campbell			Penny									Royds		Boyd-Carpenter
Mitcham†	Worsfold				Chuter Ede	Meller								Robertson	Braddock
Reigate	Cockerill									Touche
Richmond (Surrey)†	Edgar			Becker		→	Moore				Ray		Harvie-Watt
Surrey East†	Coats			Galbraith								Emmott			Astor
Wimbledon†	Hood						Power								Palmer
Carshalton†															Head
Sutton and Cheam†															Marshall

† denotes seat which falls wholly or largely within present-day county of Greater London.

1950 to 1974 (19, then 20 MPs)

Conservative

Constituency	1950	1951	54	1955	1959	60	1964	1966	1970	72
Carshalton†	Head					Elliot
Chertsey	Heald								Grylls
Croydon East / Croydon NE (from 1955)†	Williams		Hughes-Hallett				Weatherill
Croydon North / Croydon NW (from 1955)†	Harris								Taylor
Croydon West / Croydon S (from 1955)†	Thompson							Winnick	Thompson
Dorking	Touche						Sinclair
Epsom	McCorquodale			Rawlinson
Esher	Robson-Brown								Mather
Farnham	Nicholson							Macmillan
Guildford	Nugent							Howell
Kingston upon Thames†	Boyd-Carpenter
Merton and Morden†	Ryder			Atkins					Fookes
Mitcham†	Carr
Reigate	Vaughan-Morgan								Howe
Richmond (Surrey)†	Harvie-Watt				Royle
Surrey East†	Astor	Doughty							Clark
Sutton and Cheam†	Marshall		Sharples							Tope
Wimbledon†	Black								Havers
Woking	Watkinson						Onslow
Surbiton†				Fisher
Constituency	1950	1951	54	1955	1959	60	1964	1966	1970	72

† denotes seat which falls wholly or largely within present-day county of Greater London

1974 to present (11 MPs)

In 1965 half (ten) of Surrey's constituencies were moved to the new county of Greater London, but constituencies based on the old boundaries continued to be used until 1974, when Surrey gained one constituency (Spelthorne) from the abolished administrative county of Middlesex.

Liberal Democrat MP Sue Doughty, who won Guildford in 2001 with a winning margin of 1.2%, was the first candidate to take a seat from the Conservatives in the area covered by the present county of Surrey in 56 years.

Conservative Independent Liberal Democrats Referendum Party

Constituency	Feb 1974	78	1979	1983	84	1987	1992	97	1997	2001	2005	2010	19	2019
Chertsey & Walton / Runnymede & Weybridge (1997)	Pattie								Hammond				→	Spencer
Dorking (1974–83) / Mole Valley (1983-)	Sinclair		Wickenden	Baker					Beresford
Epsom and Ewell	Rawlinson	Hamilton								Grayling
Esher (1974–97) / Esher and Walton (1997-)	Mather					Taylor						Raab
Farnham (1974–83) / SW Surrey (1983-)	Macmillan				Bottomley						Hunt
Guildford	Howell								St Aubyn	Doughty	Milton		→	Richardson
Reigate	Gardiner							→	Blunt
Spelthorne	Atkins					Wilshire						Kwarteng
Surrey East	Howe						Ainsworth					Gyimah	→	Coutinho
Surrey NW (1974–97) / Surrey Heath (1997-)	Grylls								Hawkins		Gove
Woking	Onslow								Malins			Lord

Notes

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

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References

The Boundary Commission proposals for Surrey

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↑ "Constituency Boundary changes on the way for 'Your Waverley' and Guildford". Waverley Web. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
↑ "South West Surrey could be split in two". InYourArea.co.uk. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
↑ "Initial proposals for new Parliamentary constituency boundaries in the South East region | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
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[4] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[2] Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[:0-3] 1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2020.

[5] "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2021.

[6] "Constituency Boundary changes on the way for 'Your Waverley' and Guildford". Waverley Web. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

[7] "South West Surrey could be split in two". InYourArea.co.uk. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.

[8] "Initial proposals for new Parliamentary constituency boundaries in the South East region | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 October 2021.

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