Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Mole Valley
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Mole Valley in Surrey
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Location of Surrey within England
County Surrey
Electorate 72,568 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Dorking, Leatherhead, Fetcham and Great Bookham
1983–2024
SeatsOne
Created from Dorking and Epsom & Ewell [2]
Replaced by Dorking and Horley

Mole Valley is a former constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Paul Beresford, a Conservative until it was abolished in 2024, primarily replaced by Dorking and Horley.

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Boundaries

Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1983–1997: The District of Mole Valley, and the Borough of Guildford ward of Tillingbourne.

1997–2024: The District of Mole Valley wards of Beare Green, Bookham North, Bookham South, Box Hill and Headley, Brockham, Betchworth and Buckland, Capel, Leigh and Newdigate, Charlwood, Dorking North, Dorking South, Fetcham East, Fetcham West, Holmwoods, Leatherhead North, Leatherhead South, Leith Hill, Mickleham, Westhumble and Pixham, Okewood, and Westcott; and the Borough of Guildford wards of Clandon and Horsley, Effingham, Lovelace, Send, and Tillingbourne.

The constituency is larger than the Mole Valley district in Surrey as it includes five wards in the east of the Borough of Guildford, three of which are nearer to Woking than to Dorking. The largest town in the constituency is Dorking, second largest is Leatherhead and there are many rural and semi-rural villages, generally within one hour's reach of London so properly classed as part of the London Commuter Belt.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat underwent boundary changes, adding the town of Horley, and losing Leatherhead. As a consequence, the new seat of Dorking and Horley has replaced it, starting with the 2024 general election. [3]

History and constituency profile

The county constituency was created in 1983; much of the same area was covered by the Dorking constituency which preceded it. It is a Conservative safe seat in terms of length of party tenure and great size of its majorities, It has a majority adult demographic of affluent middle-class families living in commuter towns and villages speedily connected to business parks by road and central London by rail, it was one of a few seats to return a new candidate as Conservative MP who won a majority in excess of 10,000 in the 1997 Labour landslide; the main opposition since 1983 has been the Liberal Democrats and their largest predecessor party, the Liberal Party.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [4] Party
1983 Kenneth Baker Conservative
1997 Sir Paul Beresford Conservative

Elections

General election results from 1983-2019 Mole Valley election results 83-19.png
General election results from 1983-2019

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Mole Valley [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford 31,656 55.4 ―6.5
Liberal Democrats Paul Kennedy19,61534.4+15.1
Labour Brian Bostock2,9655.2―8.7
Green Lisa Scott-Conte1,8743.3+0.7
Independent Robin Horsley5360.9New
UKIP Geoffrey Cox4640.8―1.6
Majority12,04121.0―21.6
Turnout 57,11076.5+0.2
Conservative hold Swing ―10.7
General election 2017: Mole Valley [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford 35,092 61.9 +1.3
Liberal Democrats Paul Kennedy10,95519.3+4.8
Labour Marc Green7,86413.9+5.6
Green Jacquetta Fewster1,4632.6―2.8
UKIP Judy Moore1,3522.4―8.8
Majority24,13742.6―3.5
Turnout 56,86676.3+2.1
Conservative hold Swing ―1.8
General election 2015: Mole Valley [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford [8] 33,434 60.6 +3.1
Liberal Democrats Paul Kennedy7,98114.5―14.2
UKIP Paul Oakley [9] 6,18111.2+6.1
Labour Leonard Amos [10] 4,5658.3+1.3
Green Jacquetta Fewster [11] 2,9795.4+3.8
Majority25,45346.1+17.3
Turnout 55,32974.2―0.6
Conservative hold Swing +8.7
General election 2010: Mole Valley [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford 31,263 57.5 +2.7
Liberal Democrats Alice Humphreys15,61028.7―1.8
Labour James Dove3,8047.0―3.7
UKIP Leigh Jones2,7525.1+2.1
Green Rob Sedgwick8951.6New
Majority15,65328.8+4.5
Turnout 54,32474.8+3.3
Conservative hold Swing +2.3

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Mole Valley [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford 27,060 54.8 +4.3
Liberal Democrats Nasser Butt15,06330.5+1.5
Labour Farmida Bi 5,31010.7―5.9
UKIP David Payne1,4753.0+0.2
Veritas Roger Meekins5071.0New
Majority11,99724.3+2.8
Turnout 49,41572.5+3.6
Conservative hold Swing +1.4
General election 2001: Mole Valley [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford 23,790 50.5 +2.5
Liberal Democrats Celia Savage13,63729.0―0.3
Labour Dan Redford7,83716.6+1.8
UKIP Ronald Walters1,3332.8+2.0
ProLife Alliance William Newton4751.0New
Majority10,15321.5+2.8
Turnout 47,07268.9-9.5
Conservative hold Swing +1.4

Elections in the 1990s

This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation.

General election 1997: Mole Valley [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Beresford 26,178 48.0 ―13.3
Liberal Democrats Stephen Cooksey15,95729.3+0.6
Labour Christopher Payne8,05714.8+5.4
Referendum Nick Taber2,4244.4New
Ind. Conservative Richard Burley1,2762.3New
UKIP Ian Cameron4350.8New
Natural Law Judith Thomas1970.4―0.4
Majority10,22118.7-10.3
Turnout 54,52478.4−3.6
Conservative hold Swing ―6.9
General election 1992: Mole Valley [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth Baker 32,549 59.3 ―1.5
Liberal Democrats Michael Watson16,59930.3+0.4
Labour Tim Walsh5,2919.6+0.3
Natural Law Judith Thomas4420.8New
Majority15,95029.0―1.9
Turnout 54,88182.0+5.0
Conservative hold Swing ―0.9

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Mole Valley [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth Baker 31,689 60.8 ±0.0
Liberal Susan Thomas 15,61329.9―0.8
Labour Christopher King4,8469.3+0.8
Majority16,07630.9+0.8
Turnout 52,14877.0+2.0
Conservative hold Swing +0.4
General election 1983: Mole Valley [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kenneth Baker 29,691 60.8
Liberal Susan Thomas 14,97330.7
Labour Fanny Lines4,1478.5
Majority14,71830.1
Turnout 48,81175.0
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

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