Dorking and Horley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Surrey |
Major settlements | Dorking and Horley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Mole Valley |
Dorking and Horley is a new constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested in the 2024 general election. [2]
The constituency is named for the towns of Dorking and Horley in Surrey.
The constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise the following areas of Surrey: [4]
Following local government boundary reviews in Mole Valley [6] [7] and Waverley [8] [9] which came into effect in May 2023, the constituency will now comprise the following from the 2024 general election:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Marisa Heath [10] | ||||
Labour | Nadia Burrell [11] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Chris Coghlan [12] | ||||
Green | Lisa Scott [13] | ||||
Reform UK | Craig Young [14] | ||||
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