Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Bedfordshire |
Electorate | 74,069 [1] |
Major settlements | Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | South West Bedfordshire |
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard is a new constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] It will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the composition of the constituency was defined as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It comprises the communities of Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Linslade and Houghton Regis and is the successor to South West Bedfordshire - excluding Eaton Bray, which was transferred to the new constituency of Luton South and South Bedfordshire.
Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [4] [5] the constituency now comprises the following wards of Central Bedfordshire from the 2024 general election:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Emma Holland-Lindsay [7] | ||||
Green | Sukhinder Hundal [8] | ||||
Labour | Alex Mayer [9] | ||||
Reform UK | Harry Palmer [10] | ||||
Conservative | Andrew Selous [11] | ||||
English Democrat | Antonio Vitiello [12] | ||||
Bedfordshire is a ceremonial county in the East of England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Luton (225,262), and Bedford is the county town.
Leighton Buzzard is a market town in Bedfordshire, England, in the southwest of the county and close to the Buckinghamshire border. It lies between Aylesbury, Tring, Luton/Dunstable and Milton Keynes, near the Chiltern Hills.
South Bedfordshire was a local government district in Bedfordshire, in the East of England, from 1974 to 2009. Its main towns were Dunstable, Houghton Regis and Leighton Buzzard.
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The 2011 Central Bedfordshire Council electionfor the Central Bedfordshire Council were held on 5 May 2011, along with other United Kingdom local elections. The whole council was up for election following boundary changes, with each successful candidate serving a four-year term of office, expiring in 2015.
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