Brighton Kemptown | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | East Sussex |
Population | 91,567 (2011 census) [1] |
Electorate | 69,833 (December 2019) [2] |
Major settlements | Falmer, Moulsecoomb, Rottingdean, Kemp Town, Peacehaven, Telscombe, Saltdean, Brighton Marina, Woodingdean, Queen's Park, Brighton, Bevendean and Whitehawk |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of Parliament | Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour Co-op) |
Created from | Brighton |
Brighton Kemptown is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Lloyd Russell-Moyle, a Labour Co-op MP. [n 2] The seat is often referred to as Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven by local political parties, [3] [4] and will formally adopt that name following the next general election, [5] thanks to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.
The constituency covers the eastern portion of the city of Brighton and Hove including Kemptown and part of the Lewes District.
1950–1955: The County Borough of Brighton wards of Elm Grove, Hanover, King's Cliff, Lewes Road, Moulsecoomb, Pier, Queen's Park, Rottingdean, and St John's. [6]
1955–1983: The County Borough of Brighton wards of Elm Grove, Falmer, Hanover, King's Cliff, Lewes Road, Moulsecoomb, Pier, Queen's Park, Rottingdean, and Warren. [7]
1983–1997: The Borough of Brighton wards of Hanover, King's Cliff, Marine, Moulsecoomb, Queen's Park, Rottingdean, Tenantry, and Woodingdean.
1997–2010: The Borough of Brighton wards of King's Cliff, Marine, Moulsecoomb, Queen's Park, Rottingdean, Tenantry, and Woodingdean, and the District of Lewes wards of East Saltdean, Peacehaven East, Peacehaven North, Peacehaven West, and Telscombe Cliffs.
2010–present: The City of Brighton and Hove wards of East Brighton, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean, Queen's Park, Rottingdean Coastal, and Woodingdean, and the District of Lewes wards of East Saltdean and Telscombe Cliffs, Peacehaven East, Peacehaven North, and Peacehaven West.
The composition of the renamed constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be expanded slightly in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range by adding part of the City of Brighton and Hove ward of Hanover and Elm Grove – namely polling district PHEA, and that part of polling district PHEF to the east of Queen's Park Road – to be transferred from Brighton Pavilion. [8]
Following a local government boundary review in Brighton and Hove which came into effect in May 2023, [9] [10] the constituency will now comprise the following from the next general election:
The constituency takes in the eastern part of Brighton and semi-rural suburbs and villages stretching out to the east.
The seat has a large student population, from those that attend the University of Brighton and University of Sussex.
From west to east it includes Queen's Park; Kemptown, the centre of Brighton's LGBTQ+ community; the council estates of Whitehawk and Moulsecoomb; and beyond the racecourse affluent and genteel coastal villages like Rottingdean, Woodingdean, Saltdean and the town of Peacehaven.
This constituency was created in 1950 when the two-member constituency of Brighton was split into three single-member seats.
Boundary changes for the 1997 general election moved Peacehaven, a semi-rural area, into the constituency. This added a ward where the Conservatives had been favoured, but Labour gained the seat at its landslide victory. Des Turner held it until 2010, when Simon Kirby of the Conservative Party won it.
For a total of 48 years since the seat's creation, it has been Conservative-controlled (1950–1964; 1970–1997; 2010–2017). The only other party to hold the seat since its creation has been the Labour Party.
Labour first won Kemptown in 1964, with a narrow majority of just seven votes. [n 3] Dennis Hobden, the first Labour MP to ever be elected in Sussex, increased his majority in 1966, but lost the seat in 1970, and another Labour MP was not returned until 1997. The seat was a national bellwether constituency from 1979 to 2015, but in 2017 elected a Labour MP when the country as a whole returned a hung parliament with the Conservatives being the largest party by a margin of 56 MPs.
Liberal Democrats and their two predecessor parties following national trends formed the third-largest party in the constituency, 1950–2010 inclusive. The 2010 general election result for the party can be seen as 0.6% behind "its" highest, at 18.6%, if including its SDP forerunner. The Liberal Democrat vote share collapsed to 3% in 2015 (behind UKIP and Green Party candidates) and remained at the 3% level in 2017 despite the absence of UKIP and Green candidates for the seat at that election.
The Green Party candidate finished in fourth place at the 2005, 2010 and 2015 elections, retaining their deposit each time, with vote shares ranging from 5.5% to 7.0%. The Greens did not field a candidate in 2017 [12] and endorsed Labour, who subsequently gained the seat with a majority of just under 10,000 votes.
The 2015 general election result had made the seat the tenth-most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. [13]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDP | Valerie Gray [16] | ||||
Green | Elaine Hills [17] | ||||
Workers Party | Elaine Ghoneim [18] | ||||
Labour | Lloyd Russell-Moyle [19] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Stewart Stone [20] | ||||
Conservative | Khobi Vallis [21] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 25,033 | 51.6 | -6.7 | |
Conservative | Joe Miller | 16,972 | 35.0 | -3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ben Thomas | 2,964 | 6.1 | +3.1 | |
Green | Alexandra Phillips | 2,237 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Brexit Party | Graham Cushway | 1,327 | 2.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,061 | 16.6 | -3.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,533 | 69.5 | -3.0 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | -1.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Lloyd Russell-Moyle | 28,703 | 58.3 | +19.1 | |
Conservative | Simon Kirby [23] | 18,835 | 38.3 | -2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Emily Tester [24] | 1,457 | 3.0 | ±0.0 | |
Independent | Doktor Haze [25] | 212 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,868 | 20.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,207 | 72.5 | +5.7 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Simon Kirby [28] | 18,428 | 40.7 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Nancy Platts [28] | 17,738 | 39.2 | +4.3 | |
UKIP | Ian Buchanan [29] | 4,446 | 9.8 | +6.6 | |
Green | Davy Jones [28] | 3,187 | 7.0 | +1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Chandler [30] | 1,365 | 3.0 | −15.0 | |
Socialist (GB) | Jacqueline Shodeke [31] | 73 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Matthew Taylor [32] | 69 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 690 | 1.5 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 45,306 | 66.8 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Simon Kirby | 16,217 | 38.0 | +5.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Simon Burgess | 14,889 | 34.9 | −5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Juliet Williams | 7,691 | 18.0 | +1.5 | |
Green | Ben Duncan | 2,330 | 5.5 | −1.5 | |
UKIP | James Chamberlain-Webber | 1,384 | 3.2 | +1.3 | |
TUSC | Dave Hill | 194 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,328 | 3.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,705 | 64.7 | +4.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Des Turner | 15,858 | 39.9 | −7.9 | |
Conservative | Judith Symes | 13,121 | 33.0 | −2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Marina Pepper | 6,560 | 16.5 | +6.1 | |
Green | Simon Williams | 2,800 | 7.0 | +3.7 | |
UKIP | James Chamberlain-Webber | 758 | 1.9 | +0.5 | |
Peace | Caroline O'Reilly | 172 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | John McLeod | 163 | 0.4 | −0.5 | |
Independent | Elaine Cooke | 127 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Socialist Alternative | Phil Clarke | 113 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Gene Dobbs | 47 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,737 | 6.9 | -5.6 | ||
Turnout | 39,719 | 60.2 | +2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Des Turner | 18,745 | 47.8 | +1.2 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Theobald | 13,823 | 35.3 | −3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Janet Marshall | 4,064 | 10.4 | +0.7 | |
Green | Barney Miller | 1,290 | 3.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | James Chamberlain-Webber | 543 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | John McLeod | 364 | 0.9 | +0.2 | |
Free Party | Dave Dobbs | 227 | 0.6 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Elaine Cooke | 147 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,922 | 12.5 | +4.8 | ||
Turnout | 39,203 | 57.6 | −13.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Des Turner | 21,479 | 46.6 | +14.0 | |
Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 17,945 | 38.9 | −13.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Clive Gray | 4,478 | 9.7 | −4.2 | |
Referendum | David Inman | 1,526 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Hannah Williams | 316 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Jeremy Bowler | 172 | 0.4 | −0.1 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Lorrie Newman | 123 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Richard Darlow | 93 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,534 | 7.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,132 | 70.6 | -5.5 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +14.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 21,129 | 48.1 | −5.4 | |
Labour | Gill O. Haynes | 18,073 | 41.2 | +8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul D. Scott | 4,461 | 10.2 | −3.4 | |
Natural Law | Elizabeth J. Overall | 230 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,056 | 6.9 | −13.7 | ||
Turnout | 43,893 | 76.1 | +1.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −6.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 24,031 | 53.5 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Steve Bassam | 14,771 | 32.9 | +3.3 | |
Liberal | Chris Berry | 6,080 | 13.6 | -5.0 | |
Majority | 9,260 | 20.6 | -0.5 | ||
Turnout | 44,882 | 74.5 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 22,265 | 51.1 | ||
Labour | Roderick Fitch | 12,887 | 29.6 | ||
SDP | David Burke | 8,098 | 18.6 | N/A | |
National Front | Ted Budden | 290 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 9,378 | 21.5 | |||
Turnout | 43,540 | 71.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 25,512 | 53.6 | +7.7 | |
Labour | Quintin Barry | 17,504 | 36.8 | -3.5 | |
Liberal | S. Osbourne | 8,098 | 8.8 | -4.3 | |
National Front | Valerie Tyndall | 404 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,008 | 16.8 | +11.2 | ||
Turnout | 47,599 | 74.2 | +1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 21,725 | 45.9 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Dennis Hobden | 19,060 | 40.3 | +2.2 | |
Liberal | S. Osbourne | 6,214 | 13.1 | -2.5 | |
English National | Harvey Holford | 155 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Marxist-Leninist (England) | J. Buckle | 125 | 0.3 | ±0.0 | |
Independent | Brian Ralfe | 47 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,665 | 5.6 | -2.3 | ||
Turnout | 47,326 | 72.3 | -6.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 23,504 | 46.0 | -3.3 | |
Labour | Dennis Hobden | 19,484 | 38.1 | -4.8 | |
Liberal | D. Hall | 7,954 | 15.6 | +7.8 | |
Marxist-Leninist (England) | J. Buckle | 170 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,020 | 7.9 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 51,112 | 78.8 | +3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 24,208 | 49.3 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Dennis Hobden | 21,105 | 42.9 | -7.9 | |
Liberal | Oliver Moxon | 3,833 | 7.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,103 | 6.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,146 | 75.0 | -5.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dennis Hobden | 24,936 | 50.8 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Andrew Bowden | 24,105 | 49.2 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 831 | 1.6 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 49,041 | 80.1 | +7.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dennis Hobden | 22,308 | 50.0 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | David James | 22,301 | 50.0 | -6.4 | |
Majority | 7 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,609 | 72.2 | -1.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David James | 25,411 | 56.4 | ±0.0 | |
Labour | Lewis Cohen | 19,665 | 43.6 | ±0.0 | |
Majority | 5,746 | 12.8 | ±0.0 | ||
Turnout | 45,076 | 73.8 | +3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Howard Johnson | 23,142 | 56.4 | -1.2 | |
Labour | Lewis Cohen | 17,885 | 43.6 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 5,257 | 12.8 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,027 | 70.0 | -7.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Howard Johnson | 25,923 | 55.6 | +6.8 | |
Labour | Lewis Cohen | 20,726 | 44.4 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 5,197 | 11.2 | +4.7 | ||
Turnout | 46,649 | 77.1 | -0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Howard Johnson | 22,431 | 48.8 | ||
Labour | Joseph Huddart | 19,430 | 42.3 | ||
Liberal | Robert Michael Buckley | 4,073 | 8.9 | ||
Majority | 3,001 | 6.5 | |||
Turnout | 45,934 | 78.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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