Hitchin and Harpenden | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Hertfordshire |
Electorate | 74,189 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Hitchin, Harpenden, Wheathampstead, Redbourn |
1997–2024 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | North Hertfordshire St Albans Welwyn Hatfield |
Replaced by | Hitchin Harpenden and Berkhamsted |
Hitchin and Harpenden is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Bim Afolami, a Conservative. [n 2]
The seat is due to be abolished for the 2024 general election and be replaced by the new seats of Hitchin and Harpenden and Berkhamsted . [2]
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election from parts of several former Hertfordshire seats. Prior to 1997, Hitchin was included in the abolished North Hertfordshire constituency and Harpenden in the St Albans constituency, while the village of Wheathampstead was part of the Welwyn Hatfield constituency.
The seat's first MP was Peter Lilley, a former Secretary of State for various government departments in the Major ministry in the 1990s, who had previously represented St Albans from 1983 to 1997. He announced he would not contest the seat at the 2017 general election. [3] He was succeeded in 2017 by Bim Afolami of the Conservatives, who retained it at the 2019 general election, albeit with a reduced majority.
Minor gain from North East Hertfordshire due to revision of local authority wards.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished for the 2024 general election, with its contents distributed to two new constituencies: [2]
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1997 | Peter Lilley | Conservative | |
2017 | Bim Afolami | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bim Afolami | 27,719 | 47.1 | –6.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sam Collins | 20,824 | 35.4 | +24.8 | |
Labour | Kay Tart | 9,959 | 16.9 | –15.7 | |
CPA | Sid Cordle | 268 | 0.5 | +0.1 | |
Advance | Peter Marshall | 101 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 6,895 | 11.7 | –8.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,921 | 77.1 | –0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | –15.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bim Afolami [10] | 31,189 | 53.1 | –3.8 | |
Labour | John Hayes [11] | 19,158 | 32.6 | +12.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hugh Annand [12] | 6,236 | 10.6 | +2.5 | |
Green | Richard Cano [13] | 1,329 | 2.3 | –3.2 | |
Independent | Ray Blake [14] | 629 | 1.1 | New | |
CPA | Sid Cordle [14] | 242 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 12,031 | 20.5 | –15.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,783 | 77.4 | +8.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | –7.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Lilley | 31,488 | 56.9 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Rachel Burgin | 11,433 | 20.6 | +7.0 | |
UKIP | John Stocker | 4,917 | 8.9 | +5.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Pauline Pearce | 4,484 | 8.1 | –18.6 | |
Green | Richard Wise | 3,053 | 5.5 | +4.0 | |
Majority | 20,055 | 36.3 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 55,375 | 68.9 | –5.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Lilley | 29,869 | 54.6 | +4.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Quinton | 14,598 | 26.7 | +0.9 | |
Labour | Oliver de Botton | 7,413 | 13.6 | −8.8 | |
UKIP | Graham Wilkinson | 1,633 | 3.0 | +1.3 | |
Green | Richard Wise | 807 | 1.5 | New | |
Independent | Margaret Henderson | 109 | 0.2 | New | |
Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality | Simon Byron | 108 | 0.2 | New | |
Your Right to Democracy | Eric Hannah | 90 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent | Peter Rigby | 50 | 0.1 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 15,271 | 27.9 | +3.9 | ||
Turnout | 54,707 | 74.1 | +5.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Lilley | 23,627 | 49.9 | +2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hannah Hedges | 12,234 | 25.8 | +7.8 | |
Labour | Paul Orrett | 10,499 | 22.2 | −10.3 | |
UKIP | John Saunders | 828 | 1.7 | +0.4 | |
Independent | Peter Rigby | 199 | 0.4 | -0.4 | |
Majority | 11,393 | 24.1 | +9.3 | ||
Turnout | 47,387 | 70.5 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Lilley | 21,271 | 47.3 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Alan Amos | 14,608 | 32.5 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Murphy | 8,076 | 18.0 | −2.1 | |
UKIP | John Saunders | 606 | 1.3 | New | |
Independent | Peter Rigby | 363 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 6,663 | 14.8 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 44,924 | 66.9 | −11.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Lilley | 24,038 | 45.9 | ||
Labour | Rosemary Sanderson | 17,367 | 33.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Chris J. White | 10,515 | 20.1 | ||
Natural Law | David R.H. Cooke | 290 | 0.6 | ||
Socialist Alternative | Jim D.O. Horton | 217 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 6,671 | 12.8 | |||
Turnout | 52,427 | 78.0 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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