Waveney Valley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Norfolk and Suffolk |
Major settlements | Bungay, Diss, Eye, Halesworth, Harleston |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | None |
Seats | One |
Created from | Waveney; Central Suffolk and North Ipswich; Bury St. Edmund's; Suffolk Coastal & South Norfolk |
Waveney Valley is a 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 at the 2024 general election.
The constituency straddles the River Waveney between Norfolk and Suffolk and is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It covers the following areas:
Electoral Calculus characterises the proposed seat as "Strong Right", with right-wing economic and social views, high home ownership levels and strong support for Brexit. [3]
The seat is a target seat for the Green Party [4] who won half of the council wards in the seat in the 2023 local elections.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform UK | Scott Huggins [5] | ||||
Labour | Gurpreet Padda [6] | ||||
Green | Adrian Ramsay [7] | ||||
Conservative | Richard Rout [8] | ||||
SDP | Maya Severyn [9] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
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