South Cambridgeshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Anthony Browne, a Conservative.[n 2]
South Cambridgeshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cambridgeshire |
Electorate | 83,790 (2018)[1] |
Major settlements | Cambourne Cottenham Sawston |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Anthony Browne (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | South West Cambridgeshire (most) South East Cambridgeshire (part) |
The constituency includes some outskirts of Cambridge such as Girton and its eponymous Cambridge College, and a large spread of rural land to the west of the city, which is generally affluent. The population live in villages, most of which are compact – the most densely populated are in the south where two railway lines and the M11 motorway provide rapid access to London. The seat's only ward (Queen Edith's) that lies within the City of Cambridge has a strong Liberal Democrat vote. This ward also contains the Cambridge College Homerton and Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Registered jobseekers totalled 1.4% of the population, much lower than the regional average of 3.1% and the national average of 3.8% of the population in a statistical compilation by The Guardian in November 2012.[2] In 2017 South Cambridgeshire was identified as the constituency with the lowest proportion of claimants of unemployment benefits in the whole of the country, with only 0.6% of the economically active population claiming either Job Seekers Allowance or Universal Credit.[3]
The constituency was created following the boundary review of 1995, and was first contested at the 1997 general election. Before this, much of the region had been part of the now abolished South West Cambridgeshire constituency represented by Sir Anthony Grant from 1983 to 1997,[5] while the wards of Bar Hill, Coton, Elsworth, Girton, Longstanton and Swavesey were transferred from South East Cambridgeshire.
Following the 2007 review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire, the Boundary Commission made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes.
Trumpington ward and parts of Coleridge and Cherry Hinton wards in the City of Cambridge were transferred to Cambridge, having previously been part of South Cambridgeshire.[7]
Additionally, parts of Cottenham ward (specifically the civil parishes of Cottenham and Rampton) and the Abingtons (Babraham, Great Abington, Little Abington and Pampisford) were added to South Cambridgeshire, having previously voted in the South East Cambridgeshire constituency.[8]
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be (as they existed on 1st December 2020):
The seat will be subject to major changes, with northern areas, including the new towns of Cambourne and Northstowe, being transferred to the newly created constituency of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire. To partly compensate, it will gain the Cherry Hinton ward in the City of Cambridge and southern parts of the (to be abolished) constituency of South East Cambridgeshire, including the villages of Fulbourn and Linton.
Election | Member[10] | Party | |
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1997 | Andrew Lansley | Conservative | |
2015 | Heidi Allen | Conservative | |
2019 | Change UK | ||
Independent | |||
The Independents | |||
Liberal Democrats | |||
2019 | Anthony Browne | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDP | Adam Augustyn[11] | ||||
Conservative | Chris Carter-Chapman[12] | ||||
Green | Oliver Fisher[13] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Pippa Heylings[14] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Anthony Browne | 31,015 | 46.3 | −5.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Sollom | 28,111 | 42.0 | +23.4 | |
Labour | Dan Greef | 7,803 | 11.7 | −15.5 | |
Majority | 2,904 | 4.3 | −20.3 | ||
Turnout | 66,929 | 76.7 | +0.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −14.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Heidi Allen | 33,631 | 51.8 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Dan Greef | 17,679 | 27.2 | +9.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan van de Ven | 12,102 | 18.6 | +3.4 | |
Green | Simon Saggers | 1,512 | 2.3 | −4.0 | |
Majority | 15,952 | 24.6 | −8.9 | ||
Turnout | 64,924 | 76.2 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Heidi Allen | 31,454 | 51.1 | +3.7 | |
Labour | Dan Greef | 10,860 | 17.6 | +7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sebastian Kindersley | 9,368 | 15.2 | −18.9 | |
UKIP | Marion Mason | 6,010 | 9.8 | +6.6 | |
Green | Simon Saggers | 3,848 | 6.3 | +4.5 | |
Majority | 20,594 | 33.5 | +20.2 | ||
Turnout | 61,540 | 73.1 | −1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Lansley | 27,995 | 47.4 | +0.9[22] | |
Liberal Democrats | Sebastian Kindersley | 20,157 | 34.1 | +5.8 | |
Labour | Tariq Sadiq | 6,024 | 10.2 | −9.5 | |
Independent | Robin Page | 1,968 | 3.3 | New | |
UKIP | Helene Davies-Green | 1,873 | 3.2 | +0.4 | |
Green | Simon Saggers | 1,039 | 1.8 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 7,838 | 13.3 | +4.9 | ||
Turnout | 59,056 | 74.8 | +6.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Lansley | 23,676 | 45.0 | +0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Dickson | 15,675 | 29.8 | +2.9 | |
Labour | Sandra Wilson | 10,189 | 19.4 | −4.9 | |
UKIP | Robin Page | 1,556 | 3.0 | +1.2 | |
Green | Simon Saggers | 1,552 | 2.9 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 8,001 | 15.2 | -2.1 | ||
Turnout | 52,648 | 68.4 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Lansley | 21,387 | 44.2 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Amanda Taylor | 12,984 | 26.9 | +1.1 | |
Labour | Joan Herbert | 11,737 | 24.3 | −0.8 | |
Green | Simon Saggers | 1,182 | 2.4 | New | |
UKIP | Helene Davies | 875 | 1.8 | +1.2 | |
ProLife Alliance | Beata Klepacka | 176 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 8,403 | 17.3 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 48,341 | 67.1 | −9.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Lansley | 22,572 | 42.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | James A. Quinlan | 13,860 | 25.8 | ||
Labour | Tony Gray | 13,485 | 25.1 | ||
Referendum | Robin Page | 3,300 | 6.1 | ||
UKIP | Derek A. Norman | 298 | 0.6 | ||
Natural Law | Francis C. Chalmers | 168 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 8,712 | 16.2 | |||
Turnout | 53,683 | 76.9 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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