Maidstone and Malling | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Kent |
Electorate | 73,084 (2023)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Helen Grant (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Maidstone and The Weald |
Maidstone and Malling is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.[2] It was created under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and was first contested in the 2024 general election. It is represented by Helen Grant of the Conservatives, who was MP for the predecessor seat of Maidstone and the Weald from 2010 to 2024.
The seat is defined as composing the following as they existed on 1 December 2020:
Following a local government boundary review in Tonbridge and Malling which came into effect in May 2023,[5][6] the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election:
Maidstone & The Weald prior to 2024
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Helen Grant | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Helen Grant | 14,146 | 30.5 | –27.9 | |
Labour | Maureen Cleator | 12,472 | 26.9 | +8.5 | |
Reform UK | Paul Thomas | 9,316 | 20.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | David Naghi | 6,375 | 13.7 | –4.9 | |
Green | Stuart Jeffery | 3,727 | 8.0 | +4.2 | |
Independent | Yolande Kenward | 197 | 0.4 | –0.3 | |
British Democrats | Gary Butler | 156 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,674 | 3.6 | –36.2 | ||
Turnout | 46,389 | 60.7 | –6.2 | ||
Registered electors | 76,449 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | –18.2 |
2019 notional result[9] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 28,562 | 58.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | 9,114 | 18.6 | |
Labour | 8,993 | 18.4 | |
Green | 1,880 | 3.8 | |
Others | 358 | 0.7 | |
Turnout | 48,907 | 66.9 | |
Electorate | 73,084 |