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The ceremonial county of Bedfordshire (which comprises Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton unitary authorities) is split into 7 seats – 2 borough and 5 county constituencies.

Constituencies

  † Conservative †   ‡ Labour ‡

Name	Electorate	Majority	Member of Parliament		Nearest opposition		Electoral wards	Map
Bedford BC	70,068	9,430		Mohammad Yasin ‡		Pinder Chauhan †	Bedford Borough Council: Brickhill, Castle, Cauldwell, De Parys, Goldington, Harpur, Kempston Central and East, Kempston North, Kempston South, Kempston West, Kingsbrook, Newnham, Putnoe, Queen's Park.
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard CC	74,069	667		Alex Mayer ‡		Andrew Selous †	Central Bedfordshire Council: Dunstable Central, Dunstable-Icknield, Dunstable-Manshead, Dunstable-Northfields, Dunstable-Watling, Heath and Reach, Houghton Hall, Leighton Buzzard North, Leighton Buzzard South, Linslade, Parkside, Tithe Farm.
Hitchin CC	72,112	7,109		Alistair Strathern ‡		Bim Afolami †	Central Bedfordshire Council: Arlesey, Shefford, Stotfold and Langford. North Hertfordshire District Council: Cadwell, Chesfield, Hitchin Bearton, Hitchin Highbury, Hitchin Oughton, Hitchin Priory, Hitchin Walsworth, Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo, Kimpton.
Luton North BC	73,266	7,510		Sarah Owen ‡		Jilleane Brown †	Luton Borough Council: Barnfield, Bramingham, Challney, Ickfield, Leagrave, Lewsey, Limbury, Northwell, Saints, Stopsley, Sundon Park.
Luton South and South Bedfordshire CC	70,197	6,858		Rachel Hopkins ‡		Mark Versallion †	Central Bedfordshire Council: Caddington, Eaton Bay. Luton Borough Council: Biscot, Crawley, Dallow, Farley, High Town, Round Green, South, Wigmore.
Mid Bedfordshire CC	71,748	1,321		Blake Stephenson †		Maahwish Mirza ‡	Bedford Borough Council: Elstow and Stewartby, Wilshamstead, Wootton. Central Bedfordshire Council: Ampthill, Aspley and Woburn, Barton-le-Clay, Cranfield and Marston Moretaine, Flitwick, Houghton Conquest and Haynes, Silsoe and Shillington, Toddington, Westoning, Flitton and Greenfield.
North Bedfordshire CC	76,319	5,414		Richard Fuller †		Uday Nagaraju ‡	Bedford Borough Council: Bromham and Biddenham, Clapham, Eastcotts, Great Barford, Harrold, Kempston Rural, Oakley, Riseley, Sharnbrook, Wyboston. Central Bedfordshire Council: Biggleswade North, Biggleswade South, Northill, Potton, Sandy.

Boundary changes

2024

For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Bedfordshire with Hertfordshire as a sub-region of the East of England region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Hitchin. As a result of the changes, Luton South was renamed Luton South and South Bedfordshire, North East Bedfordshire renamed North Bedfordshire, and South West Bedfordshire renamed Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard.

Former name	Boundaries 2010-2024	Current name	Boundaries 2024–present
Bedford BC Luton North BC Luton South BC Mid Bedfordshire CC North East Bedfordshire CC South West Bedfordshire CC		Bedford BC Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard CC Hitchin CC Luton North BC Luton South and South Bedfordshire CC Mid Bedfordshire CC North Bedfordshire CC

2010

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Bedfordshire's constituencies for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.

Name	Boundaries 1997-2010	Boundaries 2010–present
Bedford BC Luton North BC Luton South BC Mid Bedfordshire CC North East Bedfordshire CC South West Bedfordshire CC

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Bedfordshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Labour	114,813	36.8%	2.6%	5	2
Conservative	88,794	28.0%	21.8%	2	1
Reform UK	45,831	14.4%	13.2%	0	0
Liberal Democrats	29,346	9.2%	0.2%	0	0
Greens	17,092	5.4%	2.5%	0	0
Others	13,447	4.2%	1.2%	0	0
Workers Party of Britain	8,020	2.5%	New	0	New
Total	317,343	100.0		7

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Bedfordshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	156,973	49.8%	0.5%	3	0
Labour	107,591	34.2%	7.8%	3	0
Liberal Democrats	28,276	9.0%	4.4%	0	0
Greens	9,126	2.9%	1.0%	0	0
Brexit	3,712	1.2%	new	0	0
Others	9,318	3.0%	1.7%	0	0
Total	314,996	100.0		6

Percentage votes

Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

2019: as the Brexit Party –

1950-1979 - Liberal ; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

Maps

1885-1910

• 1885
• 1886
• 1892
• 1895
• 1900
• 1906
• Jan 1910
• Dec 1910

1918-1945

• 1918
• 1922
• 1934
• 1924
• 1929
• 1931
• 1935
• 1945

1950-1979

• 1950
• 1951
• 1955
• 1959
• 1964
• 1966
• 1970
• Feb 1974
• Oct 1974
• 1979

1983-present

• 1983
• 1987
• 1992
• 1997
• 2001
• 2005
• 2010
• 2015
• 2017
• 2019
• 2024

Timeline

  Former constituency   Current constituency

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1802 to 1837

  Conservative   Tory   Whig

1837 to 1885

  Conservative   Liberal   Whig

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Liberal   Liberal Unionist

1918 to 1974

  Coalition Liberal (1918–22) / National Liberal (1922–23)   Conservative   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931–68)

1974 to 1997

  Conservative   Labour

1997 to present

  Change UK   Conservative   Independent   The Independents   Labour

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in the East of England (region)
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Bedfordshire

Notes

1. Hitchin is a cross-county boundary constituency, mostly covering areas of northern Hertfordshire but also containing electoral wards in Central Bedfordshire.
2. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
3. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
4. Hitchin is a cross-county boundary constituency, mostly covering areas of northern Hertfordshire but also containing electoral wards in Central Bedfordshire.
5. It should be acknowledged that as Hitchin is a cross-county constituency between Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, and the results of UK elections on sub-constituency levels are not disclosed, the following vote shares include parts of the Hitchin constituency located in Hertfordshire

References

1. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - Eastern". Boundary Commission for England.
2. ^ "Constituencies A-Z – Election 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
4. Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
5. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 193-206. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
6. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

• Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire
• Parliamentary constituencies in the East of England
• Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England
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