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Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire
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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.[nb 1]

Constituencies
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Boundary changes
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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.[5]
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.
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Results history
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Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
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:[nb 5][2]
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:
Percentage votes
1 Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
2 2019: as the Brexit Party –
3 1950-1979 - Liberal ; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
1Includes 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
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Timeline
Former constituency Current constituency
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Historical representation by party
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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
1837 to 1885
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
1997 to present
Change UK Conservative Independent The Independents Labour
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See also
Notes
- Hitchin is a cross-county boundary constituency, mostly covering areas of northern Hertfordshire but also containing electoral wards in Central Bedfordshire.
- BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
- Hitchin is a cross-county boundary constituency, mostly covering areas of northern Hertfordshire but also containing electoral wards in Central Bedfordshire.
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References
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