Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

The ceremonial county of Surrey is divided into 11 parliamentary constituencies which are wholly within the county boundaries. In addition, there are two constituencies which cross the county boundary - one with Hampshire (Farnham and Bordon) and one with Berkshire (Windsor). These thirteen seats are sub-classified into three of borough type and ten of county status, affecting the level of expenses permitted and the status of the returning officer.

Surrey residents comprise a majority of the Farnham and Bordon constituency, with Hampshire residents in the minority. However, in the Windsor constituency Surrey residents comprise only a small minority, with the overwhelming majority being Berkshire residents. One might therefore say that there are effectively 12 ‘Surrey constituencies’ in all - 11 seats that are wholly in Surrey, plus the Farnham and Bordon constituency where Surrey residents are in the majority, where the Surrey town of Farnham is the main town within the seat, and where Surrey constitutes the majority of the land area of the seat.

The county saw the vast bulk of its population and seats removed on the creation of the County of London in 1889 and its wider replacement by the county of Greater London in 1965.

Reflecting its mainly suburban and rural nature, all seats covering the present definition of Surrey have been held by Conservative MPs at each general election since 1885, with the exception of three Liberals in 1906, one Liberal Democrat in 2001, and six Liberal Democrats in 2024.

Constituencies

Further information: 2024 United Kingdom general election

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour   ¤ Liberal Democrat

Constituency[nb 1]	Electorate	Majority[1][nb 2]	Member of Parliament[1]		Nearest opposition[1]		Map
Dorking and Horley	71,300	5,391		Chris Coghlan¤		Marisa Heath†
East Surrey	73,307	7,450		Claire Coutinho†		Tom Bowell‡
Epsom and Ewell	77,530	3,686		Helen Maguire¤		Mhairi Fraser†
Esher and Walton	74,042	12,003		Monica Harding¤		John Cope†
Farnham and Bordon (Part)	75,918	1,349		Greg Stafford†		Khalil Yousuf¤
Godalming and Ash	74,168	891		Jeremy Hunt†		Paul Follows¤
Guildford	70,734	8,429		Zöe Franklin¤		Angela Richardson†
Reigate	77,101	3,187		Rebecca Paul†		Stuart Brady‡
Runnymede and Weybridge	73,610	7,627		Ben Spencer†		Ellen Nicholson¤
Spelthorne	73,782	1,590		Lincoln Jopp†		Claire Tighe‡
Surrey Heath	71,934	5,640		Alasdair Pinkerton¤		Ed McGuinness†
Windsor (Part)	73,334	6,457		Jack Rankin †		Pavitar Mann ‡
Woking	72,977	11,246		Will Forster¤		Jonathan Lord†

Historic list of constituencies in Surrey

Used from 1950 to 1974

• Chertsey
• Dorking
• Epsom
• Esher
• Farnham
• Guildford
• Reigate
• East Surrey
• Spelthorne (previous county: Middlesex abolished in 1965)
• Woking

Eleven other seats fell within the north-east of Surrey until 1965, forming the metropolitan part closest to London and the majority of the population (shown in the Historical Representation tables below). These were moved into Greater London leaving a predominantly suburban and rural content.

Used from 1974 to 1983

• Chertsey and Walton
• Dorking
• East Surrey
• Epsom and Ewell
• Esher
• Farnham
• Guildford
• North West Surrey
• Reigate
• Spelthorne
• Woking

Used from 1983 to 1997

• Chertsey and Walton
• East Surrey
• Epsom and Ewell
• Esher
• Mole Valley
• Guildford
• North West Surrey
• Reigate
• South West Surrey
• Spelthorne
• Woking

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the existing 11 constituencies in Surrey, with only very minor changes to four of them.

Name	Boundaries 1997–2010	Boundaries 2010–present
East Surrey CC Epsom and Ewell BC Esher and Walton BC Guildford CC Mole Valley CC Reigate BC Runnymede and Weybridge CC South West Surrey CC Spelthorne BC Surrey Heath CC Woking CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey	Proposed Revision

2024 boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Former name	Boundaries 2010–2024	Current name	Boundaries 2024–present
East Surrey CC Epsom and Ewell BC Esher and Walton BC Guildford CC Mole Valley CC Reigate BC Runnymede and Weybridge CC South West Surrey CC Spelthorne BC Surrey Heath CC Woking CC	Proposed Revision	Dorking and Horley CC East Surrey CC Epsom and Ewell BC Esher and Walton BC Farnham and Borden CC Godalming and Ash CC Guildford CC Reigate CC Runnymede and Weybridge CC Spelthorne BC Surrey Heath CC Windsor CC Woking CC

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 Surrey with Berkshire and Hampshire as a sub-region of the South East Region.

As a result, the majority of the abolished constituency of South West Surrey was combined with parts of the constituency of East Hampshire to form a cross-county boundary constituency named Farnham and Bordon. The remainder of South West Surrey was combined with parts of Guildford, Mole Valley and Surrey Heath to form the new constituency of Godalming and Ash. The communities of Englefield Green and Virginia Water in the borough of Runnymede were included in the Berkshire constituency of Windsor. Following some significant changes to Mole Valley, this constituency was renamed Dorking and Horley.^[2][3][4]

The eleven boroughs and districts that constitute the modern county of Surrey contributed to the twelve Surrey constituencies (plus the Berkshire constituency of Windsor) as follows:

Containing electoral wards from Elmbridge

• Esher and Walton
• Runnymede and Weybridge (part)

Containing electoral wards from Epsom and Ewell

• Epsom and Ewell (part)

Containing electoral wards from Guildford

• Guildford
• Surrey Heath (part)
• Godalming and Ash (part)

Containing electoral wards from Mole Valley

• Dorking and Horley (part)
• Epsom and Ewell (part)

Containing electoral wards from Reigate and Banstead

• Dorking and Horley (part)
• East Surrey (part)
• Reigate

Containing electoral wards from Runnymede

• Runnymede and Weybridge (part)
• Windsor (parts also in the Boroughs of Slough, and Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire)

Containing electoral wards from Spelthorne

• Spelthorne

Containing electoral wards from Surrey Heath

• Surrey Heath (part)

Containing electoral wards from Tandridge

• East Surrey (part)

Containing electoral wards from Waverley

• Dorking and Horley (part)

• Farnham and Bordon (part also in the District of East Hampshire)
• Godalming and Ash (part)

Containing electoral wards from Woking

• Woking

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019^[5]

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party that fielded candidates in the twelve constituencies comprising Surrey in the 2024 general election were as follows in the chart below:^{[nb 3]}

(N.B. In 2024, the Conservative Party lost five seats on their previous total of holding all eleven Surrey constituencies at the 2019 general election. However, given that all twelve revised Surrey seats in 2024 - including the ‘new’ seat of Godalming and Ash - had all been notionally Conservative on the 2019 results, one might equally well argue that the Conservatives lost six Surrey seats in 2024, half of the total).

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Liberal Democrats	213,388	35.1%	4.8%	6	6
Conservative	202,906	33.4%	20.3%	6	5
Labour	84,921	14.0%	1.3%	0	0
Reform	74,360	12.2%	New	0	0
Greens	26,741	4.4%	1.7%	0	0
Others	4,768	0.8%	1.5%	0	0
Total	607,084	100.0		12

Percentage votes

Note that before 1974 Surrey included a considerable part of what is now London.

Election year	1924	1929	1935	1945	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Liberal Democrat1	23.6	25.7	3.9	9.0	9.8	2.3	2.7	10.3	18.4	16.5	13.8	29.3	25.6	19.8	28.6	27.6	25.5	24.5	27.0	28.4	28.5	9.8	13.3	28.6	35.1
Conservative	71.8	53.8	69.8	49.9	55.8	61.0	62.4	59.9	51.6	50.1	55.6	50.2	50.5	59.3	59.4	60.6	59.9	46.2	47.6	50.5	55.2	58.1	58.6	53.7	33.4
Labour	4.6	20.5	26.3	40.7	34.4	36.8	34.9	29.9	29.9	33.3	30.3	20.1	23.5	20.2	11.0	11.4	13.6	22.3	21.8	16.7	9.8	13.0	21.2	12.7	14.0
Reform	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12.2
Green Party	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	*	*	*	*	*	0.6	4.6	2.3	2.7	4.4
UKIP	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	*	*	*	4.8	12.9	2.0	*	*
Other	–	–	–	0.4	0.03	–	–	–	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.1	0.4	1.1	7.0	3.6	4.4	1.1	1.6	2.6	2.2	0.8

¹pre-1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Accurate vote percentages cannot be obtained for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1923 and 1931 because at least one candidate stood unopposed.

Seats

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Conservative	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	6
Liberal Democrat1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Total	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12

¹1974 & 1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

General Election 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010 results

The following tables show the results for all Surrey constituencies in the General Elections in 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010. The results are given as percentages.

2019	Con	Lib Dem	Lab	Green	UKIP	Other
East Surrey	59.7	19.4	13.8	3.9	–	3.2
Epsom and Ewell	53.5	23.5	17.2	3.4	–	2.4
Esher and Walton	49.4	45.0	4.5	–	–	1.2
Guildford	44.9	39.2	7.7	–	–	8.2
Mole Valley	55.4	34.3	5.2	3.3	0.8	0.9
Reigate	53.9	19.4	19.5	6.0	1.2	–
Runnymede and Weybridge	54.9	17.3	20.6	3.5	0.9	2.8
South West Surrey	53.3	38.7	7.9	–	–	–
Spelthorne	58.9	15.1	21.7	4.3	–	–
Surrey Heath	58.6	27.3	9.2	3.8	1.1	–
Woking	48.9	30.8	16.4	2.8	1.1	–
Average	53.8	28.6	12.7	2.7	0.5	1.7

2017	Con	Lab	Lib Dem	UKIP	Green	Others
East Surrey	59.6	19.2	10.5	3.8	1.9	5.0
Epsom and Ewell	59.6	25.0	12.5	–	2.9	–
Esher and Walton	58.6	19.7	17.3	1.7	1.8	0.8
Guildford	54.6	19.0	23.9	–	2.1	0.5
Mole Valley	61.9	13.9	19.3	2.4	2.6	–
Reigate	57.4	24.7	10.9	2.9	4.1	–
Runnymede and Weybridge	60.9	25.9	7.3	3.2	2.6	–
South West Surrey	55.7	12.6	9.9	1.8	–	20.0
Spelthorne	57.3	30.5	5.5	4.6	2.2	–
Surrey Heath	64.2	21.1	10.8	–	3.9	–
Woking	54.1	23.9	17.6	2.1	2.0	0.4
Average	58.5	21.9	12.8	2.5	2.4	2.4

2015	Con	Lab	UKIP	Lib Dem	Green	Others
East Surrey	57.4	11.8	17.0	9.2	3.8	0.6
Epsom and Ewell	58.3	15.5	12.5	8.8	3.7	1.3
Esher and Walton	62.9	12.7	9.7	9.4	4.1	1.1
Guildford	57.1	12.1	8.8	15.5	4.7	1.8
Mole Valley	60.6	8.3	11.2	14.5	5.4	–
Reigate	56.8	12.8	13.3	10.5	6.7	–
Runnymede and Weybridge	59.7	15.5	13.9	6.7	4.1	–
South West Surrey	59.9	9.5	9.9	6.3	5.4	9.1
Spelthorne	49.7	18.6	20.9	6.4	3.5	1.0
Surrey Heath	59.9	11.2	14.3	9.1	4.4	1.2
Woking	56.2	16.1	11.3	11.6	4.1	0.6
Average	58.0	13.1	13.0	9.8	4.5	1.5

2010	Con	Lib Dem	Lab	UKIP	Others
East Surrey	56.7	25.9	9.0	6.9	1.5
Epsom and Ewell	56.2	26.8	11.9	4.6	0.5
Esher and Walton	58.9	24.8	10.7	3.3	2.3
Guildford	53.3	39.3	5.1	1.8	0.5
Mole Valley	57.5	28.7	7.0	5.1	1.6
Reigate	53.4	26.2	11.3	4.2	5.4
Runnymede and Weybridge	55.9	21.6	13.4	6.5	2.5
South West Surrey	58.7	30.2	6.0	2.6	2.6
Spelthorne	47.1	25.9	16.5	8.5	2.2
Surrey Heath	57.6	25.8	10.2	6.3	–
Woking	50.3	37.4	8.0	3.8	0.5
Average	55.1	28.4	9.9	4.9	1.8

Maps

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2024-present (including constituencies partly in Berkshire and Hampshire)

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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.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Liberal   Liberal Unionist   National Party

Constituency	1885	86	1886	92	1892	95	1895	97	99	1900	03	04	1906	07	09	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	12	16	17
Chertsey	Hankey			Combe				Leigh-Bennett			Fyler	Bingham	Marnham			Macmaster
Croydon	Grantham	Herbert				Ritchie							Arnold-Forster		Hermon-Hodge		Malcolm
Epsom	Cubitt				Bucknill				W. Keswick									H. Keswick
Guildford	Brodrick												Cowan			Horne
Kingston upon Thames	Ellis				Temple		Skewes-Cox						Cave
Reigate	Lawrence				Cubitt								Brodie			Rawson				→
Wimbledon	Bonsor									Hambro				Chaplin					Coats

Note the 15 other seats of Surrey created in 1885 which primarily or wholly lay in the 1889-created County of London are not included in this list.

1918 to 1950 (12, then 14 MPs)

  Conservative   Independent Conservative   Labour

Constituency	1918	19	22	1922	23	1923	1924	28	1929	31	1931	32	1935	37	40	1945	47	48
Chertsey	Macmaster		Richardson								Boyd-Carpenter			Marsden
Croydon North†	Borwick			Mason											Willink			Harris
Croydon South†	Malcolm	Smith				Mitchell-Thomson						Williams				Rees-Williams
Epsom	Blades							Southby									McCorquodale
Farnham	Samuel													Nicholson
Guildford	Horne			Buckingham						Rhys			Jarvis
Kingston upon Thames†	Campbell			Penny										Royds		Boyd-Carpenter
Mitcham†	Worsfold				Chuter Ede	Meller									Robertson	Braddock
Reigate	Cockerill										Touche
Richmond (Surrey)†	Edgar			Becker		→	Moore					Ray		Harvie-Watt
Surrey East†	Coats			Galbraith									Emmott			Astor
Wimbledon†	Hood						Power									Palmer
Carshalton†																Head
Sutton and Cheam†																Marshall

† denotes seat which falls wholly or largely within present-day county of Greater London.

1950 to 1974 (19, then 20 MPs)

  Conservative

Constituency	1950	1951	54	1955	1959	60	1964	1966	1970	72
Carshalton†	Head					Elliot
Chertsey	Heald								Grylls
Croydon East / Croydon NE (from 1955)†	Williams		Hughes-Hallett				Weatherill
Croydon North / Croydon NW (from 1955)†	Harris								Taylor
Croydon West / Croydon S (from 1955)†	Thompson							Winnick	Thompson
Dorking	Touche						Sinclair
Epsom	McCorquodale			Rawlinson
Esher	Robson-Brown								Mather
Farnham	Nicholson							Macmillan
Guildford	Nugent							Howell
Kingston upon Thames†	Boyd-Carpenter
Merton and Morden†	Ryder			Atkins					Fookes
Mitcham†	Carr
Reigate	Vaughan-Morgan								Howe
Richmond (Surrey)†	Harvie-Watt				Royle
Surrey East†	Astor	Doughty							Clark
Sutton and Cheam†	Marshall		Sharples							Tope
Wimbledon†	Black								Havers
Woking	Watkinson						Onslow
Surbiton†				Fisher
Constituency	1950	1951	54	1955	1959	60	1964	1966	1970	72

† denotes seat which falls wholly or largely within present-day county of Greater London

1974 to 1997 (11 MPs)

In 1965 half (ten) of Surrey's constituencies were moved to the new county of Greater London, but constituencies based on the old boundaries continued to be used until 1974, when Surrey gained one constituency (Spelthorne) from the abolished administrative county of Middlesex.

  Conservative   Referendum Party

Constituency	Feb 1974	Oct 1974	78	1979	1983	84	1987	1992	97
Chertsey & Walton	Pattie
Dorking (1974–83) / Mole Valley (1983–)	Sinclair			Wickenden	Baker
Epsom and Ewell	Rawlinson		Hamilton
Esher	Mather						Taylor
Farnham (1974–83) / SW Surrey (1983–)	Macmillan					Bottomley
Guildford	Howell
Reigate	Gardiner								→
Spelthorne	Atkins						Wilshire
Surrey East	Howe							Ainsworth
Surrey NW	Grylls
Woking	Onslow

1997 to present (11, then 12 MPs)

Liberal Democrat MP Sue Doughty, who won Guildford in 2001 with a winning margin of 1.2%, was the first candidate to take a seat from the Conservatives in any part of the area covered by the present county of Surrey in 56 years.

  Conservative   Independent   Liberal Democrats

Constituency	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	19	2019	23	2024
East Surrey	Ainsworth			Gyimah			→	Coutinho		Coutinho
Epsom and Ewell	Hamilton	Grayling								Maguire
Esher and Walton	Taylor			Raab						Harding
Guildford	St Aubyn	Doughty	Milton				→	Richardson		Franklin
Mole Valley / Dorking and Horley ('24)	Beresford									Coghlan
Reigate	Blunt								→	Paul
Runnymede & Weybridge	Hammond						→	Spencer
SW Surrey / Farnham & Bordon ('24)1	Bottomley		Hunt							Stafford
Spelthorne	Wilshire			Kwarteng						Jopp
Surrey Heath	Hawkins		Gove							Pinkerton
Woking	Malins			Lord						Forster
Godalming and Ash										Hunt

¹contains some parts of Hampshire

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in South East England

Notes

1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
3. Vote shares include the cross-county constituency of Farnham and Bordon which has a majority Surrey electorate, and excludes the cross-county constituency of Windsor which has a majority Berkshire electorate.