Wells and Mendip Hills | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Wells and Mendip Hills in
Somerset | |
County | Somerset |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC ( TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Wells & North Somerset |
Wells and Mendip Hills is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election. [2]
The constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The following areas of Somerset will make up the constituency: [4]
With effect from 1 April 2023, the Districts of Mendip and Sedgemoor were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of Somerset. [5] The constituency will therefore now comprise the following from the 2024 general election:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Craig Clarke | ||||
Reform UK | Helen Hims [7] | ||||
Labour Co-op | Joe Joseph [8] | ||||
Independent | Abi McGuire [9] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Tessa Munt [10] | ||||
Conservative | Meg Powell-Chandler [11] | ||||
Green | Peter Welsh [12] | ||||
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