Oxford East
Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundaries since 2024
Boundary of Oxford East in South East England
County	Oxfordshire
Electorate	72,371 (2023)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of Parliament	Anneliese Dodds (Labour Co-op)
Seats	One
Created from	Oxford (majority) (abolished) Mid Oxfordshire Henley[2]

Oxford East is aconstituency^{[n 1]} represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since 2017 byAnneliese Dodds of theLabour Party.

Created in 1983, the constituency covers the eastern and southern parts ofOxford in Oxfordshire. It bordersOxford West and Abingdon to the west andHenley to the north, east and south.

The seat includesCowley (containing a largecar factory) and adjoining parts of the city including a broad area of mid-to-low rise council-built housing,Blackbird Leys, which has kept varying amounts of social housing (seeRight to Buy) as well asHeadington and the two major hospitals in Oxford (theJohn Radcliffe Hospital and theChurchill Hospital)

A large percentage of the seat's electorate consists of students from Oxford andOxford Brookes universities (the latter being in the seat). Areas in the seat with a high proportion of private housing includeHeadington, which is mainly a mixture of student tenants and relatively high-income families, and the similarly prosperous areas ofGrandpont andNew Hinksey in the south of the city. At the end of 2010 unemployment claimant count was 2.3%, 45th of the 84 South East constituencies and close to the mean of 2.45%.^[3]

From 1885 until 1983 the vast bulk of the area of the seat, as it has variously been drawn since 1983, was in the abolishedOxford constituency, historically Liberal then for some decades Conservative, and which then alternated with the Labour Party, who took that seat in the late 1960s and late 1970s.

For the first four years (from 1983) Oxford East was served byConservativeSteven Norris. He was defeated by Labour candidateAndrew Smith who held the seat for the next 30 years before retiring. The Conservative share of the vote fell to a low to date, of 16.7%, in 2005, a year when the seat became an emphatic Labour–Liberal Democratcontest, and the votes for Andrew Smith were only 963 more than the "Lib Dem" candidate: a majority of 2.3% of the votes (electorate voting).

Smith held the seat in 2015 with a much increased majority; it was the 80th-safest of Labour's 232 seats won that year by percentage of majority.^[4] On his retirement the local Labour party selectedAnneliese Dodds. At the 2017 general election she took the seat with a majority of 23,284 votes (43.2%) – reduced to 17,832 (36.1%) in 2019. From 2015 the runner-up returned to being a Conservative.^{[clarification needed]}

TheGreen Party's candidate has stood in all eight contests since the party was branded as such, once retaining its deposit, in 2015, with almost 12% of the vote.

Ousted ex-MP Norris won the largest runner-up's share of the vote to date (40.4%) during the1987 general election. Turnout has ranged between 78.9% in 1987 and 55.8% in 2001.

• The City of Oxford wards of Blackbird Leys, East, Headington, Iffley, Marston, Quarry, St Clement's, Temple Cowley, and Wood Farm; and
• The District of South Oxfordshire wards of Littlemore, Marston, and Risinghurst.^[5]

The constituency was formed largely from the majority of the abolished Borough Constituency ofOxford. it also included three wards in the District of South Oxfordshire, previously part ofHenley (Littlemore) and the abolished constituency ofMid-Oxon (Marston and Risinghurst).

• The City of Oxford wards of Blackbird Leys, East, Headington, Iffley, Littlemore, Marston, Old Marston and Risinghurst, Quarry, St Clement's, South, Temple Cowley, and Wood Farm.^[6]

The 1997 boundary changes reflected changes to local government boundaries with the majority of the area comprising the three South Oxfordshire wards having been absorbed into the City of Oxford. The remaining, semi-rural Conservative-leaning areas were transferred back to Henley. The urban City of Oxford South ward, which was strong for the Liberal Democrats and Labour, was transferred fromOxford West and Abingdon.

Map of 2010–2024 boundaries

• The City of Oxford wards of Barton and Sandhills, Blackbird Leys, Carfax, Churchill, Cowley, Cowley Marsh, Headington, Headington Hill and Northway, Hinksey Park, Holywell, Iffley Fields, Littlemore, Lye Valley, Marston, Northfield Brook, Quarry and Risinghurst, Rose Hill and Iffley, St Clement's, and St Mary's.^[7]

Under theFifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies the constituency was slightly altered, in order to equalise electorates and take account of changes to the City's ward structure. These changes added Carfax and Holywell wards from Oxford West and Abingdon; this meant that Oxford city centre and the majority ofOxford colleges, which had previously been mainly in Oxford West and Abingdon, now fell into Oxford East.

Further to the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• The City of Oxford wards of: Barton & Sandhills; Blackbird Leys; Churchill; Cowley; Donnington; Headington; Headington Hill & Northway; Hinksey Park; Littlemore; Lye Valley; Marston; Northfield Brook; Quarry & Risinghurst; Rose Hill & Iffley; St. Clement’s; St. Mary’s; Temple Cowley.^[8]

The electorate was reduced to bring it within the permitted range by transferring areas to the west of the River Cherwell, including the city centre and Oxford University colleges, back toOxford West and Abingdon.

General election 2024: Oxford East^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Anneliese Dodds	19,541	49.7	−6.7
	Green	Sushila Dhall	5,076	12.9	+8.2
	Conservative	Louise Brown	4,739	12.0	−9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Theodore Jupp	3,437	8.7	−5.3
	IOA	David Henwood	2,381	6.1	N/A
	Independent	Amir Ali	1,761	4.5	N/A
	Workers Party	Zaid Marham	615	1.6	N/A
	Independent	Jabu Nala-Hartley	600	1.5	N/A
	Rejoin EU	Andrew Smith	425	1.1	N/A
	Party of Women	Katherine Longthorp	337	0.9	N/A
	SDP	Benjamin Adams	232	0.6	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Brandon French	197	0.5	N/A
Majority			14,465	36.8	+1.8
Turnout			39,341	54.0	–9.0
Registered electors			71,845
	Labour Co-ophold		Swing	7.5

General election 2019: Oxford East^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Anneliese Dodds	28,135	57.0	8.2
	Conservative	Louise Staite	10,303	20.9	1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Fernie	6,884	13.9	4.8
	Green	David Williams	2,392	4.8	1.5
	Brexit Party	Roger Carter	1,146	2.3	New
	Independent	David Henwood	238	0.5	New
	Independent	Chaka Artwell	143	0.3	0.2
	Independent	Phil Taylor	118	0.2	New
Majority			17,832	36.1	7.1
Turnout			49,359	63.3	5.5
	Labour Co-ophold		Swing	3.6

General election 2017: Oxford East^[14][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Anneliese Dodds[16]	35,118	65.2	15.2
	Conservative	Suzanne Bartington[17]	11,834	22.0	2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Kirsten Johnson[18]	4,904	9.1	1.7
	Green	Larry Sanders[19]	1,785	3.3	8.3
	Independent	Chaka Artwell	255	0.5	0.2
Majority			23,284	43.2	13.1
Turnout			53,896	68.8	4.6
	Labour Co-ophold		Swing	6.5

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire
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• Oxford East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) atMapIt UK
• Oxford East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK
• Oxford East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

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