Woking
Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundaries since 2024
Boundary of Woking in South East England
County	Surrey
Electorate	71,737 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Woking Byfleet Brookwood
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of Parliament	Will Forster (Liberal Democrat)
Created from	Chertsey Farnham

Woking is aconstituency represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since2024 byWill Forster, aLiberal Democrat. Since it was first created for the1950 general election, it had only ever returnedConservative Party candidates until it elected a Liberal Democrat for the first time in 2024.

The seat comprises theBorough of Woking, which has one main town:Woking. Voters are, on average, wealthier than the UK average.^[2]

The seat was created in1950 from thecounty constituencies ofChertsey and lightly populated parts ofFarnham.^{[n 1]}

Prior to 2024, and with exceptions only in 1974 (February election), 1997, 2005 and 2010, this constituency returned aConservative with majorities exceeding 15% of votes cast.

At the 2015 and 2017 general elections, the Labour candidates polled in second place, whereas in2019 the Lib Dem candidate did so. Until the election of 2024, similar second place results had been emulated locally eight and nine times respectively by Labour and the Lib Dems.

A Conservative win by 11.2% of the vote in 1997 was a notablymarginal result. By contrast, at the 2015 general election the seat was the 41st-safest of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority, 40 percentage points ahead of Labour.^[3]

By 2024, the Liberal Democrats had a very sizeable majority on Woking Borough Council and there were no Conservative councillors left on the authority, although historically the Conservatives had been the dominant force on the council.

Local Conservatives won the previously relevant (Guildford Council) wards of Pirbright and Normandy over many election cycles, but these two villages were transferred to the Surrey Heath constituency from 2024 onwards following boundary changes.

Map of 1997–2024 boundaries

1950–74: The Urban Districts of Frimley and Camberley, and Woking, and in the Rural District of Guildford the parishes ofAsh,Normandy, andPirbright.

1974–83:as above less Frimley and Camberley (transferred toNorth West Surrey – which was subsequently abolished in 1997, but replaced in large part at that point by the new Surrey Heath constituency). Note that in 1974 these areas constituted the whole ofWoking (borough) and a part ofGuildford (borough).

1983–97:unchanged (i.e. The Borough of Woking, and the Borough of Guildford wards of Ash,Ash Vale, Normandy, and Pirbright).

1997–2024:as above less Ash andAsh Vale (transferred toSurrey Heath).

The Boundary Commission made no changes to the Woking constituency in the Parliamentary boundary review that took place prior to the2010 General Election.

Further to the2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the2024 general election, the size of the electorate was reduced by transferring the wards of Pirbright and Normandy to the constituency ofSurrey Heath. The constituency boundaries ofWoking thereby became coterminous with those of theBorough of Woking,^[4] comprising the ten Woking Borough Council wards of:

• Byfleet & West Byfleet; Canalside; Goldsworth Park; Heathlands; Hoe Valley; Horsell; Knaphill; Mount Hermon; Pyrford; and St. John's.

General election 2024: Woking^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Will Forster	24,019	49.9	18.8
	Conservative	Jonathan Lord	12,773	26.5	21.8
	Reform	Richard Barker	4,888	10.2	new
	Labour	Ese Erheriene	4,444	9.2	7.5
	Green	Nataly Anderson	1,853	3.8	1.0
	Heritage	Tim Read	168	0.3	new
Majority			11,246	23.4
Turnout			48,145	66.0	4.4
Registered electors			72,977
	Liberal Democratsgain fromConservative		Swing	20.3

This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation.

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Surrey
• List of parliamentary constituencies in the South East England (region)

• "Election result, 2015".BBC News Online.
• "Election result, 2010".BBC News Online.
• "Election result, 2005".BBC News Online.
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• "Election results, 1983–1992".Election Demon.
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• Woking UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) atMapIt UK
• Woking UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK
• Woking UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

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