| Hove and Portslade | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
![]() Boundaries since 2010 | |
Boundary of Hove and Portslade in South East England | |
| County | East Sussex |
| Electorate | 73,726 (2023)[1] |
| Major settlements | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1950 (as Hove) |
| Member of Parliament | Peter Kyle (Labour Party) |
| Created from | |
Hove and Portslade is aborough constituency inEast Sussex represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since2015 byPeter Kyle of theLabour Party, who currently serves asSecretary of State for Business and Trade andPresident of the Board of Trade in the government ofKeir Starmer.
It was previously called Hove. In the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, there were no changes to the constituency boundaries, but it was renamed from the2024 general election.[3][4]
1950–1983: The County Borough of Hove, and the Urban District of Portslade-by-Sea.
1983–2010: The Borough of Hove.
2010–2023: The City of Brighton and Hove wards of Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, Goldsmid, Hangleton and Knoll, Hove Park, North Portslade, South Portslade, Westbourne, and Wish.
2023–present: Further to a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,[5][6] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the City of Brighton and Hove:
The2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward structure in place at 1 December 2020, left the boundaries unchanged,[8] but the name was changed fromHove toHove and Portslade.
The constituency coversHove andPortslade in the city ofBrighton and Hove.
The settlement ofHove is an economically active seaside resort which is both acommuter town and centred in an area of high local employment, stretching fromPortsmouth toLondon Gatwick Airport. The seat acted as a barometer of the national result between 1979 and 2015.
At 8.6% of the population, the Hove and Portslade constituency has the seventh highest proportion ofLGBTQ+ people in the country.[9] The neighbouring constituencies of Brighton Pavilion & Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven rank first and second respectively.
It was not until the 1950 general election, when major boundary changes occurred in Brighton, that Hove acquired a parliamentary seat of its own, having previously been in the former two-seatBrighton constituency. Hove was aConservativestronghold until the1997 general election, when theLabour Party saw a landslide parliamentary victory and with it, as inGreater London, wide success on the developedEast Sussex coast.[n 1]
Labour retained the seat, though with narrow majorities, at the 2001 and 2005 general elections. TheLiberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 2010 at 22.6% of the vote.Mike Weatherley, aConservative, regained the seat at the2010 general election. Weatherley stood down after one term, and the2015 election sawPeter Kyle regain the seat for Labour on a 3.1% swing.[10] The 2015 result gave the seat the 14th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[11]Kyle was reelected in2017 by a margin of 32.6%, a 15.1% swing to Labour; this was not only the biggest margin Labour had ever won Hove by, but the largest margin any MP for Hove had won since1987. The Conservative Party polled its lowest number of votes since 2005 and recorded their lowest percentage of the vote (31.6%) in the constituency since its creation. Turnout at the 2017 general election was 77.6%, the highest turnout in the constituency at a general election since its creation in 1950.In the 2024 election,the Greens moved into 2nd place behind Labour, the latter's vote decreasing, but managing their largest majority since they first gained the seat in 1997, and indeed being the largest majority of any seat in South East England.
Brighton andLewes prior to 1950
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kyle | 27,209 | 52.4 | −5.9 | |
| Green | Sophie Broadbent | 7,418 | 14.3 | +9.9 | |
| Conservative | Carline Deal | 6,630 | 12.8 | −15.3 | |
| Reform | Martin Hess | 4,558 | 8.8 | +6.8 | |
| Independent | Tanushka Marah | 3,048 | 5.9 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Wang | 3,046 | 5.9 | −0.7 | |
| Majority | 19,881 | 38.1 | |||
| Turnout | 51,909 | 70.1 | |||
| Registered electors | 74,063 | ||||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kyle | 32,876 | 58.3 | –5.8 | |
| Conservative | Robert Nemeth | 15,832 | 28.1 | –3.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Beatrice Bass | 3,731 | 6.6 | +4.3 | |
| Green | Oliver Sykes | 2,496 | 4.4 | +2.7 | |
| Brexit Party | Angela Hancock | 1,111 | 2.0 | New | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Dame Dixon | 195 | 0.3 | New | |
| Independent | Charlotte Sabel | 150 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
| Majority | 17,044 | 30.2 | –2.3 | ||
| Turnout | 56,391 | 75.9 | –1.7 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | –1.2 | |||
Peter Kyle's 21.8% vote share increase was the 5th largest for any Labour Party candidate at the 2017 election.[17]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kyle | 36,942 | 64.1 | +21.8 | |
| Conservative | Kristy Adams | 18,185 | 31.6 | –8.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Carrie Hynds | 1,311 | 2.3 | –1.3 | |
| Green | Phélim Mac Cafferty | 971 | 1.7 | –5.1 | |
| Independent | Charley Sabel | 187 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 18,757 | 32.5 | +30.1 | ||
| Turnout | 57,596 | 77.6 | +6.6 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +15.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kyle[21] | 22,082 | 42.3 | +9.3 | |
| Conservative | Graham Cox[22] | 20,846 | 39.9 | +3.2 | |
| Green | Christopher Hawtree[23] | 3,569 | 6.8 | +1.6 | |
| UKIP | Kevin Smith[24][25] | 3,265 | 6.3 | +3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Lambell[26] | 1,861 | 3.6 | –19.0 | |
| Independent | Jenny Barnard-Langston | 322 | 0.6 | New | |
| TUSC | Dave Hill | 144 | 0.3 | New | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Dame Jon Dixon[27] | 125 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 1,236 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 52,214 | 71.0 | +1.5 | ||
| Labourgain fromConservative | Swing | +3.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Mike Weatherley | 18,294 | 36.7 | +0.2 | |
| Labour | Celia Barlow | 16,426 | 33.0 | −4.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Elgood | 11,240 | 22.6 | +4.7 | |
| Green | Ian Davey | 2,568 | 5.2 | −0.5 | |
| UKIP | Paul Perrin | 1,206 | 2.4 | +1.1 | |
| Independent | Brian Ralfe | 85 | 0.2 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 1,868 | 3.7 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 49,819 | 69.5 | +5.4 | ||
| Conservativegain fromLabour | Swing | +2.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Celia Barlow | 16,786 | 37.5 | −8.4 | |
| Conservative | Nick Boles | 16,366 | 36.5 | −1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Elgood | 8,002 | 17.9 | +8.8 | |
| Green | Anthea P. Ballam | 2,575 | 5.7 | +2.4 | |
| UKIP | Stuart N. Bower | 575 | 1.3 | +0.4 | |
| Respect | Paddy O'Keefe | 268 | 0.6 | New | |
| Independent | Bob Dobbs | 95 | 0.2 | New | |
| Silent Majority Party | Richard Franklin | 78 | 0.2 | New | |
| Independent | Brian Ralfe | 51 | 0.1 | New | |
| Majority | 420 | 1.0 | −6.6 | ||
| Turnout | 44,796 | 64.1 | +5.2 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | -3.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ivor Caplin | 19,253 | 45.9 | +1.3 | |
| Conservative | Jenny M. Langston | 16,082 | 38.3 | +1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Harold De Souza | 3,823 | 9.1 | −0.6 | |
| Green | Anthea P. Ballam | 1,369 | 3.3 | +2.0 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Andy K. Richards | 531 | 1.3 | New | |
| UKIP | Richard Franklin | 358 | 0.9 | +0.5 | |
| Liberal | Nigel R. Donovan | 316 | 0.8 | New | |
| Free Party | Simon Dobbshead | 196 | 0.5 | New | |
| Independent | Thomas S. Major | 60 | 0.1 | New | |
| Majority | 3,171 | 7.6 | −0.6 | ||
| Turnout | 41,988 | 58.9 | −10.7 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | -0.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ivor Caplin | 21,458 | 44.6 | +20.1 | |
| Conservative | Robert Guy | 17,499 | 36.4 | −12.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Thomas Pearce | 4,645 | 9.7 | −9.7 | |
| Referendum | Stuart R. Field | 1,931 | 4.0 | New | |
| Ind. Conservative | John P. Furness | 1,735 | 3.6 | −1.7 | |
| Green | Philip A.T. Mulligan | 644 | 1.3 | −0.3 | |
| UKIP | J.E. Vause | 209 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 3,959 | 8.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 48,121 | 69.6 | −4.5 | ||
| Labourgain fromConservative | Swing | +16.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 24,525 | 49.0 | −9.8 | |
| Labour | Donald Turner | 12,257 | 24.5 | +6.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Anne F. Jones | 9,709 | 19.4 | −2.4 | |
| Ind. Conservative | John P. Furness | 2,658 | 5.3 | New | |
| Green | Gordon S. Sinclair | 814 | 1.6 | New | |
| Natural Law | John H. Morilly | 126 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 12,268 | 24.5 | −12.5 | ||
| Turnout | 50,089 | 74.1 | +6.3 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | −8.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 28,952 | 58.8 | −1.7 | |
| SDP | Margaret Collins | 10,734 | 21.8 | −2.3 | |
| Labour | Donald Turner | 9,010 | 18.3 | +4.4 | |
| Spare the Earth | Thomas Layton | 522 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
| Majority | 18,218 | 37.0 | +0.6 | ||
| Turnout | 49,218 | 67.8 | +2.0 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +2.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 28,628 | 60.5 | +0.4 | |
| Liberal | Theodora Beamish | 11,409 | 24.1 | +6.7 | |
| Labour | Chris Wright | 6,550 | 13.9 | −7.6 | |
| Spare the Earth | Thomas Layton | 524 | 1.1 | New | |
| Modern Democratic Party | K.H. Lillie | 189 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 17,219 | 36.4 | −2.2 | ||
| Turnout | 47,300 | 65.8 | −5.8 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | -3.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 30,256 | 60.1 | +6.5 | |
| Labour | B. R. Fitch | 10,807 | 21.5 | −0.4 | |
| Liberal | James M. M. Walsh | 8,771 | 17.4 | −7.1 | |
| National Front | F. Sheridan | 508 | 1.0 | New | |
| Majority | 19,449 | 38.6 | +9.5 | ||
| Turnout | 50,342 | 71.6 | +1.8 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +3.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 27,345 | 53.6 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal | James M. M. Walsh | 12,469 | 24.5 | −9.2 | |
| Labour | L. E. Hamilton | 11,179 | 21.9 | +10.6 | |
| Majority | 14,876 | 29.1 | +8.6 | ||
| Turnout | 50,993 | 69.8 | −7.6 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +4.9 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 30,451 | 54.2 | ||
| Liberal | Des Wilson | 18,942 | 33.7 | ||
| Labour | R. A. Wallis | 6,374 | 11.3 | ||
| National Front | Ted Budden | 442 | 0.8 | ||
| Majority | 11,509 | 20.5 | |||
| Turnout | 56,209 | 77.4 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Tim Sainsbury | 22,070 | 47.9 | −20.8 | |
| Liberal | Des Wilson | 17,224 | 37.4 | New | |
| Labour | Ronald Wallis | 5,335 | 11.6 | −19.7 | |
| National Front | John Harrison-Broadley[42][unreliable source?] | 1,409 | 3.1 | New | |
| Marxist-Leninist (England) | Carole Reakes | 128 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 4,846 | 10.5 | −26.9 | ||
| Turnout | 46,038 | ||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | -29.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Martin Maddan | 34,287 | 68.7 | +11.5 | |
| Labour | David G. Nicholas | 15,639 | 31.3 | +5.6 | |
| Majority | 18,648 | 37.4 | +5.9 | ||
| Turnout | 49,926 | 66.7 | −5.4 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +8.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Martin Maddan | 28,799 | 57.2 | −11.2 | |
| Labour | Trevor Williams | 12,909 | 25.7 | −6.6 | |
| Liberal | Oliver Moxon | 8,037 | 16.0 | N/A | |
| Independent | Max Cossmann | 574 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 15,890 | 31.5 | −5.4 | ||
| Turnout | 50,319 | 72.1 | +13.9 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | -4.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Martin Maddan | 25,339 | 62.0 | −6.4 | |
| Labour | Thomas James Marsh | 8,387 | 21.0 | −10.7 | |
| Liberal | Oliver Moxon | 6,867 | 16.7 | New | |
| Independent | Max Cossman | 121 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 16,952 | 41.0 | +4.1 | ||
| Turnout | 40,714 | 58.2 | −11.4 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +2.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Anthony Marlowe | 32,923 | 68.4 | −6.4 | |
| Labour | Thomas James Marsh | 15,214 | 32.3 | +7.1 | |
| Majority | 17,709 | 36.9 | –12.6 | ||
| Turnout | 48,137 | 69.6 | −2.5 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | -6.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Anthony Marlowe | 36,150 | 74.76 | +0.61 | |
| Labour | Thomas James Marsh | 12,206 | 25.24 | −0.61 | |
| Majority | 23,944 | 49.52 | |||
| Turnout | 48,356 | 72.15 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +0.61 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Anthony Marlowe | 34,314 | 74.15 | −0.07 | |
| Labour | Harry F. Parker | 11,961 | 25.85 | +0.07 | |
| Majority | 22,353 | 48.30 | |||
| Turnout | 46,275 | 70.96 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | -0.07 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Anthony Marlowe | 37,230 | 74.22 | +7.30 | |
| Labour | Alfred D. Bermel | 12,934 | 25.78 | +2.40 | |
| Majority | 24,296 | 48.44 | |||
| Turnout | 50,164 | 77.40 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +4.85 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Anthony Marlowe | 33,748 | 66.92 | ||
| Labour | Finlay R. Rea | 11,791 | 23.38 | ||
| Liberal | John Richard Colclough | 4,893 | 9.70 | ||
| Majority | 21,957 | 43.54 | |||
| Turnout | 50,432 | 81.93 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||