Hove and Portslade

Hove and Portslade
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundaries since 2010
Boundary of Hove and Portslade in South East England
CountyEast Sussex
Electorate73,726 (2023)[1]
Major settlements
Current constituency
Created1950 (as Hove)
Member of ParliamentPeter Kyle (Labour Party)
Created from

Hove and Portslade is a borough constituency in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Peter Kyle of the Labour Party, who currently serves as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade in the government of Keir Starmer.

It was previously called Hove. In the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, there were no changes to the constituency boundaries, but it was renamed from the 2024 general election.[3][4]

Constituency profile

Hove and Portslade is a mostly urban and suburban constituency located in East Sussex. It covers part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove and forms part of its wider urban area. The constituency includes the districts of Hove, Portslade, Mile Oak and Hangleton. Traditionally fishing villages, Hove and Portslade grew rapidly during the 19th century with the development of neighbouring Brighton as a popular seaside resort, and now function as districts of the city. At 8.6% of the population, the constituency has the seventh highest proportion of LGBTQ+ people in the country.[5] It has average levels of wealth and deprivation,[6] and house prices are higher than regional and national averages.[7]

In general, residents of Hove and Portslade are young, well-educated and irreligious. They have low rates of homeownership, but household income is higher than the national average and similar to the rest of South East England.[7] A high proportion of residents work in education and finance.[8] White people made up 86% of the population at the 2021 census, a similar percentage to the country as a whole.[7] At the local city council, most of the constituency is represented by Labour Party councillors, with some Conservatives elected in the wealthy suburbs in the constituency's northeast. Voters in Hove and Portslade strongly supported remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, with an estimated 61% voting to remain compared to 48% nationwide.[7]

Boundaries

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,[9][10] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the City of Brighton and Hove:

  • Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, Goldsmid, Hangleton & Knoll, North Portslade, South Portslade, Westbourne & Poets' Corner, Westdene & Hove Park (majority), and Wish; and a very small part of Regency.[11]

The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward structure in place at 1 December 2020, left the boundaries unchanged,[12] but the name was changed from Hove to Hove and Portslade.

The constituency covers Hove and Portslade in the city of Brighton and Hove.

History

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-seat Brighton constituency. Hove was a Conservative stronghold until the 1997 general election, when the Labour Party saw a landslide parliamentary victory and with it, as in Greater London, wide success on the developed East Sussex coast.[n 1]

Labour retained the seat, though with narrow majorities, at the 2001 and 2005 general elections. The Liberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 2010 at 22.6% of the vote. Mike Weatherley, a Conservative, regained the seat at the 2010 general election. Weatherley stood down after one term, and the 2015 election saw Peter Kyle regain the seat for Labour on a 3.1% swing.[13] The 2015 result gave the seat the 14th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[14] Kyle was reelected in 2017 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 since 1987. 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.

Members of Parliament

Brighton and Lewes prior to 1950

Election Member[15] Party
1950 Anthony Marlowe Conservative
1965 by-election Martin Maddan Conservative
1973 by-election Tim Sainsbury Conservative
1997 Ivor Caplin Labour
2005 Celia Barlow Labour
2010 Mike Weatherley Conservative
2015 Peter Kyle Labour

Elections

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Hove
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
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1951: Hove
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
Conservative hold Swing +4.85
General election 1955: Hove
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
Conservative hold Swing -0.07
General election 1959: Hove
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
Conservative hold Swing +0.61

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Hove[16]
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
Conservative hold Swing -6.4
1965 Hove by-election[16]
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
Conservative hold Swing +2.1
General election 1966: Hove[16]
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
Conservative hold Swing -4.7

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Hove[17]
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
Conservative hold Swing +8.6
By-election 1973: Hove[18]
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 1,409 3.1 New
Marxist-Leninist (England) Carole Reakes 128 0.3 New
Majority 4,846 10.5 −26.9
Turnout 46,038
Conservative hold Swing -29.2
General election February 1974: Hove[19]
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
Conservative hold Swing
General election October 1974: Hove[20]
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
Conservative hold Swing +4.9
General election 1979: Hove[21]
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
Conservative hold Swing +3.5

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Hove[22][23]
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
Conservative hold Swing -3.6
General election 1987: Hove[24][25]
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
Conservative hold Swing +2.0

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Hove[26][27]
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
Conservative hold Swing −8.0
General election 1997: Hove[28]
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
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +16.4

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2001: Hove[29]
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
Labour hold Swing -0.3
General election 2005: Hove[30]
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
Labour hold Swing -3.3

Elections in the 2010s

See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Hove
General election 2010: Hove[31]
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
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +2.4
General election 2015: Hove[32][33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Kyle[34] 22,082 42.3 +9.3
Conservative Graham Cox[35] 20,846 39.9 +3.2
Green Christopher Hawtree[36] 3,569 6.8 +1.6
UKIP Kevin Smith[37][38] 3,265 6.3 +3.9
Liberal Democrats Peter Lambell[39] 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[40] 125 0.2 New
Majority 1,236 2.4 N/A
Turnout 52,214 71.0 +1.5
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +3.1

Peter Kyle's 21.8% vote share increase was the 5th largest for any Labour Party candidate at the 2017 election.[41]

General election 2017: Hove[42][43][41]
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
Labour hold Swing +15.1
General election 2019: Hove[44][43][45]
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
Labour hold Swing –1.2

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Hove and Portslade[46]
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 UK 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 7.9
Turnout 51,909 70.1 5.8
Registered electors 74,063
Labour hold Swing 7.9

See also

Notes

  1. ^ (Brighton Kemptown, Brighton Pavilion, Hastings and Rye also were won by candidates for New Labour

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