The ceremonial county of Surrey is divided into 11 parliamentary constituencies which are wholly within the county boundaries. In addition, there are two constituencies which cross the county boundary - one with Hampshire (Farnham and Bordon) and one with Berkshire (Windsor). These are sub-classified into three of borough type and ten of county status affecting the level of expenses permitted and status of the returning officer. The county saw the vast bulk of its population and seats removed on the creation of the County of London in 1889 and its wider replacement the county of Greater London in 1965. Reflecting its mainly suburban and rural nature, all seats covering the present definition of Surrey have been held by Conservative MPs at each general election since 1885, with the exception of two Liberals in 1906, one Liberal Democrat in 2001 and six Liberal Democrats in 2024.

Constituencies

Historic list of constituencies in Surrey

Used from 1950 to 1974

Eleven other seats fell within the north-east of Surrey until 1965, forming the metropolitan part closest to London and the majority of the population (shown in the Historical Representation tables below). These were moved into Greater London leaving a predominantly suburban and rural content.

Used from 1974 to 1983

Used from 1983 to 1997

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the existing 11 constituencies in Surrey, with only very minor changes to four of them.

2024 boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details. For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Surrey with Berkshire and Hampshire as a sub-region of the South East Region. As a result, the majority of the abolished constituency of South West Surrey was combined with parts of the current constituency of East Hampshire to form a new cross-county boundary constituency named Farnham and Bordon. The remainder of South West Surrey was combined with parts of Guildford, Mole Valley and Surrey Heath to form the new constituency of Godalming and Ash. The communities of Englefield Green and Virginia Water in the borough of Runnymede were included in the Berkshire constituency of Windsor. Following changes to Mole Valley, this constituency was renamed Dorking and Horley. The following constituencies were proposed: Containing electoral wards from Elmbridge Containing electoral wards from Epsom and Ewell Containing electoral wards from Guildford Containing electoral wards from Mole Valley Containing electoral wards from Reigate and Banstead Containing electoral wards from Runnymede Containing electoral wards from Spelthorne Containing electoral wards from Surrey Heath Containing electoral wards from Tandridge Containing electoral wards from Waverley Containing electoral wards from Woking

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Surrey in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Percentage votes

Note that before 1974 Surrey included a considerable part of what is now London. 1pre-1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

• Included in Other Accurate vote percentages cannot be obtained for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1923 and 1931 because at least one candidate stood unopposed.

Seats

11974 & 1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

General Election 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010 results

The following tables show the results for all Surrey constituencies in the General Elections in 2019, 2017, 2015 and 2010. The results are given as percentages.

Maps

1885–1910

1918–1945

1950–1970

1974–2019

2024-present (including constituencies partly in Berkshire and Hampshire)

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

Note the 15 other seats of Surrey created in 1885 which primarily or wholly lay in the 1889-created County of London are not included in this list.

1918 to 1950 (12, then 14 MPs)

† denotes seat which falls wholly or largely within present-day county of Greater London.

1950 to 1974 (19, then 20 MPs)

† denotes seat which falls wholly or largely within present-day county of Greater London

1974 to 1997 (11 MPs)

In 1965 half (ten) of Surrey's constituencies were moved to the new county of Greater London, but constituencies based on the old boundaries continued to be used until 1974, when Surrey gained one constituency (Spelthorne) from the abolished administrative county of Middlesex.

1997 to present (11, then 12 MPs)

Liberal Democrat MP Sue Doughty, who won Guildford in 2001 with a winning margin of 1.2%, was the first candidate to take a seat from the Conservatives in any part of the area covered by the present county of Surrey in 56 years. 1contains some parts of Hampshire