Hull and East Riding boundaries changes for the 2024 General Election

Voter using ballot box
Voting in the General Election will take place on 4 July [PA Media]

Voters in Hull and the East Riding could find themselves in a different constituency on polling day in July.

All but two parliamentary seats have been renamed after changes to their boundaries.

The Boundary Commission for England made the amendments to try to make constituencies roughly equally-sized in terms of the number of voters living in them.

Some seats, such as Brigg and Goole, will cease to exist.

There are currently three Labour MPs in Hull and the East Riding has four constituencies, all represented by Conservatives.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, when the election takes place on 4 July voters in Cottingham will find that they are now in Labour's Dame Diana Johnson's constituency which has been rechristened as Hull North and Cottingham.

The seat represented by Emma Hardy will now take in Anlaby, Willerby and Kirk Ella and be called Hull West and Haltemprice.

Karl Turner's Hull East seat will take in the North Carr ward from Dame Diana's seat but will otherwise remain unchanged.

In the East Riding, Conservative Andrew Percy's Brigg and Goole seat will form part of the new Goole and Pocklington constituency, which takes in both towns along with the East Riding wards of Howdenshire, Howden and South Hunsley.

Those areas are currently covered by Sir David Davis's Haltemprice and Howden seat, which is being abolished.

It will also take Dale, Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland and part of Wolds Weighton.

Some areas of northern Lincolnshire will move into the new constituencies of Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme or Brigg and Immingham and some will be transferred to the existing Scunthorpe constituency.

Andrew Percy
Andrew Percy's Brigg and Goole constituency has been abolished in the boundary changes [BBC]

The Beverley and Holderness seat currently held by Graham Stuart will keep its name and remain unchanged, apart from losing the North Holderness ward, which covers the Hornsea area.

Bridlington and the Wolds is the new constituency formed from the East Yorkshire seat currently held by Sir Greg Knight, who is standing down at the election.

It will gain North Holderness ward but lose Pocklington Provincial and part of Wolds Weighton.


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