KINGSTON: Who can I vote for in the General Election after the boundary changes?

By Oliver Monk 17th Jun 2024

With only one day before General Election voter registration closes on Tuesday 18 June, many voters are still in the dark about what candidates are running in their constituency.
With only one day before General Election voter registration closes on Tuesday 18 June, many voters are still in the dark about what candidates are running in their constituency.

With only one day before voter registration closes on 18 June, many are still in the dark about what candidates they will see at the ballot stations on polling day.

Those who are registered will cast their vote for the 2024 UK General Election on 4 July – two-and-a-half weeks away.

But who they can vote for will depend on what constituency they are in, which may have changed since previous elections.

Most voters in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames will choose between candidates running for the Kingston & Surbiton seat.

Meanwhile, residents in the north of the borough – neighbourhoods like North Kingston, Kingston Hill, Kingston Vale, and Ham – are instead part of Richmond Park constituency, which includes Richmond, Sheen, Kew and Barnes.

The new Kingston & Surbiton constituency boundary, shaded green, compared to the old boundaries of Kingston & Surbiton and Richmond Park, outlined in purple. (Photo: OpenStreetMap/House of Commons Library)

However, the constituency shrunk in June 2023, after England's Boundary Commision made a number of changes to constituency boundaries across the country.

The changes are found in the north-east of the borough, with voters in northern New Malden, south of Coombe Lane, now finding themselves in Kingston & Surbiton constituency.

Meanwhile, parts of Old Malden and Motspur Park have been ceded to Wimbledon, largely along the Hogsmill River.

The unshaded areas within the purple boundary represent addresses now in Wimbledon constituency. (Photo: OpenStreetMap/House of Commons Library)

Voters in doubt of their new constituency are able to check using the postcode they used when they registered to vote on the UK Parliament website here.

Once you know your constituency, you can find the candidates running for the seat, along with their party affiliations below.

Kingston & Surbiton

  • A.Gent Chinners – The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
  • Ali Abdulla – Workers Party
  • Debojyoti Das – Green Party
  • Ed Davey – Liberal Democrats
  • Eunice O'Dame – Labour Party
  • Helen Edward – Conservative Party
  • Mark Fox – Reform UK
  • Yvonne Tracey – Kingston Independent Residents - Justice for Subpostmasters

Richmond Park

  • Laura Coryton – Labour Party
  • Chris French – The Mitre TW9
  • Sara Gezdari – Conservative Party
  • Richared Harrison – Social Democratic Party
  • Michael Hearn – Reform UK
  • Sarah Olney – Liberal Democrats
  • Chas Warlow – Green Party

Wimbledon

  • Sarah Barber – Independent
  • Rachel Brooks – Green Party
  • Ben Cronin – Reform UK
  • Danielle Dunfield-Prayero – Conservative Party
  • Paul Christopher Kohler – Liberal Democrats
  • Amy Lynch – Independent
  • Aaron Mafi – Workers Party
  • Eleanor Lesley Stringer – Labour Party
  • Michael Gerard Watson – Heritage Party

To vote at the UK general election on 4 July, you must be registered to vote and:

  • 18 years of age or over on 4 July 2024 (polling day)
  • Be a British, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen
  • Be resident at an address in the UK (or a UK citizen living abroad who has previously been registered to vote in the UK or has lived in the UK)
  • Not be legally excluded from voting

Those who have not yet registered to vote can do so on the UK Government website here until 11:59pm tomorrow, Tuesday 18 June.

     

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