| Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Type: | County |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
| Electorate: | 75,655 (2023)[1] |
| Region: | England |
| Previous: | Bury St Edmunds & West Suffolk (part) |
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament represented since its creation for the 2024 general election by Peter Prinsley of the Labour Party.[2] The constituency is named for the Suffolk towns of Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket.[3]
The constituency is composed of the following:
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket contains the majority of the abolished Bury St Edmunds constituency and a small area to the north transferred from the West Suffolk constituency.[5]
The constituency covers Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket and smaller settlements on the A14 corridor. Like its predecessor seat, Bury St Edmunds, it was notionally a safe Conservative seat; it had not elected a non-Conservative MP since it elected one Liberal at the 1880 election, and none at all since becoming a single-member constituency in 1885. Furthermore, the Conservatives notionally had a majority of 22,085 votes (41.7%) based on the results of the 2019 election.
However, at the 2024 election the Tories suffered an above-average swing against them of 21.6% and won less than half their voteshare from 2019, turning their notional majority of over 22,000 into a Labour majority of 1,452. This marked the first time Labour had ever won the seat, and along with the party gaining Suffolk Coastal, was the first time since it won Sudbury in 1945 that Labour had won any Suffolk constituencies not centred on Ipswich or Lowestoft.
Bury St Edmunds and West Suffolk prior to 2024
| 2019 notional result[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| 33,023 | 62.9 | ||
| 10,938 | 20.8 | ||
| 6,520 | 12.4 | ||
| Others | 1,435 | 2.7 | |
| 565 | 1.1 | ||
| Turnout | 52,481 | 69.4 | |
| Electorate | 75,655 | ||