| Harlow | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1974 |
| Type: | County |
| Electorate: | 73,479 (2023)[1] |
| Region: | England |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
Harlow is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Chris Vince, of the Labour and Co-operative Party.
The seat has been a bellwether since the result in 1983. Included are above county-average levels of social housing,[2] underemployment and unemployment as at the 2001 census and the associated 2000 Index of Multiple Deprivation;[3] however, the new town has brought growth sustained in part by more commuting, with an increasingly-used and separate Mill station in the London Commuter Belt, and has seen a 9.2% increase in the number of apartments to 2011, which brings the proportion of the housing market made up by flats and apartments to 23.8%.
This seat was created for the February 1974 general election from the abolished seat of Epping, and has been subject only to minor changes since.
Minor loss to Brentwood and Ongar.
North Weald Bassett transferred to Epping Forest.
Marginal changes due to redistribution of local authority wards.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency was expanded northwards to meet the electorate size requirements, with the transfer in from Saffron Walden of the two District of Uttlesford wards of Broad Oak & the Hallingburys, and Hatfield Heath.[8]
Epping prior to 1974
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Stan Newens | Labour Co-op | ||
| 1983 | Jerry Hayes | Conservative | ||
| 1997 | Bill Rammell | Labour | ||
| 2010 | Robert Halfon | Conservative | ||
| 2024 | Chris Vince | Labour Co-op | ||
| 2019 notional result[9] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| 30,573 | 64.6 | ||
| 13,879 | 29.3 | ||
| 2,783 | 5.9 | ||
| 125 | 0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 47,360 | 64.5 | |
| Electorate | 73,479 | ||