List of parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex
# List of parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

The county of West Sussex is divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 6 county constituencies.

## Constituencies

Conservative †  Labour ‡  Liberal Democrat ¤

| Constituency | Electorate | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Electoral wards |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arundel and South Downs CC | 81,726 | 22,521 | Andrew Griffith † | Alison Bennett ¤ | Arun: Angmering, Arundel, Barnham, Findon, Walberton Chichester: Bury, Petworth, Wisborough Green Horsham: Bramber, Upper Beeding & Woodmancote, Chanctonbury, Chantry, Cowfold, Shermanbury & West Grinstead, Henfield, Pulborough & Coldwaltham, Steyning Mid Sussex: Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint & Downs |
| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton CC | 77,446 | 22,503 | Nick Gibb † | Alan Butcher ‡ | Arun: Aldwick East, Aldwick West, Beach, Bersted, Brookfield, Felpham East, Felpham West, Ham, Hotham, Marine, Middleton-on-Sea, Orchard, Pagham & Rose Green, Pevensey, River, Wick with Toddington, Yapton |
| Chichester CC | 85,499 | 21,490 | Gillian Keegan † | Kate O'Kelly ¤ | Chichester: Bosham, Boxgrove, Chichester East, Chichester North, Chichester South, Chichester West, Donnington, Easebourne, East Wittering, Fernhurst, Fishbourne, Funtington, Harting, Lavant, Midhurst, North Mundham, Plaistow, Rogate, Selsey North, Selsey South, Sidlesham, Southbourne, Stedham, Tangmere, West Wittering, Westbourne |
| Crawley BC | 74,207 | 8,360 | Henry Smith † | Peter Lamb ‡ | Crawley: Bewbush, Broadfield North, Broadfield South, Furnace Green, Gossops Green, Ifield, Langley Green, Maidenbower, Northgate, Pound Hill North, Pound Hill South & Worth, Southgate, Three Bridges, Tilgate, West Green |
| East Worthing and Shoreham CC | 75,194 | 7,441 | Tim Loughton † | Lavinia O'Connor ‡ | Adur: Buckingham, Churchill, Cokeland, Eastbrook, Hillside, Manor, Marine, Mash Barn, Peverel, St Mary's, St Nicolas, Southlands, Southwick Green, Widewater Worthing: Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington, Selden |
| Horsham CC | 86,730 | 21,127 | Jeremy Quin † | Louise Potter ¤ | Horsham: Billingshurst & Shipley, Broadbridge Heath, Denne, Forest, Holbrook East, Holbrook West, Horsham Park, Itchingfield, Slinfold & Warnham, Nuthurst, Roffey North, Roffey South, Rudgwick, Rusper & Colgate, Southwater, Trafalgar Mid Sussex: Ardingly & Balcombe, Copthorne & Worth, Crawley Down & Turners Hill |
| Mid Sussex CC | 85,146 | 19,197 | Mims Davies † | Robert Eggleston ¤ | Mid Sussex: Ashurst Wood, Bolney, Burgess Hill Dunstall, Burgess Hill Franklands, Burgess Hill Leylands, Burgess Hill Meeds, Burgess Hill St Andrews, Burgess Hill Victoria, Cuckfield, East Grinstead Ashplats, East Grinstead Baldwins, East Grinstead Herontye, East Grinstead Imberhorne, East Grinstead Town, Haywards Heath Ashenground, Haywards Heath Bentswood, Hayward Heath Franklands, Haywards Heath Heath, Haywards Heath Lucastes, High Weald, Lindfield |
| Worthing West BC | 78,585 | 14,823 | Peter Bottomley † | Beccy Cooper ‡ | Arun: East Preston with Kingston, Ferring, Rustington East, Rustington West Worthing: Castle, Central, Durrington, Goring, Heene, Marine, Northbrook, Salvington, Tarring |

## Historic list of constituencies in West Sussex

### Used from 1950 to 1974

* Arundel and Shoreham
* Chichester
* Horsham
* Worthing

### Used from 1974 to 1983

* Arundel
* Chichester
* Horsham and Crawley
* Shoreham
* Worthing

### Used from 1983 to 1997

* Arundel
* Chichester
* Crawley
* Horsham
* Mid Sussex
* Shoreham
* Worthing

The Local Government Act 1972 moved the District of Mid Sussex into West Sussex from East Sussex. This change was put into effect in the Parliamentary constituency boundaries for the 1983 boundary changes.

## 2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the existing 8 constituencies in West Sussex, with minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with those of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.

| Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
| - | - | - |
| Arundel and South Downs CC Bognor Regis and Littlehampton CC Chichester CC Crawley BC East Worthing and Shoreham CC Horsham CC Mid Sussex CC Worthing West BC | Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex | Proposed Revision |

## Proposed boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission has proposed that West Sussex be combined with East Sussex as a sub-region of the South East Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named East Grinstead and Uckfield.

The following constituencies are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Adur

* East Worthing and Shoreham (part)

Containing electoral wards from Arun

* Arundel and South Downs (part)
* Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
* Chichester (part)
* Worthing West (part)

Containing electoral wards from Chichester

* Arundel and South Downs (part)
* Chichester (part)

Containing electoral wards from Crawley

* Crawley

Containing electoral wards from Horsham

* Arundel and South Downs (part)
* Horsham

Containing electoral wards from Mid Sussex

* East Grinstead and Uckfield (also contains parts of Lewes and Wealden Districts in East Sussex)
* Mid Sussex

Containing electoral wards from Worthing

* East Worthing and Shoreham (part)
* Worthing West (part)

## Results history

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

### 2019

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

| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Conservative | 257,463 | 56.3% | 0.6% | 8 | 0 |
| Labour | 103,446 | 22.6% | 6.2% | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 75,512 | 16.5% | 8.2% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 17,239 | 3.8% | 1.1% | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 3,920 | 0.8% | 2.5% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 457,580 | 100.0 | | 8 | |

### Percentage votes

| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Conservative | 59.9 | 60.0 | 57.3 | 44.7 | 46.0 | 46.7 | 51.8 | 54.2 | 56.8 | 56.3 |
| Labour | 9.8 | 11.8 | 14.6 | 24.3 | 25.9 | 21.3 | 13.1 | 16.1 | 28.8 | 22.6 |
| Liberal $Democrat^1$ | 29.3 | 27.6 | 25.7 | 25.6 | 23.0 | 26.1 | 27.4 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 16.5 |
| Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.9 | 4.9 | 2.6 | 3.8 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 5.2 | 15.6 | 2.4 | * |
| Other | 1.0 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 6.0 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |

$^11983$ & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

### Seats

| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Conservative | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |

### Maps

**1885-1910**

* 1885
* 1886
* 1892
* 1895
* 1900
* 1906
* Jan 1910
* Dec 1910

**1918-1945**

* 1918
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
* 1929
* 1931
* 1935
* 1945

**1950-1979**

* 1950
* 1951
* 1955
* 1959
* 1964
* 1966
* 1970
* Feb 1974
* Oct 1974
* 1979

**1983-present**

* 1983
* 1987
* 1992
* 1997
* 2001
* 2005
* 2010
* 2015
* 2017
* 2019

## 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.

The Local Government Act 1972 moved the District of Mid Sussex into West Sussex from East Sussex. This change was put into effect in the Parliamentary constituency boundaries for the 1983 boundary changes.

Since 1885 only two MPs have won elections who were not members of the Conservative Party: one Liberal MP in 1923 and one Labour MP in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

### 1885 to 1918

Conservative

| Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 88 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 1900 | 04 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chichester | C. Gordon-Lennox | C. Gordon-Lennox | W. Gordon-Lennox | W. Gordon-Lennox | W. Gordon-Lennox | Talbot | Talbot | Talbot | Talbot | Talbot | Talbot | Talbot |
| Horsham | Barttelot | Barttelot | Barttelot | Barttelot | Johnstone | Johnstone | Johnstone | Johnstone | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour |

### 1918 to 1950

Conservative  Liberal

| Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 42 | 1945 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chichester | Talbot | Bird | Bird | Rudkin | Courtauld | Courtauld | Courtauld | Courtauld | Joynson-Hicks | Joynson-Hicks |
| Horsham and Worthing / Horsham (1945) | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour | Turnour |
| Worthing | | | | | | | | | | Prior-Palmer |

### 1950 to 1983

Conservative

| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 1955 | 58 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | 71 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arundel and Shoreham / Shoreham (1974) | Cuthbert | Cuthbert | Kerby | Kerby | Kerby | Kerby | Kerby | Kerby | Kerby | Kerby | Luce | Luce | Luce | Luce |
| Chichester | Joynson-Hicks | Joynson-Hicks | Joynson-Hicks | Joynson-Hicks | Loveys | Loveys | Loveys | Loveys | Chataway | Chataway | Chataway | Chataway | Nelson | Nelson |
| Horsham / Horsham and Crawley (1974) | Turnour | Gough | Gough | Gough | Gough | Gough | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern |
| Worthing | Prior-Palmer | Prior-Palmer | Prior-Palmer | Prior-Palmer | Prior-Palmer | Prior-Palmer | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins |
| Arundel | | | | | | | | | | | | Marshall | Marshall | Marshall |

### 1983 to present

Conservative  Labour

| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arundel / Arundel and South Downs (1997) | Marshall | Marshall | Marshall | Flight | Flight | Herbert | Herbert | Herbert | Herbert | Griffith |
| Chichester | Nelson | Nelson | Nelson | Tyrie | Tyrie | Tyrie | Tyrie | Tyrie | Keegan | Keegan |
| Crawley | Soames | Soames | Soames | Moffatt | Moffatt | Moffatt | Smith | Smith | Smith | Smith |
| Horsham | Hordern | Hordern | Hordern | Maude | Maude | Maude | Maude | Quin | Quin | Quin |
| Shoreham / East Worthing and Shoreham (1997) | Luce | Luce | Stephen | Loughton | Loughton | Loughton | Loughton | Loughton | Loughton | Loughton |
| Mid Sussex | Renton | Renton | Renton | Soames | Soames | Soames | Soames | Soames | Soames | Davies |
| Worthing / Worthing West (1997) | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Bottomley | Bottomley | Bottomley | Bottomley | Bottomley | Bottomley | Bottomley |
| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | | | | Gibb | Gibb | Gibb | Gibb | Gibb | Gibb | Gibb |
