Hitchin

7:14am on 5th July

Labour Party GAIN / provisional
Elected: Alistair Strathern

Candidates

Photograph of Alistair StrathernLab / 42.8%
Alistair Strathern
Photograph of Bim AfolamiCon / 29.0%
Bim Afolami
Photograph of Charles Spencer BunkerReform / 13.1%
Charles Spencer Bunker
Photograph of Chris LucasLD / 9.5%
Chris Lucas
Photograph of William LavinGreen / 5.1%
William Lavin
Photograph of Sid CordleChristian Peoples Alliance / 0.4%
Sid Cordle

Candidate images from Democracy Club. Data collated by Open Innovations.

Constituency Drill Down

Population: 98700

Households: 40800

Housing tenure type for Hitchin

0%25%50%Social rentedPrivate rentedOwned with a mortgage or loanOwned outrightOther tenureOther tenure
Percentage: 1.7%
Owned outright
Percentage: 32.5%
Owned with a mortgage or loan
Percentage: 36%
Private rented
Percentage: 15.1%
Social rented
Percentage: 14.7%

Age demographic for Hitchin

0%25%50%Aged 65 years and overAged 50 to 64 yearsAged 35 to 49 yearsAged 25 to 34 yearsAged 16 to 24 yearsAged 15 years and underAged 15 years and under
Percentage: 20.1%
Aged 16 to 24 years
Percentage: 8.2%
Aged 25 to 34 years
Percentage: 12.4%
Aged 35 to 49 years
Percentage: 22%
Aged 50 to 64 years
Percentage: 19.8%
Aged 65 years and over
Percentage: 17.4%

Data from the House of Commons Library.

2019 General Election

It is projected that this would have been a Conservative and Unionist Party seat in the 2019 General Election if it had been contested with the new constituency boundaries.