General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in...Old Bexley and Sidcup?

Louie French (Conservative) and Edward Jones (Labour) (ES Composite)
Louie French (Conservative) and Edward Jones (Labour) (ES Composite)

Millions of voters across London went to the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looked at key battleground seats in the capital, and published an interactive map of the results. Here we turn the spotlight on:

OLD BEXLEY AND SIDCUP

WINNER: LOUIE FRENCH

Top five candidates (in alphabetical order):

Brad Davies - Green Party (2,601 votes)

Maxine Fothergill – Reform UK (10,384 votes)

Louie French – Conservative (17,910 votes)

Adrian Hyryylainen-Trett – Liberal Democrats (1,927 votes)

Edward Jones – Labour (14,362 votes)

Area: Blackfen & Lamorbey, Blendon & Penhill, East Wickham, Falconwood & Welling, Longlands, Sidcup, and St Mary’s & St James, all wards in the borough of Bexley.

Old Bexley and Sidcup - Purple shaded area shows old constituency, green line shows new boundary (© OPENSTREETMAP CONTRIBUTORS | © CARTO)
Old Bexley and Sidcup - Purple shaded area shows old constituency, green line shows new boundary (© OPENSTREETMAP CONTRIBUTORS | © CARTO)

I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check

Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): A slight widening of the constituency’s boundaries will have a negligible effect on the election outcome. According to analysis by Thrasher and Rallings if the new boundaries were in place at the last election, Conservatives would have lost 0.6 per cent of their vote to Labour and the Greens.