Hitchin
New constituency
Con 2019 (modelled)
Hitchin is a new constituency consisting of rolling countryside and expanding villages around Hitchin town, which became a pandemic property hotspot. It could be a tight race between Labour's Alistair Strathern, who was the MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, and the Conservative Treasury minister Bim Afolami, who held the Hitchin and Harpenden seat
2019 vote share (modelled)
Con 47%, Lab 26.2%
Majority 20.8% (11,264)
Leave vote (modelled)
Unemployment rate
47%
2.1%
Owns house outright
without mortgage
Higher managerial &
professional occupations
27%
20%
Deprivation rank
Ranked by the proportion of households that are
deprived (1 = most deprived area), out of a total
575 constituencies in England and Wales
531/575
Hitchin
New constituency
Con 2019 (modelled)
Hitchin is a new constituency consisting of rolling countryside and expanding villages around Hitchin town, which became a pandemic property hotspot. It could be a tight race between Labour's Alistair Strathern, who was the MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, and the Conservative Treasury minister Bim Afolami, who held the Hitchin
and Harpenden seat
2019 vote share (modelled)
Con 47%, Lab 26.2%
Majority 20.8% (11,264)
Leave vote (modelled)
Unemployment rate
47%
2.1%
Owns house outright
without mortgage
Higher managerial &
professional occupations
27%
20%
Deprivation rank
Ranked by the proportion of households that are deprived
(1 = most deprived area), out of a total 575 constituencies
in England and Wales
531/575