Surrey to have a new political colour 4th July?
Jeremy Hunt “faces a tight race” to be re-elected according to new polls that show Surrey could have as many as 12 new MPs after the July 4 general election.
Only East Surrey’s Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Coutinho, are predicted to be safe.
Data published by Ipsos suggests the combination of big beast Conservative resignations and huge swings in voting intentions could drastically alter the political map.
The projections are based on Ipsos’ first MRP poll that uses a large-scale online survey of nearly 20,000 participants together with population data at a constituency level, to project which party will win individual seats at the upcoming General Election.
Currently every single seat in the county is held by a Conservative but Ipsos polling has the Liberal Democrats poised to win in Esher and Walton, Dorking and Horley, Guildford, and Epsom and Ewell leaning that way too.
The scale of the swings needed are huge with the Conservatives holding majorities as high as 29 per cent in constituencies predicted to go to the Lib Dems.
Three seats, with what would normally be considered safe Tory strongholds with majorities greater than 30 per cent, are also said to be in play.
Runnymede and Weybridge, Woking, Spelthorne, Windsor, and Godalming and Ash are all toss ups, according to Ipsos.
Even among the seats Ipsos has staying blue, Ipsos says that Surrey Heath, Farnham and Bordon, and Reigate are only “leaning” Conservative with just East Surrey – which was last won by Claire Coutinho in 2019 with a 40 per cent majority “likely” to stay Tory.
Nationally the polls show:
Labour winning 453 – with ‘certainty’ range of 439 to 462 seats
Conservatives 115 – with a range of 99 to 123 seats
Liberal Democrats 38 – with a range of 35 to 48 seats
SNP 15 – with a range of 13 to 23 seats
Plaid Cymru four – with a range of two to five seats
Reform UK three – with range of three to 10 seats
Green Party three with a range of zero to four seats
According to Ipsos data the voting intentions in Surrey are:
Liberal Democrat gains
Esher and Walton (Strong Liberal Democrat) overturning conservative majority of 5 per cent
Con 28%, Lib Dem 50%, Lab 11%, Ref 8%, Green 3%
Dorking (Likely Liberal Democrat) overturning Conservative majority of 19 per cent
Con 30%, Lab 17%, Lib Dem 41%, Ref 8%, Green 4%
Guildford (Likely Liberal Democrat – overturning Conservative majority of 6 per cent
Con 25%, Lab 16%, Lib Dem 39%, Ref 15%, Green 4%
Epsom and Ewell (Lean Liberal Democrat – overturning Conservative majority of 29 per cent
Con 30%, Lab 23%, Lib Dem 35%, Ref 7%, Green 4%
Conservative holds:
Surrey Heath (Lean Conservative) majority 30 per cent
Con 36%, Lab 18%, Lib Dem 30%, Ref 12%, Green 4%
Farnham and Bordon (Lean Conservative) majority 27%
Con 37%, Lab 17%, Lib Dem 31%, Ref 11%, Green 4%
Reigate (Lean Conservative) majority 36%
Con 34%, Lab 29%, Lib Dem 18%, Ref 9%, Green 10%
East Surrey (Likely Conservative) majority 40%
Con 38%, Lab 26%, Lib Dem 16%, Ref 15%, Green 5%
Toss ups
Runnymede and Weybridge (Toss up) Conservative majority 31 per cent
Con 35%, Lab 31%, Lib Dem 18%, Ref 10%, Green 5%
Woking (Toss up) Conservative majority 17 per cent
Con 35%, Lab 30%, Lib Dem 25%, Ref 9%, Green 5%
Godalming and Ash (Toss up) Conservative majority 19 per cent
Con 34%, Lab 17%, Lib Dem 33%, Ref 11%, Green 5%
Spelthorne (Toss up) Conservative majority 37 per cent
Con 31%, Lab 31%, Lib Dem 17%, Ref 16%, Green 5%
Jeremy Hunt and Paul Follows were contacted for this story.
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