Bridlington and The Wolds
Yorkshire and The Humber · County constituency · East Riding of Yorkshire borough
About the Bridlington and The Wolds constituency
Bridlington and The Wolds is a county constituency in Yorkshire and The Humber. The sitting MP is Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative), first elected in July 2024. At the 2024 general election, the Conservatives won with 34.6% to 27.3% for Labour, a majority of 3,125 votes on a 57.7% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Reform UK on 33.9% and the Conservatives on 33.5%, a margin of 0.4 points - a projected change of hands from the Conservatives.
Who lives in Bridlington and The Wolds? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Bridlington and The Wolds vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?
2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.
2024 general election
Current projection
Map of Bridlington and The Wolds
Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from the 2021 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›
Bridlington and The Wolds within East Riding of Yorkshire
Bridlington and The Wolds sits entirely within East Riding of Yorkshire Council. East Riding of Yorkshire was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 100% |
Recent council by-elections
Council ward by-elections held inside this seat, most recent first. The result column shows which party won; the share column shows the top three parties’ vote shares on the day.
| Date | Ward | Result | Top 3 vote shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2024 | East Wolds and Coastal | Con HOLD | Con 42% LD 24% Lab 15% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent available result. How this table is sourced ›
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridlington Central and Old Town | Conservative 29.5%vs Reform 28.7% | 2023 Lib Dem 35.6%vs Independent 26.4% | - | 31.7% |
| Bridlington North | Conservative 35.6%vs Labour 24.8% | 2023 Lib Dem 57.8%vs Conservative 32.2% | - | 35.7% |
| Bridlington South | Labour 32.0%vs Conservative 28.0% | 2023 Others 43.5%vs Labour 19.6% | - | 24.1% |
| Driffield and Rural | Conservative 30.8%vs Labour 28.3% | 2023 Conservative 36.0%vs Labour 27.1% | - | 22.4% |
| East Wolds and Coastal | Conservative 37.4%vs Labour 26.7% | 2023 Conservative 55.3%vs Labour 16.7% | - | 36.0% |
| North Holderness | Conservative 33.9%vs Reform 28.2% | 2023 Independent 61.5%vs Conservative 17.3% | - | 36.7% |
| Wolds Weighton | Conservative 42.5%vs Labour 28.1% | 2023 Conservative 43.9%vs Labour 13.8% | - | 46.5% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Bridlington and The Wolds at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Bridlington and The Wolds at past general elections?
2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Con hold | Greg Knight East Yorkshire MP | 20.3% | 47.5% | 21.2% | 13,486 | 64.0% |
| 2015predecessor | Con hold | Greg Knight East Yorkshire MP | 20.7% | 50.6% | 5.9% | 14,933 | 61.7%-2.3 |
| 2017predecessor | Con hold | Greg Knight East Yorkshire MP | 30.5% | 58.3% | 4.0% | 15,006 | 66.6%+4.9 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | Greg Knight East Yorkshire MP, pre-review boundary | 19.9% | 66.6% | 7.5% | 21,685 | 64.1% |
| 2024 | Con hold | Charlie Dewhirst | 27.3% | 34.6% | 7.2% | 3,125 | 57.7%-6.4 |
Bridlington and The Wolds was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat East Yorkshire (the seat that covered most of this area), so vote shares and majorities aren’t directly comparable to the post-2024 figures.
Constituencies most like Bridlington and The Wolds
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Bridlington and The Wolds. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Age 65+34.8 / 35.9vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 19.9vs 30.2
- ↑Leave61.2 / 62.0vs 53.2
- ↑Age 65+34.8 / 31.1vs 22.7
- ↓Employed48.9 / 49.7vs 57.3
- ↓Graduate26.0 / 24.2vs 33.7
- ↑Age 65+34.8 / 31.9vs 22.7
- ↑Leave61.2 / 62.0vs 53.2
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 23.5vs 30.2
- ↑Age 65+34.8 / 31.9vs 22.7
- ↓Graduate26.0 / 24.9vs 33.7
- ↑Leave61.2 / 64.8vs 53.2
- ↑Age 65+34.8 / 32.0vs 22.7
- ↓Graduate26.0 / 26.9vs 33.7
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 23.2vs 30.2
What would change this seat?
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Related
Sources
Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›
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- 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
- Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
- Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
- Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
- May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
- Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
- Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
- EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
- MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
- Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
- Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic swingometer applied to the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls. Not a true MRP - vote-share movements are applied through per-constituency sensitivity multipliers derived from demographic regressions.
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