Didcot and Wantage
South East · County constituency
About the Didcot and Wantage constituency
Didcot and Wantage is a county constituency in the South East, spanning parts of South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and neighbouring councils. The sitting MP is Olly Glover (Liberal Democrat), first elected in July 2024.
At the 2024 general election, the Liberal Democrats won Didcot and Wantage with 39.8% of the vote, ahead of the Conservatives on 28.4%, a majority of 6,233 votes. Turnout was 67.8%.
If a general election were held today, PollCheck's projection at the current seven-poll average has the Liberal Democrats on 38.1% and the Conservatives on 24.1% in Didcot and Wantage, a margin of 14.0 points. The projection updates automatically as new polls are added.
Demographically, Didcot and Wantage is a Remain-leaning area (an estimated 44.8% voted Leave in 2016). About 41.8% of residents hold a degree, 68.1% of homes are owner-occupied, and the seat has a median age of about 40 (2021 Census).
Across the last 5 general elections on record, the seat has been won by the Conservatives 4 times, the Liberal Democrats 1 time (earlier years may be on predecessor boundaries).
Who lives in Didcot and Wantage? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Didcot and Wantage 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 Didcot and Wantage
Switch between ward-level 2024 election winners and a demographic view. Ward winners are Britain Elects' / New Statesman modelled estimates with an average ~4pp margin of error per ward. The demographic view splits the seat into small neighbourhoods (around 1,500 residents each, from the 2021 Census). Hover any area for detail.
Didcot and Wantage within South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse
Didcot and Wantage crosses multiple council boundaries: South Oxfordshire (52%), Vale of White Horse (48%). English councils rotate their election cycles and none of the constituent councils were due to vote in 2026, so the figures below show the most recent ward result available for each ward.
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| South Oxfordshire | 52% |
| Vale of White Horse | 48% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2026 | Stanford | Con GAIN from LD | Con 46% LD 27% Ref 18% |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Ridgeway | LD HOLD | LD 43% Con 24% Ref 20% |
| 6 Dec 2024 | Cholsey | LD HOLD | — |
| 21 Jun 2024 | Sutton Courtenay | LD HOLD | — |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward. Where the council held a May 2026 election, those results are shown; otherwise we show the most recent available ward result (via DCLEAPIL, 2014-2024), or, where the seat was uncontested at the last election, the current sitting councillor from OpenCouncilData. The "Shift since GE2024" column is only computed for May 2026 results - earlier council votes pre-date the GE, so no directional shift is shown.
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Didcot and Wantage at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Didcot and Wantage at past general elections?
2024 result is on current boundaries. The 2019 row is the UK Parliament's notional recalculation onto the 2024 boundaries (directly comparable to 2024). The 2010, 2015 and 2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time and aren't directly comparable.
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Con hold | Edward Vaizey Wantage MP | 13.9% | 52.0% | 27.9% | 13,547 | 70.0% |
| 2015predecessor | Con hold | Edward Vaizey Wantage MP | 16.0% | 53.3% | 13.1% | 21,749 | 70.3%+0.3 |
| 2017predecessor | Con hold | Edward Vaizey Wantage MP | 26.9% | 54.2% | 14.5% | 17,380 | 74.1%+3.8 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | David Johnston Wantage MP, pre-review boundary | 16.0% | 49.8% | 31.3% | 10,023 | 73.1% |
| 2024 | LD gain from Con | Olly Glover | 14.7% | 28.4% | 39.8% | 6,233 | 67.8%-5.3 |
Didcot and Wantage was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Wantage (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 Didcot and Wantage
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Didcot and Wantage. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Graduate41.8 / 42.3vs 33.7
- ↓Leave44.8 / 45.8vs 53.2
- ↑Employed66.1 / 64.4vs 57.3
- ↑Employed66.1 / 64.2vs 57.3
- ↑Graduate41.8 / 40.1vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied68.1 / 67.8vs 61.9
- ↑Employed66.1 / 65.2vs 57.3
- ↑Graduate41.8 / 40.5vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied68.1 / 68.6vs 61.9
- ↓Leave44.8 / 44.5vs 53.2
- ↑Employed66.1 / 65.3vs 57.3
- ↑Owner-occupied68.1 / 67.9vs 61.9
- ↓Leave44.8 / 44.6vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate41.8 / 41.5vs 33.7
- ↓No quals12.7 / 13.3vs 18.0
What would change this seat?
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Related
Sources
- 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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