Constituency profile

Mid Buckinghamshire

South East · County constituency · Buckinghamshire borough

Greg Smith MP
Sitting MP

Greg Smith

Conservative

First elected December 2019

Current PollCheck projection

Region & type
South East
County constituency, Buckinghamshire council
Last 5 GE winners
???CC
Spk 3/5, Conservative 2/5
EU referendum 2016
48.5% Leave
UK average 51.9%; -3.4pp below mean
Current outlook
Conservative +11.5pp
vs Reform UK 23.3%
SouthernBrexit-marginalGraduate-heavy

About the Mid Buckinghamshire constituency

Mid Buckinghamshire is a county constituency in the South East. The sitting MP is Greg Smith (Conservative), first elected in December 2019. At the 2024 general election, the Conservatives won with 37.4% to 26.5% for the Liberal Democrats, a majority of 5,872 votes on a 71.3% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has the Conservatives on 34.8% and Reform UK on 23.3%, a margin of 11.5 points.

Who lives in Mid Buckinghamshire? Constituency demographics

From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.

Leave vote 2016
48.5%
UK average ~52%
Degree or above
43.1%
UK average ~34%
No qualifications
11.6%
UK average ~18%
Owner-occupied
75.2%
UK average ~63%
Renting (social + private)
23.5%
UK average ~36%
Median age
44.6
UK median ~40
Age 65+
25.9%
UK average ~19%
Age 18-34
24.5%
UK average ~28%

How did Mid Buckinghamshire 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

Con hold · majority 5,872 votes (10.9pp) · turnout 71.3%

Current projection

If a general election were held today, at current poll average

Map of Mid Buckinghamshire

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 ›

Council layer (not Westminster)

Mid Buckinghamshire within Buckinghamshire

Mid Buckinghamshire sits entirely within Buckinghamshire Council. Buckinghamshire was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results available. About this layer ›

Council overlap

CouncilShare of seat
Buckinghamshire
62 LSOAs
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.

DateWardResultTop 3 vote shares
1 Jul 2022Bernwood
Buckinghamshire
LD GAIN from Con

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
BernwoodConservative 35.1%vs Lib Dem 28.1%2021 Conservative 38.9%vs Green 35.4%-58.3%
Chiltern RidgesLib Dem 46.8%vs Conservative 31.8%2021 Conservative 41.5%vs Lib Dem 37.4%-52.3%
Great MissendenConservative 37.4%vs Lib Dem 29.4%2021 Conservative 57.0%vs Lib Dem 22.4%-54.6%
Grendon UnderwoodConservative 39.7%vs Lib Dem 22.4%2021 Conservative 58.6%vs Lib Dem 11.4%-54.6%
Ridgeway EastConservative 37.9%vs Lib Dem 27.3%2021 Conservative 70.4%vs Labour 10.9%-55.1%
Ridgeway WestConservative 38.8%vs Lib Dem 28.7%2021 Conservative 63.0%vs Lib Dem 28.8%-41.4%
Stone and WaddesdonConservative 38.2%vs Labour 21.0%2021 Conservative 50.7%vs Labour 19.3%-37.3%
The RisboroughsConservative 37.4%vs Lib Dem 24.4%2021 Conservative 53.0%vs Independent 28.8%-44.1%
Wendover, Halton and Stoke MandevilleConservative 36.2%vs Lib Dem 25.5%2021 Conservative 46.5%vs Green 17.9%-54.4%

Projection trajectory

PollCheck's projection for Mid Buckinghamshire at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.

Who has won Mid Buckinghamshire 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 Right (Ref/UKIP) Green Other Majority Turnout
2010predecessorSpk gain from ConJohn Bercow Buckingham MP0%0%0%17.4% UKIP-82.6%12,52964.5%
2015predecessorSpk holdJohn Bercow Buckingham MP0%0%0%21.7% UKIP13.8%64.5%22,94269.3%+4.8
2017predecessorSpk holdJohn Bercow Buckingham MP0%0%0%7.9% UKIP16.3%75.8%25,72566.2%-3.1
2019notionalConservative winnerGreg Smith Buckingham MP, pre-review boundary15.3%61.5%19.7%-2.7%0.8%22,64875.1%
2024Con holdGreg Smith17.0%37.3%26.5%12.8% Ref5.5%0.9%5,87271.3%-3.8

Mid Buckinghamshire was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Buckingham (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 Mid Buckinghamshire

Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Mid Buckinghamshire. Politics shown for context.

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 ›

Show full source list
  • 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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