Bicester & Woodstock.

Bicester and Woodstock is a network-of-towns seat in northern Oxfordshire, anchored by the growing market town of Bicester, which holds rather more than a third of its 97,000 residents. Kidlington, on the edge of Oxford, is the second settlement, followed by a substantial rural and dispersed population and the smaller towns of Eynsham and Woodstock. The character is prosperous and ageing slightly above the national median, with a well-educated, overwhelmingly White population. Two district authorities run local services here: Cherwell covers eight of the wards, including Bicester and Kidlington, while West Oxfordshire covers five to the south and west.

That two-council split is mirrored in a fragmented local politics that has tilted firmly toward the Liberal Democrats. Across the fourteen most recent ward contests, most of them held in May 2026, the party took eight, with the Conservatives, Greens and Reform UK each holding two. The Conservative wins sit in the rural west and north, the Greens in Kidlington and a village ward, and turnouts ran notably high in Bicester West and Bicester South. At Westminster the pattern is consistent: Calum Miller took the seat for the Liberal Democrats in 2024, its first contest on these boundaries, on 38.7% against 28.8% for the Conservatives, a margin of roughly ten points.

The direction of travel, on the figures available, runs steadily the Liberal Democrats' way, with the Conservative vote now a clear second and Reform and the Greens picking off individual wards rather than threatening the whole. Recent local coverage has had a markedly administrative tenor, dominated by town-centre regeneration, planning decisions and environmental clean-up rather than by national controversy. The seat appears, for now, a comfortable Liberal Democrat hold built on a broad spread of ward strength, though its multi-party ward map leaves the picture less settled at the local tier than the parliamentary result alone would suggest.