Bromley & Biggin Hill.
Conservative and Unionist Party MP Peter Fortune holds the seat on 34.0% of the vote.
7 Jun 2026
One-town Bromley seat, Conservative-held but finely balanced
Bromley and Biggin Hill sits on the south-eastern edge of Greater London, anchored almost entirely by the town of Bromley, which accounts for the great majority of the seat's roughly 90,000 residents. Beyond the built-up core lies a thinner band of rural and dispersed settlement towards Biggin Hill, but this is overwhelmingly a one-town constituency rather than a network of competing centres. It is a comparatively settled, suburban place: a median age of 41, around four in ten residents degree-educated, and a population that is four-fifths White at the last census. Local services are run by a single authority, the London Borough of Bromley, which administers the six wards that fall within these boundaries.
The local political picture is mixed beneath a Conservative surface. Across the sixteen most recent ward contests in May 2026, the Conservatives took eleven, the Liberal Democrats three and Reform UK two, the latter centred on Biggin Hill, while the Liberal Democrats appear strongest around Bromley Town. The party retained its majority on the borough council. The parliamentary contest tells a tighter story: in 2024, the first General Election on these boundaries, the Conservatives held the seat on 34 per cent against Labour's 33.4 -- a margin of well under a single point. Peter Fortune, the Conservative elected that year, has registered no whipped dissent in recent months and speaks most often on the economy and local government.
The direction of travel, then, is towards a seat that looks safe on the council map but is plainly contested at Westminster, with a fragmenting opposition splitting between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and a rising Reform vote. Recent local coverage has leaned heavily on planning and development -- housing pressure on green-belt land and contested schemes in the town centre -- alongside the steady administrative business of a council under continuing Conservative control. Vehicle crime appears to run well above the local average, though the seat's wider profile remains that of a quiet outer-London suburb. On the figures available, the council majority looks comfortable; the constituency itself is finely balanced.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bickley & Sundridge(3 seats) | Smith · Lymer · Brock | 10,704 | Bromley Con | May 2026 |
| Biggin Hill(2 seats) | James · Allitt | 4,241 | Bromley Con | May 2026 |
| Bromley Town(3 seats) | Casey · Ireland · Webber | 5,568 | Bromley Con | May 2026 |
| Hayes & Coney Hall(3 seats) | Michael · Smith · Coldspring-White | 10,683 | Bromley Con | May 2026 |
| Plaistow(2 seats) | Puthenpurakal · Papayannakos | 2,476 | Bromley Con | May 2026 |
| Shortlands & Park Langley(3 seats) | Grant · Turrell · Gupta | 9,142 | Bromley Con | May 2026 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Bromley (92,464), with Rural & dispersed (5,086) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 97,550.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Bromley | 92,464 | city |
| Rural & dispersed | 5,086 | town |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 61.2% | 57.1% | +7% |
| Owner-occupied | 74.8% | 63.1% | +18% |
| Private rented | 15.6% | 20.0% | -22% |
| Social rented | 9.7% | 16.8% | -43% |
Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £638m |
| Taxpayers | 52,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £4,260 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £12,200 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
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Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter FortuneWON | Con | 15,929 | 34.0 |
| Oana Olaru-Holmes | Lab | 15,627 | 33.4 |
| Alan Cook | Ref | 8,203 | 17.5 |
| Julie Ireland | LD | 4,352 | 9.3 |
| Caroline Sandes | Grn | 2,583 | 5.5 |
| Karen Miller | Ind | 94 | 0.2 |
Turnout 46,788
Prior contests.
Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo