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South Cambridgeshire

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Apr 2026

Represented by LD since 2024. Covers Cambridge (Cambridge), Sawston and Great Shelford and Stapleford. Population 103,427, highly educated (49% degree-holders).

Pippa Heylings's most visible recent action has been introducing a ten-minute bill to protect UK chalk streams -- a distinctive local environmental asset in South Cambridgeshire -- and pushing for UNESCO status for those waterways. She has also called publicly for a price cap on heating oil, a pressing concern for off-grid rural households in her constituency, and confronted Anglian Water over what she called "repeated failings" on sewage and environmental standards. On the assisted dying bill, she broke with the Liberal Democrat majority to back New Clause 2, her sole rebel vote since entering parliament. Most recently, she voted consistently to retain Lords amendments to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, resisting the government's attempts to overturn changes made in the upper chamber.

At 60% voting participation, Heylings is below the Commons average, though new MPs with large caseloads often show lower figures early in a parliament. When she does vote, she is a 99.7% party-line voter. Her speeches -- 229 contributions across 118 debates -- cluster heavily around energy, environment, and cost of living, consistent with her public campaigns on chalk streams, water quality, and heating oil costs. Her stance data shows notably high alignment with pro-parliamentary-scrutiny (95%) and pro-lords-scrutiny (96%) positions, and she leans slightly more towards opposing benefit cuts than the average Lib Dem.

300
Commons votes
This parliament
£35k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
77.3k
Electorate
2024 GE

LD took this seat from Con after 4 consecutive elections.

Current Member of Parliament

Pippa Heylings

Pippa Heylings

Liberal Democrats

Pippa Heylings is the Liberal Democrat MP for South Cambridgeshire, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. She currently undertakes the role of Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Energy Security and Net Zero).

Notable Votes

Vote on New Clause 2 to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, debated alongside related amendments including provisions on guidance, devolution, and regulatory consultation. The excerpts focus on New Clause 20, which would require the Secretary of State to issue guidance (consulting chief medical officers and palliative/hospice care providers) and enable Welsh Ministers to issue guidance on devolved health matters.

MP voted YesAgainst party majority

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Voting at a Glance

Represented by LD since 2024. Covers Cambridge (Cambridge), Sawston and Great Shelford and Stapleford. Population 103,427, highly educated (49% degree-holders).

2024 General Election

§ 06This week in Westminster.Live · today’s sittingOrder Paper · refreshed daily

Heylings’s scheduled Commons activity this week — whipped divisions, oral questions, debates — drawn from the House of Commons Order Paper.

§ 07The record, at a glance.300 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Heylings has cast the most ballots — a proxy for engagement, not direction. Notable votes are the moments where the whip was free or where they broke ranks.

Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted · cumulative this Parliament
Taxation
58
Economy
47
Crime & Policing
34
Employment
29
Education
23
Welfare and Benefits
23
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 213 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
§ 08The local picture.17 wards

Constituencies are not uniform. Below — the local council make-up, key facts worth knowing, and the neighbouring seats on either side.

WardCouncillorVotesParty
BalshamGeoff Harvey704Liberal
BarringtonAidan Van de Weyer888Liberal
BassingbournSusan van de Ven579Liberal
Cherry HintonMark William Ashton1,149Labour P
DuxfordPeter McDonald885Liberal
Fen Ditton FulbournCarla Hofman1,166Liberal
Fen Ditton FulbournGraham David Cone1,305Conserva
Fen Ditton FulbournJohn George Williams1,433Liberal
FoxtonJames William Douglas Hobro876Liberal
GamlingayBridget Smith795Liberal
HardwickLina Nieto471Conserva
Harston CombertonAriel Martin Cahn1,564Liberal
Population (2021 Census)
103,427
Electorate 77,327 · 2024 register
Median income
£34,700
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
14.4%
England average 20.0%
Schools
62
43 primary · 7 secondary
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