St Neots & Mid Cambridgeshire.

St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire is a South East seat of just over 100,000 people, anchored by the market town of St Neots, whose 31,000 residents make up close to a third of the constituency. Beyond it the seat is a network of smaller and fast-growing places -- Cambourne, Histon and Impington, and the new settlements around Longstanton and Northstowe -- threaded through villages and dispersed rural land. With a median age of 40 and well over a third of residents degree-educated, it reads as a commuter belt feeding Cambridge to the east. Two district authorities run local services here: South Cambridgeshire, which holds nine of the seat's wards, and Huntingdonshire, which holds six.

That two-council footprint matters to the politics, because the recent ward picture across both has tilted firmly one way. The Liberal Democrats have taken twenty-four of the thirty most recent ward contests, with the Greens holding the two St Neots East seats and Reform and others picking up the remainder. Turnout in the larger urban wards such as Cambourne and Histon and Impington runs well above the rural divisions. At the parliamentary level the same direction holds: in 2024, the first General Election fought on these 2023 boundaries, the Liberal Democrats won on 36.9% ahead of the Conservatives on 28.2%, sending Ian Sollom to Westminster.

On the figures available the seat appears settled in a Liberal Democrat direction rather than closely contested, though a single recent election offers a thin baseline. Local coverage in recent months has had a flat, administrative character, dominated by the prospect of council reorganisation and routine planning matters rather than any story of national reach. The Green foothold in St Neots East is the clearest sign of churn beneath that surface. For now the seat looks broadly stable, with its competition playing out at ward level.