| Melton and Syston | |
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| County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundaries since 2024
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Boundary of Melton and Syston in the East Midlands
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| County | Leicestershire |
| Electorate | 71,615 (2023)[1] |
| Major settlements | Melton Mowbray, Sileby, Syston |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2024 |
| Member of Parliament | Edward Argar (Conservative) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Rutland and Melton, Charnwood, Loughborough |
Melton and Syston is a county constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.[2] It will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the composition of the constituency was defined as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It includes the following areas:
Following a local government boundary review in Charnwood which came into effect in May 2023,[4][5] the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election:
Rutland and Melton, Charnwood and Loughborough prior to 2024
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Edward Argar | Conservative | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Edward Argar | 17,526 | 38.1 | ||
| Labour | Zafran Khan | 12,130 | 26.4 | ||
| Reform UK | Peter Morris | 8,945 | 19.5 | ||
| Green | Alastair McQuillan | 3,685 | 8.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Andy Konieczko | 2,547 | 5.5 | ||
| Independent | Marilyn Gordon | 517 | 1.1 | ||
| Alliance for Democracy and Freedom | Teck Khong | 348 | 0.8 | ||
| Rejoin EU | Matt Shouler | 288 | 0.6 | ||
| Majority | 5,396 | 11.7 | |||
| Turnout | 46,149 | 62.2 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
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