Hove (UK Parliament constituency)

Hove
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hove in East Sussex.
Location of East Sussex within England.
County	East Sussex
Electorate	71,181 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Peter Kyle (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Brighton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Coordinates: 50°50′02″N 0°10′30″W / 50.834°N 0.175°W / 50.834; -0.175

Hove is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Labour's Peter Kyle.

1950-1983: The County Borough of Hove, and the Urban District of Portslade-by-Sea.

1983-2010: The Borough of Hove.

2010-present: The City of Brighton and Hove wards of Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, Goldsmid, Hangleton and Knoll, North Portslade, South Portslade, Stanford, Westbourne, and Wish.

The constituency covers Hove and Portslade in the city of Brighton and Hove.

The settlement of Hove is an economically active seaside resort which is both a commuter town and centred in an area of high local employment, stretching from Portsmouth to London Gatwick Airport. The seat acted as a bellwether of the national result between 1979 and 2010.

It was not until the 1950 general election, when major boundary changes occurred in Brighton, that Hove acquired a parliamentary seat of its own, having previously been in the former two-seat Brighton constituency. Hove was a Conservative stronghold or marginal seat until the 1997 general election, when the Labour Party saw a landslide parliamentary victory and with it, like in Greater London, wide success on the developed East Sussex coast.