South West Surrey

South West Surrey
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of South West Surrey in Surrey.
Location of Surrey within England.
County	Surrey
Electorate	76,495 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Jeremy Hunt (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Farnham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

South West Surrey is a constituency represented since 2005 by Conservative Jeremy Hunt, who has served as Secretary of State for Health since 4 September 2012, in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

The seat covers the towns of Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere and has electoral wards:

The Boundary Commission's recommendations implemented by Parliament for 2010 saw the realignment of the boundary with Guildford in order to bring it in line with adjustment of local government wards. Guildford's was the largest of the county and this aimed to reduce it. Two wards split between the two constituencies: Bramley; and Busbridge and Hascombe, afterwards entirely in South West Surrey; and the ward: 'Alfold, Cranleigh Rural and Ellens Green' was split, so it was for 2010 consolidated into Guildford. The net effect was to increase the number of voters in South West Surrey and reduce the number in Guildford.

A public review was called, dealing primarily with objections to receiving the rest of Bramley. Many petitioned to argue that the village's links, especially transport, were mainly with Guildford rather than the towns of Godalming (or Farnham). The precedent of the previous review was cited, when a proposal to move Bramley out of Guildford and into Mole Valley was rejected after local opposition. However the review felt that this did not justify splitting the ward (something the Boundary Commission seeks to avoid completely) and that the other parts of the ward had strong links to Godalming. Furthermore it cited the point that, in the previous review, Bramley Parish Council had stated that if it were to be moved it would prefer to be moved to South West Surrey and thus argued that the previous objection had accommodated a preferred progressive change towards being wholly in South West Surrey if necessary to equalise electorates.