Rayleigh and Wickford: MP, 2024 result and local figures
Mr Mark Francois (Conservative) is the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, elected at the general election of 4 July 2024. Mark Francois took the seat for Conservative in July 2024 with 17,756 votes (37.0%), ahead of Grant Randall (Reform UK) on 12,135. 47,978 valid votes were cast by an electorate of 76,576, 62.7% of those registered. The majority was 5,621.
Key figures
What the figures show
Residents of Rayleigh and Wickford earned more than jobs based there paid in April 2025: median full-time pay was £34,905 for workplace jobs and £44,749 for residents. In April 2024 the residents' figure was £43,815. The residents' figure ranks 102nd highest of 632 constituencies with an estimate. The latest year is provisional.
2,783 children in Rayleigh and Wickford were in relative low income families after housing costs in 2024/25, the Department for Work and Pensions estimates: 15.8% of under-16s, where the UK share is 26.0%. On the before-housing-costs measure it rose from 9.6% in 2021/22 to 10.2% in 2024/25.
The median price paid for a home was £410,000 in the year to March 2026 (ONS, from HM Land Registry data). Ten years earlier, in the year to March 2016, it was £275,000. It is the highest March-year median in the series, which starts in 1996. It ranks 127th highest of 575 constituencies. 1,277 sales were registered in the period, against 1,856 in the year to March 2025.
The Annual Population Survey puts the employment rate for 16 to 64 year olds at 80.4% for April 2025 to March 2026, give or take 7.4 points. 17.2% were economically inactive.
The ONS estimates 99,804 people lived in Rayleigh and Wickford in mid-2024, up 3.7% on 2014. 22,751 were aged 65 or over and 17,603 were under 16.
Rayleigh and Wickford counted 39,933 households on Census day 2021; 27.5% of adults were retired and 36.4% of those in work were mostly working from home.
The claimant count for September 2026 was 1,265, or 2.1% of the working-age population. A year earlier the count was 1,200.
Workplaces in Rayleigh and Wickford accounted for 26,000 jobs in 2024; the business register lists 4,475 local units for March 2026.
MP
Mr Mark Francois, Conservative
- MP for Rayleigh and Wickford since 4 July 2024
- In the House of Commons since 7 June 2001
Official UK Parliament page · Statements by Mr Mark Francois on this site
In Parliament
What Mr Mark Francois said most recently in Parliament, word for word from Hansard (from 19 October 2026 to 22 October 2026). Hansard search returns 702 spoken contributions by Mr Mark Francois since 4 July 2024.
Can we have an urgent debate on the crisis at Basildon hospital? It is rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission, and it now appears that the CQC will prosecute the hospital early next year for the sad death of two patients from sepsis in 2022 and 2023.
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Because you know you are wrong. I am the shadow Veterans Minister.
On that point, will the Secretary of State give way?
On that point, will the Secretary of State give way?
Briefly, it is good that the Secretary of State is prepared to entertain compelling new evidence in at least one context, but he knows as well as I do, and as well as veterans do, that in the Government’s amendment that relates to a witness but not to suspects.
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Read from the Hansard API on 25 October 2026. Up to two items per debate; remarks under 40 characters are left out. All contributions in Hansard.
General election, 4 July 2024
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Change in share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Francois | Conservative | 17,756 | 37.0% | −35.9 |
| Grant Randall | Reform UK | 12,135 | 25.3% | |
| James Hedges | Labour | 11,823 | 24.6% | +9.0 |
| Stewart Mott | Liberal Democrat | 4,068 | 8.5% | +0.8 |
| Chris Taylor | Green Party | 2,196 | 4.6% | +0.9 |
Result summary as published: Con hold. Change in share is in percentage points against the notional 2019 result on the new boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library, election results (data, read 14 October 2026).
Results on these boundaries
| Date | Election | First | Second | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2024 | General election | Conservative 37.0% | Reform UK 25.3% | 5,621 | 62.7% |
| 12 December 2019 | General election (notional result on these boundaries) | Conservative 72.9% | Labour 15.7% | 30,348 | 69.4% |
Only results on the constituency boundaries first used at the 2024 general election are shown. The 2019 figures are the House of Commons Library's notional estimates of how votes cast in 2019 would have fallen on these boundaries, not a result that was declared. Source: House of Commons Library, constituency results.
Councils
Rayleigh and Wickford covers wards in 2 local authority areas, listed by the number of wards in the constituency.
Who has power over Rayleigh and Wickford
Every body that makes decisions for Rayleigh and Wickford, from the street up to the G20. Each one links to its page on the official record. How the ten levels work.
Level 1: Neighbourhood and community power
Residents' and tenants' groups, neighbourhood forums and local policing panels.
Level 2: Parish, town and community councils
Parish, town and community councils, where the area has them, sit below the council.
Level 5: Devolved and state governments
England has no devolved parliament of its own: its laws are made by the UK Parliament.
Level 6: National government
- Rayleigh and Wickford this page: Mr Mark Francois (Conservative) MP
- All 650 MPs votes, interests and costs
- UK government and Parliament official figures and sources
Level 7: Regional blocs and supranational bodies
- Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (CoE / ECtHR) The UK Government says the United Kingdom was one of the Council of Europe's founding members.
Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies
- United Nations (General Assembly and Security Council) The UN lists the United Kingdom as a member admitted on 24 October 1945.
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) The UK is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and holds the veto, according to the UN.
- NATO NATO lists the United Kingdom among its 12 founding members, which signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- World Health Organization (WHO) WHO's list of member states includes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- World Trade Organization (WTO) The WTO says the United Kingdom has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 1 January 1948.
- Commonwealth of Nations The UK is one of the 56 members, one of three European members with Cyprus and Malta, and the Commonwealth Secretariat is headquartered at Marlborough House in London.
Level 9: The IMF, World Bank and global finance
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) The UK has been a member since 27 December 1945 and has a quota of SDR 20,155.1 million (IMF country page for the United Kingdom).
- World Bank Group (WBG) The UK holds 3.75% of voting power in the IBRD (data as of 30 June 2026) and 6.92% in IDA (as of 30 June 2026), according to the World Bank's voting tables.
Level 10: G7, G20, Davos and global forums
Sources
| Figure | Period | Publisher | Read | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | mid-2024 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Claimants as a share of residents aged 16 to 64 | September 2026 | ONS | 29 October 2026 | data · area |
| Claimant count | September 2026 | ONS | 29 October 2026 | data · area |
| Employment rate, aged 16 to 64 | April 2025 to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Median full-time pay of residents | April 2025 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Median full-time pay of people working here | April 2025 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Median house price | the year to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Homes sold | the year to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Children in relative low income families, after housing costs | 2024/25 | DWP | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Children in relative low income families, before housing costs | 2024/25 | DWP | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Business sites (local units) | March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| People employed by businesses here | 2024 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Economically inactive, aged 16 to 64 | April 2025 to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Households | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Residents per square kilometre | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Workers mainly working from home | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Residents aged 16+ who are retired | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
"Data" is the file or query each figure was read from (its SHA-256 is in the link title); "area" shows the same table for this constituency alone.
Common questions
Who is the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford?
Mr Mark Francois (Conservative), elected on 4 July 2024, according to UK Parliament records.
What was the 2024 general election result in Rayleigh and Wickford?
The House of Commons Library records 17,756 votes for Mark Francois of Conservative and a majority of 5,621; 62.7% of the electorate cast a valid vote.
What is the unemployment claimant rate in Rayleigh and Wickford?
The ONS claimant count for September 2026 is 1,265, 2.1% of the 16 to 64 population.
What is the average house price in Rayleigh and Wickford?
£410,000: the middle price of homes sold in the year to March 2026, published by the ONS from Land Registry records.
What is the average salary in Rayleigh and Wickford?
For full-time employees living here the ONS puts median annual pay at £44,749 (April 2025).
How many children in Rayleigh and Wickford live in low income families?
2,783 children under 16, 15.8%, after housing costs in 2024/25, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
What is the population of Rayleigh and Wickford?
99,804 in mid-2024, the latest ONS estimate.
Built 14 October 2026 from official records; how these pages are compiled. This page lists what the record shows and gives no verdict on the MP or the area. Link moved or figure wrong? Tell us.