Sevenoaks: MP, 2024 result and local figures
Laura Trott (Conservative) is the MP for Sevenoaks, elected at the general election of 4 July 2024. The 2024 count gave Laura Trott (Conservative) 18,328 votes and Richard Streatfeild (Liberal Democrat) 12,888, a majority of 5,440. 49,899 valid votes were cast by an electorate of 73,708, 67.7% of those registered.
Key figures
What the figures show
HM Land Registry sales put the middle house price at £490,000 for the year to March 2026. Ten years earlier, in the year to March 2016, it was £350,000. The highest March-year median in the series was £495,000, in the year to March 2023. It ranks 69th highest of 575 constituencies. 1,142 sales were registered in the period, against 1,500 in the year to March 2025.
DWP figures count 2,928 children under 16 in relative low income families after housing costs in 2024/25, 14.7% of children here against 26.0% across the UK. On the before-housing-costs measure it fell from 10.2% in 2021/22 to 9.8% in 2024/25.
Full-time employees living in Sevenoaks had median pay of £45,974 a year in April 2025; for jobs based in the constituency the median was £35,937. The residents' figure ranks 80th highest of 632 constituencies with an estimate. The latest year is provisional.
Workplaces in Sevenoaks accounted for 43,000 jobs in 2024; the business register lists 6,165 local units for March 2026.
Sevenoaks counted 40,299 households on Census day 2021; 24.6% of adults were retired and 42.5% of those in work were mostly working from home.
72.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were in work in April 2025 to March 2026, on the Annual Population Survey estimate (95% confidence interval ±9.8 points). 25.8% were economically inactive.
In mid-2024 the ONS put the number of residents at 101,230; the estimate for 2014 was 96,649. 21,981 were aged 65 or over and 19,911 were under 16.
The number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits stood at 1,355 in September 2026, a claimant rate of 2.3%. That is up from 1,240 twelve months before.
MP
Laura Trott, Conservative
- MP for Sevenoaks since 4 July 2024
- In the House of Commons since 12 December 2019
Official UK Parliament page · Statements by Laura Trott on this site
In Parliament
Hansard records these as Laura Trott's latest words in Parliament, from 9 September 2026 to 21 October 2026. Hansard search returns 132 spoken contributions by Laura Trott since 4 July 2024.
I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of the statement, and also for taking the time to brief me on the report yesterday.
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I am delighted by that answer. Thank you. This is not a hypothetical situation. A school in Barnet that has recently become state funded says that it is compulsory for girls as young as seven to cover their heads as part of the uniform.
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On behalf of my party, may I send our condolences to the Prime Minister on the death of his father? I want to ask the Secretary of State a very simple question.
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It is what happened. Instead of raising aspirations, the system lowered expectations. The danger in what the Government are proposing is obvious. History will repeat itself.
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Let me begin by welcoming the new Secretary of State to her place. Just yesterday, new statistics from the programme for international student assessment showed that English pupils are now in the top 10 in the world for reading, for maths and for science.
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Read from the Hansard API on 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Trott | Conservative | 18,328 | 36.7% | −25.0 |
| Richard Streatfeild | Liberal Democrat | 12,888 | 25.8% | +6.4 |
| James Milmine | Reform UK | 9,341 | 18.7% | |
| Denise Scott-McDonald | Labour | 6,802 | 13.6% | +0.1 |
| Laura Manston | Green Party | 2,033 | 4.1% | +0.6 |
| Elwyn Jones | Rejoin EU | 298 | 0.6% | |
| Adam Hibbert | Social Democratic Party | 209 | 0.4% |
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 36.7% | Liberal Democrat 25.8% | 5,440 | 67.7% |
| 12 December 2019 | General election (notional result on these boundaries) | Conservative 61.7% | Liberal Democrat 19.4% | 21,793 | 69.9% |
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
Sevenoaks covers wards in 2 local authority areas, listed by the number of wards in the constituency.
Who has power over Sevenoaks
Every body that makes decisions for Sevenoaks, 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
- Sevenoaks this page: Laura Trott (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 Sevenoaks?
Laura Trott (Conservative), elected on 4 July 2024, according to UK Parliament records.
What was the 2024 general election result in Sevenoaks?
The House of Commons Library records 18,328 votes for Laura Trott of Conservative and a majority of 5,440; 67.7% of the electorate cast a valid vote.
What is the unemployment claimant rate in Sevenoaks?
The ONS claimant count for September 2026 is 1,355, 2.3% of the 16 to 64 population.
What is the average house price in Sevenoaks?
£490,000: 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 Sevenoaks?
For full-time employees living here the ONS puts median annual pay at £45,974 (April 2025).
How many children in Sevenoaks live in low income families?
2,928 children under 16, 14.7%, after housing costs in 2024/25, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
What is the population of Sevenoaks?
101,230 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.