Didcot and Wantage.
Liberal Democrats MP Olly Glover holds the seat on 39.8% of the vote — a split-council geography across 2 councils.
3 Jun 2026
Transport is Olly Glover's defining brief. Appointed the Liberal Democrats' transport spokesperson in October 2025, he has used the role visibly -- pushing a Rail Passengers' Charter in January 2026, challenging ministers on basic standards like working toilets, and campaigning for new stations and electrification relevant to Didcot and Wantage. His seat on the Transport Select Committee reinforces the focus, and local coverage in the Oxford Mail has been consistently positive on the issue. Beyond transport, he backed a parliamentary inquiry into Prince Andrew's links with Jeffrey Epstein and hosted an Oxfordshire innovation event highlighting constituency concerns about grid delays and housing costs.
His voting participation sits at 67% -- below the Commons average -- though he has cast 344 votes without once breaking from the Liberal Democrat line. The stance profile shows strong alignment with Lords scrutiny (97%), parliamentary accountability (95%), climate action (90%), and opposition to the employer National Insurance increase (100%). He scores low on fiscal responsibility and workers' rights measures, both areas where he has voted against the Labour government. He deviates from his own party average most sharply on pension protection -- voting at 0% against a party average of 64% -- having opposed government powers to direct pension fund investments.
Glover entered Parliament in July 2024 as part of the Liberal Democrat surge in southern England. His 333 contributions across 160 debates place economy and jobs as his most frequent speech topic, followed by transport and local government. Local news coverage across 91 articles in the past 90 days is broadly neutral in sentiment, with crime, community, and economic issues featuring most. No rebel votes are on record.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line. Each ward links to the council that runs it.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blewbury Harwell(2 seats) | Dewhurst · Gascoigne | 3,558 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
| Cholsey | Crispin Rupert Topping | 949 | South Oxfordshire LD | Dec 2024 |
| Didcot North East(3 seats) | Tinsley · Rouane · Mohammed | 3,921 | South Oxfordshire LD | May 2023 |
| Didcot South(3 seats) | MacDonald · Macdonald · Khan | 3,219 | South Oxfordshire LD | May 2023 |
| Didcot West(2 seats) | Snowdon · Worgan | 1,421 | South Oxfordshire LD | May 2023 |
| Drayton | Andy Cooke | 690 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
| Grove North(2 seats) | Bentley · Batstone | 1,892 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
| Hendreds | Sarah Frances James | 735 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
| Ridgeway | Hannah Louise Griffin | 442 | Vale of White Horse LD | Nov 2025 |
| Sandford The Wittenhams | Sam Casey-Rerhaye | 895 | South Oxfordshire LD | May 2023 |
| Stanford | Lee Evans | 666 | Vale of White Horse LD | Mar 2026 |
| Steventon The Hanneys | Sally Povolotsky | 876 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
| Sutton Courtenay | Peter Alexander Stevens | 2,226 | Vale of White Horse LD | Jun 2024 |
| Wallingford(2 seats) | Barlow · Keats-Rohan | 3,794 | South Oxfordshire LD | May 2023 |
| Wantage Charlton(2 seats) | Crawford · O'Leary | 2,496 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
| Wantage Grove Brook(2 seats) | Duveen · Hannaby | 2,136 | Vale of White Horse LD | May 2023 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Didcot (33,799), with Rural & dispersed (15,812) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 107,489.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Didcot | 33,799 | large town |
| Rural & dispersed | 15,812 | town |
| Wantage | 12,310 | town |
| Grove (Vale of White Horse) | 9,126 | town |
| Wallingford | 8,456 | town |
| Sutton Courtenay | 3,405 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 66.7% | 57.1% | +17% |
| Owner-occupied | 70.2% | 63.1% | +11% |
| Private rented | 14.8% | 20.0% | -26% |
| Social rented | 15.0% | 16.8% | -11% |
Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £574m |
| Taxpayers | 67,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £3,880 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £8,590 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire. Each council’s service spend, peer rank and supplier list lives on its own page — open from the meta block above or the compass strip below.
Move the income slider on My place to see income tax, NI, VAT and council tax against your earnings — the household lens.
Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olly GloverWON | LD | 21,793 | 39.8 |
| David Johnston | Con | 15,560 | 28.4 |
| Mocky Khan | Lab | 8,045 | 14.7 |
| Steve Beatty | Ref | 6,400 | 11.7 |
| Sam Casey-Rerhaye | Grn | 2,693 | 4.9 |
| Kyn Pomlett | Ind | 242 | 0.4 |
Turnout 54,733
Prior contests.
Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo