North East Hertfordshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Chris Hinchliff of the Labour Party. On 16 July 2025, Hinchliff was suspended by Labour for "persistent breaches of party discipline". He sat as an Independent, until November 2025 when he had the whip restored.
The constituency includes the towns of Letchworth, Baldock and Royston and the undulating rural area, strewn with traditional English villages primarily to their south, most of which are within the more accessible parts of the London Commuter Belt and west of London Stansted Airport.
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election largely from parts of the abolished constituency of North Hertfordshire, including Letchworth, Baldock and Royston.ÃÂ It also included rural areas of the District of East Hertfordshire transferred from Hertford and Stortford and Stevenage.
The seat had been held since its creation for the Conservative Party with comfortable majorities by Sir Oliver Heald, who was previously MP for North Hertfordshire.
Heald did not contest the 2024 general election, the seat was won by Labour candidate Chris Hinchliff, a councillor on North Herts District Council for Royston Palace.
Minor changes due to revision of local authority wards.
The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward structures in place on 1 December 2020, left the boundaries virtually unchanged. However, following local government boundary reviews in East Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire which came into effect in May 2023 and May 2024 respectively, the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election:
Hertfordshire North, Hertford & Stortford and Stevenage prior to 1997
Note: Although a Conservative win due to the seat being newly created, the winning candidate was the previous MP for North Hertfordshire, which was abolished and largely reformed as North East Hertfordshire.