How Kenilworth and Southam has changed

Kenilworth and Southam is Conservative by election, but Green by the platform’s party reading. Sir Jeremy Wright retained the seat in 2024 with a majority of 6,574; here, the two readable voices are split between Hard Left and Centre, while both sit closest to Green.

The sharper story is the seat’s distance from the UK on national questions. The platform returned no yes votes to any of the propositions tested, against clear UK majorities: a striking rejection of the culture-war and welfare instincts that dominate the wider comparison.

Yet this is not a straightforward left-wing outpost. The Rights-First Constitutional Firebrand and the Left-Leaning Constitutional Traditionalist share a constitutional vocabulary, even as one sits Hard Left and the other Centre; the party contest is therefore less a conventional ideological spread than a Green landing place for two very different voices.

The seat’s contradiction is now clear: an elected Conservative and a Right-leaning Commons record, alongside platform voters who are Green-facing and nationally dissenting. A new voice could quickly test whether that is a durable character or simply the first outline of one.