Pippa Heylings | |
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Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Anthony Browne |
Majority | 10,641 (19.0%) |
Member of South Cambridgeshire District Council for Histon and Impington | |
Assumed office 8 May 2018 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Phillippa Frances Heylings Kingston upon Hull, England [1] |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Alma mater | Rhodes University |
Phillippa Frances Heylings, [2] known as Pippa Heylings, is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire since 2024. [3] She has been a member of the South Cambridgeshire District Council for Histon and Impington since 2018 and chairs the council's Climate Change and Environment Advisory Committee. [4]
Heylings was born in Kingston upon Hull, [1] her mother a nurse and her father a GP, and grew up with three brothers. In 1997, Heylings graduated from Rhodes University in South Africa with a master's degree in environmental education. [5]
Heylings was elected as MP for South Cambridgeshire at the 2024 general election. She won 25,704 votes (46.8%), with a majority of 10,641 over the second-placed Conservative candidate. There were six candidates and a turnout of 71%. [6] Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the constituency's boundaries had changed, so that the 2024 seat was made up of parts of the previous South Cambridgeshire constituency (67.4% by area and 72.2% by population of the new seat), South East Cambridgeshire (31.9% by area and 18.8% by population) and Cambridge (0.7% by area and 9.0% by population). [7] The notional 2019 result for the new seat was a narrow Conservative win over Liberal Democrat (43.5% to 41.0%), [8] and Heylings's result in the new seat was described as a Liberal Democrat gain from the Conservatives. [6]
Heylings moved to Impington in the South Cambridgeshire District in 2012. [9] [4]