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Mrs Kemi Badenoch

Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP

Conservative · North West Essex · CM22 6PB

Key facts

Party Conservative (Con)
ConstituencyNorth West Essex
First elected8 June 2017
ResultCon Hold
GenderF
Emailkemi.badenoch.mp@parliament.uk
Phone0207 219 3000

Election results

Results for North West Essex at the most recent general election.

Kemi Badenoch
Conservative 19360 35.6%
Issy Waite
Labour 16750 30.8%
Grant StClair-Armstrong
Reform UK 7668 14.1%
Smita Rajesh
Liberal Democrat 6055 11.1%
Edward Gildea
Green Party 2846 5.2%
Andrew Green
Independent 852 1.6%
Erik Bonino
Independent 699 1.3%
Niko Omilana
Independent 156 0.3%

Government posts

PostFromTo
Secretary of State for Business and Trade 7 February 2023 5 July 2024
President of the Board of Trade 7 February 2023 5 July 2024
Minister for Women and Equalities 25 October 2022 5 July 2024
Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade 6 September 2022 7 February 2023
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (jointly with Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) 16 September 2021 6 July 2022
Minister for Equalities 14 February 2020 6 July 2022
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) 13 February 2020 15 September 2021
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) 27 July 2019 13 February 2020

Opposition posts

PostFromTo
Leader of HM Official Opposition 2 November 2024 Present
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 9 July 2024 2 November 2024
Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities & Local Government 8 July 2024 9 July 2024

Committees

CommitteeFromTo
Justice Committee 11 September 2017 15 July 2019
Public Accounts Committee 2 March 2020 30 November 2021
Elections Bill 22 September 2021 26 October 2021
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 4 November 2021 6 July 2022
Local Government (Disqualification) Bill 24 November 2021 1 December 2021

Constituencies represented

ConstituencyFromTo
North West Essex Present
Saffron Walden Present

Party affiliations

PartyFromTo
Conservative 8 June 2017 Present