Alison Bennett

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Councillor
Alison Bennett
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Mid Sussex
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byMims Davies
Majority6,662 (12.5%)
Liberal Democrat portfolios
2024–presentCare and Carers
Member of Mid Sussex District Council for Hurstpierpoint
Hurstpierpoint and Downs (2019–2023)
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2019
Personal details
PartyLiberal Democrats
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge

Alison Elizabeth Bennett is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Sussex since 2024.

Education and career

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Bennett was privately educated at The King's School, Gloucester, and Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1999 with a degree in social and political sciences.[1][2] Bennett worked for British Airways and then E.ON.[3]

Political career

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Bennett contested Arundel and South Downs for the Liberal Democrats at the 2019 general election, coming second to the Conservative candidate Andrew Griffith.[4]

She has served as a member of Mid Sussex District Council, representing the wards of Hurstpierpoint and Downs from 2019 to 2023 and Hurstpierpoint since 2023.[5][6] Bennett was the council's deputy leader when she was selected to stand in the 2024 general election.[7]

In the 2024 General Election, she was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Sussex 39.6% of the vote becoming the first Liberal Democrat MP for the constituency since its creation in 1974.[8]

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