Welwyn Hatfield David Evans 19,341 24,936 7,161 0 1,530 Welwyn Hatfield 27,139 20,556 9,147 0 247 Conservative The county of Hertfordshire is in many ways the epitome of modern England. Its population has shown the highest percentage increase over the past 50 years. Alone of all counties, it boasts two garden cities and four New Towns, all examples of the 20th century's ideas of planned urban units. In a sense the constituency of Welwyn Hatfield contains two New Towns and one garden city, for Hatfield is a Reith Committee New Town and Welwyn Garden City also became a government-sponsored New Town after the war, although it began life as Ebenezer Howard's second privately financed garden city, following Letchworth, in 1920. Both Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield are politically marginal between Labour and Conservative, but the balance is tipped in the Welwyn-Hatfield seat by the extremely affluent surrounding territory, including Old Welwyn and Brookmans Park. Wheathampstead has been transferred to the new Hitchin and Harpenden seat, but Tory MP David Evans retains an effective lead of around 6,500 votes, requiring a 6 per cent swing to Labour for the seat to fall. they may possibly do it; but it would imply a national landslide.

	3,904	10.12	9.03	112
	4,601	11.93	11.17	107
	4,277	11.09	11.25	99
	10,558	27.38	14.70	186
	1,620	4.20	10.45	40
	270	0.70	2.81	25
	2,546	6.60	8.01	82
	8,657	22.45	15.25	147
	992	2.57	7.13	36
	967	2.51	10.17	25