Incumbent Banbury MP Victoria Prentis has bid farewell to Bicester residents as electoral boundary changes mean the town will be changed to a new constituency. 

Ms Prentis released a statement on Wednesday as parliament was dissolved ahead of the general election on July 4. 

The Conservative will be standing for the Banbury seat which she has represented since 2010.

But a new Bicester and Woodstock constituency means she would not be MP for people living in Bicester if she is to be re-elected.

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New candidates hoping to win a seat in Bicester and Woodstock are the Conservatives' Rupert Harrison, Labour's Veronica Oakeshott, Lib Dems' Calum Miller, Greens' Ian Middleton and Reform UK's Augustine Obodo.

Ms Prentis is standing for the Banbury constituency against Greens' Arron Baker, Labour's Sean Woodcock, Liz Adams of the Liberal Democrats and Declan Soper of the Social Democratic Party. 

Despite this, all of Ms Prentis' constituents can continue to contact her office with urgent casework enquiries up until this point via the usual means, which she clarified in a statement on Wednesday.

Commenting on the dissolution of Parliament, Ms Prentis said: “As many will know, the upcoming general election will be fought on new constituency boundaries which will see Bicester become its own Parliamentary constituency.

"Since my first election in 2015, Bicester has grown enormously, with new housing areas including Kingsmere, Elmsbrook and Graven Hill.

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"At the same time, we have seen new schools open like Gagle Brook and Whitelands Academy.

"Businesses including Ocado, Siemens Healthineers and YASA have all recognised Bicester's potential by choosing to open new state-of-the-art facilities in the town.

"We should be enormously proud of how Bicester has flourished, but also how all those living in the town have managed the growing pains.

"It has been an honour to represent the area as it has undergone such significant change.

"I wish all those living in Bicester and the nearby villages the very best in the future."