Hastings and Rye is a constituency[n 1] in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Helena Dollimore of the Labour and Co-operative Party.

As its name suggests, the main settlements in the constituency are the seaside resort of Hastings and smaller nearby tourist town of Rye.

[2] Hastings has some light industry, while Rye has a small port, which includes hire and repair activities for leisure vessels and fishing.

Jacqui Lait won the seat on Warren's retirement, but in 1997 the Labour candidate Michael Foster narrowly defeated Lait, becoming the second-least expected (on swing) Labour MP in the landslide of that year[citation needed] and since 2001 setting a pattern that suggests the seat is a two-way Labour-Conservative marginal.

Rudd was re-elected with an increased majority in 2015, but in the 2017 general election, the Green Party declined to contest the seat and instead called on its supporters to back the Labour candidate.