Sarah Dyke is the Liberal Democrat MP for Somerton and Frome having been elected to Westminster in a 2023 by-election caused by the resignation of the former Conservative MP, David Warburton. Ms Dyke gained the seat with a majority of 11,008.
Although the Conservatives won Somerton and Frome in the 2019 general election with a majority of 19,213, this part of Somerset has traditionally been a marginal battleground between the Lib Dems and the Conservative Party. The seat has been heavily adjusted by the recent Boundary Commission Review, with the towns of Somerton and Frome now set to be split into separate constituencies.
Sarah Dyke was born in 1971 and was educated at Warminster School in Wiltshire. She studied agricultural and business studies at Harper Adams University in Shropshire. Coming from a farming family, Ms Dyke has described how she currently owns 60 sheep.
Prior to being elected to parliament she Vintage Ghetto, a business selling second-hand goods.
Dyke was elected to Somerset Council in 2022, where she was the council’s lead member for environment and climate change.
