Sean Lee Woodcock is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party, he has served as the Member of Parliament for Banbury since the 2024 general election.[1][2]
Woodcock was born at Horton General Hospital in Banbury. He is the eldest of five siblings. He attended Wroxton C of E Primary School, followed by The Warriner School. He later pursued his higher education at universities in Reading and Birmingham.[3]
Woodcock went on to work in social housing and community investment before becoming a councillor on Cherwell District and Banbury Town councils in May 2012.[4] Following this, Woodcock became Mayor of Banbury from 2014 to 2015,[5] becoming the youngest mayor on record.[4] He was the Labour parliamentary candidate for Banbury in both the 2015 and 2017 general elections.[4]
In December 2023, Woodcock was chosen as the Labour candidate for the Banbury constituency in the 2024 election.[6] He gained the seat from incumbent Victoria Prentis, who had represented the constituency since 2015 for the Conservative Party and was serving as Attorney General for England and Wales at the time of her defeat.[7] He is the first Labour MP to be elected in the constituency since its creation and first non-Conservative MP since 1922.
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