List of parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

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The county of Suffolk, England is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituency and 6 County constituencies.

Constituencies

Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Map
Bury St Edmunds CC 89,644 24,988 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Jo Churchill † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Cliff Waterman ‡
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC 80,037 23,391 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Dan Poulter † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Emma Bonner-Morgan ‡
Ipswich BC 75,525 5,479 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Tom Hunt † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Sandy Martin ‡
South Suffolk CC 76,201 22,897 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  James Cartlidge † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Elizabeth Hughes ‡
Suffolk Coastal CC 81,910 20,533 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Thérèse Coffey † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Cameron Matthews ‡
Waveney CC 82,791 18,002 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Peter Aldous † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Sonia Barker ‡
West Suffolk CC 80,193 23,194 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Matthew Hancock † bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Claire Unwin ‡

2010 boundary review

In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Suffolk retained its current constituencies, with changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries. The largest of these changes resulted in the effective transfer of one Borough of Ipswich ward from Central Suffolk and North Ipswich to the constituency of Ipswich.

Name Boundaries 1997-2010 Name Boundaries 2010-present
  1. Bury St Edmunds CC
  2. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC
  3. Ipswich BC
  4. South Suffolk CC
  5. Suffolk Coastal CC
  6. Waveney CC
  7. West Suffolk CC
  1. Bury St Edmunds CC
  2. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC
  3. Ipswich BC
  4. South Suffolk CC
  5. Suffolk Coastal CC
  6. Waveney CC
  7. West Suffolk CC

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. They propose to bring forward primary legislation to remove the statutory obligation to implement the 2018 Boundary Review recommendations, as well as set the framework for future boundary reviews in time for the next review which is due to begin in early 2021 and report no later than October 2023. It is proposed that the number of constituencies now remains at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.[3]

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[4]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Suffolk in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 229,823 60.1% Increase2.9% 7 Increase1
Labour 91,339 23.9% Decrease8.7% 0 Decrease1
Liberal Democrats 31,633 8.3% Increase3.8% 0 0
Greens 24,490 6.4% Increase3.6% 0 0
Brexit 1,432 0.4% new 0 0
Others 3,432 0.9% Decrease2.0% 0 0
Total 382,149 100.0 7

Percentage votes

Election year 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974

(Feb)

1974

(Oct)

1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative1 42.1 49.1 49.6 48.4 45.6 46.6 52.5 44.0 45.5 51.4 52.5 52.5 49.9 37.6 40.7 41.7 46.2 50.7 57.2 60.1
Labour 39.8 43.9 46.6 41.1 38.2 43.2 38.7 31.7 35.1 33.7 22.1 23.2 28.7 40.2 39.7 31.8 21.3 23.5 32.6 23.9
Liberal Democrat2 18.0 7.0 3.8 10.5 16.0 9.9 8.0 23.7 19.4 14.4 25.3 23.6 20.4 17.6 16.0 20.6 24.1 5.6 4.5 8.3
Green Party - - - - - - - - - - - * * * * * 1.9 4.9 2.8 6.4
UKIP - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * 5.3 15.3 2.3 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0.4
Other 0.1 - - - 0.1 0.3 0.8 0.5 - 0.5 0.1 0.6 1.1 4.6 3.6 6.0 1.2 0.1 0.5 0.9

1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974

(Feb)

1974

(Oct)

1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative1 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 6 5 5 5 5 7 7 6 7
Labour 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 1 0
Liberal Democrat2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

  • 1950
    1950
  • 1951
    1951
  • 1955
    1955
  • 1959
    1959
  • 1964
    1964
  • 1966
    1966
  • 1970
    1970
  • 1974 Feb
    1974 Feb
  • 1974 Oct
    1974 Oct
  • 1979
    1979
  • 1983
    1983
  • 1987
    1987
  • 1992
    1992
  • 1997
    1997
  • 2001
    2001
  • 2005
    2005
  • 2010
    2010
  • 2015
    2015
  • 2017
    2017
  • 2019
    2019

Timeline

Constituency 1295-1298 1298-1529 1529-1559 1559-1571 1571-1614 1614-1832 1832-1844 1844-1885 1885-1918 1918-1950 1950-1983 1983-1997 1997-
Aldeburgh 1571-1832
Bury St Edmunds 1614-
Central Suffolk 1983-1997
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich 1997-
Dunwich 1298-1832
East Suffolk 1832-1885
Eye 1571-1983
Ipswich 1295-
Lowestoft 1885-1983
Orford 1529-1832
South Suffolk 1983-
Stowmarket 1885-1918
Sudbury 1559-1844 1885-1950
Sudbury and Woodbridge 1950-1983
Suffolk 1295-1832
Suffolk Coastal 1983-
Waveney 1983-
West Suffolk 1832-1885 1997-
Woodbridge 1885-1950

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Liberal   Liberal Unionist

Constituency 1885 86 1886 91 1892 92 1895 1900 1906 06 07 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 14
Bury St Edmunds bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="5" |F. Hervey bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Cadogan bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Greene bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |F. W. Hervey bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Guinness
Eye colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Stevenson colspan="5" bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Pearson
Ipswich (Two members) bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|West bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="5" |Charteris colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Goddard
bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Collings bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="7" |Dalrymple colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cobbold colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Horne bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Ganzoni
Lowestoft colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Crossley bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" colspan="2" |→ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Foster bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lucas colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Beauchamp bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Foster colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Beauchamp
Stowmarket colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cobbold bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Greene colspan="3" bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Stern bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Malcolm colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hardy bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Goldsmith
Sudbury colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |W. Quilter bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" colspan="6" |→ colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Heaton-Armstrong bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |C. Quilter
Woodbridge colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Everett bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Lloyd-Anstruther colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Everett bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Pretyman colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Everett bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Peel

1918 to 1950

  Coalition Liberal (1918-22)   Conservative   Independent   Independent Liberal   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931-68)

Constituency 1918 20 1922 1923 1924 1929 31 1931 34 1935 38 42 44 1945
Bury St Edmunds bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" colspan="7" |Guinness bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="5" |Heilgers bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Keatinge bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Clifton-Brown
Eye bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" colspan="2" |Lyle-Samuel bgcolor="Template:Independent Liberal/meta/color" |→ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Vanneck bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Granville bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" colspan="5" |→ bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" colspan="2" |→ bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |→
Ipswich bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" colspan="3" |Ganzoni bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Jackson bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="6" |Ganzoni bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Stokes
Lowestoft bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" colspan="2" |Beauchamp bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="6" |Rentoul bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="5" |Loftus bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Evans
Sudbury bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" colspan="2" |Howard bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mercer bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Loverseed bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="9" |Burton bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hamilton
Woodbridge bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Peel bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Churchman bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Fison bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="6" |Ross-Taylor bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hare

1950 to present

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal

Constituency 1950 1951 1955 57 1959 63 64 1964 1966 1970 Feb 74 Oct 74 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 01 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Bury St Edmunds bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="6" |Aitken bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="9" |Griffiths bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Spring bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="5" |Ruffley bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Churchill
Eye / Suffolk Coastal (1983) bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color|Granville bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="11" |Harrison bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="8" |Gummer bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Coffey
Ipswich bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Stokes bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="6" |Foot bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Money bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Weetch bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Irvine bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Cann bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Mole bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Gummer bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Martin bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hunt
Lowestoft / Waveney (1983) bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Evans bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="10" |Prior bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="2" |Porter bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Blizzard bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Aldous
Sudbury & Woodbridge / S Suffolk (1983) bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="5" |Hare bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="8" |Stainton bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="8" |Yeo bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="3" |Cartlidge
Central Suffolk / & North Ipswich (1997) bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="7" |Lord bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Poulter
West Suffolk bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Spring bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" colspan="4" |Hancock

See also

Notes

  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  3. ^ "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  4. ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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