Jump to content

List of parliamentary constituencies in Devon

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mark J (talk | contribs) at 19:40, 26 October 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The ceremonial county of Devon, (which includes the unitary authorities of Torbay and Plymouth) is divided into 12 Parliamentary constituencies - 4 Borough constituencies and 8 County constituencies.

Constituencies

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour   ¤ Liberal Democrat   UKIP   Independent


Constituency[nb 1] Electorate Majority[nb 2] Member of Parliament Nearest opposition Map
Central Devon CC 72,737 21,265 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Mel Stride bgcolor=Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color|  John Conway
East Devon CC 76,519 12,261 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Hugo Swire bgcolor=Template:Independent/meta/color|  Claire Wright
Exeter BC 76,968 7,183 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|  Ben Bradshaw bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Dom Morris
Newton Abbot CC 69,928 11,288 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Anne-Marie Morris bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color|  Richard Younger-Ross
North Devon CC 74,737 6,936 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Peter Heaton-Jones bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color|  Nick Harvey
Plymouth, Moor View BC 68,246 1,026 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Johnny Mercer bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|  Alison Seabeck
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport BC 73,274 523 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Oliver Colvile bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|  Luke Pollard
South West Devon CC 71,035 20,109 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Gary Streeter bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color|  Chaz Singh
Tiverton and Honiton CC 76,270 20,156 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Neil Parish bgcolor=Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color|  Graham Smith
Torbay BC 76,350 3,286 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Kevin Foster bgcolor=Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color|  Adrian Sanders
Torridge and West Devon CC 78,621 18,403 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Geoffrey Cox bgcolor=Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color|  Derek Sargent
Totnes CC 68,630 18,385 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color|  Sarah Wollaston bgcolor=Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color|  Justin Haque

Boundaries

Name 2005 constituencies
  1. East Devon CC
  2. Exeter BC
  3. North Devon CC
  4. Plymouth, Devonport BC
  5. Plymouth, Sutton BC
  6. South West Devon CC
  7. Teignbridge CC
  8. Tiverton and Honiton CC
  9. Torbay BC
  10. Torridge and West Devon CC
  11. Totnes CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Devon in 2005
Parliamentary constituencies in Devon in 2005
Proposed name 2010 constituencies
  1. Central Devon CC
  2. East Devon CC
  3. Exeter BC
  4. Newton Abbot CC
  5. North Devon CC
  6. Plymouth, Moor View BC
  7. Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport BC
  8. South West Devon CC
  9. Tiverton and Honiton CC
  10. Torbay BC
  11. Torridge and West Devon CC
  12. Totnes CC
2010 constituencies in Devon
2010 constituencies in Devon

Results

2005 2010 2015

Historical results by party

1885 to 1918 (13 MPs)

Constituency 1885 1886 91 1892 1895 98 99 00 1900 02 04 1906 08 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 11 12 15
Ashburton colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Seale-Hayne colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Eve bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Morrison-Bell bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Buxton colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |Morrison-Bell colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |-->
Barnstaple bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Pitt-Lewis colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |--> bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Billson colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |Gull colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Soares colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Baring
Devonport (two MPs) colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Puleston colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Morton bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lockie colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |J. Benn colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Jackson
colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Price colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kearley colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kinloch-Cooke
Exeter colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Northcote colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Vincent colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kekewich bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Duke bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |St Maur colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Duke
Honiton colspan="13" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kennaway colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Morrison-Bell
Plymouth (two MPs) colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Clarke colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Guest bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |--> colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Dobson bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Williams colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |W. Astor
colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bates bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Pearce bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Harrison colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mendl colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Duke colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mallet colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |A. Benn
South Molton bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Wallop bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |--> colspan="16" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lambert
Tavistock bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Fortescue colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |--> colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Luttrell colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |Spear colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Luttrell colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Spear
Tiverton colspan="11" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Walrond colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Walrond jnr bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Carew
Torquay bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |McIver colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mallock colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Philpotts colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Layland-Barratt colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |Burn colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |-->
Totnes bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mildmay colspan="15" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |--> colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"|-->

1918 to 1950 (11 MPs)

Constituency 1918 19 1922 1923 1924 28 1929 1931 1935 37 42 1945
Barnstaple colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |Rees bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |B. Peto bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rees colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |B. Peto colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |R. Dyke Acland bgcolor="Template:Common Wealth Party/meta/color" |--> bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |C. Peto
Exeter colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Newman bgcolor="Template:Independent Conservative/meta/color" |--> colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Reed bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Maude
Honiton colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Morrison-Bell colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Drewe
Plymouth Devonport colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Kinloch-Cooke colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hore-Belisha colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |--> bgcolor="Template:Independent National/meta/color" |--> bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Foot
Plymouth Drake colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |A. Benn bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Moses colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |F. Guest colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |C. Guest bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Medland
Plymouth Sutton bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |W. Astor colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |N. Astor bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Middleton
South Molton colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" |Lambert colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |--> colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Drewe bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lambert colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |--> bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |Lambert jnr
Tavistock colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Williams colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thornton bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kenyon-Slaney colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Wright colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Patrick colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Studholme
Tiverton colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Carew bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Sparkes bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |F. Dyke Acland colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Acland-Troyte bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Heathcoat-Amory
Torquay colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Burn bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thompson colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Williams
Totnes colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" |Mildmay bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Harvey bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Vivian colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Harvey colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rayner

1950 to 1983 (10 MPs)

Constituency 1950 1951 1955 55 58 1959 60 1964 1966 67 1970 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 1979 81
Devon North colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |C. Peto colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Lindsay colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thorpe colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Speller
Exeter bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Maude colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Dudley-Williams colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Dunwoody colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hannam
Honiton colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Drewe colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mathew colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Emery
Plymouth Devonport colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Foot colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Vickers colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Owen bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party (UK)/meta/color" |-->
Plymouth Drake colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Fookes
Plymouth Sutton bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Middleton colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |J. Astor colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Fraser colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Owen colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Clark
Tavistock colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Studholme colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Heseltine
Tiverton colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Heathcoat-Amory colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Maxwell-Hyslop
Torquay (1950-74) / Torbay (1974-83) colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Williams colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bennett
Torrington (1950-74) / Devon W (1974-83) colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" |Lambert jnr bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color"|Bonham-Carter colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Browne colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mills
Totnes colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rayner colspan="13" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mawby

1983 to 2010 (11 MPs)

Constituency 1983 1987 90 1992 95 1997 2001 2005
Devon North colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Speller colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |Harvey
Devon West and Torridge bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mills colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Nicholson bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |--> colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |Burnett bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cox
Exeter colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hannam colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bradshaw
Honiton (1983-97)

East Devon (1997-2010)

colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Emery colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Swire
Plymouth Devonport colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic Party (UK)/meta/color" |Owen bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|--> colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Jamieson bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Seabeck
Plymouth Drake colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Fookes
Plymouth Sutton colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Clark colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Streeter colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Gilroy
South Hams (1983-97)

Totnes (1997-2010)

colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Steen
South West Devon colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Streeter
Teignbridge colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Nicholls colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |Younger-Ross
Tiverton (1983-97)

Tiverton and Honiton (1997-2010)

colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Maxwell-Hyslop colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Browning
Torbay bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bennett colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Allason colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |Sanders

2010 to present (12 MPs)

Constituency 2010 2015
Central Devon colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Stride
East Devon colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Swire
Exeter colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bradshaw
Newton Abbot colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Morris
North Devon bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |Harvey bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Heaton-Jones
Plymouth Moor View bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Seabeck bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Mercer
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Colvile
South West Devon colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Streeter
Tiverton and Honiton colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Parish
Torbay bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |Sanders bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Foster
Torridge and West Devon colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Cox
Totnes colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Wollaston

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

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Devon&oldid=746335114"