East Devon | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Devon |
Electorate | 72,406 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Exmouth and Sidmouth |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Simon Jupp (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Honiton |
1868–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | South Devon |
Replaced by | Ashburton Honiton Torquay |
East Devon is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Simon Jupp of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
A report by the Electoral Reform Society found the seat (and its precursors) has been held by the Conservative Party since 1835, meaning it has been held for 186 years. This is currently the longest held seat by one party anywhere in the country. [2]
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposes the seat be abolished, with the majority of the electorate, including Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, being absorbed into Exmouth and Exeter East, to be first contested at the next general election. Sidmouth and Ottery St Mary will be included in the new seat of Honiton and Sidmouth. [3] [4]
1868–1885: The Hundreds of Axminster, Cliston, Colyton, East Budleigh, Exminster, Ottery St. Mary, Haytor, and Teignbridge, and Exeter Castle, and the parts of the hundred of Wonford that are not included in the city of Exeter. [5]
1997–2010: The District of East Devon wards of Axminster Hamlets, Axminster Town, Beer, Budleigh Salterton, Colyton, Edenvale, Exmouth Brixington, Exmouth Halsdon, Exmouth Littleham Rural, Exmouth Littleham Urban, Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, Exmouth Withycombe Urban, Lympstone, Newbridges, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Raleigh, Seaton, Sidmouth Rural, Sidmouth Town, Sidmouth Woolbrook, Trinity, Upper Axe, Woodbury, and Yarty.
2010–present: The District of East Devon wards of Broadclyst, Budleigh, Clyst Valley, Exmouth Brixington, Exmouth Halsdon, Exmouth Littleham, Exmouth Town, Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Ottery St Mary Rural, Ottery St Mary Town, Raleigh, Sidmouth Rural, Sidmouth Sidford, Sidmouth Town, Whimple, and Woodbury and Lympstone, and the City of Exeter wards of St Loyes and Topsham.
The constituency is in the county of Devon, including eastern wards of Exeter, and has a shoreline on the Jurassic Coast.
Following a review of parliamentary representation in Devon by the Boundary Commission for England, which has increased the number of seats in the county from 11 to 12, East Devon was subject to significant boundary changes at the 2010 general election. [6] In particular, the towns of Axminster and Seaton were transferred to the Tiverton and Honiton constituency. In addition, two wards from the City of Exeter are now part of the East Devon seat.
The main settlements in the constituency are the City Of Exeter Ward, St Loyes and neighbouring Topsham, the resorts of Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth, and the inland towns of Ottery St Mary and Cranbrook.
Election | First member [7] | First party | Second member [7] | Second party | ||
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1868 | Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt | Conservative | Edward Courtenay | Conservative | ||
1870 by-election | Sir John Kennaway, Bt | Conservative | ||||
1880 | William Walrond | Conservative | ||||
1885 | Constituency abolished |
The two-seat constituency of East Devon was abolished at the 1885 general election.
At the 1997 general election a new constituency of East Devon was established. Sir Peter Emery, MP for Honiton since a 1967 by-election, represented the new East Devon seat until standing down in 2001, when Hugo Swire was elected.
In 2015, 2017 and 2019, the seat saw an unusually strong Independent performance, by the anti-austerity candidate Claire Wright, a Devon county councillor. She won 24% of the vote in 2015, 35.2% in 2017 and 40.4% in 2019, coming second (and significantly ahead of any other candidate) each time.
Election | Member [7] | Party | |
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1997 | Sir Peter Emery | Conservative | |
2001 | Sir Hugo Swire | Conservative | |
2019 | Simon Jupp | Conservative |
In 2019, East Devon was one of five English constituencies (the others being Cheltenham, Esher and Walton, Westmorland and Lonsdale and Winchester) where Labour failed to obtain over 5% of the vote, and thus lost its deposit. [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Simon Jupp | 32,577 | 50.8 | +2.3 | |
Independent | Claire Wright | 25,869 | 40.4 | +5.2 | |
Labour | Dan Wilson | 2,870 | 4.5 | −6.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eleanor Rylance | 1,771 | 2.8 | +0.4 | |
Green | Henry Gent | 711 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | Peter Faithfull | 275 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 6,708 | 10.4 | −2.9 | ||
Turnout | 64,073 | 73.8 | +0.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hugo Swire | 29,306 | 48.5 | +2.1 | |
Independent | Claire Wright | 21,270 | 35.2 | +11.2 | |
Labour | Jan Ross | 6,857 | 11.4 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Eden | 1,468 | 2.4 | −4.4 | |
UKIP | Brigitte Graham | 1,203 | 2.0 | −10.5 | |
Independent | Peter Faithfull | 150 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent | Michael Davies | 128 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 8,036 | 13.3 | −9.1 | ||
Turnout | 60,382 | 73.3 | −0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hugo Swire | 25,401 | 46.4 | −1.9 | |
Independent | Claire Wright | 13,140 | 24.0 | New | |
UKIP | Andrew Chapman | 6,870 | 12.5 | +4.3 | |
Labour | Steve Race [13] | 5,591 | 10.2 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stuart Mole | 3,715 | 6.8 | −24.4 | |
Majority | 12,261 | 22.4 | +5.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,717 | 73.7 | +1.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hugo Swire | 25,662 | 48.3 | +1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paull Robathan | 16,548 | 31.2 | +3.1 | |
Labour | Gareth Manson | 5,721 | 10.8 | −7.5 | |
UKIP | Mike Amor | 4,346 | 8.2 | +2.6 | |
Green | Sharon Pavey | 815 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 9,114 | 17.1 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 53,092 | 72.6 | +4.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hugo Swire | 23,075 | 46.9 | −0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Dumper | 15,139 | 30.7 | +0.4 | |
Labour | James Court | 7,598 | 15.4 | -1.3 | |
UKIP | Colin McNamee | 3,035 | 6.2 | +0.6 | |
Independent | Christopher Way | 400 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 7,936 | 16.2 | -0.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,247 | 69.4 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hugo Swire | 22,681 | 47.4 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Dumper | 14,486 | 30.3 | +1.2 | |
Labour | Phil Starr | 7,974 | 16.7 | −1.0 | |
UKIP | David Wilson | 2,696 | 5.6 | +4.7 | |
Majority | 8,195 | 17.1 | +2.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,837 | 68.8 | −7.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Emery | 22,797 | 43.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Rachel Trethewey | 15,308 | 29.1 | ||
Labour | Andrew Siantonas | 9,292 | 17.7 | ||
Referendum | William Dixon | 3,200 | 6.1 | ||
Liberal | Geoffrey Halliwell | 1,363 | 2.6 | ||
UKIP | Colin Giffard | 459 | 0.9 | ||
National Democrats | Gary Needs | 131 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 7,494 | 14.3 | |||
Turnout | 52,550 | 76.0 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Walrond | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Kennaway | 4,501 | 36.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Walrond | 4,457 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Barton Sterling [20] | 3,487 | 28.0 | New | |
Majority | 970 | 7.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,988 (est) | 76.7 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 10,416 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Kennaway | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | William Walrond | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 10,246 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Walrond | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lawrence Palk | 4,034 | 35.1 | ||
Conservative | Edward Courtenay | 4,016 | 34.9 | ||
Liberal | Charles Joseph Wade [21] | 3,457 | 30.0 | ||
Majority | 559 | 4.9 | |||
Turnout | 7,482 (est) | 75.3 (est) | |||
Registered electors | 9,933 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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