All six parliamentary seats are currently held by Conservatives, having came from holding no seats in 1997, 2001 and 2005, to gaining three of the six from the Liberal Democrats in 2010, to gaining the remaining three to hold all six Cornish seats in 2015. All six MPs were re-elected in 2017. In that election, several previous Liberal Democrat candidates, including previous MPs Andrew George and Steve Gilbert re-stood in their old seats, but failed to be re-elected. In all six seats, the Labour vote surged, pushing the Liberals into third place in four of the six seats. In the 2019 election, Labour retained their position as the second-placed party in most of the Cornish seats, holding their vote up far better in the region than elsewhere in the country. The last Labour MP for a Cornish constituency was Candy Atherton, who held the seat of Falmouth and Camborne between 1997 and 2005.
The commission has proposed retaining the current constituencies in Cornwall, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to electoral divisions within the county and to bring the electorates within the statutory range.[8]
Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.
Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[9]
↑ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
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Cornwall is administered as a county of South West England whose politics are influenced by a number of issues that make it distinct from the general political scene in the wider United Kingdom, and the political trends of neighbouring counties. Its position on the geographical periphery of the island of Great Britain is also a factor.
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