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.
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat Independent
Constituency [nb 1] | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] [nb 2] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Map | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Central Devon CC | 74,926 | 17,721 | Mel Stride† | Lisa Robillard Webb‡ | |||
East Devon CC | 87,168 | 6,708 | Simon Jupp† | Claire Wright | |||
Exeter BC | 82,054 | 10,403 | Ben Bradshaw‡ | John Gray† | |||
Newton Abbot CC | 72,529 | 17,501 | Anne-Marie Morris† | Martin Wrigley¤ | |||
North Devon CC | 75,859 | 14,813 | Selaine Saxby† | Alex White¤ | |||
Plymouth, Moor View BC | 69,430 | 12,897 | Johnny Mercer† | Charlotte Holloway‡ | |||
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport BC | 77,852 | 4,757 | Luke Pollard‡ | Rebecca Smith† | |||
South West Devon CC | 72,535 | 21,430 | Gary Streeter† | Philippa Davey‡ | |||
Tiverton and Honiton CC | 42,707 [3] | 6,144 [3] | Richard Foord¤ | Helen Hurford† | |||
Torbay BC | 75,054 | 17,749 | Kevin Foster† | Lee Howgate¤ | |||
Torridge and West Devon CC | 80,403 | 24,992 | Geoffrey Cox† | David Chalmers¤ | |||
Totnes CC | 69,863 | 12,724 | Anthony Mangnall† | Sarah Wollaston¤ | |||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats in Devon from 11 to 12, with the creation of Central Devon, which impacted on neighbouring constituencies. An adjusted Teignbridge constituency was renamed Newton Abbot. Plymouth, Devonport, and Plymouth, Sutton were renamed Plymouth, Moor View, and Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport respectively following a small realignment of the boundary between the two constituencies.
Former name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Current name | Boundaries 2010–present |
---|---|---|---|
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. [4] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed that Devon be combined with Avon and Somerset as a sub-region of the South West Region, resulting in significant change to the existing pattern of constituencies. In Devon, East Devon, and Tiverton and Honiton would disappear, being replaced by Exmouth and Exeter East, Honiton and Sidmouth, and the cross-county boundary constituency of Tiverton and Minehead. Torridge and West Devon and Totnes would be renamed Torridge and Tavistock, and South Devon respectively. [5] [6]
The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from East Devon
Containing electoral wards from Exeter
Containing electoral wards from Mid Devon
Containing electoral wards from North Devon
Containing electoral wards from Plymouth
Containing electoral wards from South Hams
Containing electoral wards from Teignbridge
Containing electoral wards from Torbay
Containing electoral wards from Torridge
Containing electoral wards from West Devon
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [7]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Devon in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 355,052 | 53.9% | 2.8% | 10 | 0 |
Labour | 150,169 | 22.8% | 6.2% | 2 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 96,809 | 14.7% | 2.2% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 22,004 | 3.3% | 1.3% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 4,337 | 0.7% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 30,836 | 4.6% | 0.8% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 659,207 | 100.0 | 12 |
Election year | 1924 | 1929 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative 1 | 52.3 | 43.0 | 49.3 | 50.3 | 55.8 | 55.3 | 52.9 | 47.6 | 47.5 | 52.8 | 45.5 | 45.0 | 43.9 | 52.8 | 49.5 | 47.6 | 36.8 | 39.0 | 38.1 | 43.3 | 46.2 | 51.1 | 53.9 |
Labour | 13.7 | 16.3 | 34.1 | 34.1 | 36.5 | 33.3 | 27.6 | 26.9 | 32.8 | 29.4 | 21.8 | 24.9 | 22.1 | 11.1 | 13.1 | 19.2 | 25.9 | 23.6 | 20.4 | 14.2 | 18.0 | 29.0 | 22.8 |
Liberal Democrat 2 | 34.0 | 36.4 | 16.2 | 15.6 | 7.7 | 11.3 | 19.5 | 25.5 | 19.6 | 17.8 | 32.6 | 29.9 | 22.8 | 35.4 | 36.6 | 30.3 | 31.3 | 31.9 | 32.7 | 33.4 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 14.7 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.6 | 5.6 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 6.1 | 14.6 | 1.7 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.7 |
Other | - | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 8.8 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 4.6 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966 and one National candidate in 1945
2pre-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Meaningful vote percentages are not available for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1923, 1931 and 1935 since at least one seat was gained unopposed.
Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative 1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
Labour | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Liberal Democrat 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
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.
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 91 | 1892 | 1895 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 1900 | 02 | 04 | 1906 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 18 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ashburton | Seale-Hayne | Eve | Morrison-Bell | Buxton | Morrison-Bell | → | |||||||||||||
Barnstaple | Pitt-Lewis | → | Billson | Gull | Soares | Baring | |||||||||||||
Devonport (two MPs) | Puleston | Morton | Lockie | J. Benn | Jackson | ||||||||||||||
Price | Kearley | Kinloch-Cooke | |||||||||||||||||
Exeter | Northcote | Vincent | Kekewich | Duke | St Maur | Duke | Newman | ||||||||||||
Honiton | Kennaway | Morrison-Bell | |||||||||||||||||
Plymouth (two MPs) | Clarke | Guest | → | Dobson | Williams | W. Astor | |||||||||||||
Bates | Pearce | Harrison | Mendl | Duke | Mallet | A. Benn | |||||||||||||
South Molton | Wallop | → | Lambert | ||||||||||||||||
Tavistock | Fortescue | → | Luttrell | Spear | Luttrell | Spear | |||||||||||||
Tiverton | Walrond | Walrond jnr | Carew | ||||||||||||||||
Torquay | McIver | Mallock | Philpotts | Layland-Barratt | Burn | → | |||||||||||||
Totnes | Mildmay | → | → |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Common Wealth Conservative Independent Conservative Independent National Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 19 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 1924 | 28 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 1935 | 37 | 42 | 1945 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barnstaple | Rees | B. Peto | Rees | B. Peto | R. Dyke Acland | → | C. Peto | |||||||
Exeter | Newman | → | Reed | Maude | ||||||||||
Honiton | Morrison-Bell | Drewe | ||||||||||||
Plymouth Devonport | Kinloch-Cooke | Hore-Belisha | → | → | Foot | |||||||||
Plymouth Drake | A. Benn | Moses | F. Guest | C. Guest | Medland | |||||||||
Plymouth Sutton | W. Astor | N. Astor | Middleton | |||||||||||
South Molton | Lambert | → | Drewe | Lambert | → | Lambert jnr | ||||||||
Tavistock | Williams | Thornton | Kenyon-Slaney | Wright | Patrick | Studholme | ||||||||
Tiverton | Carew | Sparkes | F. Dyke Acland | Acland-Troyte | Heathcoat-Amory | |||||||||
Torquay | Burn | Thompson | Williams | |||||||||||
Totnes | Mildmay | Harvey | Vivian | Harvey | Rayner |
Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Social Democratic
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 55 | 58 | 1959 | 60 | 1964 | 1966 | 67 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 81 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Devon North | C. Peto | Lindsay | Thorpe | Speller | |||||||||||
Exeter | Maude | Dudley-Williams | Dunwoody | Hannam | |||||||||||
Honiton | Drewe | Mathew | Emery | ||||||||||||
Plymouth Devonport | Foot | Vickers | → | Owen | → | ||||||||||
Plymouth Drake | Fookes | ||||||||||||||
Plymouth Sutton | Middleton | J. Astor | Fraser | Owen | Clark | ||||||||||
Tavistock | Studholme | Heseltine | |||||||||||||
Tiverton | Heathcoat-Amory | Maxwell-Hyslop | |||||||||||||
Torquay (1950–74) / Torbay (1974-83) | Williams | Bennett | |||||||||||||
Torrington (1950–74) / Devon W (1974-83) | Lambert jnr | Bonham-Carter | Browne | Mills | |||||||||||
Totnes | Rayner | Mawby |
Change UK Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Social Democratic (1983-88) / Social Democratic Party (1988-90)
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 90 | 1992 | 95 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 2019 | 22 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plymouth Drake | Fookes | |||||||||||||||||
Honiton / East Devon (1997) | Emery | Swire | Jupp | |||||||||||||||
Exeter | Hannam | Bradshaw | ||||||||||||||||
Plymouth Devonport / Plymouth Moor View (2010) | Owen | → | Jamieson | Seabeck | Mercer | |||||||||||||
Plymouth Sutton / Plymouth Sutton & Devonport (2010) | Clark | Streeter | Gilroy | Colvile | Pollard | |||||||||||||
Teignbridge / Newton Abbot (2010) | Nicholls | Younger-Ross | Morris | → | → | → | ||||||||||||
Torbay | Bennett | Allason | Sanders | Foster | ||||||||||||||
Devon North | Speller | Harvey | Heaton-Jones | Saxby | ||||||||||||||
Devon West and Torridge | Mills | Nicholson | → | Burnett | Cox | |||||||||||||
South Hams / Totnes (1997) | Steen | Wollaston | → | → | Mangnall | |||||||||||||
Tiverton (1983–97) / Tiverton & Honiton (1997) | Maxwell-Hyslop | Browning | Parish | → | Foord | |||||||||||||
South West Devon | Streeter | |||||||||||||||||
Central Devon | Stride |
Devon is a ceremonial county in South West England. The county borders the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west. Plymouth is the largest settlement.
West Devon is a local government district with borough status in Devon, England. Its council is based in Tavistock, the borough's largest town. The borough also includes the towns of Hatherleigh, North Tawton and Okehampton, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Torridge and West Devon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Geoffrey Cox, a Conservative.
Totnes is a parliamentary constituency in Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Anthony Mangnall, a Conservative. Mangnall defeated incumbent Sarah Wollaston who had originally been elected as a Conservative but defected to the Liberal Democrats earlier that year.
East Devon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Simon Jupp of the Conservative Party.
Tiverton and Honiton is a constituency in Devon, England. The current MP is Richard Foord of the Liberal Democrats, elected at a by-election on 23 June 2022.
The 2005 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 5 May 2005, with various councils and local government seats being contested in England and Northern Ireland, and a local referendum taking place on the Isle of Wight on the issue of a directly elected mayor. These local elections were held in conjunction with the 2005 general election across the entire United Kingdom.
Newton Abbot is a constituency in Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Anne Marie Morris, a Conservative.
Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) until it was abolished in 1868. It was recreated in 1885 as a single-member constituency.
Devon was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Devon in England, with the exception of the city of Plymouth.
Devon and East Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering all of Devon in England, with the exception of the city of Plymouth. It was created in 1994 to replace the majority of Devon and a small part of Cornwall and Plymouth.
The region of South West England has, since the 2010 general election, 55 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 15 borough constituencies and 40 county constituencies. At that election the Conservative Party held the largest number of constituencies, with 36. The Liberal Democrats had 15 and Labour had 4. At the 2015 general election the Liberal Democrats lost all of their seats, while the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour, leaving the Conservatives with 51 and Labour with 4. In the 2017 general election, the Conservatives remained, by far, the largest party with 47 seats, though losing three to Labour, who won 7, and one to the Liberal Democrats, who won 1. In the 2019 general election, the Conservatives increased their number of seats to 48 by regaining Stroud from Labour, who held their other six seats, while the Liberal Democrats retained their sole seat in Bath.
South Devon is the southern part of Devon, England. Because Devon has its major population centres on its two coasts, the county is divided informally into North Devon and South Devon. In a narrower sense "South Devon" is used to refer to the part of Devon south of Exeter and Dartmoor, including Plymouth, Torbay and the districts of South Hams, West Devon and Teignbridge.
An election to Devon County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 62 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009. No elections were held in Plymouth and Torbay, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council.
The Devon Rugby Football Union is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in the county of Devon in England. The union is the constituent body of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) for Devon, and administers and organises rugby union clubs and competitions in the county. It also administers the Devon county rugby representative teams.