The ceremonial county of Wiltshire , England, which includes the Borough of Swindon, is divided into eight Parliamentary constituencies. They are all county constituencies. [nb 1]
The ceremonial county of Wiltshire , England, which includes the Borough of Swindon, is divided into eight Parliamentary constituencies. They are all county constituencies. [nb 1]
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
| Constituency | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chippenham CC | 72,492 | 8,138 | Sarah Gibson¤ | Nic Puntis† |  | ||
| East Wiltshire CC | 72,409 | 4,716 | Danny Kruger† | Rob Newman‡ |  | ||
| Melksham and Devizes CC | 71,999 | 2,401 | Brian Mathew¤ | Michelle Donelan† |  | ||
| Salisbury CC | 70,281 | 3,807 | John Glen† | Matt Aldridge‡ |  | ||
| South Cotswolds CC (part) | 71,490 | 4,973 | Roz Savage¤ | James Gray† |  | ||
| South West Wiltshire CC | 71,574 | 3,243 | Andrew Murrison† | Evelyn Akoto† |  | ||
| Swindon North CC | 73,238 | 4,103 | Will Stone‡ | Justin Tomlinson† |  | ||
| Swindon South CC | 72,596 | 9,606 | Heidi Alexander‡ | Robert Buckland† |  | ||
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
| Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
|---|---|---|---|
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For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Wiltshire with Gloucestershire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of Chippenham. Devizes and North Wiltshire were abolished and new constituencies named East Wiltshire, and Melksham and Devizes, created. [3] [4] These changes came into effect for the 2024 general election.
The following seats resulted from the review:
Containing electoral wards in Swindon
Containing electoral wards in Wiltshire (unitary authority)
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats in Wiltshire from 6 to 7, with the re-establishment of Chippenham, which impacted on neighbouring constituencies. An adjusted Westbury constituency was renamed South West Wiltshire.
| Former name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Current name | Boundaries 2010–2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
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Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019 [5]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Wiltshire in the 2024 general election were as follows: [nb 2] [2]
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 125,505 | 32.6% |  25.2% | 3 | 4 |
| Liberal Democrats | 96,677 | 25.1% |  6.5% | 3 | 3 |
| Labour | 89,880 | 23.3% | 3.2% | 2 | 2 |
| Reform | 52,755 | 13.7% | New | 0 | New |
| Greens | 16,864 | 4.4% | 1.1% | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 3,849 | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 385,530 | 100.0 | 8 |
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Wiltshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 217,955 | 57.8% | 1.0% | 7 | 0 |
| Labour | 77,343 | 20.1% | 6.9% | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 69,876 | 18.6% | 6.7% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 11,378 | 3.3% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 745 | 0.6% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 377,297 | 100.0 | 7 |
| Election year | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 52.8 | 50.0 | 45.7 | 53.9 | 43.2 | 60.7 | 56.2 | 41.6 | 41.0 | 50.1 | 49.6 | 49.3 | 43.2 | 43.8 | 51.0 | 41.9 | 40.3 | 47.4 | 50.3 | 51.9 | 50.9 | 40.2 | 42.1 | 44.3 | 47.7 | 52.4 | 56.8 | 57.8 | 32.6 |
| Liberal Democrat 1 | 30.1 | 34.6 | 42.9 | 30.4 | 34.8 | 19.1 | 19.8 | 18.4 | 19.6 | 3.7 | 8.7 | 10.7 | 18.9 | 15.2 | 11.7 | 29.8 | 30.2 | 27.5 | 34.2 | 31.2 | 28.7 | 26.2 | 25.0 | 26.9 | 30.4 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 18.5 | 25.1 |
| Labour | 17.1 | 15.4 | 11.4 | 15.7 | 21.9 | 20.2 | 24.0 | 39.9 | 39.2 | 46.2 | 41.7 | 38.7 | 37.5 | 40.6 | 37.2 | 28.1 | 29.3 | 22.8 | 14.9 | 16.7 | 18.3 | 28.0 | 29.0 | 24.3 | 15.3 | 17.3 | 27.4 | 20.5 | 23.3 |
| Reform | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13.7 |
| Green Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | * | * | 1.0 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 4.4 |
| UKIP | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.0 | 13.5 | 1.8 | * | – |
| Other | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.1 | – | – | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
1pre-1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| Liberal Democrat 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Labour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
11974 & 1979 – Liberal Party; 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 | 1892 | 1895 | 97 | 98 | 00 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cricklade | Maskelyne | → | Husband | Hopkinson | FitzMaurice | Massie | Calley | Lambert | ||||||
| Chippenham | Fletcher | Bruce | Dickson-Poynder | → | Terrell | |||||||||
| Devizes | Long | Hobhouse | Goulding | Rogers | Peto | |||||||||
| Salisbury | Grenfell | Hulse | Allhusen | Palmer | Tennant | Locker-Lampson | ||||||||
| Westbury | Fuller | Chaloner | Fuller | Howard | ||||||||||
| Wilton | Grove | → | Pleydell-Bouverie | J. Morrison | Morse | Bathurst | H. Morrison | |||||||
| Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 34 | 1935 | 42 | 43 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 62 | 64 | 1964 | 65 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chippenham | Terrell | Bonwick | Cazalet | Eccles | Awdry | |||||||||||||||||||
| Westbury | Palmer | Darbishire | Shaw | Long | Grimston | Walters | ||||||||||||||||||
| Devizes | Bell | Macfadyen | Hurd | Hollis | Pott | C. Morrison | ||||||||||||||||||
| Salisbury | H. Morrison | Moulton | H. Morrison | Despencer-Robertson | J. Morrison | Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||||
| Swindon | Young | Banks | Addison | Banks | Addison | Wakefield | Reid | Noel-Baker | Ward | Stoddart | ||||||||||||||
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chippenham / N Wiltshire (1983) | Awdry | Needham | Gray | ||||||
| Devizes | Morrison | Ancram | |||||||
| Salisbury | Hamilton | Key | |||||||
| Westbury | Walters | Faber | Murrison | ||||||
| Swindon / South Swindon (1997) | Stoddart | Coombs | Drown | Snelgrove | |||||
| North Swindon | Wills | ||||||||
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chippenham | Hames | Donelan | Gibson | ||
| Devizes / East Wiltshire (2024) | Perry | Kruger | |||
| North Wiltshire / Melksham and Devizes (2024) | Gray | Mathew | |||
| Salisbury | Glen | ||||
| South West Wiltshire | Murrison | ||||
| Swindon North | Tomlinson | Stone | |||
| Swindon South | Buckland | Alexander | |||
From 2024, part of northern Wiltshire was included in the South Cotswolds constituency, slightly more than half of which lies in Gloucestershire. Its representation is covered at List of parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire.
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to the west. The largest settlement is Swindon, and Trowbridge is the county town.
North Wiltshire was a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was represented since its 1983 recreation by the Conservative Party. In the period 1832–1983, North Wiltshire was an alternative name for Chippenham or the Northern Division of Wiltshire and as Chippenham dates to the original countrywide Parliament, the Model Parliament, this period is covered in more detail in that article.
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Swindon North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Will Stone, a Labour politician.
Swindon South is a constituency in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Heidi Alexander of the Labour Party.
Chippenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024 by Sarah Gibson, a Liberal Democrat. The 2024 constituency includes the Wiltshire towns of Calne, Chippenham, Corsham and Royal Wootton Bassett.
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