The county of Suffolk , England is divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies (1 borough constituency and 7 county constituencies). Seven constituencies lie wholly within Suffolk while Waveney Valley straddles the county border between Suffolk and Norfolk. [nb 1]
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¥ Green
| Constituency [nb 2] | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] [nb 3] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket CC | 76,655 | 1,452 | Peter Prinsley ‡ | Will Tanner † |  | ||
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC | 71,020 | 4,290 | Patrick Spencer † | Kevin Craig ‡ |  | ||
| Ipswich BC | 75,117 | 7,403 | Jack Abbott ‡ | Tom Hunt † |  | ||
| Lowestoft CC | 73,967 | 2,016 | Jessica Asato ‡ | Peter Aldous † |  | ||
| South Suffolk CC | 71,170 | 3,047 | James Cartlidge † | Emma Bishton ‡ |  | ||
| Suffolk Coastal CC | 72,663 | 1,070 | Jenny Riddell-Carpenter ‡ | Thérèse Coffey † |  | ||
| Waveney Valley CC | 70,540 | 5,593 | Adrian Ramsay ¥ | Richard Rout † |  | ||
| West Suffolk CC | 76,243 | 3,247 | Nick Timothy † | Rebecca Denness ‡ |  | ||
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 Suffolk with Norfolk as a sub-region of the East of England region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Waveney Valley. The seat of Waveney reverted to its former name of Lowestoft, and Bury St Edmunds was renamed Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. [3] [4] [5]
| Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
|---|---|---|---|
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In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Suffolk retained its current constituencies, with changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. The largest of these changes resulted in the effective transfer of one Borough of Ipswich ward from Central Suffolk and North Ipswich to the constituency of Ipswich.
| Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–2024 |
|---|---|---|
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Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [6]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Suffolk in the 2024 general election were as follows: [2]
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 115,953 | 30.8% |  29.3% | 3 | 4 |
| Labour | 107,057 | 28.4% |  4.5% | 4 | 4 |
| Reform | 69,230 | 18.4% | 18.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 49,925 | 13.3% | 6.9% | 1 | 1 |
| Liberal Democrats | 31,160 | 8.3% | - | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 3,342 | 0.9% | - | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 376,667 | 100.0 | 8 |
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Suffolk in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 229,823 | 60.1% | 2.9% | 7 | 1 |
| Labour | 91,339 | 23.9% | 8.7% | 0 | 1 |
| Liberal Democrats | 31,633 | 8.3% | 3.8% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 24,490 | 6.4% | 3.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 1,432 | 0.4% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 3,432 | 0.9% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 382,149 | 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 1 | 48.9 | 45.6 | 47.6 | 54.8 | 43.6 | 67.0 | 62.6 | 39.7 | 42.1 | 49.1 | 49.6 | 48.4 | 45.6 | 46.6 | 52.5 | 44.0 | 45.5 | 51.4 | 52.5 | 52.5 | 49.9 | 37.6 | 40.7 | 41.7 | 46.2 | 50.7 | 57.2 | 60.1 | 30.8 |
| Labour | 12.2 | 25.8 | 23.9 | 20.0 | 23.3 | 25.0 | 32.4 | 38.2 | 39.8 | 43.9 | 46.6 | 41.1 | 38.2 | 43.2 | 38.7 | 31.7 | 35.1 | 33.7 | 22.1 | 23.2 | 28.7 | 40.2 | 39.7 | 31.8 | 21.3 | 23.5 | 32.6 | 23.9 | 28.4 |
| Reform 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.4 | 18.4 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.9 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 6.4 | 13.3 |
| Liberal Democrat 3# | 24.5 | 11.9 | 28.5 | 25.2 | 33.1 | 8.0 | 4.9 | 22.1 | 18.0 | 7.0 | 3.8 | 10.5 | 16.0 | 9.9 | 8.0 | 23.7 | 19.4 | 14.4 | 25.3 | 23.6 | 20.4 | 17.6 | 16.0 | 20.6 | 24.1 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 |
| Coalition Liberal | 14.4 | 16.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 5.3 | 15.3 | 2.3 | * | * |
| Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | - | - | - | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | - | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 6.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
1Includes National Liberal Party from 1931 - 1966
2As the Brexit Party in 2019
31918-1979 - Liberal; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Conservative 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
| Greens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [a] |
| Liberal Democrat 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 [a] |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
| Constituency | 1295-1298 | 1298-1529 | 1529-1559 | 1559-1571 | 1571-1614 | 1614-1832 | 1832-1844 | 1844-1885 | 1885-1918 | 1918-1950 | 1950-1983 | 1983-1997 | 1997- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldeburgh | 1571-1832 | ||||||||||||
| Bury St Edmunds | 1614- | ||||||||||||
| Central Suffolk | 1983-1997 | ||||||||||||
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 1997- | ||||||||||||
| Dunwich | 1298-1832 | ||||||||||||
| East Suffolk | 1832-1885 | ||||||||||||
| Eye | 1571-1983 | ||||||||||||
| Ipswich | 1295- | ||||||||||||
| Lowestoft | 1885-1983 | ||||||||||||
| Orford | 1529-1832 | ||||||||||||
| South Suffolk | 1983- | ||||||||||||
| Stowmarket | 1885-1918 | ||||||||||||
| Sudbury | 1559-1844 | 1885-1950 | |||||||||||
| Sudbury and Woodbridge | 1950-1983 | ||||||||||||
| Suffolk | 1295-1832 | ||||||||||||
| Suffolk Coastal | 1983- | ||||||||||||
| Waveney | 1983- | ||||||||||||
| West Suffolk | 1832-1885 | 1997- | |||||||||||
| Woodbridge | 1885-1950 | ||||||||||||
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 | 86 | 1886 | 91 | 1892 | 92 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | F. Hervey | Cadogan | Greene | F. W. Hervey | Guinness | |||||||||
| Eye | Stevenson | Pearson | ||||||||||||
| Ipswich (Two members) | West | Charteris | Goddard | |||||||||||
| Collings | Dalrymple | Cobbold | Horne | Ganzoni | ||||||||||
| Lowestoft | Crossley | → | Foster | Lucas | Beauchamp | Foster | Beauchamp | |||||||
| Stowmarket | Cobbold | Greene | Stern | Malcolm | Hardy | Goldsmith | ||||||||
| Sudbury | W. Quilter | → | Heaton-Armstrong | C. Quilter | ||||||||||
| Woodbridge | Everett | Lloyd-Anstruther | Everett | Pretyman | Everett | Peel | ||||||||
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) Conservative Independent Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
| Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 34 | 1935 | 38 | 42 | 44 | 1945 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | Guinness | Heilgers | Keatinge | Clifton-Brown | ||||||||||
| Eye | Lyle-Samuel | → | Vanneck | Granville | → | → | → | |||||||
| Ipswich | Ganzoni | Jackson | Ganzoni | Stokes | ||||||||||
| Lowestoft | Beauchamp | Rentoul | Loftus | Evans | ||||||||||
| Sudbury | Howard | Mercer | Loverseed | Burton | Hamilton | |||||||||
| Woodbridge | Peel | Churchman | Fison | Ross-Taylor | Hare | |||||||||
| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 63 | 64 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds | Aitken | Griffiths | |||||||||||
| Eye | Granville | Harrison | Gummer | ||||||||||
| Ipswich | Stokes | Foot | Money | Weetch | |||||||||
| Lowestoft | Evans | Prior | |||||||||||
| Sudbury & Woodbridge | Hare | Stainton | |||||||||||
Conservative Green Independent Labour
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 01 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 22 | 24 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bury St Edmunds / & Stowmarket ('24) | Griffiths | Spring | Ruffley | Churchill | Prinsley | |||||||||
| Suffolk Coastal | Gummer | Coffey | Riddell-Carpenter | |||||||||||
| Ipswich | Weetch | Irvine | Cann | Mole | Gummer | Martin | Hunt | Abbott | ||||||
| Waveney / Lowestoft (2024) | Prior | Porter | Blizzard | Aldous | Asato | |||||||||
| South Suffolk | Yeo | Cartlidge | ||||||||||||
| Central Suffolk / & N Ipswich ('97) | Lord | Poulter | → | Spencer | ||||||||||
| West Suffolk | Spring | Hancock | → | → | Timothy | |||||||||
| Waveney Valley 1 | Ramsay | |||||||||||||
1parts also in Norfolk
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