Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)

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Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in Devon
EnglandDevon.svg
Location of Devon within England
County Devon
Electorate 71,236 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Plymouth
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of Parliament Luke Pollard (Labour Co-operative)
SeatsOne
Created from Plymouth Devonport, Plymouth Sutton

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport is a constituency created in 2010, and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Luke Pollard, a Labour Co-operative party candidate.

Contents

The seat is one of two won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of twelve in its county. Pollard's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains for the Labour Party. The seat was in 2010 and 2015 a very marginal win for Oliver Colvile, his greatest majority being 2.6%.

Constituency profile

The constituency covers the south of the city including HMNB Devonport, and has a large student population attending the University of Plymouth. [2]

Boundaries

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

The seat is a borough constituency (for the purposes of type of returning officer and election expenses). As with all current constituencies it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system.

Current

The wards which make up this seat include Compton, Devonport, Stonehouse, Drake (which includes the University and Mutley), Efford and Lipson, Peverell, St Peter and the Waterfront, Stoke, and Sutton and Mount Gould. [3]

The constituency is entirely within the boundaries of the City of Plymouth, and includes the city centre.

Proposed

The composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be reduced slightly in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, by removing north-western parts of the City of Plymouth ward of Peverell - namely polling districts KC and KD - to be transferred to Plymouth Moor View. [4]

History

History of boundaries

The 2007 review by the Boundary Commission for England recommended the creation of this seat and Plymouth Moor View, which was duly approved by Parliament. [3] It is largely based on the former Plymouth Sutton. To this is added smaller parts of the former Plymouth Devonport seat.

History of results
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Results for the UK Commons seat named and for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport

This constituency was won on creation in 2010 by a Conservative, Oliver Colvile. In 2015, against opinion polls for losing, Colvile held it (but narrowly) over the Labour candidate Luke Pollard. The 2015 result gave the seat the 7th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority. [5]

In 2017, Pollard defeated Colvile to gain the seat with a majority of 6,807; originally, the majority was declared as 6,002, but a spreadsheet error meant the votes from the Efford and Lipson wards were not included in the declaration on the night of the count. [6] Additionally about 35,000 postal voters received two polling cards, confusing, and some postal votes were not sent out. [7]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [8] PartyNotes
2010 Oliver Colvile Conservative
2017 Luke Pollard Labour Co-op

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gareth Streeter [9]
Labour Luke Pollard [10]
Green Cam Hayward [11]
Majority
Turnout

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 25,461 47.9 Decrease2.svg 5.4
Conservative Rebecca Smith20,70438.9Decrease2.svg 1.1
Brexit Party Ann Widdecombe 2,9095.5New
Liberal Democrats Graham Reed2,5454.8Increase2.svg 2.4
Green James Ellwood1,5572.9Increase2.svg 1.7
Majority4,7579.0Decrease2.svg 4.3
Turnout 53,17668.3Increase2.svg 1.3
Registered electors 77,852
Labour Co-op hold Swing Decrease2.svg 2.2
General election 2017: Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport [13] [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 27,283 53.3 Increase2.svg 16.6
Conservative Oliver Colvile 20,47640.0Increase2.svg 2.2
UKIP Richard Ellison1,3642.7Decrease2.svg 11.3
Liberal Democrats Henrietta Bewley1,2442.4Decrease2.svg 1.8
Green Dan Sheaff6041.2Decrease2.svg 5.9
Independent Danny Bamping2370.5New
Majority6,80713.3N/A
Turnout 51,20867.0Increase2.svg 1.5
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative Swing Increase2.svg 7.2
General election 2015: Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Oliver Colvile 18,120 37.8 Increase2.svg 3.5
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 17,59736.7Increase2.svg 5.0
UKIP Roy Kettle6,73114.0Increase2.svg 7.5
Green Libby Brown3,4017.1Increase2.svg 5.0
Liberal Democrats Graham Reed2,0084.2Decrease2.svg 20.5
Communist Laura-Jane Rossington1060.2New
Majority5231.1Decrease2.svg1.5
Turnout 47,96365.5Increase2.svg3.7
Conservative hold Swing Decrease2.svg 0.8
General election 2010: Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Oliver Colvile 15,050 34.3
Labour Linda Gilroy 13,90131.7
Liberal Democrats Judy Evans10,82924.7
UKIP Andrew Leigh2,8546.5
Green Tony Brown9042.1
Independent Brian Gerrish2230.5
Socialist Labour Robert Hawkins1230.3
Majority1,1492.6
Turnout 43,89461.8
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

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References

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  2. ↑ UK Polling Report https://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/plymouthmoorview/
  3. 1 2 "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the counties of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay". Boundary Commission for England. 24 November 2004. Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 7 South West region.
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  14. ↑ Due to an error, not all of the votes cast and counted, were included in the published totals: "Labour MP Luke Pollard's fury as votes left out of result". BBC News. 10 June 2017.
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