South Suffolk | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Suffolk |
Electorate | 71,170 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Sudbury, Hadleigh and Great Cornard |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | James Cartlidge (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Sudbury and Woodbridge and Bury St Edmunds [2] |
South Suffolk is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by James Cartlidge, a Conservative. [n 2]
South Suffolk is one of seven constituencies in the county of Suffolk and was created by boundary changes which came into force for the 1983 general election. It was formed primarily from areas to the west of Ipswich and the River Orwell, including the towns of Sudbury and Hadleigh, which had formed the majority of the abolished constituency of Sudbury and Woodbridge. Extended westwards to include Haverhill and surrounding areas, transferred from Bury St Edmunds.
Between 1559 and 1844, the constituency of Sudbury represented the town on the southwestern border with Essex, but this constituency was disenfranchised for corruption in 1844.
In every election, the Conservative candidate has been elected or re-elected; until 2015, said candidate was Tim Yeo, who was deselected prior to the 2015 general election; he was succeeded as Conservative candidate, and subsequently MP, by James Cartlidge.
South Suffolk is a large and predominantly rural seat, sharing a long border with the county of Essex but retaining a rather different identity and character – distinctly East Anglian rather than Home Counties.
The largest settlements, Sudbury and Hadleigh, are small, quiet towns, somewhat off the beaten track, and the only other significantly built-up area in the seat is the suburb of Pinewood, just outside the limits of Ipswich, where there are many new developments. There is still some industry in Brantham, close to the Essex border, but most of the seat is traditional agriculture, sitting alongside remote commuter bases for those working in London, Ipswich, Colchester or Chelmsford.
In common with many seats of this type, it is fairly safe for the Conservatives, with the opponents being significantly lower in terms of the vote share.
Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.5% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [3]
All but two of the Borough of St Edmundsbury wards, including the town of Haverhill, were transferred to the new constituency of West Suffolk.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is now coterminous with the District of Babergh. [7]
The small part previously in the former Borough of St Edmundsbury – now part of the District of West Suffolk – was transferred to the constituency of West Suffolk.
Sudbury & Woodbridge prior to 1983
Election | Member [8] | Party | |
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1983 | Tim Yeo | Conservative | |
2015 | James Cartlidge | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Cartlidge [9] | 16,082 | 33.0 | −29.1 | |
Labour | Emma Bishton [10] | 13,035 | 26.7 | +7.5 | |
Reform UK | Bev England [11] | 9,252 | 19.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Bartleet [12] | 6,424 | 13.2 | +0.5 | |
Green | Jessie Carter [13] | 4,008 | 8.2 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 3,047 | 6.3 | −36.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,801 | 65.7 | −4.8 | ||
Registered electors | 73,385 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −18.3 |
2019 notional result [14] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 31,094 | 62.1 | |
Labour | 9,621 | 19.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 6,360 | 12.7 | |
Green | 3,031 | 6.0 | |
Turnout | 50,106 | 70.5 | |
Electorate | 71,070 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Cartlidge | 33,270 | 62.2 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Elizabeth Hughes | 10,373 | 19.4 | −8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Beavan | 6,702 | 12.5 | +6.7 | |
Green | Robert Lindsay | 3,144 | 5.9 | +2.7 | |
Majority | 22,897 | 42.8 | +10.1 | ||
Turnout | 53,489 | 70.2 | −1.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Cartlidge | 32,829 | 60.5 | +7.4 | |
Labour | Emma Bishton | 15,080 | 27.8 | +8.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne | 3,154 | 5.8 | −2.0 | |
Green | Robert Lindsay | 1,723 | 3.2 | −1.1 | |
UKIP | Aidan Powlesland | 1,449 | 2.7 | −12.5 | |
Majority | 17,749 | 32.7 | −1.1 | ||
Turnout | 54,235 | 71.8 | +0.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Cartlidge | 27,546 | 53.1 | +5.4 | |
Labour | Jane Basham | 10,001 | 19.3 | +5.0 | |
UKIP | Steven Whalley [18] | 7,897 | 15.2 | +8.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Grace Weaver | 4,044 | 7.8 | −23.0 | |
Green | Robert Lindsay | 2,253 | 4.3 | N/A | |
CPA | Stephen Todd [19] | 166 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,545 | 33.8 | +16.9 | ||
Turnout | 51,907 | 71.0 | +0.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Yeo | 24,550 | 47.7 | +5.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Bennett | 15,861 | 30.8 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Emma Bishton | 7,368 | 14.3 | −10.2 | |
UKIP | David Campbell Bannerman | 3,637 | 7.1 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 8,689 | 16.9 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 51,416 | 70.9 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Yeo | 20,471 | 42.0 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kathy Pollard | 13,865 | 28.5 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Kevin Craig | 11,917 | 24.5 | −5.7 | |
UKIP | James Carver | 2,454 | 5.0 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 6,606 | 13.6 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,707 | 71.8 | +5.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Yeo | 18,748 | 41.4 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Marc Young | 13,667 | 30.2 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tessa Munt | 11,296 | 24.9 | −2.8 | |
UKIP | Derek Allen | 1,582 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,081 | 11.2 | +3.2 | ||
Turnout | 45,293 | 66.2 | −11.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Yeo | 19,402 | 37.3 | −14.0 | |
Labour | Paul Bishop | 15,227 | 29.3 | +7.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kathy Pollard | 14,395 | 27.7 | +2.5 | |
Referendum | Somerset Carlo de Chair | 2,740 | 5.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Angela Holland | 211 | 0.4 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 4,175 | 8.0 | −25.0 | ||
Turnout | 51,976 | 77.2 | −4.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −9.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Yeo | 34,793 | 50.2 | −3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kathy Pollard | 17,504 | 25.2 | −2.7 | |
Labour | Stephen Hesford | 16,623 | 24.0 | +5.3 | |
Natural Law | T. Aisbitt | 420 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,289 | 25.0 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 69,340 | 81.7 | +4.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Yeo | 33,972 | 53.4 | +2.8 | |
Liberal | Christopher Bradford | 17,729 | 27.9 | −3.4 | |
Labour | Anthony Bavington | 11,876 | 18.7 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 16,243 | 25.5 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 81,954 | 77.6 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Yeo | 29,469 | 50.6 | ||
Liberal | Richard Kemp | 18,200 | 31.3 | ||
Labour | Stephen Billcliffe | 10,516 | 18.1 | ||
Majority | 11,269 | 19.3 | |||
Turnout | 76,209 | 76.3 | |||
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