South West Devon | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of South West Devon in Devon | |
![]() Location of Devon within England | |
County | Devon |
Electorate | 75,731 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Plympton, Plymstock and Ivybridge |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Rebecca Smith (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Plymouth Sutton, South Hams |
South West Devon is a constituency [n 1] most recently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1997 to 2024, by Sir Gary Streeter, a Conservative. Plymstock Radford Councillor Rebecca Smith retained the seat for the Conservatives in the 4 July 2024 general election after Sir Gary Streeter didn't stand for re-election. [n 2]
1997–2010: The District of South Hams wards of Bickleigh and Shaugh, Brixton, Charterlands, Cornwood and Harford, Erme Valley, Ivybridge, Modbury, Newton and Noss, Sparkwell, Ugborough, Wembury, and Yealmpton, the City of Plymouth wards of Plympton Erle, Plympton St Mary, Plymstock Dunstone, and Plymstock Radford, and the Borough of West Devon ward of Buckland Monachorum.
2010–2024: The District of South Hams wards of Bickleigh and Shaugh, Charterlands, Cornwood and Sparkwell, Erme Valley, Ivybridge Central, Ivybridge Filham, Ivybridge Woodlands, Newton and Noss, Wembury and Brixton, and Yealmpton, and the City of Plymouth wards of Plympton Chaddlewood, Plympton Erle, Plympton St Mary, Plymstock Dunstone, and Plymstock Radford.
The constituency is a south-western portion of Devon and includes the easternmost part of the city of Plymouth, namely the suburban small towns of Plympton (which as the borough constituency of Plympton Erle returned its own MPs until the Reform Act of 1832 abolished the seat as a 'rotten borough') and Plymstock which are so close as to be contiguous with the city's eastern parts, as well as the town of Ivybridge and much of the South Hams. Its landscape includes the edge of Dartmoor and a southern coastline.
2024-present: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Minor changes including the gain of the two West Devon Borough wards from Torridge and West Devon and the loss of the Charterlands ward in the east to the newly named constituency of South Devon.
The areas covered in the seat were previously served by the South Hams and Plymouth Sutton seats. Both seats had been represented by the Conservative Party, and Gary Streeter, who became the first MP for the new constituency in 1997, had been MP for Plymouth Sutton from 1992 until 1997.
Unemployment, at 1.3% in November 2012, was significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%. [3]
Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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1997 | Sir Gary Streeter | Conservative | |
2024 | Rebecca Smith | Conservative | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rebecca Smith | 17,916 | 34.3 | –28.3 | |
Labour | Sarah Allen | 15,804 | 30.3 | +8.9 | |
Reform UK | Stephen Horner | 9,361 | 17.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Julian Brazil | 5,551 | 10.6 | –1.5 | |
Green | Lauren McLay | 2,925 | 5.6 | +1.7 | |
Independent | Alan Spencer | 438 | 0.8 | N/A | |
TUSC | Ben Davy | 141 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Heritage | Darryl Ingram | 106 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,112 | 4.0 | –36.2 | ||
Turnout | 52,242 | 66.5 | –7.9 | ||
Registered electors | 77,600 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | –18.6 | |||
2019 notional result [7] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 35,102 | 62.6 | |
Labour | 12,012 | 21.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | 6,807 | 12.1 | |
Green | 2,179 | 3.9 | |
Turnout | 56,100 | 74.4 | |
Electorate | 75,371 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 33,286 | 62.4 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Alex Beverley | 11,856 | 22.2 | –7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sima Davarian | 6,207 | 11.6 | +6.4 | |
Green | Ian Poyser | 2,018 | 3.8 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 21,430 | 40.2 | +10.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,367 | 73.6 | –0.4 | ||
Registered electors | 72,535 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 5.15 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 31,634 | 59.8 | +3.2 | |
Labour Co-op | Philippa Davey | 15,818 | 29.9 | +13.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Voaden | 2,732 | 5.2 | −2.3 | |
UKIP | Ian Ross | 1,540 | 2.9 | −11.6 | |
Green | Win Scutt | 1,133 | 2.1 | −2.7 | |
Majority | 15,816 | 29.9 | −10.0 | ||
Turnout | 52,857 | 74.0 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 28,500 | 56.6 | +0.6 | |
Labour | Chaz Singh | 8,391 | 16.7 | +4.3 | |
UKIP | Robin Julian | 7,306 | 14.5 | +8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Davies | 3,767 | 7.5 | −16.6 | |
Green | Win Scutt | 2,408 | 4.8 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 20,109 | 39.9 | +8.0 | ||
Turnout | 50,372 | 70.9 | −0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 27,908 | 56.0 | +11.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Pascoe | 12,034 | 24.1 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Luke Pollard | 6,193 | 12.4 | −11.8 | |
UKIP | Hugh Williams | 3,084 | 6.2 | −1.3 | |
Green | Vaughan Brean | 641 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,874 | 31.9 | +11.2 | ||
Turnout | 49,860 | 71.2 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 21,906 | 44.8 | −2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Judy Evans | 11,765 | 24.1 | +5.7 | |
Labour | Christopher Mavin | 11,545 | 23.6 | −8.0 | |
UKIP | Hugh Williams | 3,669 | 7.5 | +4.3 | |
Majority | 10,141 | 20.7 | +5.5 | ||
Turnout | 48,885 | 68.6 | +2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 21,970 | 46.8 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Christopher Mavin | 14,826 | 31.6 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Hutty | 8,616 | 18.4 | −5.4 | |
UKIP | Roger Bullock | 1,492 | 3.2 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 7,144 | 15.2 | +1.2 | ||
Turnout | 46,904 | 66.1 | −10.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 22,659 | 42.9 | ||
Labour | Christopher Mavin | 15,262 | 28.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Keith Baldry | 12,542 | 23.8 | ||
Referendum | Robert Saddler | 1,668 | 3.2 | ||
UKIP | H.M. King | 491 | 0.9 | ||
Natural Law | Jon Hyde | 159 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 7,397 | 14.0 | |||
Turnout | 52,781 | 76.2 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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