Torridge and Tavistock | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Devon |
Electorate | 74,802 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Tavistock |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Geoffrey Cox (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Torridge and West Devon & South West Devon |
Torridge and Tavistock is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. [3]
The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It comprises the bulk of the former Torridge and West Devon seat, excluding the West Devon Borough wards of Buckland Monachorum and Burrator in the south, which were transferred to South West Devon. [5]
The last MP for Torridge and West Devon was Conservative Sir Geoffrey Cox KC, who served from 5 May 2005 until the seat's abolition in 2024. [6] At the 2024 general election Sir Geoffrey became the first MP for Torridge and Tavistock.
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Geoffrey Cox | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Geoffrey Cox [8] | 16,049 | 31.6 | –28.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Hutty [9] | 12,099 | 23.8 | +5.9 | |
Labour | Isabel Saxby [10] | 10,765 | 21.2 | +3.3 | |
Reform UK | Andrew Jackson [11] | 9,152 | 18.0 | N/A | |
Green | Judy Maciejowska [12] | 2,350 | 4.6 | +1.2 | |
Independent | Alan Edward Rayner | 405 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,950 | 7.8 | –34.1 | ||
Turnout | 50,820 | 68.0 | –5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 74,727 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | –17.1 | |||
2019 notional result [13] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 32,708 | 59.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 9,809 | 17.9 | |
Labour | 9,761 | 17.9 | |
Green | 1,843 | 3.4 | |
Others | 547 | 1.0 | |
Turnout | 54,668 | 73.1 | |
Electorate | 74,802 |
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