South West Devon (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 50°23′42″N 3°59′31″W / 50.395°N 3.992°W
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 | 70,756 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Plympton, Plymstock and Ivybridge |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Gary Streeter (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | South Hams |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
South West Devon is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Gary Streeter, a Conservative.[n 2]
Boundaries
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-present: 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.
History
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.
Constituency profile
Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.3% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[3] | Party | |
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1997 | Gary Streeter | Conservative | |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 28,500 | 56.6 | +0.6 | |
Labour | Chaz Singh | 8,391 | 16.7 | +4.2 | |
UKIP | Robin Julian | 7,306 | 14.5 | +8.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tom Davies | 3,767 | 7.5 | -16.7 | |
Green | Win Scutt | 2,408 | 4.8 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 20,109 | 39.9 | +8.1 | ||
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 Democrat | 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 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 15,874 | 31.8 | |||
Turnout | 49,860 | 71.2 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.6 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 21,906 | 44.8 | -2.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | 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 | |||
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 Democrat | Phil Hutty | 8,616 | 18.4 | -5.4 | |
UKIP | Roger Bullock | 1,492 | 3.2 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 7,144 | 15.2 | |||
Turnout | 46,904 | 66.1 | -10.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Gary Streeter | 22,695 | 42.9 | ||
Labour | Christopher Mavin | 15,262 | 28.9 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Keith Baldry | 12,542 | 23.8 | ||
Referendum | Robert Saddler | 1,668 | 3.2 | ||
UKIP | H.M. King | 491 | 0.8 | ||
Natural Law | Jon Hyde | 159 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 7,397 | 14.1 | |||
Turnout | 52,781 | 76.2 | |||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "South West Devon results 2010". BBC News. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 "South West Devon". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.