List of constituencies in South West England facts for kids

The region of South West England has, since the 2010 general election, 55 parliamentary constituencies. At that election the Conservative Party held the largest number of constituencies, with 36. The Liberal Democrats had 15 and Labour had just 4 out of the 55. At the 2015 general election the Liberal Democrats lost all of their seats (14 to the Conservatives and one to Labour), while the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour, leaving the Conservatives with 51 and Labour with 4.

Current constituencies

Conservatives

Bath
Bournemouth East
Bournemouth West
Bridgwater and West Somerset
Bristol North West
Camborne and Redruth
Central Devon
Cheltenham
Chippenham
Christchurch
Devizes
East Devon
Filton and Bradley Stoke
Forest of Dean
Gloucester
Kingswood
Mid Dorset and North Poole
Newton Abbot
North Cornwall
North Devon
North Dorset
North East Somerset
North Somerset
North Swindon
North Wiltshire
Plymouth Moor View
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Poole
St Austell and Newquay
St Ives
Salisbury
Somerton and Frome
South Dorset
South East Cornwall
South Swindon
South West Devon
South West Wiltshire
Stroud
Taunton Deane
Tewkesbury
The Cotswolds
Tiverton and Honiton
Thornbury and Yate
Torbay
Torridge and West Devon
Totnes
Truro and Falmouth
West Dorset
Weston-super-Mare
Wells
Yeovil

Labour

Bristol East
Bristol South
Bristol West
Exeter

Proposed constituencies

As part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England published in 2016 proposed constituencies to be fought at the United Kingdom general election scheduled for the year 2020.

Bristol

Bristol East
Bristol North West
Bristol South
Bristol West

Cornwall and Devon

Bideford, Bude and Launceston
Bodmin and St Austell
Central Devon
East Devon
Exeter
Falmouth and Camborne
Newton Abbey
North Devon
Plymouth North
Plymouth South
South East Cornwall
St Ives
Tavistock and Ivybridge
Tiverton and Honiton
Torbay
Totnes
Truro and Newquay

Dorset and Wiltshire

Blandford and Wimborne
Bournemouth North and Christchurch
Bournemouth South
Broadstone, Ferndown and Kinson
Chippenham
Devizes
Poole
Salisbury
South Dorset
Trowbridge
Warminster and Shaftesbury
West Dorset

Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire

Cheltenham
Dursley, Thornbury and Yate
Filton and Bradley Stoke
Gloucester
Kingswood
Stroud
Tewkesbury
The Cotswolds
West Gloucestershire

North Somerset

North Somerset
Weston-super-Mare

Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset

Bath
Bridgwater and West Somerset
North East Somerset
Somerton and Frome
Taunton Deane
Wells
Yeovil

Swindon

North Swindon
South Swindon

Former constituencies

Abolished in 2010

Bridgwater → Bridgwater and West Somerset
Falmouth and Camborne → Camborne and Redruth, Truro and Falmouth
Northavon → Thornbury and Yate, Filton and Bradley Stoke
Plymouth Devonport → Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Plymouth Moor View
Plymouth Sutton → Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Plymouth Moor View
Taunton → Taunton Deane
Teignbridge → Newton Abbot, Central Devon
Truro and St Austell → Truro and Falmouth, St Austell and Newquay
Wansdyke → North East Somerset
Westbury → South West Wiltshire, Chippenham
Woodspring → North Somerset

Abolished in 1997

Cirencester and Tewkesbury → Cotswold, Tewkesbury
Plymouth Drake → Plymouth Sutton
Swindon → North Swindon, South Swindon
West Gloucestershire → Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury