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