List of constituencies in South West England
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 1 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
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
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