| St Austell and Newquay | |
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| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of St Austell and Newquay in Cornwall for the 2010 general election. |
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Location of Cornwall within England. |
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| County | Cornwall |
| Electorate | 75,974 (December 2010)[1] |
| Major settlements | St Austell, Newquay |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Stephen Gilbert (Liberal Democrat) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | North Cornwall South East Cornwall Truro & St Austell |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | South West England |
St Austell and Newquay is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In 2010, Mebyon Kernow, the Cornish independence party, achieved its highest share of the vote in any constituency despite losing its deposit.
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The constituency was created for the 2010 general election, following a review of parliamentary representation in Cornwall by the Boundary Commission for England, which has increased the number of seats in the county from five to six.[2] It has the same boundaries as the former Borough of Restormel, with the exception of the ward of Lostwithiel, which remains in the South East Cornwall constituency. Previously, the borough was divided between the North Cornwall, South East Cornwall and Truro and St Austell seats.[3]
| Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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| 2010 | Stephen Gilbert | Liberal Democrats | |
| General Election 2010: St Austell and Newquay[5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stephen Gilbert | 20,189 | 42.7 | -4.5 | |
| Conservative | Caroline Righton | 18,877 | 40.0 | +5.1 | |
| Labour | Lee Jameson | 3,386 | 7.2 | -6.6 | |
| Mebyon Kernow | Dick Cole | 2,007 | 4.2 | +4.2 | |
| UKIP | Clive Medway | 1,757 | 3.7 | -0.4 | |
| BNP | James Fitton | 1,022 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
| Majority | 1,312 | 2.8 | |||
| Turnout | 47,238 | 61.9 | -3.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | -4.8 | |||
The official Rallings & Thrasher notional results for the 2005 election gave the Liberal Democrats a notional majority of 5,723 votes (12.44%).
The alternative UKPollingReport estimates gave a much smaller notional Liberal Democrat majority of 630 in 2005.[6]