Tiverton and Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)

Tiverton and Honiton
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon.
Location of Devon within England.
County	Devon
Electorate	75,839 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Neil Parish (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Tiverton, Honiton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South West England

Tiverton and Honiton is a 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. The current MP is Neil Parish of the Conservative Party, elected at the 2010 general election.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Elections
- 4.1 Elections in the 2010s
- 4.2 Elections in the 2000s
5 See also
6 Notes and references
7 Sources

Boundaries

The constituency is located in east Devon, covering the towns of Tiverton and Honiton and the surrounding areas, including parts of the Mid Devon and East Devon districts.

Following a review of parliamentary representation in Devon by the Boundary Commission for England, which has increased the number of seats in the county from 11 to 12, the Tiverton and Honiton seat was subject to boundary changes taking effect at the 2010 general election.^[2] Some wards in the Mid Devon district have been transferred to the new Central Devon constituency, and some parts of the East Devon constituency, including the towns of Axminster and Seaton, have been transferred to Tiverton and Honiton to compensate.

The revised Tiverton and Honiton constituency contains the following electoral wards:^[2]

From the East Devon district: Axminster Rural, Axminster Town, Beer and Branscombe, Coly Valley, Dunkeswell, Feniton and Buckerell, Honiton St Michael's, Honiton St Paul's, Newbridges, Otterhead, Seaton, Tale Vale, Trinity, and Yarty.
From the Mid Devon district: Canonsleigh, Castle, Clare and Shuttern, Cranmore, Cullompton North, Cullompton Outer, Culllompton South, Halberton, Lower Culm, Lowman, Upper Culm, and Westexe.

History

The present constituency of Tiverton and Honiton is the result of the merger of the formerly separate constituencies of Honiton and Tiverton in 1997. Both were long-established seats, with the former having existed from 1640 and the latter from 1615. Both elected two Members of Parliament until the 1884 Reform Act reduced the number for both to one.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[3]	Party
	1997	Angela Browning	Conservative
	2010	Neil Parish	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Tiverton and Honiton^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Parish	27,614	50.3	+3.6
	Liberal Democrat	Jon Underwood	18,294	33.3	+4.2
	Labour	Vernon Whitlock	4,907	8.9	-4.4
	UKIP	Daryl Stanbury	3,277	6.0	+1.2
	Green	Cathy Connor	802	1.5	-1.3
Majority			9,320	17
Turnout			54,894	71.5	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Tiverton and Honiton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angela Browning	27,838	47.9	+0.8
	Liberal Democrat	David Nation	16,787	28.9	-6.9
	Labour	Fiona Bentley	7,944	13.7	+1.8
	UKIP	Bob Edwards	2,499	4.3	+2.0
	Liberal	Roy Collins	1,701	2.9	+1.8
	Green	Colin Matthews	1,399	2.4	+0.6
Majority			11,051	19
Turnout			58,168	69.8	0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.8

General Election 2001: Tiverton and Honiton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angela Browning	26,258	47.1	+5.7
	Liberal Democrat	Jim Barnard	19,974	35.8	-2.7
	Labour	Isabel Owen	6,647	11.9	-0.9
	UKIP	Alan Langmaid	1,281	2.3	N/A
	Green	Matthew Burgess	1,030	1.8	+1.0
	Liberal	Jenny Roach	594	1.1	N/A
Majority			6,284	11.3
Turnout			55,784	69.2	-8.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the counties of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay". Boundary Commission for England. 2004-11-24. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/review_areas/downloads/FR_NR_Devon_Plymouth_Torbay.doc. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
^ Finan, Kevin (20 April 2010). "Statement of Persons Nominated - Tiverton & Honiton" (MS Word). Acting Returning Officer, Mid Devon District Council. http://www.middevon.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=13492&p=0. Retrieved 21 April 2010.

Sources

David Boothroyd. "Constituencies in the unreformed House". Constituency enfranchisment dates. http://www.election.demon.co.uk/prereform.html. Retrieved August 6, 2005.

Constituencies in South West England (55)

Conservative (36)	Bournemouth East Bournemouth West Bridgwater and West Somerset Bristol North West Camborne and Redruth Central Devon Christchurch Devizes East Devon Filton and Bradley Stoke Forest of Dean Gloucester Kingswood Newton Abbot North Dorset North East Somerset North Somerset North Swindon North Wiltshire Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Poole Salisbury South Dorset South East Cornwall South Swindon South West Devon South West Wiltshire Stroud Tewkesbury The Cotswolds Tiverton and Honiton Torridge and West Devon Totnes Truro and Falmouth West Dorset Weston-super-Mare

Liberal Democrats (15)	Bath Bristol West Cheltenham Chippenham Mid Dorset and North Poole North Cornwall North Devon St Austell and Newquay St Ives Somerton and Frome Taunton Deane Thornbury and Yate Torbay Wells Yeovil

Labour (4)	Bristol East Bristol South Exeter Plymouth Moor View

South West England European constituency: Conservative (3) UKIP (2) Liberal Democrats (1)