East Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

East Devon
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Devon in Devon for the 2010 general election.
Location of Devon within England.
County	Devon
Electorate	72,406 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Exmouth, Ottery St Mary, Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Hugo Swire (Conservative)
Number of members	One
1868–1885
Number of members	Two
Type of constituency	County constituency
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South West England

East Devon is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Hugo Swire of the Conservative Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1997-2010: The District of East Devon wards of Axminster Hamlets, Axminster Town, Beer, Budleigh Salterton, Colyton, Edenvale, Exmouth Brixington, Exmouth Halsdon, Exmouth Littleham Rural, Exmouth Littleham Urban, Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, Exmouth Withycombe Urban, Lympstone, Newbridges, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Raleigh, Seaton, Sidmouth Rural, Sidmouth Town, Sidmouth Woolbrook, Trinity, Upper Axe, Woodbury, and Yarty.

2010-present: The District of East Devon wards of Broadclyst, Budleigh, Clyst Valley, Exmouth Brixington, Exmouth Halsdon, Exmouth Littleham, Exmouth Town, Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford, Ottery St Mary Rural, Ottery St Mary Town, Raleigh, Sidmouth Rural, Sidmouth Sidford, Sidmouth Town, Whimple, and Woodbury and Lympstone, and the City of Exeter wards of St Loyes and Topsham.

The constituency is in the county of Devon, directly east of Exeter and has a shoreline on the Jurassic Coast.

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, East Devon was subject to significant boundary changes at the 2010 general election.^[2] In particular, the towns of Axminster and Seaton were transferred to the Tiverton and Honiton constituency. Also, two wards from the City of Exeter are now part of the East Devon seat.

Constituency profile

The main settlements in the constituency are the seaside resorts of Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth, and the inland town of Ottery St Mary.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1868-1885

Constituency created - two seats (1868)

Election		First member^[3]	First party	Second member^[3]	Second party
	1868	Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt	Conservative	Lord Courtenay	Conservative
	1870	Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt	Conservative	Sir John Henry Kennaway, Bt	Conservative
	1880	William Hood Walrond	Conservative	Sir John Henry Kennaway, Bt	Conservative
1885		Constituency abolished

The two-seat constituency of East Devon was abolished at the 1885 general election.

MPs 1997-present

At the 1997 general election a new constituency of East Devon was established. Sir Peter Emery, MP for Honiton since a 1967 by-election, represented the new East Devon seat until standing down in 2001, when Hugo Swire was elected.

Election		Member^[3]	Party
	1997	Sir Peter Emery	Conservative
	2001	Hugo Swire	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: East Devon^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugo Swire	25,401	46.4	-1.9
	Independent	Claire Wright	13,140	24.0	N/A
	UKIP	Andrew Chapman	6,870	12.5	+4.4
	Labour	Steve Race^[5]	5,591	10.2	-0.6
	Liberal Democrat	Stuart Mole	3,715	6.8	-24.4
Majority			12,261	22.4
Turnout			54,717	73.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2010: East Devon^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugo Swire	25,662	48.3	+1.1
	Liberal Democrat	Paull Robathan	16,548	31.2	+3.1
	Labour	Gareth Manson	5,721	10.8	-7.5
	UKIP	Mike Amor	4,346	8.2	+2.6
	Green	Sharon Pavey	815	1.5	+1.5
Majority			9,114	17.2
Turnout			53,092	72.6	+4.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.0

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: East Devon^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugo Swire	23,075	46.9	-0.5
	Liberal Democrat	Tim Dumper	15,139	30.7	+0.4
	Labour	James Court	7,598	15.4	-1.3
	UKIP	Colin McNamee	3,035	6.2	+0.6
	Independent (politician)	Christopher Way	400	0.8	+0.8
Majority			7,936	16.1
Turnout			49,247	69.4	0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.5

General Election 2001: East Devon^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hugo Swire	22,681	47.4	+4.0
	Liberal Democrat	Tim Dumper	14,486	30.3	+1.2
	Labour	Phil Starr	7,974	16.7	-1.0
	UKIP	David Wilson	2,696	5.6	+4.8
Majority			8,195	17.1
Turnout			47,837	68.8	-7.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: East Devon^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Emery	22,797	43.38	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	R Trethewey	15,308	29.13	N/A
	Labour	A Siantonas	9,292	17.68	N/A
	Referendum	W Dixon	3,200	6.09	N/A
	Liberal	G Halliwell	1,363	2.59	N/A
	UKIP	C Giffard	459	0.87	N/A
	National Democrats	Gary Needs	131	0.25	N/A
Majority			7,489	14.25	N/A
Turnout			52,550	76	N/A

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the counties of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay". Boundary Commission for England. 2004-11-24. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
1 2 3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ https://twitter.com/EastDevonLabour/status/567482751293857792
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/312.htm

Sources

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)

Constituencies in South West England (55)

Conservative (51)	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 Salisbury Somerton and Frome South Dorset South East Cornwall South Swindon South West Devon South West Wiltshire St Austell and Newquay St Ives Stroud Taunton Deane Tewkesbury The Cotswolds Thornbury and Yate Tiverton and Honiton Torbay Torridge and West Devon Totnes Truro and Falmouth Wells West Dorset Weston-super-Mare Yeovil

Labour (4)	Bristol East Bristol South Bristol West Exeter

South West England European constituency: Conservative (2) Green (1) Labour (1) UKIP (2)

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