Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Map of constituency
Boundary of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in South West England
CountyDevon
Electorate73,495 (2023)[1]
Major settlementsPlymouth
Current constituency
Created2010
Member of ParliamentLuke Pollard (Labour Co-op)
SeatsOne
Created fromPlymouth Devonport, Plymouth Sutton

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport is a constituency created in 2010, and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Luke Pollard of the Labour and Co-operative Party. The seat is a borough constituency (for the purposes of type of returning officer and election expenses). As with all current constituencies it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system.

Pollard's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains for the Labour Party. The seat was in 2010 and 2015 a very marginal win for Oliver Colvile of the Conservative Party, his greatest majority being 2.6%.

Constituency profile

The constituency covers the south of the city and includes the city centre and HMNB Devonport, and has a large student population attending the University of Plymouth.[2]

Boundaries

Map
Map of current boundaries

2010–2024

The City of Plymouth wards of:

2024–present

As above les polling districts KC and KD of Peverell ward.[4]

Further to the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency was reduced slightly in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range by transferring north-western parts of Peverell ward to Plymouth Moor View.

History

History of boundaries

The 2007 review by the Boundary Commission for England recommended the creation of this seat and Plymouth Moor View, which was duly approved by Parliament.[3] It is largely based on the former Plymouth Sutton. To this is added smaller parts of the former Plymouth Devonport seat.

History of results
Results for the UK Commons seat named and for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport

This constituency was won on creation in 2010 by a Conservative, Oliver Colvile. In 2015, against opinion polls for losing, Colvile held it (but narrowly) over the Labour candidate Luke Pollard. The 2015 result gave the seat the 7th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.[5]

In 2017, Pollard defeated Colvile to gain the seat with a majority of 6,807; originally, the majority was declared as 6,002, but a spreadsheet error meant the votes from the Efford and Lipson wards were not included in the declaration on the night of the count.[6] Additionally about 35,000 postal voters received two polling cards, and some postal votes were not sent out.[7]

Members of Parliament

Election Member[8] Party
2010 Oliver Colvile Conservative
2017 Luke Pollard Labour Co-op

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Plymouth Sutton and Devonport[9][10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 20,795 49.4 +1.0
Reform UK Peter Gold 7,467 17.7 +12.0
Conservative Gareth Streeter 6,873 16.3 –21.7
Green Cam Hayward 3,186 7.6 +4.6
Liberal Democrats Holly Greenberry-Pullen 2,441 5.8 +0.9
Independent Chaz Singh 619 1.5 N/A
Workers Party Guy Haywood 311 0.7 N/A
TUSC Alex Moore 220 0.5 N/A
Socialist Labour Robert Hawkins 183 0.4 N/A
Majority 13,328 31.7 +22.7
Turnout 42,095 55.9 –11.1
Registered electors 75,313
Labour Co-op hold Swing

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result[11]
Party Vote %
Labour 23,847 48.4
Conservative 18,725 38.0
Brexit Party 2,799 5.7
Liberal Democrats 2,416 4.9
Green 1,476 3.0
Turnout 49,263 67.0
Electorate 73,495
General election 2019: Plymouth Sutton and Devonport[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 25,461 47.9 –5.4
Conservative Rebecca Smith 20,704 38.9 –1.1
Brexit Party Ann Widdecombe 2,909 5.5 N/A
Liberal Democrats Graham Reed 2,545 4.8 +2.4
Green James Ellwood 1,557 2.9 +1.7
Majority 4,757 9.0 –4.3
Turnout 53,176 68.3 +1.3
Registered electors 77,852
Labour Co-op hold Swing –2.2
General election 2017: Plymouth Sutton and Devonport[13][14][15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 27,283 53.3 +16.6
Conservative Oliver Colvile 20,476 40.0 +2.2
UKIP Richard Ellison 1,364 2.7 –11.3
Liberal Democrats Henrietta Bewley 1,244 2.4 –1.8
Green Dan Sheaff 604 1.2 –5.9
Independent Danny Bamping 237 0.5 N/A
Majority 6,807 13.3 N/A
Turnout 51,208 67.0 +1.5
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative Swing +7.2
See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Plymouth Sutton & Devonport
General election 2015: Plymouth Sutton and Devonport[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Colvile 18,120 37.8 +3.5
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 17,597 36.7 +5.0
UKIP Roy Kettle 6,731 14.0 +7.5
Green Libby Brown 3,401 7.1 +5.0
Liberal Democrats Graham Reed 2,008 4.2 –20.5
Communist Laura-Jane Rossington 106 0.2 N/A
Majority 523 1.1 Decrease1.5
Turnout 47,963 65.5 Increase3.7
Conservative hold Swing –0.8
General election 2010: Plymouth Sutton and Devonport[17][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Colvile 15,050 34.3
Labour Linda Gilroy 13,901 31.7
Liberal Democrats Judy Evans 10,829 24.7
UKIP Andrew Leigh 2,854 6.5
Green Tony Brown 904 2.1
Independent Brian Gerrish 223 0.5
Socialist Labour Robert Hawkins 123 0.3
Majority 1,149 2.6
Turnout 43,894 61.8
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

References

  1. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – South West". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  2. ^ UK Polling Report https://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/plymouthmoorview/
  3. ^ a b "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the counties of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay". Boundary Commission for England. 24 November 2004. Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  4. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 7 South West region.
  5. ^ "Conservative Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Council says sorry after it failed to count 6,500 votes". Plymouth Herald. 10 June 2017. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  7. ^ Waddington, Sarah (15 September 2017). "The full story: Plymouth's election chaos and what went wrong". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  8. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
  9. ^ "Plymouth Sutton and Devonport results". BBC News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  10. ^ "UK Parliamentary General Election Results". Plymouth City Council. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  13. ^ "2017 general election candidates in Devon". Devon Live. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
  14. ^ Due to an error, not all of the votes cast and counted, were included in the published totals: "Labour MP Luke Pollard's fury as votes left out of result". BBC News. 10 June 2017.
  15. ^ "Statement on the General Election results for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport". Plymouth City Council. 10 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  16. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  17. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  18. ^ BBC Election Results, Election Results 2010 - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, bbc.co.uk; retrieved 7 May 2010.

Sources

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