South East Cornwall | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cornwall |
Electorate | 70,599 (2018) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Sheryll Murray (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Bodmin, Cornwall North and Truro [2] |
South East Cornwall is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Sheryll Murray, a Conservative. [n 2]
1983–2010: The District of Caradon, the Borough of Restormel wards of Fowey, Lostwithiel, St Blaise, and Tywardreath, and the District of North Cornwall ward of Stoke Climsland.
2010–present: The District of Caradon, and the Borough of Restormel ward of Lostwithiel.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency will be composed of the following electoral divisions of Cornwall (as they existed on 4th May 2021):
Very small change to align with revised electoral division boundaries.
The predecessor county division, Bodmin, serving the area from 1885 until 1983 had (during those 98 years) 15 members (two of whom had broken terms of office serving the area), seeing twelve shifts of preference between the Liberal, Liberal Unionist and Conservative parties, spread quite broadly throughout that period. Consistent with this, since 1983 the preference for an MP has alternated between Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.
The current constituency territory contains the location of several former borough constituencies which were abolished as 'rotten boroughs' by the Great Reform Act, 1832:
The villages and towns in the South East of Cornwall often serve as a commuter base to the city of Plymouth, over the border in Devon.
Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.5% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [4]
Election | Member [5] | Party | |
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1983 | Robert Hicks | Conservative | |
1997 | Colin Breed | Liberal Democrat | |
2010 | Sheryll Murray | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Martin Corney [6] | ||||
Labour | Anna Gelderd [7] | ||||
Liberal | Jay Latham [8] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Colin Martin [9] | ||||
Conservative | Sheryll Murray [10] | ||||
Reform UK | Paul Wadley [11] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sheryll Murray | 31,807 | 59.3 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Gareth Derrick | 10,836 | 20.2 | -2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Colin Martin | 8,650 | 16.1 | -3.3 | |
Green | Martha Green | 1,493 | 2.8 | +0.3 | |
Liberal | Jay Latham | 869 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 20,971 | 39.1 | +6.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,655 | 74.7 | +0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sheryll Murray | 29,493 | 55.4 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Gareth Derrick | 12,050 | 22.6 | +13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Hutty | 10,346 | 19.4 | +2.5 | |
Green | Martin Corney | 1,335 | 2.5 | -2.9 | |
Majority | 17,443 | 32.8 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 53,224 | 74.0 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sheryll Murray | 25,516 | 50.5 | +5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Hutty | 8,521 | 16.9 | −21.7 | |
UKIP | Bradley Monk | 7,698 | 15.2 | +9.0 | |
Labour | Declan Lloyd | 4,692 | 9.3 | +2.2 | |
Green | Martin Corney | 2,718 | 5.4 | +3.7 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Andrew Long | 1,003 | 2.0 | +0.7 | |
Independent | George Trubody | 350 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 16,995 | 33.6 | +28.1 | ||
Turnout | 50,498 | 71.1 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +13.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sheryll Murray | 22,390 | 45.1 | +10.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Karen Gillard | 19,170 | 38.6 | −8.1 | |
Labour | Michael Sparling | 3,507 | 7.1 | −3.4 | |
UKIP | Stephanie McWilliam | 3,083 | 6.2 | +1.1 | |
Green | Roger Creagh-Osborne | 826 | 1.7 | New | |
Mebyon Kernow | Roger Holmes | 641 | 1.3 | −0.4 | |
Majority | 3,220 | 6.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,617 | 68.7 | +1.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +9.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Colin Breed | 24,986 | 46.7 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Ashley Gray | 18,479 | 34.6 | −0.9 | |
Labour | Colin Binley | 6,069 | 11.4 | −1.0 | |
UKIP | David Lucas | 2,693 | 5.0 | +1.2 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Graham Sandercock | 769 | 1.4 | −0.9 | |
Veritas | Anne Assheton-Salton | 459 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 6,507 | 12.1 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 53,455 | 66.2 | +0.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Colin Breed | 23,756 | 45.9 | −1.2 | |
Conservative | Ashley Gray | 18,381 | 35.5 | −0.3 | |
Labour | William Stevens | 6,429 | 12.4 | −0.4 | |
UKIP | Graham Palmer | 1,978 | 3.8 | +1.3 | |
Mebyon Kernow | Kenneth George | 1,209 | 2.3 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 5,375 | 10.4 | -0.9 | ||
Turnout | 51,753 | 65.4 | −10.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | −0.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Colin Breed | 27,044 | 47.1 | +9.0 | |
Conservative | Warwick Lightfoot | 20,564 | 35.8 | −15.1 | |
Labour | Dorothy M. Kirk | 7,358 | 12.8 | +3.6 | |
UKIP | James Wonnacott | 1,428 | 2.5 | New | |
Mebyon Kernow | Paul Dunbar | 573 | 1.0 | New | |
Liberal | Bill Weights | 268 | 0.5 | −0.6 | |
Natural Law | Margot Hartley | 197 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 6,480 | 11.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 57,400 | 75.7 | -6.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | +12.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Hicks | 30,565 | 51.0 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robin Teverson | 22,861 | 38.1 | −1.6 | |
Labour Co-op | Linda Gilroy | 5,536 | 9.2 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | Maureen Cook | 644 | 1.1 | New | |
Anti-Federalist League | Anthony Quick | 227 | 0.4 | New | |
Natural Law | Rosaleen Allen | 155 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 7,704 | 12.9 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 59,988 | 82.1 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Hicks | 28,818 | 51.6 | −3.7 | |
Liberal | Ian Tunbridge | 22,211 | 39.7 | +0.8 | |
Labour | Paul Clark | 4,847 | 8.7 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 6,607 | 11.9 | -4.5 | ||
Turnout | 55.876 | 79.5 | +0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Hicks | 28,326 | 55.3 | ||
Liberal | David Blunt | 19,972 | 38.9 | ||
Labour | Andrew Bebb | 2,507 | 4.9 | ||
Ecology | John Chadwick | 337 | 0.7 | ||
Independent | Joy Dent | 94 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 8,354 | 16.4 | |||
Turnout | 51,236 | 78.6 | |||
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