Tiverton and Honiton | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Devon |
Electorate | 75,839 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Tiverton, Honiton, Axminster, Seaton and Cullompton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Richard Foord (Liberal Democrat) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Tiverton, Honiton |
Tiverton and Honiton is a constituency [n 1] in Devon, England. The current MP is Richard Foord of the Liberal Democrats, elected at a by-election on 23 June 2022.
Prior to the by-election, the constituency had always returned a Conservative MP since its creation in 1997. The by-election was held following the resignation of Neil Parish after he was caught watching pornography in the House of Commons chamber (Parish himself admitted to doing so on two separate occasions). [2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished, with the majority, including the towns of Axminster, Cullompton, Honiton and Seaton, being included in the new constituency of Honiton and Sidmouth , to be first contested at the 2024 general election. The town of Tiverton and surrounding rural areas will be included in the newly created cross-county boundary seat of Tiverton and Minehead. [3]
This is a mostly rural constituency covering a broad sweep between Exmoor to the north and Lyme Bay to the south, including the towns of Tiverton and Honiton and their surrounding villages (which include extensive farmland, rivers popular with kayakers and part of the Blackdown Hills). Some residents commute to Exeter. [4] Residents' wealth is around average for the UK. [5]
1997–2010: The District of Mid Devon except the wards of Taw, Taw Vale, and West Creedy, and the District of East Devon wards of Broadclyst, Clystbeare, Clyst Valley, Exe Valley, Honiton St Michael's, Honiton St Paul's, Otterhead, Ottery St Mary Rural, Ottery St Mary Town, Patteson, and Tale Vale.
2010–present: The District of Mid Devon wards of Canonsleigh, Castle, Clare and Shuttern, Cranmore, Cullompton North, Cullompton Outer, Cullompton South, Halberton, Lower Culm, Lowman, Upper Culm, and Westexe, and the District of East Devon wards of 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.
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election, and gave Devon 12 seats instead of 11. Some wards of Mid Devon District in this seat were transferred to the new Central Devon constituency; however, parts of the East Devon constituency, including the towns of Axminster and Seaton, were gained in return.
The seat came about when the town of Honiton from the Honiton constituency was added to the Tiverton constituency 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 and their area was widened to cover two divisions of the county under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.
Prominent holders of the seats in the 19th century included Whig politician Joseph Locke, a railway pioneer, who was MP for Honiton, and Lord Palmerston, who, while MP for Tiverton, served as the first Prime Minister from the newly formed Liberal Party (1855–1858 and 1859–1865).
The area served by the constituency had not been represented by a party other than the Conservative Party in Westminster since 1923. Following the 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election, the Liberal Democrats gained the seat from the Conservatives.
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1997 | Angela Browning | Conservative | |
2010 | Neil Parish | Conservative | |
2022 | Independent | ||
2022 by-election | Richard Foord | Liberal Democrats |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Richard Foord | 22,537 | 52.9 | +38.1 | |
Conservative | Helen Hurford | 16,393 | 38.5 | −21.7 | |
Labour | Liz Pole | 1,562 | 3.7 | −15.8 | |
Green | Gill Westcott | 1,064 | 2.5 | −1.3 | |
Reform UK | Andy Foan | 481 | 1.1 | New | |
UKIP | Ben Walker | 241 | 0.6 | −1.0 | |
Heritage | Jordan Donoghue-Morgan | 167 | 0.4 | New | |
For Britain | Frankie Rufolo | 146 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 6,144 | 14.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,593 | 52.3 | −19.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | +29.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Parish | 35,893 | 60.2 | ―1.2 | |
Labour | Liz Pole | 11,654 | 19.5 | ―7.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Timperley | 8,807 | 14.8 | +6.8 | |
Green | Colin Reed | 2,291 | 3.8 | +0.3 | |
UKIP | Margaret Dennis | 968 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 24,239 | 40.7 | +6.4 | ||
Turnout | 59,613 | 71.9 | +0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Parish | 35,471 | 61.4 | +7.4 | |
Labour | Caroline Kolek | 15,670 | 27.1 | +14.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Wilson | 4,639 | 8.0 | ―2.5 | |
Green | Gill Westcott | 2,035 | 3.5 | ―2.9 | |
Majority | 19,801 | 34.3 | ―3.2 | ||
Turnout | 57,815 | 71.5 | +1.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―3.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Parish | 29,030 | 54.0 | +3.7 | |
UKIP | Graham Smith | 8,857 | 16.5 | +10.5 | |
Labour | Caroline Kolek | 6,835 | 12.7 | +3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Kearney | 5,626 | 10.5 | ―22.8 | |
Green | Paul Edwards | 3,415 | 6.4 | +4.9 | |
Majority | 20,173 | 37.5 | +20.5 | ||
Turnout | 53,763 | 70.5 | ―1.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―3.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Parish | 27,614 | 50.3 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | 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 | 17.0 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 54,894 | 71.5 | +1.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angela Browning | 27,838 | 47.9 | +0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 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 | 19.0 | +7.7 | ||
Turnout | 58,168 | 69.8 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angela Browning | 26,258 | 47.1 | +5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Barnard | 19,974 | 35.8 | ―2.7 | |
Labour | Isabel Owen | 6,647 | 11.9 | ―0.9 | |
UKIP | Alan Langmaid | 1,281 | 2.3 | New | |
Green | Matthew Burgess | 1,030 | 1.8 | +1.0 | |
Liberal | Jennifer Roach | 594 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 6,284 | 11.3 | +8.5 | ||
Turnout | 55,784 | 69.2 | ―8.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Angela Browning | 24,438 | 41.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | James Barnard | 22,785 | 38.5 | ||
Labour | John King | 7,598 | 12.8 | ||
Referendum | Stephen Lowings | 2,952 | 5.0 | ||
Liberal | Jennifer Roach | 635 | 1.1 | ||
Green | Emily McIvor | 485 | 0.8 | ||
National Democrats | Del Charles | 236 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 1,653 | 2.8 | |||
Turnout | 59,129 | 77.6 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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