Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in South West England
County	Devon
Electorate	73,495 (2023)
Major settlements	Plymouth
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Luke Pollard (Labour Co-op)
Seats	One
Created from	Plymouth 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 was one of two won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of twelve in its county. 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, his greatest majority being 2.6%.

Constituency profile

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

Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

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.

2010-2024: The wards which make up this seat include Compton, Devonport, Stonehouse, Drake (which includes the University and Mutley), Efford and Lipson, Peverell, St Peter and the Waterfront, Stoke, and Sutton and Mount Gould.^[3]

The constituency is entirely within the boundaries of the City of Plymouth, and includes the city centre.

2024-present: The composition of the constituency from the 2024 United Kingdom general election will be reduced slightly in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, by removing north-western parts of the City of Plymouth ward of Peverell - namely polling districts KC and KD - to be transferred to Plymouth Moor View.^[4]

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

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

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	1.5
Turnout			47,963	65.5	3.7
	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)

References

^ "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.
^ UK Polling Report https://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/plymouthmoorview/
^ ^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.
^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 7 South West region.
^ "Conservative Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ "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.
^ Waddington, Sarah (15 September 2017). "The full story: Plymouth's election chaos and what went wrong". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
^ "Plymouth Sutton and Devonport results". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
^ "UK Parliamentary General Election Results". Plymouth City Council. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
^ "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.
^ "Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
^ "2017 general election candidates in Devon". Devon Live. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
^ 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.
^ "Statement on the General Election results for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport". Plymouth City Council. 10 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ BBC Election Results, Election Results 2010 - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, bbc.co.uk; retrieved 7 May 2010.

Sources

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, UKPollingReport

External links

Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK

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[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/

[BCEDevon-3] "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.

[plymouthherald-20170915-7] Waddington, Sarah (15 September 2017). "The full story: Plymouth's election chaos and what went wrong". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2018.

[rayment-8] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)

[9] "Plymouth Sutton and Devonport results". BBC News. BBC. 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.

[bbc-20170610-14] 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.

[electoralcalculus-16] "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[electoralcalculus2010-17] "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.

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