List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Cornwall
The ceremonial county of Cornwall, which includes the Isles of Scilly, is divided into six parliamentary constituencies. They are all county constituencies.
All six parliamentary seats are currently held by Conservatives, having came from holding no seats in 1997, 2001 and 2005, to gaining three of the six from the Liberal Democrats in 2010, to gaining the remaining three to hold all six Cornish seats in 2015. All six MPs were re-elected in 2017. In that election, several previous Liberal Democrat candidates, including previous MPs Andrew George and Steve Gilbert re-stood in their old seats, but failed to be re-elected. In all six seats, the Labour vote surged, pushing the Liberals into third place in four of the six seats. In the 2019 election, Labour retained their position as the second-placed party in most of the Cornish seats, holding their vote up far better in the region than elsewhere in the country. The last Labour MP for a Cornish constituency was Candy Atherton, who held the seat of Falmouth and Camborne between 1997 and 2005.
Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤
| Constituency | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 1] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Current electoral wards[3][4] | Original electoral wards[5][6] | Map | ||
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| Camborne and Redruth | 70,250 | 8,700 | George Eustice † | Paul Farmer ‡ |
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| North Cornwall | 69,935 | 14,752 | Scott Mann † | Danny Chambers ¤ |
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| South East Cornwall | 71,825 | 20,971 | Sheryll Murray † | Gareth Derrick ‡ |
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| St Austell and Newquay | 79,930 | 16,526 | Steve Double † | Felicity Owen ‡ |
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| St Ives | 68,795 | 4,284 | Derek Thomas † | Andrew George ¤ |
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| Truro and Falmouth | 76,719 | 4,561 | Cherilyn Mackrory † | Jennifer Forbes ‡ |
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Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats which covered Cornwall from 5 to 6. Falmouth and Camborne, and Truro and St Austell were abolished and replaced by Camborne and Redruth, St Austell and Newquay, and Truro and Falmouth.
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[7] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final recommendations were submitted to the Speaker of the House of Commons and then published on 28 June 2023.
When the final recommendations come into effect at the next general election, the six existing parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall are to be retained with the same names and relatively minor alterations compared to other parts of the country.[8]
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[9]
Vote breakdown
| Year | Conservative | Labour | Liberal Democrats | Green | UKIP | Mebyon Kernow | Others | Notes | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | -/+ | Votes | % | -/+ | Votes | % | -/+ | Votes | % | -/+ | Votes | % | -/+ | Votes | % | -/+ | Votes | % | ||
| 2019 | 173,027 | 53.8 | +5.4 | 74,392 | 23.1 | -3.6 | 62,165 | 19.3 | -4.2 | 7,129 | 2.2 | +1.1 | did not contest | 1,660 | 0.5 | +0.5 | 3,602 | 1.1 | |||
| 2017 | 152,428 | 48.4 | +5.3 | 83,968 | 26.7 | +14.4 | 73,875 | 23.5 | +1.1 | 3,218 | 1.0 | -4.8 | 897 | 0.3 | -13.5 | did not contest | 323 | 0.1 | |||
| 2015 | 127,079 | 43.1 | +2.2 | 36,235 | 12.3 | +3.7 | 66,056 | 22.4 | -19.4 | 17,241 | 5.8 | +4.5 | 40,785 | 13.8 | +8.9 | 5,675 | 1.9 |  |
1,757 | 0.6 | |
| 2010 | 115,016 | 40.9 | +9.1 | 24,257 | 8.6 | -7.0 | 117,307 | 41.8 | -2.6 | 3,573 | 1.3 | +0.6 | 13,763 | 4.9 | -0.1 | 5,379 | 1.9 | +0.5 | 1,586 | 0.6 | |
| 2005 | 82,543 | 31.8 | -0.8 | 41,140 | 15.6 | -1.7 | 115,241 | 44.4 | -0.4 | 1,738 | 0.7 | +0.7 | 12,863 | 5.0 | +1.3 | 3,552 | 1.4 | +0.1 | 2,356 | 0.9 | |
| 2001 | 82,227 | 32.6 | +2.2 | 43,674 | 17.3 | +0.2 | 113,000 | 44.8 | +0.9 | did not contest | 9,290 | 3.7 | +2.7 | 3,199 | 1.3 | +0.6 | 727 | 0.3 | |||
| 1997 | 85,077 | 30.4 | -12.3 | 47,913 | 17.1 | +3.2 | 123,124 | 43.9 | +2.2 | 482 | 0.2 | -0.1 | 2,926 | 1.0 | +1.0 | 1,906 | 0.7 | +0.7 | 18,779 | 6.7 | |
| 1992 | 127,678 | 42.7 | -4.6 | 41,593 | 13.9 | +1.3 | 124,553 | 41.7 | +1.7 | 1,035 | 0.3 | +0.3 | did not exist | did not contest | 4,098 | 1.4 | |||||
| 1987 | 131,194 | 47.3 | -2.0 | 34,994 | 12.6 | +3.7 | 111,064 | 40.0 | -0.8 | did not contest | did not contest | 373 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| 1983 | 126,182 | 49.3 | -1.3 | 22,838 | 8.9 | -3.7 | 104,365 | 40.8 | +6.6 | 776 | 0.3 | -0.2 | 1,151 | 0.5 | -1.1 | 677 | 0.3 | ||||
Percentage votes
| Election year | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative1 | 35.0 | 48.6 | 38.4 | 42.0 | 44.2 | 50.5 | 48.5 | 43.8 | 41.1 | 41.1 | 47.9 | 41.8 | 43.6 | 50.6 | 49.3 | 47.3 | 42.7 | 30.4 | 32.6 | 31.8 | 40.9 | 43.1 | 48.4 | 53.8 |
| Labour | 2.3 | 9.7 | 18.1 | 25.4 | 29.6 | 33.3 | 30.7 | 27.5 | 25.9 | 27.6 | 24.6 | 19.6 | 20.0 | 12.6 | 8.9 | 12.6 | 13.9 | 17.1 | 17.3 | 15.9 | 8.6 | 12.3 | 26.7 | 23.1 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 52.6 | 41.7 | 42.4 | 32.6 | 26.2 | 16.2 | 20.8 | 28.7 | 32.8 | 30.6 | 27.0 | 38.2 | 35.2 | 34.2 | 40.8 | 40.0 | 41.7 | 44.0 | 44.8 | 44.4 | 41.8 | 22.4 | 23.5 | 19.3 |
| Green Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | * | * | 1.3 | 5.8 | 1.0 | 2.2 |
| UKIP | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.9 | 13.8 | 0.3 | – |
| Other | 10.0 | – | 1.2 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 8.6 | 5.2 | 7.9 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1.6 |
1Includes Constitutionalist in 1924 and National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950–1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Meaningful vote percentages are not applicable for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1931 and 1935 since one or more seats were gained unopposed.
Seats
| Election year | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| National Liberal | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Independent Liberal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
1Includes Constitutionalist in 1924 and National Liberal Party up to 1966
2pre-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
1885–1910
- 1885
- 1886
- 1892
- 1895
- 1900
- 1906
- Jan 1910
- Dec 1910
1918–1945
- 1918
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1929
- 1931
- 1935
- 1945
1950–present
- 1950
- 1951
- 1955
- 1959
- 1964
- 1966
- 1970
- 1974 Feb
- 1974 Oct
- 1979
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1832 to 1868 (14 MPs)
Conservative Independent Liberal Liberal Peelite Radical Whig
| Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 38 | 40 | 1841 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 1847 | 49 | 1852 | 53 | 54 | 1857 | 58 | 1859 | 59 | 65 | 1865 | 66 | 68 |
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| Bodmin | Peter | C. Vivian | Spry | Wyld | Michell | J. C. Vivian | Leveson-Gower | |||||||||||||||||
| Spry | → | Gardner | Lacy | Graves-Sawle | Wyld | Michell | Wyld | |||||||||||||||||
| Cornwall Eastern | Molesworth | R. H. Vivian | W. Rashleigh | T. J. Agar-Robartes | → | |||||||||||||||||||
| W. Salusbury-Trelawny | Eliot | Pole-Carew | Kendall | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornwall Western | Wynne-Pendarves | Williams | St Aubyn | → | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lemon | Boscawen-Rose | Lemon | Davey | → | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Helston | Lane-Fox | Townshend | Sackville | Basset | R. Vyvyan | Trueman | Rogers | Young | W. Brett | |||||||||||||||
| Launceston | Hardinge | Bowles | Percy | Haliburton | Campbell | Lopes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Liskeard | C. Buller | Crowder | Grey | Osborne | A. Buller | |||||||||||||||||||
| Penryn & Falmouth | Rolfe | Hutchins | J. C. Vivian | Gwyn | Baring | → | Smith | |||||||||||||||||
| Bury | Freshfield | Plumridge | Mowatt | Freshfield | Gurney | |||||||||||||||||||
| St Ives | Halse | W. Praed | Powlett | Laffan | Paull | |||||||||||||||||||
| Truro | R. H. Vivian | J. E. Vivian | A. Smith | → | J. C. Vivian | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tooke | Turner | H. Willyams | H. Vivian | E. Willyams | M. Smith | F. Williams | ||||||||||||||||||
1868 to 1885 (13 MPs)
1885 to 1918 (7 MPs)
Conservative Independent Liberal Liberal Liberal Unionist
| Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 1892 | 1895 | 98 | 99 | 1900 | 03 | 04 | 1906 | 06 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 15 | 16 |
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| Bodmin | Courtney | → | → | Molesworth | Agar-Robartes | Freeman-Thomas | Grenfell | Pole-Carew | → | Hanson | ||||||||
| Camborne | Conybeare | → | Strauss | Caine | Lawson | Dunn | F. Dyke Acland | |||||||||||
| Launceston | C. Dyke-Acland | Owen | Moulton | Marks | ||||||||||||||
| Penryn and Falmouth | Jenkins | Cavendish-Bentinck | Horniman | Barker | Goldman | |||||||||||||
| St Austell | Borlase | McArthur | Agar-Robartes | Layland-Barratt | ||||||||||||||
| St Ives | St Aubyn | → | Bolitho | Hain | → | Cory | ||||||||||||
| Truro | Bickford-Smith | → | Williams | Durning-Lawrence | Morgan | |||||||||||||
1918 to 1950 (5 MPs)
Coalition Liberal (1918–22) / National Liberal (1922–23) Conservative Constitutionalist Independent Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931–68)
| Constituency | 1918 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 24 | 28 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 32 | 1935 | 37 | 39 | 41 | 1945 | 46 | 47 |
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| Bodmin | Hanson | Foot | Harrison | Foot | Rathbone | B. Rathbone | Marshall | |||||||||||
| Camborne | Dyke Acland | Moreing | Jones | Moreing | → | Jones | Agnew | |||||||||||
| Cornwall North | Marks | → | → | Williams | Maclean | Dyke Acland | Horabin | → | → | |||||||||
| Penryn and Falmouth | Nicholl | Shipwright | Mansel | Pilcher | Walters | Petherick | King | |||||||||||
| St Ives | Cory | Hawke | Cory | Hawke | H. Runciman | W. Runciman | → | Beechman | ||||||||||
1950 to 2010 (5 MPs)
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats National Liberal (1931–68)
| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 68 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 87 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
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| Cornwall North | Roper | Scott-Hopkins | Pardoe | Neale | Tyler | Rogerson | |||||||||||||
| Bodmin / Cornwall South East (1983) | Marshall | Bessell | Hicks | Tyler | Hicks | Breed | |||||||||||||
| Falmouth and Camborne | Hayman | Dunwoody | Mudd | Coe | Atherton | Goldsworthy | |||||||||||||
| St Ives | Howard | Nott | → | Harris | George | ||||||||||||||
| Truro / Truro and St Austell (1997) | Wilson | Dixon | Penhaligon | Taylor | → | ||||||||||||||
2010 to present (6 MPs)
Conservative Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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| Camborne and Redruth | Eustice | |||
| North Cornwall | Rogerson | Mann | ||
| St Ives | George | Thomas | ||
| South East Cornwall | Murray | |||
| St Austell and Newquay | Gilbert | Double | ||
| Truro and Falmouth | Newton | Mackrory | ||
- The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
- Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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- "Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
- "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1204-1215. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
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