Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency)

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, a Labour Co-operative party candidate.

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in Devon
Location of Devon within England
CountyDevon
Electorate71,236 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlementsPlymouth
Current constituency
Created2010
Member of ParliamentLuke Pollard (Labour Co-operative)
Number of membersOne
Created fromPlymouth Devonport, Plymouth Sutton

The seat is 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 the Conservative candidate, the 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

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.

The areas which make up this seat include Compton, Devonport, Stonehouse, Drake ward (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.

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.[4]

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 ward were not included in the declaration on the night of the count.[5] Additionally about 35,000 postal voters received two polling cards, causing confusion, and some postal votes were not sent out.[6]

Members of Parliament
ElectionMember[7] Party
2010 Oliver Colvile Conservative
2017 Luke Pollard Labour Co-op

Elections

Elections in the 2010s
General election 2019: Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport[8]
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 53,173 68.3 1.3
Registered electors 77,852
Labour Co-op hold Swing 2.2
General election 2017: Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport[9][10][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Luke Pollard 27,283 53.3 16.6
Conservative Oliver Colvile 20,476 40.0 2.3
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 1.4
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[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Colvile 18,120 37.8 3.5
Labour 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[13][14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Colvile 15,050 34.3 4.7
Labour Linda Gilroy 13,901 31.7 9.0
Liberal Democrats Judy Evans 10,829 24.7 2.1
UKIP Andrew Leigh 2,854 6.5 0.1
Green Tony Brown 904 2.1 2.1
Independent Brian Gerrish 223 0.5 0.5
Socialist Labour Robert Hawkins 123 0.3 0.3
Majority 1,149 2.6 N/A
Turnout 43,894 61.8 6.3
Conservative gain from Labour Swing 6.9

See also

Notes and references
  1. "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  2. UK Polling Report https://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/plymouthmoorview/
  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. List of Conservative MPs elected in 2015 by % majority, UKPolitical.info; retrieved 29 January 2017.
  5. "Council says sorry after it failed to count 6,500 votes". Plymouth Herald. 2017-06-10. Archived from the original on 2017-06-10. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
  6. Waddington, Sarah (15 September 2017). "The full story: Plymouth's election chaos and what went wrong". Plymouth Herald. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  7. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
  8. "Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  9. "2017 general election candidates in Devon". Devon Live. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017.
  10. 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.
  11. "Statement on the General Election results for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport". Plymouth City Council. 10 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  12. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  13. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  14. BBC Election Results, Election Results 2010 - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, bbc.co.uk; retrieved 7 May 2010.

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