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Tiverton and Minehead | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Somerset (majority) Devon (minority) |
Electorate | 70,829 (2023)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Rachel Gilmour (Liberal Democrats) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Bridgwater and West Somerset, Taunton Deane & Tiverton and Honiton |
Tiverton and Minehead is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.[2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election.[3]
The constituency is named after the Devon town of Tiverton and the Somerset town of Minehead.[4]
The constituency, which crosses the boundary between the counties of Devon and Somerset, will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise the following areas:[6]
With effect from 1 April 2023, the District of Somerset West and Taunton was abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of Somerset.[7] In addition, a local government boundary review was carried out in Mid Devon which came into effect in May 2023.[8][9] The constituency will therefore now comprise the following from the 2024 general election:
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Rachel Gilmour | Liberal Democrat |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Rachel Gilmour[11] | 18,326 | 38.6 | +19.1 | |
Conservative | Ian Liddell-Grainger[12] | 14,819 | 31.2 | –30.1 | |
Reform UK | Frederick Keen[13] | 7,787 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Jonathan Barter[14] | 4,325 | 9.1 | –5.2 | |
Green | Laura Buchanan[15] | 2,234 | 4.7 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 3,507 | 7.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,491 | 66.1 | –3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 71,843 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | 24.6 |
2019 notional result[16] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 30,297 | 61.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 9,632 | 19.5 | |
Labour | 7,070 | 14.3 | |
Green | 2,103 | 4.3 | |
Independent | 309 | 0.6 | |
Turnout | 49,411 | 69.8 | |
Electorate | 70,829 |