The ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England, which includes the Borough of Swindon, is divided into eight Parliamentary constituencies. They are all county constituencies.[nb 1]
Constituencies
edit† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
Constituency | Electorate[1] | Majority[2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Chippenham CC | 72,492 | 8,138 | Sarah Gibson¤ | Nic Puntis† | |||
East Wiltshire CC | 72,409 | 4,716 | Danny Kruger† | Rob Newman‡ | |||
Melksham and Devizes CC | 71,999 | 2,401 | Brian Mathew¤ | Michelle Donelan† | |||
Salisbury CC | 70,281 | 3,807 | John Glen† | Matt Aldridge‡ | |||
South Cotswolds CC (part) | 71,490 | 4,973 | Roz Savage¤ | James Gray† | |||
South West Wiltshire CC | 71,574 | 3,243 | Andrew Murrison† | Evelyn Akoto† | |||
Swindon North CC | 73,238 | 4,103 | Will Stone‡ | Justin Tomlinson† | |||
Swindon South CC | 72,596 | 9,606 | Heidi Alexander‡ | Robert Buckland† |
Boundary changes
edit2024
editSee 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
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For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Wiltshire with Gloucestershire as a sub-region of the South West Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of South Cotswolds, resulting in a major reconfiguration of Chippenham. Devizes and North Wiltshire were abolished and new constituencies named East Wiltshire, and Melksham and Devizes, created.[3][4] These changes came into effect for the 2024 general election.
The following seats resulted from the review:
Containing electoral wards in the Borough of Swindon
Containing electoral wards in the Wiltshire unitary authority district
- Chippenham
- East Wiltshire (part)
- Melksham and Devizes
- Salisbury
- South Cotswolds (parts also in the Districts of Cotswold and Stroud in Gloucestershire)
- South West Wiltshire
2010
editUnder the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats in Wiltshire from 6 to 7, with the re-establishment of Chippenham, which affected neighbouring constituencies. An adjusted Westbury constituency was renamed South West Wiltshire.
Former name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Current name | Boundaries 2010–2024 |
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Results history
editPrimary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
2024
editThe number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Wiltshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:[nb 2][2]
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
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Conservative | 125,505 | 32.6% | 25.2% | 3 | 4 |
Liberal Democrats | 96,677 | 25.1% | 6.5% | 3 | 3 |
Labour | 89,880 | 23.3% | 3.2% | 2 | 2 |
Reform | 52,755 | 13.7% | New | 0 | New |
Greens | 16,864 | 4.4% | 1.1% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 3,849 | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 385,530 | 100.0 | 8 |
2019
editThe number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Wiltshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 217,955 | 57.8% | 1.0% | 7 | 0 |
Labour | 77,343 | 20.1% | 6.9% | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 69,876 | 18.6% | 6.7% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 11,378 | 3.3% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 745 | 0.6% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 377,297 | 100.0 | 7 |
Percentage votes
editElection year | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
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1974
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1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative | 52.8 | 50.0 | 45.7 | 53.9 | 43.2 | 60.7 | 56.2 | 41.6 | 41.0 | 50.1 | 49.6 | 49.3 | 43.2 | 43.8 | 51.0 | 41.9 | 40.3 | 47.4 | 50.3 | 51.9 | 50.9 | 40.2 | 42.1 | 44.3 | 47.7 | 52.4 | 56.8 | 57.8 | 32.6 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 30.1 | 34.6 | 42.9 | 30.4 | 34.8 | 19.1 | 19.8 | 18.4 | 19.6 | 3.7 | 8.7 | 10.7 | 18.9 | 15.2 | 11.7 | 29.8 | 30.2 | 27.5 | 34.2 | 31.2 | 28.7 | 26.2 | 25.0 | 26.9 | 30.4 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 18.5 | 25.1 |
Labour | 17.1 | 15.4 | 11.4 | 15.7 | 21.9 | 20.2 | 24.0 | 39.9 | 39.2 | 46.2 | 41.7 | 38.7 | 37.5 | 40.6 | 37.2 | 28.1 | 29.3 | 22.8 | 14.9 | 16.7 | 18.3 | 28.0 | 29.0 | 24.3 | 15.3 | 17.3 | 27.4 | 20.5 | 23.3 |
Reform | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13.7 |
Green Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | * | * | 1.0 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 4.4 |
UKIP | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.0 | 13.5 | 1.8 | * | – |
Other | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.1 | – | – | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
1pre-1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
editElection year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
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1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Labour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
11974 & 1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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Historical representation by party
editA cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1885 to 1918 (6 seats)
editConservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 97 | 98 | 00 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 18 |
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Cricklade | Maskelyne | → | Husband | Hopkinson | FitzMaurice | Massie | Calley | Lambert | ||||||
Chippenham | Fletcher | Bruce | Dickson-Poynder | → | Terrell | |||||||||
Devizes | Long | Hobhouse | Goulding | Rogers | Peto | |||||||||
Salisbury | Grenfell | Hulse | Allhusen | Palmer | Tennant | Locker-Lampson | ||||||||
Westbury | Fuller | Chaloner | Fuller | Howard | ||||||||||
Wilton | Grove | → | Pleydell-Bouverie | J. Morrison | Morse | Bathurst | H. Morrison |
1918 to 1974 (5 seats)
editConstituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 34 | 1935 | 42 | 43 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 62 | 64 | 1964 | 65 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 |
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Chippenham | Terrell | Bonwick | Cazalet | Eccles | Awdry | |||||||||||||||||||
Westbury | Palmer | Darbishire | Shaw | Long | Grimston | Walters | ||||||||||||||||||
Devizes | Bell | Macfadyen | Hurd | Hollis | Pott | C. Morrison | ||||||||||||||||||
Salisbury | H. Morrison | Moulton | H. Morrison | Despencer-Robertson | J. Morrison | Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||||
Swindon | Young | Banks | Addison | Banks | Addison | Wakefield | Reid | Noel-Baker | Ward | Stoddart |
1974 to 2010 (5, then 6 seats)
editConservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
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Chippenham / N Wiltshire (1983) | Awdry | Needham | Gray | ||||||
Devizes | Morrison | Ancram | |||||||
Salisbury | Hamilton | Key | |||||||
Westbury | Walters | Faber | Murrison | ||||||
Swindon / South Swindon (1997) | Stoddart | Coombs | Drown | Snelgrove | |||||
North Swindon | Wills |
2010 to present (7, then 7.5 seats)
editConservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Chippenham | Hames | Donelan | Gibson | ||
Devizes / East Wiltshire (2024) | Perry | Kruger | |||
North Wiltshire / Melksham and Devizes (2024) | Gray | Mathew | |||
Salisbury | Glen | ||||
South West Wiltshire | Murrison | ||||
Swindon North | Tomlinson | Stone | |||
Swindon South | Buckland | Alexander |
From 2024, part of northern Wiltshire was included in the South Cotswolds constituency, slightly more than half of which lies in Gloucestershire. Its representation is covered at List of parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire.
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ South Cotswolds is a cross-county boundary constituency between Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
- ^ It should be acknowledged that South Cotswolds is a cross-county constituency between Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. As the results of UK general elections are not disclosed on a sub-constituency level, the following vote shares contain parts of the electorate in the Cotswold and Stroud districts.
References
edit- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – South West". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d "UK Election A-Z Constituencies 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Drastic election boundary changes proposed for Wiltshire". Wiltshire Times. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1084–1126. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- Election 2019 – BBC News