List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk
The county of Suffolk, England is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituency and 6 County constituencies.
Constituencies[]
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Bury St Edmunds CC | 89,644 | 24,988 | Jo Churchill † | Cliff Waterman ‡ | ![]() | ||
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC | 80,037 | 23,391 | Dan Poulter † | Emma Bonner-Morgan ‡ | ![]() | ||
Ipswich BC | 75,525 | 5,479 | Tom Hunt † | Sandy Martin ‡ | ![]() | ||
South Suffolk CC | 76,201 | 22,897 | James Cartlidge † | Elizabeth Hughes ‡ | ![]() | ||
Suffolk Coastal CC | 81,910 | 20,533 | Thérèse Coffey † | Cameron Matthews ‡ | ![]() | ||
Waveney CC | 82,791 | 18,002 | Peter Aldous † | Sonia Barker ‡ | ![]() | ||
West Suffolk CC | 80,193 | 23,194 | Matthew Hancock † | Claire Unwin ‡ | ![]() |
2010 boundary changes[]
In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Suffolk retained its current constituencies, with changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. The largest of these changes resulted in the effective transfer of one Borough of Ipswich ward from Central Suffolk and North Ipswich to the constituency of Ipswich.
Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
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Proposed boundary changes[]
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 and published their initial proposals on 8 June 2021.[3]
The Commission has proposed that Suffolk be combined with Essex as a sub-region of the Eastern Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Haverhill and Halstead. In addition, Bury St Edmunds, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, and West Suffolk would all be abolished and new constituencies of Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket, Ipswich North and Stowmarket, and North Suffolk created. Waveney would revert to its former name of Lowestoft.[4][5][6] The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Babergh
Containing electoral wards from East Suffolk
- (part)
- Lowestoft
- (part)
- Suffolk Coastal
Containing electoral wards from Ipswich
- Ipswich
- Ipswich North and Stowmarket (part)
Containing electoral wards from Mid Suffolk
- Ipswich North and Stowmarket (part)
- North Suffolk (part)
Containing electoral wards from West Suffolk
- (part also in the Essex District of Braintree)
- North Suffolk (part)
Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.
Results history[]
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[7]
2019[]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Suffolk in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 229,823 | 60.1% | ![]() |
7 | ![]() |
Labour | 91,339 | 23.9% | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
Liberal Democrats | 31,633 | 8.3% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Greens | 24,490 | 6.4% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,432 | 0.4% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 3,432 | 0.9% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Total | 382,149 | 100.0 | 7 |
Percentage votes[]
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 | 48.9 | 45.6 | 47.6 | 54.8 | 43.6 | 67.0 | 62.6 | 39.7 | 42.1 | 49.1 | 49.6 | 48.4 | 45.6 | 46.6 | 52.5 | 44.0 | 45.5 | 51.4 | 52.5 | 52.5 | 49.9 | 37.6 | 40.7 | 41.7 | 46.2 | 50.7 | 57.2 | 60.1 |
Labour | 12.2 | 25.8 | 23.9 | 20.0 | 23.3 | 25.0 | 32.4 | 38.2 | 39.8 | 43.9 | 46.6 | 41.1 | 38.2 | 43.2 | 38.7 | 31.7 | 35.1 | 33.7 | 22.1 | 23.2 | 28.7 | 40.2 | 39.7 | 31.8 | 21.3 | 23.5 | 32.6 | 23.9 |
Liberal Democrat2# | 24.5 | 11.9 | 28.5 | 25.2 | 33.1 | 8.0 | 4.9 | 22.1 | 18.0 | 7.0 | 3.8 | 10.5 | 16.0 | 9.9 | 8.0 | 23.7 | 19.4 | 14.4 | 25.3 | 23.6 | 20.4 | 17.6 | 16.0 | 20.6 | 24.1 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 8.3 |
Coalition Liberal | 14.4 | 16.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.9 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 6.4 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 5.3 | 15.3 | 2.3 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.4 |
Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | - | - | - | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | - | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 6.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1Includes National Liberal Party from 1931 - 1966
21918-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats[]
Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
Labour | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Liberal Democrat2 | 1 | 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 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps[]
1950
1951
1955
1959
1964
1966
1970
1974 Feb
1974 Oct
1979
1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019
Timeline[]
Constituency | 1295-1298 | 1298-1529 | 1529-1559 | 1559-1571 | 1571-1614 | 1614-1832 | 1832-1844 | 1844-1885 | 1885-1918 | 1918-1950 | 1950-1983 | 1983-1997 | 1997- |
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Aldeburgh | 1571-1832 | ||||||||||||
Bury St Edmunds | 1614- | ||||||||||||
Central Suffolk | 1983-1997 | ||||||||||||
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 1997- | ||||||||||||
Dunwich | 1298-1832 | ||||||||||||
East Suffolk | 1832-1885 | ||||||||||||
Eye | 1571-1983 | ||||||||||||
Ipswich | 1295- | ||||||||||||
Lowestoft | 1885-1983 | ||||||||||||
Orford | 1529-1832 | ||||||||||||
South Suffolk | 1983- | ||||||||||||
Stowmarket | 1885-1918 | ||||||||||||
Sudbury | 1559-1844 | 1885-1950 | |||||||||||
Sudbury and Woodbridge | 1950-1983 | ||||||||||||
Suffolk | 1295-1832 | ||||||||||||
Suffolk Coastal | 1983- | ||||||||||||
Waveney | 1983- | ||||||||||||
West Suffolk | 1832-1885 | 1997- | |||||||||||
Woodbridge | 1885-1950 |
Historical representation by party[]
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.
1885 to 1918[]
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 91 | 1892 | 92 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 14 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bury St Edmunds | F. Hervey | Cadogan | Greene | F. W. Hervey | Guinness | |||||||||
Eye | Stevenson | Pearson | ||||||||||||
Ipswich (Two members) | West | Charteris | Goddard | |||||||||||
Collings | Dalrymple | Cobbold | Horne | Ganzoni | ||||||||||
Lowestoft | Crossley | → | Foster | Lucas | Beauchamp | Foster | Beauchamp | |||||||
Stowmarket | Cobbold | Greene | Stern | Malcolm | Hardy | Goldsmith | ||||||||
Sudbury | W. Quilter | → | Heaton-Armstrong | C. Quilter | ||||||||||
Woodbridge | Everett | Lloyd-Anstruther | Everett | Pretyman | Everett | Peel |
1918 to 1950[]
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) Conservative Independent Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 34 | 1935 | 38 | 42 | 44 | 1945 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bury St Edmunds | Guinness | Heilgers | Keatinge | Clifton-Brown | ||||||||||
Eye | Lyle-Samuel | → | Vanneck | Granville | → | → | → | |||||||
Ipswich | Ganzoni | Jackson | Ganzoni | Stokes | ||||||||||
Lowestoft | Beauchamp | Rentoul | Loftus | Evans | ||||||||||
Sudbury | Howard | Mercer | Loverseed | Burton | Hamilton | |||||||||
Woodbridge | Peel | Churchman | Fison | Ross-Taylor | Hare |
1950 to 1983[]
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 63 | 64 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bury St Edmunds | Aitken | Griffiths | |||||||||||
Eye | Granville | Harrison | Gummer | ||||||||||
Ipswich | Stokes | Foot | Money | Weetch | |||||||||
Lowestoft | Evans | Prior | |||||||||||
Sudbury & Woodbridge | Hare | Stainton |
1983 to present[]
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 01 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bury St Edmunds | Griffiths | Spring | Ruffley | Churchill | |||||||
Suffolk Coastal | Gummer | Coffey | |||||||||
Ipswich | Weetch | Irvine | Cann | Mole | Gummer | Martin | Hunt | ||||
Waveney | Prior | Porter | Blizzard | Aldous | |||||||
South Suffolk | Yeo | Cartlidge | |||||||||
Central Suffolk / C Suffolk & N Ipswich (1997) | Lord | Poulter | |||||||||
West Suffolk | Spring | Hancock |
See also[]
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in the East of England (region)
- History of Parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Suffolk
Notes[]
References[]
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- ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
- ^ Geater, Paul (2021-06-08). "Suffolk set to get new constituencies in boundary shake-up". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
- ^ Plans for new Halstead and Haverhill parliamentary constituency Essex County Standard
- ^ 2023 review Eastern Boundary Commission for England
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires
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- Parliamentary constituencies in the East of England
- Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk
- Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England
- Suffolk-related lists