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 of the Labour and Co-operative Party. 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. 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 Oliver Colvile of the Conservative Party, his greatest majority being 2.6%.

Constituency profile

The constituency covers the south of the city and includes the city centre and HMNB Devonport, and has a large student population attending the University of Plymouth.

Boundaries

2010–2024

The City of Plymouth wards of:

2024–present

As above les polling districts KC and KD of Peverell ward. Further to the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency was reduced slightly in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range by transferring north-western parts of Peverell ward to Plymouth Moor View.

History

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. It is largely based on the former Plymouth Sutton. To this is added smaller parts of the former Plymouth Devonport seat. 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. 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 wards were not included in the declaration on the night of the count. Additionally about 35,000 postal voters received two polling cards, and some postal votes were not sent out.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

Sources