Theceremonial county ofDevon, which includes theunitary authorities ofTorbay andPlymouth,is divided into 13Parliamentary constituencies: 4Borough constituenciesand 9County constituencies, one of which crosses the county boundary with Somerset.
In the2024 United Kingdom general election, Devon elected the following MPs:
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
| Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Devon | 75,385 | 61 | Mel Stride† | Ollie Pearson‡ |  | ||
| Exeter | 67,840 | 11,937 | Steve Race‡ | Tessa Tucker† |  | ||
| Exmouth and Exeter East | 79,983 | 121 | David Reed† | Helen Dallimore‡ |  | ||
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 75,537 | 6,700 | Richard Foord¤ | Simon Jupp† |  | ||
| Newton Abbot | 73,885 | 2,246 | Martin Wrigley¤ | Anne-Marie Morris† |  | ||
| North Devon | 79,068 | 6,744 | Ian Roome¤ | Selaine Saxby† |  | ||
| Plymouth Moor View | 74,724 | 5,604 | Fred Thomas‡ | Johnny Mercer† |  | ||
| Plymouth Sutton and Devonport | 75,313 | 13,328 | Luke Pollard‡ | Peter Gold (Reform UK) |  | ||
| South Devon | 70,755 | 7,127 | Caroline Voaden¤ | Anthony Mangnall† |  | ||
| South West Devon | 77,600 | 2,112 | Rebecca Smith† | Sarah Allen‡ |  | ||
| Torbay | 76,179 | 5,349 | Steve Darling¤ | Kevin Foster† |  | ||
| Torridge and Tavistock | 74,727 | 3,950 | Geoffrey Cox† | Phil Hutty¤ |  | ||
| Tiverton and Minehead (part) | 71,843 | 3,507 | Rachel Gilmour¤ | Ian Liddell-Grainger† |  | ||
See2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
| Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
|---|---|---|---|
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For the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the2024 United Kingdom general election, theBoundary Commission for England opted to combine Devon with Avon and Somerset as a sub-region of the South West Region, resulting in significant change to the existing pattern of constituencies. In Devon,East Devon, andTiverton and Honiton were abolished, being replaced byExmouth and Exeter East,Honiton and Sidmouth, and the cross-county boundary constituency ofTiverton and Minehead.Torridge and West Devon andTotnes were renamedTorridge and Tavistock, andSouth Devon respectively, despite only minor boundary changes to each.[1][2]
The following seats resulted from the boundary review:
Containing electoral wards fromEast Devon
Containing electoral wards fromExeter
Containing electoral wards fromMid Devon
Containing electoral wards fromNorth Devon
Containing electoral wards fromPlymouth
Containing electoral wards fromSouth Hams
Containing electoral wards fromTeignbridge
Containing electoral wards fromTorbay
Containing electoral wards fromTorridge
Containing electoral wards fromWest Devon
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[3]
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 165,316 | 28.7% |  25.2% | 4 | 6 |
| Liberal Democrats | 143,624 | 24.9% |  10.2% | 5 | 5 |
| Labour | 135,300 | 23.5% | 0.7% | 3 | 1 |
| Reform | 85,711 | 14.9% | 14.9% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 41,036 | 7.1% | 3.8% | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 4,690 | 0.8% | 3.8% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 575,677 | 100.0 | 12 |
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Devon in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 355,052 | 53.9% | 2.8% | 10 | 0 |
| Labour | 150,169 | 22.8% | 6.2% | 2 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 96,809 | 14.7% | 2.2% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 22,004 | 3.3% | 1.3% | 0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 4,337 | 0.7% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 30,836 | 4.6% | 0.8% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 659,207 | 100.0 | 12 |
| Election year | 1924 | 1929 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative1 | 52.3 | 43.0 | 49.3 | 50.3 | 55.8 | 55.3 | 52.9 | 47.6 | 47.5 | 52.8 | 45.5 | 45.0 | 43.9 | 52.8 | 49.5 | 47.6 | 36.8 | 39.0 | 38.1 | 43.3 | 46.2 | 51.1 | 53.9 |
| Labour | 13.7 | 16.3 | 34.1 | 34.1 | 36.5 | 33.3 | 27.6 | 26.9 | 32.8 | 29.4 | 21.8 | 24.9 | 22.1 | 11.1 | 13.1 | 19.2 | 25.9 | 23.6 | 20.4 | 14.2 | 18.0 | 29.0 | 22.8 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 34.0 | 36.4 | 16.2 | 15.6 | 7.7 | 11.3 | 19.5 | 25.5 | 19.6 | 17.8 | 32.6 | 29.9 | 22.8 | 35.4 | 36.6 | 30.3 | 31.3 | 31.9 | 32.7 | 33.4 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 14.7 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.6 | 5.6 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 6.1 | 14.6 | 1.7 | * |
| Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.7 |
| Other | - | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 8.8 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 4.6 |
1IncludesNational Liberal Party up to 1966 and oneNational candidate in 1945
2pre-1979 -Liberal; 1983 & 1987 -SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Meaningful vote percentages are not available for the elections of 1918, 1922, 1923, 1931 and 1935 since at least one seat was gained unopposed.
| 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 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| Labour | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
1IncludesNational Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 -Liberal; 1983 & 1987 -SDP-Liberal Alliance
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.
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) /National Liberal (1922-23) Common Wealth Conservative Independent Conservative Independent National Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Social Democratic
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Social Democratic (1983-88) /Social Democratic Party (1988-90)
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 90 | 1992 | 95 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plymouth Drake | Fookes | |||||||
| Devon North | Speller | Harvey | ||||||
| Devon West and Torridge | Mills | Nicholson | → | Burnett | Cox | |||
| Exeter | Hannam | Bradshaw | ||||||
| Honiton (1983–97) /East Devon (1997) | Emery | Swire | ||||||
| Plymouth Devonport | Owen | → | Jamieson | Seabeck | ||||
| Plymouth Sutton | Clark | Streeter | Gilroy | |||||
| South Hams (1983–97) /Totnes (1997) | Steen | |||||||
| Teignbridge | Nicholls | Younger-Ross | ||||||
| Tiverton (1983–97) /Tiverton & Honiton (1997) | Maxwell-Hyslop | Browning | ||||||
| Torbay | Bennett | Allason | Sanders | |||||
| South West Devon | Streeter | |||||||
Change UK Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 2019 | 22 | 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Devon | Stride | ||||||||||
| Devon North | Harvey | Heaton-Jones | Saxby | Roome | |||||||
| Devon W & Torridge (2010–24) /Torridge & Tavistock (2024) | Cox | ||||||||||
| East Devon (2010–24) /Exmouth & Exeter East (2024) | Swire | Jupp | Reed | ||||||||
| Exeter | Bradshaw | Race | |||||||||
| Newton Abbot | Morris | → | → | → | → | Wrigley | |||||
| Plymouth Moor View | Seabeck | Mercer | Thomas | ||||||||
| Plymouth Sutton & Devonport | Colvile | Pollard | |||||||||
| South West Devon | Streeter | Smith | |||||||||
| Tiverton & Honiton1 /Honiton & Sidmouth (2024) | Parish | → | Foord | ||||||||
| Torbay | Sanders | Foster | Darling | ||||||||
| Totnes (2010–24) /South Devon (2024) | Wollaston | → | → | Mangnall | Voaden | ||||||
1parts transferred in 2024 toTiverton and Minehead which is mostly inSomerset