The county of Suffolk, England is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 6 county 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 ‡ |
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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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. [3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed that Suffolk be combined with Norfolk as a sub-region of the Eastern Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Waveney Valley. The current seat of Waveney would revert to its former name of Lowestoft, and Bury St Edmunds is to be renamed Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. [4] [5] [6]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Babergh
Containing electoral wards from East Suffolk
Containing electoral wards from Ipswich
Containing electoral wards from Mid Suffolk
Containing electoral wards from West Suffolk
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [7]
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% | 2.9% | 7 | 1 |
Labour | 91,339 | 23.9% | 8.7% | 0 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 31,633 | 8.3% | 3.8% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 24,490 | 6.4% | 3.6% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,432 | 0.4% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 3,432 | 0.9% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 382,149 | 100.0 | 7 |
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 |
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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
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
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 |
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
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 91 | 1892 | 92 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 14 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 63 | 64 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
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Bury St Edmunds | Aitken | Griffiths | |||||||||||
Eye | Granville | Harrison | Gummer | ||||||||||
Ipswich | Stokes | Foot | Money | Weetch | |||||||||
Lowestoft | Evans | Prior | |||||||||||
Sudbury & Woodbridge | Hare | Stainton |
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 01 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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 |
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