List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

Constituencies
Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Map
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 review

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. 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 Name Boundaries 2010-present
  1. Bury St Edmunds CC
  2. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC
  3. Ipswich BC
  4. South Suffolk CC
  5. Suffolk Coastal CC
  6. Waveney CC
  7. West Suffolk CC
  1. Bury St Edmunds CC
  2. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC
  3. Ipswich BC
  4. South Suffolk CC
  5. Suffolk Coastal CC
  6. Waveney CC
  7. West Suffolk CC

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[3] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[4] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[5] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]

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% 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

Percentage votes
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 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 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 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
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 up to 1966

21950-1979 - 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-
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 present

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal

Constituency 1950 1951 1955 57 1959 63 64 1964 1966 1970 Feb 74 Oct 74 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 01 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Bury St Edmunds Aitken Griffiths Spring Ruffley Churchill
Eye / Suffolk Coastal (1983) Granville Harrison Gummer Coffey
Ipswich Stokes Foot Money Weetch Irvine Cann Mole Gummer Martin Hunt
Lowestoft / Waveney (1983) Evans Prior Porter Blizzard Aldous
Sudbury & Woodbridge / S Suffolk (1983) Hare Stainton Yeo Cartlidge
Central Suffolk / & North Ipswich (1997) Lord Poulter
West Suffolk Spring Hancock

See also

Notes
  1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References
  1. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  3. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  4. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
  5. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  6. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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