The county of Somerset is currently divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies, which are all county constituencies.
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies recommended changes to the contituencies of Somerset which came into effect at the 2024 general election. Due to changes to the legislation requiring stricter equality in the size of the electorates of constituencies, Somerset was longer treated as a distinct entity as previously, but was combined with Avon and Devon as a sub-region of the South West Region, resulting in significant change to the existing pattern of constituencies. In Somerset, only the constituency of Yeovil retained its name with relatively minor changes. The boundary changes created the cross-county boundary constituencies of Frome and East Somerset, Wells and the Mendips, and Tiverton and Minehead.[5][6]
The boundary commission recommended the following seats within Somerset:
Containing electoral wards from Mendip
Containing electoral wards from Sedgemoor
Containing electoral wards from Somerset West and Taunton
Containing electoral wards from South Somerset
1Also contains electoral wards in the District of Bath and North East Somerset
2Also contains electoral wards in the District of North Somerset
3Also contains electoral wards in the Devon District of Mid Devon
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 Somerset in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Note that before 1983 Somerset was analysed under its Ceremonial definition (including the southern part of what became analysed at boundary reviews as Avon, see Avon's list of seats).
1pre-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987: SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
11983 & 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
Common Wealth Conservative Independent Progressive Labour Liberal
Conservative Independent Liberal Liberal Democrats
Conservative Liberal Democrats
1partly in Avon2partly in Devon
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