Avon was abolished in 1996 both as a county council and a ceremonial county, being succeeded by the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. The constituency boundaries used up to the 2005 United Kingdom general election were drawn up when the county still existed. For the review which came into effect for the 2010 general election, the four authorities were considered separately, entailing four seats for Bristol, three for South Gloucestershire and two each for Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, coming into effect for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England considered the area comprising the former county of Avon, together with Devon (including Plymouth and Torbay) and Somerset as a sub-region of the South West Region.
The area is divided into 13 parliamentary constituencies – 6 borough constituencies and 7 county constituencies, including two which cross local authority boundaries with Somerset.
| Constituency[1] | Electorate[2] | Majority[3] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Electoral wards | Map | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath CC | 73,241 | 11,218 | Wera Hobhouse¤ | Dan Bewley‡ | Bath and North East Somerset Council Bathavon North, Bathwick, Combe Down, Kingsmead, Lambridge, Lansdown, Moorlands, Newbridge, Odd Down, Oldfield Park, Southdown, Twerton, Walcot, Westmoreland, Weston, Widcombe & Lyncombe. | ||||
| Bristol Central BC | 70,227 | 10,407 | Carla Denyer♣ | Thangam Debbonaire‡ | Bristol City Council Ashley, Central, Clifton, Clifton Down, Cotham, Hotwells & Harbourside, Redland. | ||||
| Bristol East BC | 75,936 | 6,606 | Kerry McCarthy‡ | Ani Stafford-Townsend♣ | Bristol City Council Brislington East, Brislington West, Easton, Knowle, Lawrence Hill, St. George Central, St. George Troopers Hill, St. George West, Stockwood. | ||||
| Bristol North East BC | 69,793 | 11,167 | Damien Egan‡ | Lorraine Francis♣ | Bristol City Council Eastville, Frome Vale, Hillfields, Lockleaze. South Gloucestershire Council: Kingswood, New Cheltenham, Staple Hill & Mangotsfield, Woodstock. | ||||
| Bristol North West BC | 76,783 | 15,669 | Darren Jones‡ | Mary Page♣ | Bristol City Council Avonmouth & Lawrence Weston, Bishopston & Ashley Down, Henbury & Brentry, Horfield, Southmead, Stoke Bishop, Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze. | ||||
| Bristol South BC | 74,696 | 7,666 | Karin Smyth‡ | Jai Breitnauer♣ | Bristol City Council Bedminster, Bishopsworth, Filwood, Hartcliffe & Withywood, Hengrove & Whitchurch Park, Southville, Windmill Hill. | ||||
| Filton and Bradley Stoke BC | 73,598 | 10,000 | Claire Hazelgrove‡ | Jack Lopresti† | South Gloucestershire Council Bradley Stoke North, Bradley Stoke South, Charlton & Cribbs, Emersons Green, Filton, Frenchay & Downend, Patchway Coniston, Stoke Gifford, Stoke Park & Cheswick, Winterbourne. | ||||
| Frome and East Somerset CC (part) | 70,177 | 5,415 | Anna Sabine¤ | Lucy Trimnell† | Bath and North East Somerset Council Bathavon South, Midsomer Norton North, Midsomer Norton Redfield, Peasedown, Radstock, Westfield. Mendip District Council: Ammerdown, Ashwick, Chilcompton and Stratton, Beckington and Selwood, Coleford and Holcombe, Cranmore, Doulting and Nunney, Creech, Frome Berkley Down, Frome College, Frome Keyford, Frome Market, Frome Oakfield, Frome Park, Postlebury, Rode and Norton St. Philip, The Pennards and Ditcheat. | ||||
| North East Somerset and Hanham CC | 73,113 | 5,319 | Dan Norris‡ | Jacob Rees-Mogg† | Bath and North East Somerset Council Chew Valley, Clutton & Farmborough, High Littleton, Keynsham East, Keynsham North, Keynsham South, Mendip, Paulton, Publow & Whitchurch, Saltford, Timsbury. South Gloucestershire Council: Bitton & Oldland Common, Hanham, Longwell Green, Parkwall & Warmley. | ||||
| North Somerset CC | 73,963 | 639 | Sadik Al-Hassan‡ | Liam Fox† | North Somerset Council Backwell, Clevedon East, Clevedon South, Clevedon Walton, Clevedon West, Clevedon Yeo, Gordano Valley, Long Ashton, Nailsea Golden Valley, Nailsea West End, Nailsea Yeo, Nailsea Youngwood, Pill, Portishead East, Portishead North, Portishead South, Portishead West, Winford, Wrington. | ||||
| Thornbury and Yate CC | 74,935 | 3,014 | Claire Young¤ | Luke Hall† | South Gloucestershire Council Boyd Valley, Charfield, Chipping Sodbury & Cotswold Edge, Dodington, Frampton Cotterell, Pilning & Severn Beach, Severn Vale, Thornbury, Yate Central, Yate North. | ||||
| Wells and Mendip Hills CC (part) | 69,843 | 11,121 | Tessa Munt¤ | Meg Powell-Chandler† | Mendip District Council Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton, Croscombe and Pilton, Moor, Rodney and Westbury, Shepton East, Shepton West, St. Cuthbert Out North, Wells Central, Wells St. Cuthbert's, Wells St. Thomas', Wookey and St. Cuthbert Out West. North Somerset Council: Banwell & Winscombe, Blagdon & Churchill, Congresbury & Puxton, Yatton. Sedgemoor District Council: Axevale, Cheddar and Shipham, East Polden, Knoll, Wedmore and Mark, West Polden. | ||||
| Weston-super-Mare CC | 70,722 | 4,409 | Dan Aldridge‡ | John Penrose† | North Somerset Council Hutton & Locking, Weston-super-Mare Central, Weston-super-Mare Hillside, Weston-super-Mare Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare Mid Worle, Weston-super-Mare Milton, Weston-super-Mare North Worle, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare South Worle, Weston-super-Mare Uphill, Weston-super-Mare Winterstoke, Wick St. Lawrence & St. Georges. |
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine "Avon" (covering the Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire council areas) with Devon and Somerset as a sub-region of the South West Region, resulting in significant change to the existing pattern of constituencies. In Avon, Bristol West, Kingswood and North East Somerset were abolished, being replaced by Bristol Central, Bristol North East, and North East Somerset and Hanham. In addition, Frome and East Somerset, and Wells and Mendip Hills were established as cross-authority boundary seats.[4] [5]
The following seats were proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Bath and North East Somerset
Containing electoral wards in Bristol
Containing electoral wards in North Somerset
Containing electoral wards in South Gloucestershire
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats which covered "Avon" from 10 to 11, with the creation of Filton and Bradley Stoke. This resulted in major changes to Kingswood and three of the four Bristol constituencies. A further three constituencies were renamed.
(The maps on this page do not show the nominal extensions of several constituencies over the waters of the Bristol Channel.)
Other former constituencies in the area were:
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Avon in the 2024 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 189,007 | 36.2% | 0.5% | 8 | 4 | |
| Conservative | 110,554 | 21.2% | 20.5% | 0 | 6 | |
| Green | 87,204 | 16.7% | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | 71,768 | 13.7% | 2.1% | 2 | 1 | |
| Reform | 56,721 | 10.9% | 10.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Others | 6,951 | 1.3% | 1.0% | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 522,205 | 100.0 | 11 |
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Avon in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 258,867 | 41.7% | 0.9% | 6 | 0 | |
| Labour | 221,714 | 35.7% | 5.0% | 4 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 97,767 | 15.8% | 4.0% | 1 | 0 | |
| Greens | 34,563 | 5.6% | 2.1% | 0 | 0 | |
| Brexit | 5,717 | 0.9% | new | 0 | 0 | |
| Others | 1,559 | 0.3% | 1.1% | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 620,187 | 100.0 | 11 |
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 24.3 | 24.0 | 27.5 | 36.5 | 36.8 | 31.8 | 23.2 | 25.7 | 40.7 | 35.7 | 36.2 | |
| Conservative | 47.3 | 47.9 | 44.5 | 32.7 | 31.6 | 31.9 | 35.8 | 39.6 | 42.6 | 41.7 | 21.2 | |
| Green Party | – | 1.3 | 8.7 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 16.7 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrat1 | 27.6 | 27.0 | 26.5 | 26.3 | 27.9 | 30.9 | 34.8 | 13.6 | 11.8 | 15.8 | 13.7 | |
| Reform2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.9 | 10.9 | |
| UKIP | – | – | – | 2.8 | 12.0 | 0.6 | – | |||||
| Other | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 5.4 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.3 |
2As the Brexit Party in 2019
* Included in Other
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Conservative | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 24 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath | Patten | Foster | Howlett | Hobhouse | |||||||||
| Bristol East | Sayeed | Corston | McCarthy | ||||||||||
| Bristol North West | Stern | Naysmith | Leslie | Jones | |||||||||
| Bristol South | Cocks | Primarolo | Smyth | ||||||||||
| Bristol West / Bristol Central (2024) | Waldegrave | Davey | Williams | Debbonaire | Denyer | ||||||||
| Filton and Bradley Stoke | Lopresti | Hazelgrove | |||||||||||
| Kingswood / Bristol North East (2024) | Hayward | Berry | Skidmore | Egan | |||||||||
| Northavon / Thornbury & Yate (2010) | Cope | Webb | Hall | Young | |||||||||
| Wansdyke / NE Somerset (2010) / NE Somerset & Hanham (2024) | Aspinwall | Norris | Rees-Mogg | Norris | |||||||||
| Weston-super-Mare | Wiggin | Cotter | Penrose | Aldridge | |||||||||
| Woodspring / North Somerset (2010) | Dean | Fox | Al-Hassan | ||||||||||