List of parliamentary constituencies in Somerset explained

The county of Somerset is currently divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies,which are all county constituencies.

Constituencies

See also: 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Constituency^[1]	Electorate^[2]	Majority^[3] ^[4]	Member of Parliament	Nearest opposition	Electoral wards^[5] ^[6]	Map
Bridgwater CC	71,418	1,349		Ashley Fox†		Leigh Redman	Sedgemoor District Council Berrow, Bridgwater Dunwear, Bridgwater Eastover, Bridgwater Fairfax, Bridgwater Hamp, Bridgwater Victoria, Bridgwater Westover, Bridgwater Wyndham, Burnham Central, Burnham North, Cannington and Wembdon, Highbridge and Burnham Marine, Huntspill and Pawlett, King's Isle, North Petherton, Puriton and Woolavington, Quantocks.
Frome and East Somerset CC	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.
Glastonbury and Somerton CC	70,015	6,611		Sarah Dyke¤		Faye Purbrick	Mendip District Council Butleigh and Baltonsborough, Glastonbury St. Benedict's, Glastonbury St. Edmund's, Glastonbury St. John's, Glastonbury St. Mary's, Street North, Street South, Street West. South Somerset District Council: Blackmoor Vale, Bruton, Burrow Hill, Camelot, Cary, Curry Rivel, Huish & Langport, Hamdon, Islemoor, Martock, Milborne Port, Northstone, Ivelchester & St. Michael's, Tower, Turn Hill, Wessex, Wincanton.
Taunton and Wellington CC	76,059	11,939		Gideon Amos¤		Rebecca Pow	Somerset West and Taunton Council Blackbrook & Holway, Comeytrowe & Bishop's Hull, Creech St. Michael, Halcon & Lane, Hatch & Blackdown, Manor & Tangier, Monument, North Curry & Ruishton, North Town, Norton Fitzwarren & Staplegrove, Priorswood, Rockwell Green, Trull, Pitminster & Corfe, Victoria, Vivary, Wellington East, Wellington North, Wellington South, Wellsprings & Rowbarton, West Monkton & Cheddon Fitzpaine, Wilton & Sherford.
Tiverton and Minehead CC	70,829	3,507		Rachel Gilmour		Ian Liddell-Grainger	Mid Devon District Council Canonsleigh, Castle, Clare and Shuttern, Cranmore, Halberton, Lower Culm, Lowman, Upper Culm, Westexe. Somerset West and Taunton Council: Alcombe, Cotford St. Luke & Oake, Dulverton & District, Exmoor, Milverton & District, Minehead Central, Minehead North, Old Cleeve & District, Periton & Woodcombe, Porlock & District, Quantock Vale, South Quantock, Watchet & Williton, Wiveliscombe & District.
Wells and Mendip Hills CC	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.
Yeovil CC	76,056	12,286		Adam Dance¤		Marcus Fysh	South Somerset District Council Blackdown & Tatworth, Brympton, Chard Avishayes, Chard Combe, Chard Crimchard, Chard Holyrood, Chard Jocelyn, Coker, Crewkerne, Eggwood, Ilminster, Neroche, Parrett, South Petherton, Windwhistle, Yeovil College, Yeovil Lyde, Yeovil Summerlands, Yeovil Westland, Yeovil without.

2024 boundary changes

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.^{[7] [8]}

The boundary commission recommended the following seats within Somerset:

Containing electoral wards from Mendip

• Frome and East Somerset (part)¹
• Glastonbury and Somerton (part)
• Wells and Mendip Hills (part)²

Containing electoral wards from Sedgemoor

• Bridgwater
• Wells and Mendip Hills (part)²

Containing electoral wards from Somerset West and Taunton

• Taunton and Wellington
• Tiverton and Minehead (part)³

Containing electoral wards from South Somerset

• Glastonbury and Somerton (part)
• Yeovil

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

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[9]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Somerset in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	174,145	56.7%	2.8%	5	0
Liberal Democrats	89,038	29.0%	3.6%	0	0
Labour	32,522	10.6%	6.4%	0	0
Greens	6,801	2.2%	0.4%	0	0
Others	4,600	1.5%	0.4%	0	0
Total	307,106	100.0		5

Percentage votes

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).

Election year	1918	1922	1923	1924	1929	1931	1935	1945	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974(F)	1974(O)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	61.5	51.1	47.4	52.9	45.4	66.6	55.4	45.5	47.0	55.0	54.8	51.4	45.9	45.8	53.2	44.7	43.8	52.3	51.2	50.6	45.3	36.5	40.9	41.4	41.5	47.2	53.9	56.7
Labour	24.3	19.3	10.6	16.6	22.3	19.7	25.4	39.8	38.3	43.2	40.6	34.4	33.3	38.1	35.0	27.0	28.6	24.0	11.7	11.7	12.9	17.4	16.5	14.9	7.7	9.5	17.0	10.6
Liberal Democrat^1	13.5	29.6	42.0	30.5	32.3	13.7	19.2	8.8	12.7	1.8	4.6	14.2	20.2	16.1	11.6	28.1	26.9	22.7	37.0	37.6	40.2	40.6	39.6	40.1	45.1	23.9	25.4	29.0
Green Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-						0.5	5.3	1.8	2.2
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-				3.7	12.9	1.2
Other	0.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.9	2.0	-	-	-	0.7	-	0.2	0.2	0.6	1.0	0.1	-	1.5	5.4	2.9	3.6	1.4	1.2	0.7	1.5

¹pre-1979: Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987: SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974(F)	1974(O)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	4	4	4	2	3	2	1	5	5	5
Liberal Democrat^1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	2	3	4	0	0	0
Total	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

2024-present (including constituencies that cover parts of Devon and Avon)

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 (10 MPs)

Constituency	1885	1886	87	1892	1895	96	99	1900	1906	09	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	11	12	18
Bath	Blaine	Laurie		Murray					Maclean		A. Thynne				Foxcroft
	Wodehouse	→							Gooch		Hunter
Bridgwater	Stanley								Montgomery		Sanders
Frome	Baker	T. Thynne		Barlow	T. Thynne	Barlow
Somerset Eastern	Hobhouse	→							Thompson		Jardine			→
Somerset Northern	Llewellyn			Warner	Llewellyn				Hope		King
Somerset Southern	Lambart			Strachey									Herbert
	S. Allsopp		A. Allsopp		Welby				Boyle	Peel				Wills
Wellington	Dyke Acland	Elton		Fuller-Acland-Hood									Boles
Wells	Paget				Jolliffe		Dickinson		Silcock		Sandys

1918 to 1950 (7 MPs)

Constituency	1918	21	1922	23	1923	1924	29	1929	1931	34	1935	38	39	42	1945
Bath	Foxcroft				Raffety	Foxcroft	Baillie-Hamilton		Guinness						Pitman
Bridgwater	Sanders				Morse	Wood		Croom-Johnson				Bartlett		→	→
Frome	Hurd				Gould	Peto		Gould	Thynne		Tate				Farthing
Taunton	Boles	Griffith-Boscawen	Simpson			Gault					Wickham				Collins
Wells	Greer		Bruford		bgcolor=	Hobhouse	Sanders		Muirhead					Boles
Weston-super-Mare	Wills		Erskine		bgcolor=	Murrell	Erskine				Orr-Ewing
Yeovil	Herbert			Davies											Kingsmill

1950 to 1983 (7 MPs)

Constituency	1950	1951	1955	56	58	1959	1964	1966	69	70	1970	Feb 74	Oct 74	1979
Bath	Pitman						Brown							Patten
Bridgwater	Wills									King
Somerset North	Leather						Dean
Taunton	Hopkinson			du Cann
Wells	Boles	Maydon									Boscawen
Weston-super-Mare	Orr-Ewing				Webster				Wiggin
Yeovil	Kingsmill	Peyton

1983 to 2024 (5 MPs)

Constituency	1983	1987	88	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	22	23
Bridgwater / Bridgwater and West Somerset (2010-)	King					Liddell-Grainger
Somerton and Frome	Boscawen			Robinson	Heath				Warburton			→	Dyke
Taunton / Taunton Deane (2010-)	du Cann	Nicholson			Ballard	Flook	Browne		Pow
Wells	Heathcoat-Amory							Munt	Heappey
Yeovil	Ashdown		→			Laws			Fysh

2024 onwards (7 MPs, including constituencies that cover parts of Devon and Avon)

Constituency	2024
Bridgwater	Fox
Frome and East Somerset^1	Sabine
Glastonbury and Somerton	Dyke
Taunton and Wellington	Amos
Tiverton and Minehead^2	Gilmour
Wells and Mendip Hills^1	Munt
Yeovil	Dance

¹partly in Avon²partly in Devon

See also

• List of constituencies in South West England
• List of parliamentary constituencies in Avon for those covering the Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset unitary authorities.

Notes and References

1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
2. Baker. Carl. Uberoi. Elise. Cracknell. Richard. 2020-01-28. General Election 2019: full results and analysis. en-GB.
3. Web site: Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019. BBC News. en-GB. 2020-04-25.
4. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
5. Web site: The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4. Crown copyright. Office of Public Sector Information. 7 November 2009. 13 June 2007.
6. [Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)|Boundary Commission for England]
7. Web site: Mumby. Daniel. 2021-06-09. First glimpse of new general election battle lines. 2021-10-08. SomersetLive. en.
8. Web site: The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report Boundary Commission for England . 2023-07-10 . boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk . Paras 1127-1178.
9. Watson. Christopher. Uberoi. Elise. Loft. Philip. 2020-04-17. General election results from 1918 to 2019. en-GB.