County Cornwall European Parliament constituency South West England Number of members 1 | Electorate 71,851 (December 2010) Member of parliament Sheryll Murray | |
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Major settlements Saltash, Torpoint, Liskeard, Looe Replaced by Bodmin, North Cornwall, Truro Created from Bodmin, North Cornwall, Truro | ||
South East Cornwall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Sheryll Murray, a Conservative.
Contents
Boundaries
1983-2010: The District of Caradon, the Borough of Restormel wards of Fowey, Lostwithiel, St Blaise, and Tywardreath, and the District of North Cornwall ward of Stokeclimsland.
2010-present: The District of Caradon, and the Borough of Restormel ward of Lostwithiel.
History
The predecessor county division, Bodmin, serving the area from 1885 until 1983 had (during those 98 years) 15 members (two of whom had broken terms of office serving the area), seeing twelve shifts of preference between the Liberal, Liberal Unionist and Conservative parties, spread quite broadly throughout that period. Consistent with this, since 1983 the preference for an MP has alternated between Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.
The current constituency territory contains the location of several former borough constituencies which were abolished as 'rotten boroughs' by the Great Reform Act, 1832:
Constituency profile
The villages around the South Eastern edges of Cornwall often serve as a commuter base to the town of Plymouth, over the border in Devon.
Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.5% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.
Despite the presence of 'South' in its name, this constituency is the second most northern of the six Cornwall seats, and several parts of the seat extend further north than parts of Cornwall North.