Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Plymouth, Sutton Borough constituency

Plymouth, Sutton shown within Devon, and Devon shown within England
Created:	1918
MP:	Linda Gilroy
Party:	Labour Co-operative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Devon
EP constituency:	South West England

Plymouth, Sutton is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

It is based in the city of Plymouth, in south-west England.

[edit] History

In a by-election in 1919, it became the second constituency in the UK (and the first in Great Britain) to elect a female MP, and the first to take a seat in parliament (the first female MP was a Sinn Fein member, who did not take her seat). Three of its MPs have been members of the Astor family.

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1918	Waldorf Astor	Conservative
1919	Nancy Astor	Conservative
1945	Lucy Middleton	Labour
1951	Jakie Astor	Conservative
1959	Ian Fraser	Conservative
1966	David Owen	Labour
1974	Alan Clark	Conservative
1992	Gary Streeter	Conservative
1997	Linda Gilroy	Labour Co-operative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Plymouth, Sutton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Linda Gilroy	15,497	40.6	-10.1
	Conservative	Oliver Colvile	11,388	29.8	-1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Gillard	8,685	22.7	+8.4
	UKIP	Robert Cumming	2,392	6.3	+3.8
	Socialist Labour	Rob Hawkins	230	0.6	-0.3
Majority			4,109	10.8
Turnout			38,192	56.8	-0.3
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	-4.2

General Election 2001: Plymouth, Sutton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Linda Gilroy	19,827	50.7	+0.6
	Conservative	Oliver Colvile	12,310	31.5	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Connett	5,605	14.3	+0.5
	UKIP	Alan Whitton	970	2.5	+1.4
	Socialist Labour	Henry Leary	361	0.9	N/A
Majority			7,517	19.2
Turnout			39,073	57.1	-10.3
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

Constituencies in South West England
Conservative	Bournemouth East \| Bournemouth West \| Bridgwater \| Christchurch \| Cotswold \| Devizes \| East Devon \| Forest of Dean \| North Dorset \| North Wiltshire \| Poole \| Salisbury \| South West Devon \| Tewkesbury \| Tiverton and Honiton \| Torridge and West Devon \| Totnes \| Wells \| West Dorset \| Westbury \| Weston-super-Mare \| Woodspring
Liberal Democrat	Bath \| Bristol West \| Cheltenham \| Falmouth and Camborne \| Mid Dorset and North Poole \| North Cornwall \| North Devon \| Northavon \| Somerton and Frome \| South East Cornwall \| St Ives \| Taunton \| Teignbridge \| Torbay \| Truro and St Austell \| Yeovil
Labour	Bristol East \| Bristol North West \| Bristol South \| Exeter \| Gloucester \| Kingswood \| North Swindon \| Plymouth Devonport \| Plymouth Sutton \| South Dorset \| South Swindon \| Stroud \| Wansdyke
South West European constituency: Conservative (3) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (1) \| Labour (1)