Plymouth Moor View (UK Parliament constituency)

Plymouth, Moor View
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Plymouth, Moor View in Devon.
Location of Devon within England.
County	Devon
Electorate	68,556 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Johnny Mercer (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Plymouth Devonport, Plymouth Sutton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South West England

Plymouth, Moor View is a 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 and has been represented since 2015 by Johnny Mercer of the Conservative Party.^[2]

Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England into parliamentary representation in Devon, constituencies in Plymouth have been reorganised. This is one of two new seats, the other being Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.^[3] The seat is largely the successor to the former Plymouth Devonport constituency.

Boundaries

Plymouth Moor View covers the northern part of Plymouth. The electoral wards which make up the constituency are Budshead, Eggbuckland, Ham, Honicknowle, Moor View, St Budeaux and Southway.^[3]

The remaining wards from the City of Plymouth are in the constituencies of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport and South West Devon.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[4]	Party
	2010	Alison Seabeck	Labour
	2015	Johnny Mercer	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Plymouth Moor View^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Johnny Mercer	16,020	37.6	+4.3
	Labour	Alison Seabeck	14,994	35.2	-2.0
	UKIP	Penny Mills	9,152	21.5	+13.8
	Liberal Democrat	Stuart Bonar	1,265	3.0	-13.9
	Green	Benjamin Osborn	1,023	2.4	+2.4
	TUSC	Louise Parker	152	0.4	+0.4
Majority			1,026	2.4
Turnout			42,606	61.6	-0.1
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+3.15

General Election 2010: Plymouth Moor View^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Alison Seabeck	15,433	37.2	N/A
	Conservative	Matthew Groves	13,845	33.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Stuart Bonar	7,016	16.9	N/A
	UKIP	Bill Wakeham	3,188	7.7	N/A
	BNP	Roy Crook	1,438	3.5	N/A
	Green	Wendy Miller	398	1.0	N/A
	Socialist Labour	David Marchesi	208	0.5	N/A
Majority			1,588	3.8	N/A
Turnout			41,526	61.7	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes and references

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
1 2 "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
1 2 "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the counties of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay". Boundary Commission for England. 2004-11-24. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ BBC Election Results BBC Election Results 2010 - Plymouth Moor View

Constituencies in South West England (55)

Conservative (51)	Bath Bournemouth East Bournemouth West Bridgwater and West Somerset Bristol North West Camborne and Redruth Central Devon Cheltenham Chippenham Christchurch Devizes East Devon Filton and Bradley Stoke Forest of Dean Gloucester Kingswood Mid Dorset and North Poole Newton Abbot North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Somerset North Somerset North Swindon North Wiltshire Plymouth Moor View Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Poole Salisbury Somerton and Frome South Dorset South East Cornwall South Swindon South West Devon South West Wiltshire St Austell and Newquay St Ives Stroud Taunton Deane Tewkesbury The Cotswolds Thornbury and Yate Tiverton and Honiton Torbay Torridge and West Devon Totnes Truro and Falmouth Wells West Dorset Weston-super-Mare Yeovil

Labour (4)	Bristol East Bristol South Bristol West Exeter

South West England European constituency: Conservative (2) Green (1) Labour (1) UKIP (2)

Coordinates: 50°24′40″N 4°08′24″W / 50.411°N 4.14°W / 50.411; -4.14

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