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St Austell and Newquay is a constituency [n 1] in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Noah Law, a Labour MP. [n 2] It is on the South West Peninsula of England, bordered by both the Celtic Sea to the northwest and English Channel to the southeast.
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.
St Austell is named after the 6th-century Cornish saint, St Austol, a disciple of St Mewan. In a Vatican manuscript there is a 10th-century list of Cornish parish saints. This includes Austoll, which means that the church and village existed at that time, shortly after 900. [5] St Austell is not mentioned in Domesday Book (1086).
The final unparished areas of mainland Cornwall, around St Austell, were parished on 1 April 2009 to coincide with the structural changes to local government in England. Population sizes within the county vary considerably, Falmouth is the most populous with a population of 26,767, recorded in 2011, and St Michael's Mount the least with 29 ...
Stephen David John Gilbert (born 6 November 1976) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected at the 2010 general election the Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of St Austell and Newquay, [1] but lost his seat at the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Steve Double. [2]
Noah Charles Law [1] is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay since 2024. [2]. He sits on the International Development Committee and is the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Critical Minerals.
Noah Law, Labour MP for St. Austell and Newquay (2024–Present) Ben Maguire, Liberal Democrat MP for Cornwall North (2024–Present) Perran Moon, Labour MP for Camborne and Redruth (2024–Present) Past MPs. Colin Breed, Liberal Democrat MP for South East Cornwall (1997–2010) Steve Double, Conservative MP for St. Austell and Newquay (2015 ...
Its council was based in St Austell; its other towns included Newquay The borough was named after Restormel Castle . It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , by a merger of the borough of St. Austell with Fowey , Newquay urban district and St Austell Rural District .