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Four of the six Cornish parliamentary seats are currently held by Labour, after having no seats in Cornwall between the 2005 and 2024 general elections.Two are held by the Liberal Democrats since the 2024 election, after previously winning all Cornish constituencies in 2005 then losing three to the Conservatives in 2010, and losing the remaining three to the Conservatives in 2015.
From the 2010 general election, Cornwall has had six parliamentary constituencies. Following a review by the Boundary Commission for England taking effect at the 2010 general election, Cornwall is divided into six county constituencies to elect MPs to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
North Cornwall is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Ben Maguire, a Liberal Democrat since the 2024 general election.Like all British constituencies, the seat elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
In the 2017 general election, the constituency was held by the Conservative candidate, although it experienced a 22.5% surge in the Labour vote (the third-largest in the UK). The 37.7% of the vote in the Truro and Falmouth constituency achieved by Labour marked their highest share of the vote in a seat incorporating Truro since 1970 . [ 3 ]
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.
Sketchmap of 2010 parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall - click to enlarge. South East Cornwall is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Anna Gelderd, a Labour politician. [n 2]
Cornwall is a former county constituency covering the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.
Following the Boundary Commission' Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, Parliament increased the number of seats in the county from five to six for the 2010 general election, [7] thus St Ives saw a loss of wards to the new Camborne and Redruth seat, including the St Ives Bay town of Hayle.