Coordinates: 50°43′19″N 3°32′02″W / 50.722°N 3.534°W
| Exeter Borough constituency |
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| Exeter shown within Devon, and Devon shown within England | |
| Created: | 1295 |
| MP: | Ben Bradshaw |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Devon |
| EP constituency: | South West England |
Exeter 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.
It has been represented since 1997 by Labour's Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary.
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Boundaries
The constituency covers the city of Exeter in Devon. It has a high student population centred around the University of Exeter but is otherwise fairly affluent and middle-class.
Members of Parliament
Pre 1660
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1660-1885
Two members
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1660 | John Maynard | Thomas Bampfield | ||||
| 1661 | Sir James Smyth | Robert Walker | ||||
| 1673 | Thomas Walker | |||||
| 1679 | William Glyde | Malachi Pyne | ||||
| 1681 | Sir Thomas Carew | Thomas Walker | ||||
| 1685 | James Walker | Edward Seymour | Tory | |||
| Jan 1689 | Henry Pollexfen | |||||
| Jun 1689 | Christopher Bale | |||||
| 1695 | Edward Seyward | Sir Joseph Tily | ||||
| 1698 | Sir Edward Seymour | Tory | Sir Bartholomew Shower | |||
| 1702 | John Snell | Tory | ||||
| Apr 1708 | John Harris | |||||
| May 1708 | Nicholas Wood | |||||
| 1710 | Sir Coplestone Bampfylde | Tory | John Snell | Tory | ||
| 1713 | John Rolle | Francis Drewe | ||||
| 1715 | John Bampfylde | |||||
| 1722 | John Rolle | |||||
| 1727 | Samuel Molyneux | |||||
| 1728 | John Belfield | |||||
| 1734 | John King | Thomas Balle | ||||
| 1735 | Sir Henry Northcote | |||||
| 1741 | Humphrey Sydenham | |||||
| 1743 | Sir Richard Bampfylde, Bt | |||||
| 1747 | John Tuckfield | |||||
| 1754 | John Rolle Walter | |||||
| 1767 | William Spicer | |||||
| 1768 | John Buller | |||||
| 1774 | Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde | |||||
| 1776 | John Baring | |||||
| 1790 | James Buller | |||||
| 1796 | Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde | |||||
| 1802 | James Buller | |||||
| 1812 | William Courtenay | |||||
| 1818 | Robert William Newman | |||||
| Feb 1826 | Samuel Trehawke Kekewich | |||||
| Jun 1826 | Lewis William Buck | |||||
| 1830 | James Wentworth Buller | |||||
| 1832 | Edward Divett | |||||
| 1835 | Sir William Webb Follett | |||||
| 1845 | Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, Bt | |||||
| 1845 | Richard Sommers Gard | |||||
| 1864 | Viscount Courtenay | |||||
| 1865 | John Coleridge | Liberal | ||||
| 1868 | Edgar Alfred Bowring | |||||
| 1873 | Arthur Mills | |||||
| 1874 | John George Johnson | |||||
| 1880 | Edward Johnson | Henry Northcote | Conservative |
1885 on
One member
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Henry Northcote | Conservative | |
| 1899 by-election | Sir Edgar Vincent | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Sir George Kekewich | Liberal | |
| January 1910 | Henry Duke | Conservative | |
| December 1910[1] | Harold St Maur | Liberal | |
| 1911[1] | Henry Duke | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Sir Robert Newman | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Independent | ||
| 1931 | Arthur Conrad Reed | Conservative | |
| 1945 | John Cyril Maude | Conservative | |
| 1951 | Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, Bt | Conservative | |
| 1966 | Gwyneth Dunwoody | Labour | |
| 1970 | Sir John Hannam | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Ben Bradshaw | Labour | |
Election results
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ben Bradshaw | ||||
| UKIP | William Dartmouth [3] | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Graham Oakes | ||||
| Conservative | Hannah Foster | ||||
| General Election 2005: Exeter | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ben Bradshaw | 22,619 | 41.1 | -8.7 | |
| Conservative | Peter Cox | 14,954 | 27.2 | -0.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jon Underwood | 11,340 | 20.6 | +8.2 | |
| Liberal | Margaret Danks | 2,214 | 4.0 | -0.9 | |
| Green | Tim Brenan | 1,896 | 3.4 | +1.0 | |
| UKIP | Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker | 1,854 | 3.4 | +1.3 | |
| Independent | John Stuart | 191 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 7,665 | 13.9 | |||
| Turnout | 55,068 | 64.8 | 0.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -4.2 | |||
| General Election 2001: Exeter | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ben Bradshaw | 26,194 | 49.8 | +2.3 | |
| Conservative | Anne Jobson | 14,435 | 27.4 | -1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Richard Copus | 6,512 | 12.4 | -5.6 | |
| Liberal | David Morrish | 2,596 | 4.9 | +1.6 | |
| Green | Paul Edwards | 1,240 | 2.4 | +1.3 | |
| UKIP | John Stuart | 1,109 | 2.1 | +1.1 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Francis Choules | 530 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,759 | 22.4 | |||
| Turnout | 52,616 | 64.2 | -13.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
- ^ a b At the December 1910 election, Harold St Maur was declared the winner by 4 votes, and the same majority was recorded after a recount. However a electoral petition was heard in April 1911, at which Henry Duke was declared the winner by 1 vote.
- ^ Exeter, UKPollingReport
- ^ UKIP SW website
See also
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