List of parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

A medium county in the very east of the country. — The county of Suffolk in relation to England

The county of Suffolk, England is divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies (1 borough constituency and 7 county constituencies). Seven constituencies lie wholly within Suffolk while Waveney Valley straddles the county border between Suffolk and Norfolk.^{[nb 1]}

Constituencies

† Conservative ‡ Labour ¥ Green

Constituency^{[nb 2]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 3]}
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket CC	76,655	1,452	Peter Prinsley ‡	Will Tanner †
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC	71,020	4,290	Patrick Spencer †	Kevin Craig ‡
Ipswich BC	75,117	7,403	Jack Abbott ‡	Tom Hunt †
Lowestoft CC	73,967	2,016	Jessica Asato ‡	Peter Aldous †
South Suffolk CC	71,170	3,047	James Cartlidge †	Emma Bishton ‡
Suffolk Coastal CC	72,663	1,070	Jenny Riddell-Carpenter ‡	Thérèse Coffey †
Waveney Valley CC	70,540	5,593	Adrian Ramsay ¥	Richard Rout †
West Suffolk CC	76,243	3,247	Nick Timothy †	Rebecca Denness ‡

Boundary changes

2024

For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Suffolk with Norfolk as a sub-region of the East of England region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Waveney Valley. The seat of Waveney reverted to its former name of Lowestoft, and Bury St Edmunds was renamed Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Former name	Boundaries 2010–2024	Current name	Boundaries 2024–present
Bury St Edmunds CC Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC Ipswich BC South Suffolk CC Suffolk Coastal CC Waveney CC West Suffolk CC		Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket CC Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC Ipswich BC Lowestoft CC South Suffolk CC Suffolk Coastal CC Waveney Valley CC West Suffolk CC

2010

In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Suffolk retained its current constituencies, with changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. The largest of these changes resulted in the effective transfer of one Borough of Ipswich ward from Central Suffolk and North Ipswich to the constituency of Ipswich.

Name	Boundaries 1997–2010	Boundaries 2010–2024
Bury St Edmunds CC Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC Ipswich BC South Suffolk CC Suffolk Coastal CC Waveney CC West Suffolk CC

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[6]

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Suffolk in the 2024 general election were as follows:^[2]

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Conservative	115,953	30.8%	29.3%	3	4
Labour	107,057	28.4%	4.5%	4	4
Reform	69,230	18.4%	18.0%	0	0
Greens	49,925	13.3%	6.9%	1	1
Liberal Democrats	31,160	8.3%	-	0	0
Others	3,342	0.9%	-	0	0
Total	376,667	100.0		8

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Suffolk in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	229,823	60.1%	2.9%	7	1
Labour	91,339	23.9%	8.7%	0	1
Liberal Democrats	31,633	8.3%	3.8%	0	0
Greens	24,490	6.4%	3.6%	0	0
Brexit	1,432	0.4%	new	0	0
Others	3,432	0.9%	2.0%	0	0
Total	382,149	100.0		7

Percentage votes

Election year	1918	1922	1923	1924	1929	1931	1935	1945	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Conservative¹	48.9	45.6	47.6	54.8	43.6	67.0	62.6	39.7	42.1	49.1	49.6	48.4	45.6	46.6	52.5	44.0	45.5	51.4	52.5	52.5	49.9	37.6	40.7	41.7	46.2	50.7	57.2	60.1	30.8
Labour	12.2	25.8	23.9	20.0	23.3	25.0	32.4	38.2	39.8	43.9	46.6	41.1	38.2	43.2	38.7	31.7	35.1	33.7	22.1	23.2	28.7	40.2	39.7	31.8	21.3	23.5	32.6	23.9	28.4
Reform²	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4	18.4
Green Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	1.9	4.9	2.8	6.4	13.3
Liberal Democrat³#	24.5	11.9	28.5	25.2	33.1	8.0	4.9	22.1	18.0	7.0	3.8	10.5	16.0	9.9	8.0	23.7	19.4	14.4	25.3	23.6	20.4	17.6	16.0	20.6	24.1	5.6	4.5	8.3	8.3
Coalition Liberal	14.4	16.7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	5.3	15.3	2.3	*	*
Other	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1	-	-	-	0.1	0.3	0.8	0.5	-	0.5	0.1	0.6	1.1	4.6	3.6	6.0	1.2	0.1	0.5	0.9	0.9

¹Includes National Liberal Party from 1931 - 1966

²As the Brexit Party in 2019

³1918-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Labour	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	4
Conservative¹	2	3	3	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	5	6	5	5	5	5	7	7	6	7	3
Greens	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1^[a]
Liberal Democrat²	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8^[a]

¹Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

²1950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

^ ^a ^b Includes the constituency of Waveney Valley, which also lies partly in Norfolk.

Maps

1885-1910

1885
1886
1892
1895
1900
1906
Jan 1910
Dec 1910

1918-1945

1918
1922
1923
1924
1929
1931
1935
1945

1950-1979

1950
1951
1955
1959
1964
1966
1970
1974 Feb
1974 Oct
1979

1983-present

1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019
2024

Timeline

Constituency	1295-1298	1298-1529	1529-1559	1559-1571	1571-1614	1614-1832	1832-1844	1885-1918	1950-1983	1983-1997	1997-
Aldeburgh					1571-1832
Bury St Edmunds						1614-
Central Suffolk										1983-1997
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich											1997-
Dunwich		1298-1832
East Suffolk							1832-1885
Eye					1571-1983
Ipswich	1295-
Lowestoft								1885-1983
Orford			1529-1832
South Suffolk										1983-
Stowmarket								1885-1918
Sudbury				1559-1844				1885-1950
Sudbury and Woodbridge									1950-1983
Suffolk	1295-1832
Suffolk Coastal										1983-
Waveney										1983-
West Suffolk							1832-1885				1997-
Woodbridge								1885-1950

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist

Constituency	1885	86	1886	91	1892	92	1895	1900	1906	06	07	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	14
Bury St Edmunds	F. Hervey					Cadogan		Greene	F. W. Hervey		Guinness
Eye	Stevenson									Pearson
Ipswich (Two members)	West	Charteris					Goddard
Ipswich (Two members)	Collings	Dalrymple							Cobbold			Horne		Ganzoni
Lowestoft	Crossley		→		Foster			Lucas	Beauchamp			Foster	Beauchamp
Stowmarket	Cobbold		Greene	Stern			Malcolm		Hardy			Goldsmith
Sudbury	W. Quilter		→						Heaton-Armstrong			C. Quilter
Woodbridge	Everett		Lloyd-Anstruther		Everett		Pretyman		Everett			Peel

1918 to 1950

Coalition Liberal (1918-22) Conservative Independent Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)

Constituency	1918	20	1922	1923	1924	1929	31	1931	34	38	42	44	1945
Bury St Edmunds	Guinness							Heilgers				Keatinge	Clifton-Brown
Eye	Lyle-Samuel		→	Vanneck		Granville	→				→		→
Ipswich	Ganzoni			Jackson	Ganzoni					Stokes
Lowestoft	Beauchamp		Rentoul						Loftus				Evans
Sudbury	Howard		Mercer	Loverseed	Burton								Hamilton
Woodbridge	Peel	Churchman				Fison		Ross-Taylor					Hare

1950 to 1983

Conservative Labour Liberal

Constituency	1950	1951	57	1959	63	64	1970	Oct 74	1979
Bury St Edmunds	Aitken					Griffiths
Eye	Granville	Harrison							Gummer
Ipswich	Stokes		Foot				Money	Weetch
Lowestoft	Evans			Prior
Sudbury & Woodbridge	Hare				Stainton

1983 to present

Conservative Green Independent Labour

Constituency	1983	1987	1992	1997	01	2010	2015	2017	2019	22	24	2024
Bury St Edmunds / & Stowmarket ('24)	Griffiths		Spring	Ruffley			Churchill					Prinsley
Suffolk Coastal	Gummer					Coffey						Riddell-Carpenter
Ipswich	Weetch	Irvine	Cann		Mole	Gummer		Martin	Hunt			Abbott
Waveney / Lowestoft (2024)	Prior	Porter		Blizzard		Aldous						Asato
South Suffolk	Yeo						Cartlidge
Central Suffolk / & N Ipswich ('97)	Lord					Poulter					→	Spencer
West Suffolk				Spring		Hancock				→	→	Timothy
Waveney Valley¹												Ramsay

¹parts also in Norfolk

Notes

^ Waveney Valley CC is a cross-county constituency between Suffolk and Norfolk, covering areas of East and Mid Suffolk, as well as electoral wards of South Norfolk.
^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - Eastern". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
^ "Parliamentary constituency changes affect Norfolk/Suffolk border". BBC News. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^ "Here's how political boundaries could change if new plans approved". Suffolk News. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 294-320. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

[waveneyvalley-10] Includes the constituency of Waveney Valley, which also lies partly in Norfolk.

[1] Waveney Valley CC is a cross-county constituency between Suffolk and Norfolk, covering areas of East and Mid Suffolk, as well as electoral wards of South Norfolk.

[2] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[5] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[3] "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - Eastern". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 9 July 2024.

[:0-4] "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.

[6] "Parliamentary constituency changes affect Norfolk/Suffolk border". BBC News. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.

[7] "Here's how political boundaries could change if new plans approved". Suffolk News. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.

[8] "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 294-320. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

[9] Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

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