Honiton and Sidmouth
South West · County constituency
About the Honiton and Sidmouth constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth is a county constituency in the South West. The sitting MP is Richard Foord (Liberal Democrat), first elected in June 2022. At the 2024 general election, the Liberal Democrats won with 45.4% to 32.2% for the Conservatives, a majority of 6,700 votes on a 67.1% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has the Liberal Democrats on 33.8% and the Conservatives on 27.7%, a margin of 6.1 points.
Who lives in Honiton and Sidmouth? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Honiton and Sidmouth vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?
2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.
2024 general election
Current projection
Map of Honiton and Sidmouth
Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from the 2021 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›
Honiton and Sidmouth within East Devon and Mid Devon
Honiton and Sidmouth crosses council boundaries: East Devon (90%), Mid Devon (10%). None of the constituent councils were due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| East Devon | 90% |
| Mid Devon | 10% |
Recent council by-elections
Council ward by-elections held inside this seat, most recent first. The result column shows which party won; the share column shows the top three parties’ vote shares on the day.
| Date | Ward | Result | Top 3 vote shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026 | Honiton St. Michael's | LD GAIN from Lab | LD 45% Ref 25% Con 20% |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Seaton | LD GAIN from Con | LD 41% Ref 30% Con 21% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent available result. How this table is sourced ›
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axminster | Lib Dem 43.2%vs Conservative 33.2% | 2023 Independent 54.1%vs Conservative 30.1% | - | 41.2% |
| Beer & Branscombe | Lib Dem 43.5%vs Conservative 29.3% | 2023 Independent 56.9%vs Conservative 22.5% | - | 35.9% |
| Coly Valley | Lib Dem 46.2%vs Conservative 33.3% | 2023 Conservative 59.5%vs Lib Dem 40.5% | - | 46.0% |
| Cullompton Padbrook | Lib Dem 51.8%vs Conservative 30.3% | 2023 Lib Dem 53.1%vs Conservative 39.0% | - | 30.8% |
| Cullompton St Andrews | Lib Dem 55.6%vs Conservative 26.8% | 2023 Lib Dem 46.7%vs Conservative 27.4% | - | 42.0% |
| Dunkeswell & Otterhead | Lib Dem 46.9%vs Conservative 33.6% | 2023 Conservative 37.0%vs Lib Dem 33.0% | - | 48.7% |
| Feniton | Lib Dem 44.4%vs Conservative 30.7% | 2023 Conservative 50.6%vs Green 49.4% | - | 31.5% |
| Honiton St Michael's | Lib Dem 43.1%vs Conservative 30.6% | 2023 Conservative 46.3%vs Independent 23.7% | - | 41.7% |
| Honiton St Paul's | Lib Dem 41.2%vs Conservative 30.6% | 2023 Independent 51.5%vs Conservative 48.5% | - | 28.8% |
| Newbridges | Lib Dem 43.4%vs Conservative 36.5% | 2023 Conservative 49.7%vs Lib Dem 39.4% | - | 40.9% |
| Newton Poppleford & Harpford | Lib Dem 44.3%vs Conservative 29.1% | 2023 Independent 82.1%vs Conservative 17.9% | - | 42.5% |
| Ottery St Mary | Lib Dem 45.2%vs Conservative 29.2% | 2023 Independent 46.4%vs Lib Dem 24.6% | - | 47.8% |
| Seaton | Lib Dem 42.5%vs Conservative 35.8% | 2023 Conservative 43.1%vs Independent 29.9% | - | 59.7% |
| Sidmouth Rural | Lib Dem 40.0%vs Conservative 34.7% | 2023 Independent 73.0%vs Conservative 27.0% | - | 42.1% |
| Sidmouth Sidford | Lib Dem 42.7%vs Conservative 35.4% | 2023 Conservative 50.3%vs Lib Dem 49.7% | - | 38.8% |
| Sidmouth Town | Lib Dem 39.5%vs Conservative 34.5% | 2023 Independent 59.4%vs Conservative 40.6% | - | 47.4% |
| Tale Vale | Lib Dem 52.0%vs Conservative 31.0% | 2023 Lib Dem 59.8%vs Conservative 40.2% | - | 48.2% |
| Trinity | Lib Dem 47.3%vs Conservative 31.0% | 2023 Lib Dem 53.7%vs Conservative 46.3% | - | 43.6% |
| West Hill & Aylesbeare | Lib Dem 41.6%vs Conservative 32.9% | 2023 Independent 79.0%vs Conservative 16.2% | - | 51.3% |
| Yarty | Lib Dem 47.1%vs Conservative 33.1% | 2023 Lib Dem 52.3%vs Conservative 38.8% | - | 39.5% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Honiton and Sidmouth at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Honiton and Sidmouth at past general elections?
2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Con hold | Neil Parish Tiverton and Honiton MP | 8.9% | 50.3% | 33.3% | 9,320 | 71.5% |
| 2015predecessor | Con hold | Neil Parish Tiverton and Honiton MP | 12.7% | 54.0% | 10.5% | 20,173 | 70.5%-1.0 |
| 2017predecessor | Con hold | Neil Parish Tiverton and Honiton MP | 27.1% | 61.4% | 8.0% | 19,801 | 71.6%+1.1 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | Neil Parish Tiverton and Honiton MP, pre-review boundary | 14.2% | 60.4% | 9.6% | 26,229 | 76.4% |
| 2024 | LD gain from Con | Richard Foord | 5.8% | 32.2% | 45.4% | 6,700 | 67.1%-9.3 |
Honiton and Sidmouth was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Tiverton and Honiton (the seat that covered most of this area), so vote shares and majorities aren’t directly comparable to the post-2024 figures.
Constituencies most like Honiton and Sidmouth
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Honiton and Sidmouth. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Age 65+37.0 / 38.4vs 22.7
- ↑Owner-occupied72.7 / 74.2vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3519.8 / 18.9vs 30.2
- ↑Age 65+37.0 / 34.9vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3519.8 / 20.0vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied72.7 / 69.5vs 61.9
- ↑Age 65+37.0 / 32.9vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3519.8 / 20.8vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied72.7 / 70.0vs 61.9
- ↑Age 65+37.0 / 34.5vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3519.8 / 21.3vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied72.7 / 69.2vs 61.9
- ↑Age 65+37.0 / 37.3vs 22.7
- ↑Owner-occupied72.7 / 73.3vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3519.8 / 20.2vs 30.2
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Related
Sources
Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›
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- 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
- Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
- Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
- Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
- May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
- Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
- Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
- EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
- MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
- Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
- Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic swingometer applied to the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls. Not a true MRP - vote-share movements are applied through per-constituency sensitivity multipliers derived from demographic regressions.
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