Torridge and Tavistock
South West · County constituency
About the Torridge and Tavistock constituency
Torridge and Tavistock is a county constituency in the South West. The sitting MP is Sir Geoffrey Cox (Conservative), MP since May 2005. At the 2024 general election, the Conservatives won with 31.6% to 23.8% for the Liberal Democrats, a majority of 3,950 votes on a 68.0% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has the Conservatives on 32.2% and Reform UK on 26.8%, a margin of 5.4 points.
Who lives in Torridge and Tavistock? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Torridge and Tavistock 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 Torridge and Tavistock
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 ›
Torridge and Tavistock within Torridge and West Devon
Torridge and Tavistock crosses council boundaries: Torridge (72%), West Devon (28%). None of the constituent councils were due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results with vote counts available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| Torridge | 72% |
| West Devon | 28% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Dec 2025 | Winkleigh | LD GAIN from Con | LD 42% Ref 33% Con 25% |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Milton & Tamarside | LD GAIN from Ind | LD 38% Ref 31% Con 17% |
| 1 May 2025 | Tavistock North | LD GAIN from Ind | LD 31% Con 26% Ref 23% |
| 17 Apr 2025 | Appledore | LD GAIN from Ind | LD 41% Con 32% Other 16% |
| 9 May 2024 | Bideford North | LD GAIN from Grn | LD 29% Lab 19% Grn 19% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent result with vote counts available. How this table is sourced ›
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appledore | Conservative 30.6%vs Labour 27.2% | 2023 Independent 45.3%vs Green 44.5% | - | 45.2% |
| Bere Ferrers | Conservative 36.7%vs Lib Dem 22.9% | 2023 Conservative 44.6%vs Labour 36.3% | - | 56.6% |
| Bideford East | Conservative 28.5%vs Labour 25.4% | 2023 Independent 44.3%vs Conservative 28.8% | - | 35.9% |
| Bideford North | Conservative 30.2%vs Lib Dem 25.4% | 2023 Green 30.5%vs Lib Dem 18.1% | - | 64.7% |
| Bideford South | Conservative 29.9%vs Labour 24.7% | 2023 Labour 37.9%vs Independent 30.7% | - | 28.1% |
| Bideford West | Conservative 29.0%vs Labour 22.3% | 2023 Independent 55.5%vs Conservative 24.9% | - | 22.9% |
| Bridestowe | Conservative 37.3%vs Lib Dem 22.0% | 2023 Conservative 70.8%vs Green 29.2% | - | 35.2% |
| Broadheath | Conservative 31.3%vs Lib Dem 22.9% | 2023 Conservative 46.4%vs Independent 30.6% | - | 42.6% |
| Dartmoor | Conservative 28.6%vs Labour 23.6% | 2023 Independent 74.3%vs Lib Dem 25.7% | - | 38.3% |
| Great Torrington | Lib Dem 34.3%vs Conservative 26.2% | 2023 Lib Dem 58.4%vs Conservative 16.4% | - | 43.4% |
| Hartland | Conservative 32.6%vs Lib Dem 25.2% | 2023 Conservative 38.1%vs Independent 37.7% | - | 45.4% |
| Holsworthy | Conservative 29.7%vs Lib Dem 24.6% | 2023 Lib Dem 50.9%vs Independent 29.4% | - | 47.9% |
| Mary Tavy | Conservative 32.7%vs Lib Dem 21.9% | 2023 Independent 61.0%vs Conservative 21.9% | - | 44.1% |
| Milton & Tamarside | Conservative 29.2%vs Lib Dem 24.7% | 2023 Independent 66.4%vs Green 21.0% | - | 37.2% |
| Milton Ford | Conservative 36.5%vs Lib Dem 20.8% | 2019 Conservative 66.9%vs Labour 33.1% | - | 35.2% |
| Monkleigh & Putford | Conservative 29.8%vs Lib Dem 23.5% | 2023 Independent 47.4%vs Conservative 23.9% | - | 49.4% |
| Northam | Conservative 33.4%vs Labour 21.7% | 2023 Independent 48.5%vs Conservative 24.1% | - | 53.3% |
| Shebbear & Langtree | Conservative 33.3%vs Lib Dem 29.7% | 2023 Lib Dem 64.2%vs Conservative 35.8% | - | 46.3% |
| Tamarside | Conservative 46.5%vs Lib Dem 18.1% | 2023 Conservative 64.0%vs Green 28.8% | - | 34.0% |
| Tavistock North | Conservative 27.4%vs Lib Dem 24.9% | 2023 Independent 36.2%vs Conservative 27.7% | - | 63.4% |
| Tavistock South East | Conservative 34.2%vs Labour 21.1% | 2023 Conservative 44.9%vs Independent 33.5% | - | 62.8% |
| Tavistock South West | Labour 24.3%vs Conservative 24.2% | 2023 Independent 82.0%vs Conservative 18.0% | - | 27.7% |
| Two Rivers & Three Moors | Conservative 36.8%vs Lib Dem 23.4% | 2023 Conservative 49.4%vs Lib Dem 40.9% | - | 39.5% |
| Westward Ho! | Conservative 27.1%vs Labour 24.0% | Sitting Independent x2no contested ballot | - | - |
| Winkleigh | Conservative 35.9%vs Lib Dem 25.7% | 2023 Conservative 48.6%vs Lib Dem 33.6% | - | 40.3% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Torridge and Tavistock at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Torridge and Tavistock 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 | Geoffrey Cox Torridge and West Devon MP | 5.3% | 45.7% | 40.3% | 2,957 | 71.4% |
| 2015predecessor | Con hold | Geoffrey Cox Torridge and West Devon MP | 10.6% | 50.9% | 13.2% | 18,403 | 72.0%+0.6 |
| 2017predecessor | Con hold | Geoffrey Cox Torridge and West Devon MP | 21.7% | 56.5% | 17.7% | 20,686 | 73.9%+1.9 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | Geoffrey Cox Torridge and West Devon MP, pre-review boundary | 17.9% | 59.8% | 17.9% | 22,899 | 73.1% |
| 2024 | Con hold | Geoffrey Cox | 21.2% | 31.6% | 23.8% | 3,950 | 68.0%-5.1 |
Torridge and Tavistock was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Torridge and West Devon (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 Torridge and Tavistock
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Torridge and Tavistock. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Age 65+33.5 / 32.9vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 20.8vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied70.2 / 70.0vs 61.9
- ↑Age 65+33.5 / 31.5vs 22.7
- ↑Owner-occupied70.2 / 70.5vs 61.9
- ↓Social rent9.5 / 9.8vs 16.8
- ↑Age 65+33.5 / 34.9vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 20.0vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied70.2 / 69.5vs 61.9
- ↑Age 65+33.5 / 34.5vs 22.7
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 21.3vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied70.2 / 69.2vs 61.9
- ↑Age 65+33.5 / 31.6vs 22.7
- ↑Owner-occupied70.2 / 72.8vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3521.1 / 22.9vs 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 model at the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls, built from the British Election Study Internet Panel (Fieldhouse et al.), Census 2021 (ONS) and Scotland's Census 2022 (NRS). The trajectory was recalculated with the current model, introduced in autumn 2026.
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