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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.

Constituencies

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour   ¥ Green

Constituency	Electorate	Majority	Member of Parliament		Nearest opposition		Map
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.

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

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:

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

Includes National Liberal Party from 1931 - 1966

As the Brexit Party in 2019

1918-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

1950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

1. ^ 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

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

1918 to 1950

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

1950 to 1983

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal

1983 to present

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour

parts also in Norfolk

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in the East of England
• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Suffolk

Notes

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

References

1. "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.
2. ^ "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
3. "Parliamentary constituency changes affect Norfolk/Suffolk border". BBC News. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
4. "Here's how political boundaries could change if new plans approved". Suffolk News. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
5. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 294-320. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
6. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

• Parliamentary constituencies in the East of England
• Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk
• Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England
• Suffolk-related lists