Melksham and Devizes

Melksham and Devizes is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, when it was won by Brian Mathew of the Liberal Democrats. He defeated Conservative former cabinet minister Michelle Donelan, who had been MP for Chippenham from 2015 to 2024.

Boundaries

The constituency is composed of the following electoral districts of Wiltshire (as they existed on 4 May 2021):

• Bowerhill; Box & Colerne; Bradford-on-Avon North; Bradford-on-Avon South; Bromham, Rowde & Roundway; Calne South; Devizes East; Devizes North; Devizes Rural West; Devizes South; Holt; Melksham East; Melksham Forest; Melksham South; Melksham Without North & Shurnhold; Melksham Without West & Rural; The Lavingtons; Urchfont & Bishops Cannings; Winsley & Westwood.

It comprises the following areas:

• The towns of Melksham and Bradford-on-Avon, transferred from Chippenham
• The town of Devizes, transferred from the constituency of Devizes (the majority of which was incorporated into the new constituency of East Wiltshire)
• Rural parishes east of Trowbridge, transferred from South West Wiltshire
• The wards of Box and Colerne, and Calne South, transferred from the abolished North Wiltshire constituency

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

References

External links

• Melksham and Devizes UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK