Thornbury and Yate is a constituency encompassing an area to the north-east of Bristol within the South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority Area. It is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2024 election by Claire Young, a member of the Liberal Democrats.
The Thornbury and Yate constituency borders Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset and includes the Boyd Valley and Cotswold Edge, the villages of Alveston, Charfield, Frampton Cotterell and Westerleigh, the market town of Chipping Sodbury,Severn Beach from Filton and Bradley Stoke, and the villages of Siston and Bridgeyate from Kingswood. The commuter towns of Yate and Thornbury are home to some 35,000 people.
This seat is a successor to the former Northavon constituency, which was abolished following boundary changes taking effect at the 2010 general election.
The constituency was one of a significant number gained from the Liberal Democrats by the Conservatives in the 2015 general election, and their majority further increased to more than 12,000 in the 2017 election, even as the Conservatives saw a net loss of seats nationally. The Liberal Democrats regained the seat at the 2024 general election.
2010âÂÂ2024: Following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies by the Boundary Commission this newly defined seat emerged. The electoral wards used in the creation of this new seat were all from the district of South Gloucestershire and were as follows:
Ward names and boundaries were subsequently reconfigured by the South Gloucestershire (Electoral Changes) Order 2018 which came into effect in 2019.
2024âÂÂpresent: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The seat was expanded to bring the electorate within the permitted range, with the addition of areas in the Bristol Channel hinterland including Severn Beach from Filton and Bradley Stoke.
Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.8% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.