Tiverton & Minehead.

Tiverton and Minehead is a large, rural South West seat that straddles the Devon-Somerset border, with an older population -- a median age of 50 -- and a heavily White electorate of around 72,000. No single town dominates: Tiverton, with about 20,700 residents, is the largest, but more than a fifth of the seat lives in dispersed countryside, and the coastal town of Minehead, near 11,800, anchors the eastern end. Below them sits a scatter of villages -- Williton, Willand, Bishops Lydeard, Watchet -- giving the constituency a network-of-small-towns character rather than an urban centre. Local services are split across two authorities: Mid Devon, a district council covering nine of the seat's wards, and Somerset, a unitary council running the remaining five.

Recent ward contests point firmly in one direction. Across the 28 most-recent ward results, the Liberal Democrats took 21, with the Conservatives on five and the Greens and an independent taking one apiece, and Liberal Democrat shares frequently sat near or above half the vote. That picture tracks the parliamentary result: at the 2024 General Election, the first fought on these 2023 boundaries, the Liberal Democrats won on 38.6 per cent, with the Conservatives the runner-up on 31.2 per cent -- a margin of roughly seven points. The sitting MP, Rachel Gilmour, was elected on that swing in 2024 and has shown no whipped dissent in the past 90 days.

On the figures available the seat looks settled rather than contested, with both ward and parliamentary results leaning the same way since 2024, though a single General Election on these boundaries is a thin record. Recent local coverage has had a routine, administrative tenor -- council leadership and planning matters, local services and youth support -- with little to mark the seat out nationally. The combination leaves Tiverton and Minehead a Liberal Democrat-leaning seat for now, but one whose direction-of-travel rests on a short and recent run of evidence.