South West, 1955 vs 1959: seat-by-seat change

Every constituency in South West compared between the 1955 and 1959 general elections: which seats changed hands and how far each swung.

Constituency	1955	1959	Majority	Con–Lab swing
Bath	Con	Con	13.7%	+0.4
Bodmin	Con	Con	7.6%	−2.0
Bridgwater	Con	Con	18.2%	+0.1
Bristol Central	Lab	Lab	7.3%	−6.9
Bristol North East	Lab	Con gain	5.3%	−3.5
Bristol North West	Lab	Con gain	4.0%	−3.9
Bristol South	Lab	Lab	21.6%	−3.3
Bristol South East	Lab	Lab	12.5%	−3.2
Bristol West	Con	Con	48.8%	+0.9
Cheltenham	Con	Con	21.5%	−1.4
Chippenham	Con	Con	21.1%	−2.2
Cirencester and Tewkesbury	Oth	Con gain	26.7%	−13.3
Devizes	Con	Con	9.5%	−2.1
Exeter	Con	Con	12.8%	−0.1
Falmouth and Camborne	Lab	Lab	9.6%	+3.5
Gloucester	Lab	Lab	6.4%	+2.3
Honiton	Con	Con	28.5%	−0.8
North Cornwall	Con	Con	2.8%	+0.2
North Devon	Con	Lib gain	1.0%	−0.1
North Dorset	Con	Con	22.5%	+0.4
North Somerset	Con	Con	12.5%	−2.1
Plymouth Devonport	Con	Con	12.8%	−6.3
Plymouth Sutton	Con	Con	11.5%	−2.4
Poole	Con	Con	22.8%	−1.7
Salisbury	Con	Con	19.7%	+0.2
South Dorset	Con	Con	15.1%	−1.3
South Gloucestershire	Con	Con	9.6%	−2.8
St.Ives	Con	Con	21.1%	+0.7
Stroud	Con	Con	10.5%	−1.1
Swindon	Lab	Lab	8.8%	−0.5
Taunton	Con	Con	14.2%	−0.8
Tavistock	Con	Con	29.3%	−1.2
Tiverton	Con	Con	30.4%	−0.9
Torquay	Con	Con	34.1%	+0.4
Torrington	Con	Con	6.0%	−0.3
Totnes	Con	Con	27.2%	−2.2
Truro	Con	Con	10.1%	+0.4
Wells	Con	Con	14.4%	−0.7
West Dorset	Con	Con	22.7%	−1.8
West Gloucestershire	Lab	Lab	12.4%	+1.2
Westbury	Con	Con	13.0%	−2.6
Weston Super Mare	Con	Con	34.9%	−4.7
Yeovil	Con	Con	12.1%	−1.8

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