South West, 1966 vs 1970: seat-by-seat change

Every constituency in South West compared between the 1966 and 1970 general elections: which seats changed hands and how far each swung.

Constituency	1966	1970	Majority	Con–Lab swing
Bath	Con	Con	12.8%	−5.5
Bodmin	Lib	Con gain	9.4%	−3.0
Bridgwater	Con	Con	16.6%	−5.1
Bristol Central	Lab	Lab	13.5%	−4.7
Bristol North East	Lab	Con gain	1.0%	−4.7
Bristol North West	Lab	Con gain	2.1%	−1.7
Bristol South	Lab	Lab	23.6%	−5.3
Bristol South East	Lab	Lab	10.8%	−6.0
Bristol West	Con	Con	35.7%	−1.4
Cheltenham	Con	Con	18.9%	−6.0
Chippenham	Con	Con	21.5%	−5.1
Cirencester and Tewkesbury	Con	Con	26.1%	−4.9
Devizes	Con	Con	14.6%	−4.6
Exeter	Lab	Con gain	2.6%	−5.2
Falmouth and Camborne	Lab	Con gain	3.2%	−5.2
Gloucester	Lab	Con gain	2.3%	−7.2
Honiton	Con	Con	39.0%	−5.9
North Cornwall	Lib	Lib	1.5%	−2.6
North Devon	Lib	Lib	0.9%	−3.1
North Dorset	Con	Con	33.3%	−4.4
North Somerset	Con	Con	16.2%	−6.2
Plymouth Devonport	Con	Con	3.2%	−1.3
Plymouth Sutton	Lab	Lab	1.3%	−3.9
Poole	Con	Con	23.0%	−6.1
Salisbury	Con	Con	20.6%	−5.2
South Dorset	Con	Con	13.0%	−4.6
South Gloucestershire	Con	Con	13.1%	−5.4
St.Ives	Con	Con	23.8%	−6.7
Stroud	Con	Con	15.0%	−5.9
Swindon	Lab	Lab	12.0%	−6.3
Taunton	Con	Con	17.1%	−5.2
Tavistock	Con	Con	34.2%	−4.2
Tiverton	Con	Con	31.0%	−4.7
Torquay	Con	Con	29.5%	−4.3
Torrington	Con	Con	25.0%	−2.7
Totnes	Con	Con	26.3%	−5.0
Truro	Con	Con	16.3%	−6.4
Wells	Con	Con	17.3%	−5.0
West Dorset	Con	Con	27.1%	−5.5
West Gloucestershire	Lab	Lab	2.3%	−7.5
Westbury	Con	Con	17.3%	−5.7
Weston Super Mare	Con	Con	33.1%	−4.9
Yeovil	Con	Con	12.7%	−4.4

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