South Hams (UK Parliament constituency)

South Hams
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
South Hams in Devon, showing boundaries used from 1983 to 1997.
CountyDevon
Major settlementsTotnes, Ivybridge, Brixham, part of Paignton
19831997
SeatsOne
Created fromTotnes, Torbay and Devon West[1]
Replaced byTotnes and Devon South West

South Hams was a county constituency based on the South Hams district of Devon. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. The constituency covered a vast part of the English Riviera on the south Devon coast.

  1. ^ "'South Hams', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 14 March 2016.