Taunton Deane (UK Parliament constituency)

Taunton Deane
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Taunton Deane in Somerset.
Location of Somerset within England.
County	Somerset
Electorate	82,882 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Taunton, Wellington
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Rebecca Pow (Conservative Party)
Number of members	One
Created from	Taunton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South West England

Taunton Deane is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Rebecca Pow of the Conservative Party.

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which created this constituency for the General Election 2010 as a reduced form of the Taunton seat. The western wards, transferred to the new seat of Bridgwater and West Somerset for 2010, were all close to or in Exmoor, which were five in number:

The predecessor seat, while approximately 7% larger in electorate (and thus due to population and settlements' growth, oversized), had been held by a Liberal Democrat, Jeremy Browne, since 2005, who won Taunton Deane as its main successor with a relatively marginal majority. In the two previous elections, the seat had seen alternation between Conservative and a Liberal Democrat control. The Taunton Deane seat was won by the Conservatives in the 2015 general election with a large majority.

The last general election in which either party polled less than 38% of the vote, thus allowing a larger majority, was in 1987, taking into account only one of their notionally equivalent predecessors, the Social Democratic Party - their candidate participated in the SDP–Liberal Alliance.