West Devon (UK Parliament constituency)

West Devon
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
February 1974–1983
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Torridge and West Devon and South Hams
Created from	and Torrington

West Devon was a county constituency in Devon, in the South-West of England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Torridge and West Devon constituency.

The constituency was defined in the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970 as consisting of the then Municipal Boroughs of Great Torrington and Okehampton, and the Rural Districts of Holsworthy, Okehampton, Plympton St Mary, Tavistock, and Torrington. On 1 April 1974, the Local Government Act 1972 took effect, which redrew the internal boundaries of the constituency (they were redrawn again for the 1979 local elections); however the parliamentary boundaries remained unchanged until the seat disappeared in 1983.

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