Wells and Mendip Hills

Wells and Mendip Hills is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. It was first contested at the 2024 general election. It is currently represented by Liberal Democrat Tessa Munt, who was previously MP for Wells from 2010 to 2015.

Boundaries

Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the constituency was defined as being composed of the following as they existed on 1 December 2020:

The District of Mendip wards of: Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton; Croscombe and Pilton; Moor; Rodney and Westbury; St. Cuthbert Out North; Shepton East; Shepton West; Wells Central; Wells St. Cuthbert's; Wells St. Thomas'; Wookey and St. Cuthbert Out West.
The District of North Somerset wards of: Banwell & Winscombe; Blagdon & Churchill; Congresbury & Puxton; Yatton.
The District of Sedgemoor wards of: Axevale; Cheddar and Shipham; East Polden; Knoll; Wedmore and Mark; West Polden.

With effect from 1 April 2023, the Districts of Mendip and Sedgemoor were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of Somerset. Consequently, the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election:

The District of North Somerset wards of: Banwell & Winscombe; Blagdon & Churchill; Congresbury & Puxton; Yatton.
The Somerset electoral divisions of: Brent ; Cheddar; Huntspill ; King Alfred ; Mendip Hills ; Mendip South ; Mendip West; Shepton Mallet; Wells.

The following areas of Somerset make up the constituency:

The majority of the abolished Wells constituency, including the communities of Axbridge, Cheddar, Shepton Mallet and Wells
Banwell, Blagdon, Churchill, Congresbury, Puxton and Winscombe from the Weston-super-Mare constituency
Yatton from the North Somerset constituency
The Polden Hills area from the abolished Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency