Bridgwater and West Somerset was a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Ian Liddell-Grainger, a Conservative.

Bridgwater was one of the original parliamentary borough constituencies in England[n 3] (with fifteen years of non-existence in the late 19th century after the seat was abolished for corruption in 1870 and being subsumed into a slightly larger seat on a review of Somerset's representation by the Boundary Commission[3] in 1885).

The incumbent, Ian Liddell-Grainger, is a former Major in the Territorial Army, farmer and defence advisor.

In the snap election of 2017 Liddell-Grainger increased his majority to 15,000, the largest in the constituency's history, and Labour finished second in the seat for the first time.

See also: Bridgwater constituency The Liberal Democrats initially selected Justine Baker as their candidate.