Exeter (/ˈɛksɪtər/ EK-sit-ər) is a constituency[n 1] composed of the cathedral city and county town of Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Steve Race of the Labour Party.

The constituency covers the majority of the city, including the University and the Met Office which are significant employers.

[2] As of 2022[update], median gross weekly in pay for full-time workers is below the figure for Great Britain as a whole but above that for South West England.

It covered the entire city until 2010, when, under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which increased the number of seats in the county from 11 to 12, two wards of the City of Exeter (St Loyes and Topsham) were transferred to the neighbouring East Devon constituency.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Duke is appointed Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, prompting a by-election.