Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE)[1] was a constituency[n 1] that was last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2017 until 2024 by Bob Seely, a Conservative.

It covered the same land as the ceremonial county of the Isle of Wight and the area administered by the unitary authority, Isle of Wight Council: a diamond-shaped island with rounded oblique corners, measuring 22.5 miles (36.2 km) by 13 miles (21 km), the Needles and similar small uninhabitable rocks of very small square surface area.

The arbitrary division line problem is routinely encountered in those council areas which have no rural elements or natural divides.

[11] The Reform Act abolished the Newtown and Yarmouth parliamentary boroughs, and a single-member county division of Hampshire was created for the island.

[17] At the 2015 election, the incumbent Conservative scored one of his party's largest swings against the Liberal Democrats whose candidate finished in fifth place.

[18] At the December 2019 general election, Labour came second, marginally increasing the party's vote total and share of the poll compared to 2017.