Truro Boscawen (
Cornish: ) was an
electoral division
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provid ...
of
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
in the
United Kingdom
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which returned one member to sit on
Cornwall Council
Cornwall Council ( ), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England. Since 2009 it has been a Unitary authorities of England, unitary ...
between 2009 and 2021. It was abolished at the
2021 local elections, being succeeded by
Truro Boscawen and Redannick and
Truro Moresk and Trehaverne.
Councillors
Extent
Truro Boscawen represented almost the whole of the centre of
Truro
Truro (; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England; it is the southernmost city in the United Kingdom, just under west-south-west of Charing Cross in London. It is Cornwall's county town, s ...
, including
Truro Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Truro, Cornwall. It was built between 1880 and 1910 to a Gothic Revival design by John Loughborough Pearson on the site of the parish church of St Mary.
His ...
and the
Royal Cornwall Museum
The Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, formerly known as the Royal Cornwall Museum, is a museum in Truro, England, which holds an extensive mineral collection rooted in Cornwall's mining and engineering heritage (including much of the mineral coll ...
, as well as the north of the city, including Tregurra, Moresk and most of
Daubuz Moors (a small part of which was covered by the
Truro Trehaverne division). Despite its name, it did not cover
Boscawen Park which was entirely within the neighbouring
Truro Tregolls division.
The division was abolished and reformed during boundary changes at the
2013 election. The 2009-2013 division had represented the parts of Truro south of the city centre. At the 2013, it switched to generally covering the area north of the city centre, with
Truro Redannick covering most of its former area. Before the boundary changes, the division covered 280 hectares in total; afterwards, it covered 164 hectares.
Election results
2017 election
2013 election
2009 election
References
Electoral divisions of Cornwall Council
Politics of Truro
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