List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

The ceremonial county of Cheshire (which includes the areas of the Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Halton and Warrington unitary authorities) is divided into 11 Parliamentary constituencies. The 2 divisions of Warrington are Borough constituencies, with the remaining 9 being County constituencies.

Constituencies

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour

Constituency[nb 1]	Electorate[1]	Majority[2][nb 2]	Member of Parliament[2]		Nearest opposition[2]		Electoral wards[3][4]	Map
City of Chester CC	76,057	6,164		Chris Matheson‡		Samantha George†	Cheshire West and Chester District Council: Blacon Hall, Blacon Lodge, Boughton, Boughton Heath, Christleton, City & St Anne's, College, Curzon & Westminster, Dodleston, Handbridge & St Mary's, Hoole All Saints, Hoole Groves, Huntington, Lache Park, Mollington, Newton Brook, Newton St Michaels, Saughall, Upton Grange, Upton Westlea, Vicars Cross.
Congleton CC	80,930	18,591		Fiona Bruce†		Jo Dale‡	Cheshire East Borough Council: Alsager Central, Alsager East, Alsager West, Astbury, Brereton, Buglawton, Congleton Central, Congleton North, Congleton North West, Congleton South, Congleton West, Dane Valley, Holmes Chapel, Lawton, Middlewich Cledford, Middlewich Kinderton, Odd Rode, Sandbach East, Sandbach North, Sandbach West.
Crewe and Nantwich CC	80,321	8,508		Kieran Mullan†		Laura Smith‡	Cheshire East Borough Council: Alexandra, Barony Weaver, Birchin, Coppenhall, Delamere, Englesea, Grosvenor, Haslington, Leighton, Maw Green, St Barnabas, St John's, St Mary's, Shavington, Valley, Waldron, Wellington, Wells Green, Willaston, Wistaston Green, Wybunbury.
Eddisbury CC	73,700	18,443		Edward Timpson†		Terry Savage‡	Cheshire West and Chester District Council: Barrow, Cuddington & Oakmere, Davenham & Moulton, Farndon, Kelsall, Malpas, Mara, Tarporley & Oulton, Tarvin, Tattenhall, Tilston, Waverton, Winsford Dene, Winsford Gravel, Winsford Over, Winsford Swanlow, Winsford Verdin, Winsford Wharton. Cheshire East Borough Council: Acton, Audlem, Bunbury, Minshull, Peckforton, Wrenbury.
Ellesmere Port and Neston CC	70,327	8,764		Justin Madders‡		Alison Rodwell†	Cheshire West and Chester District Council: Barrow, Burton & Ness, Central, Farndon, Grange, Groves, Kelsall, Ledsham, Little Neston, Malpas, Neston, Parkgate, Pooltown, Rivacre, Riverside, Rossmore, Stanlow & Wolverham, Strawberry Fields, Sutton, Sutton Green & Manor, Westminster, Tarvin, Tattenhall, Tilston, Waverton, Whitby, Willaston & Thornton.
Halton CC	71,930	18,975		Derek Twigg‡		Charles Rowley†	Halton Borough Council: Appleton, Birchfield, Broadheath, Castlefields, Ditton, Farnworth, Grange, Hale, Halton Brook, Halton View, Heath, Hough Green, Kingsway, Mersey, Riverside.
Macclesfield CC	76,216	10,711		David Rutley†		Neil Puttick‡	Cheshire East Borough Council: Bollington Central, Bollington East, Bollington West, Broken Cross & Upton, Disley & Lyme Handley, Gawsworth, Henbury, Macclesfield Bollinbrook, Macclesfield Central, Macclesfield East, Macclesfield Hurdsfield, Macclesfield Ivy, Macclesfield Ryles, Macclesfield South, Macclesfield Tytherington, Macclesfield West, Poynton Central, Poynton East, Poynton West, Prestbury, Rainow, Sutton.
Tatton CC	69,018	17,387		Esther McVey†		James Weinburg‡	Cheshire East Borough Council: Alderley Edge, Chelford, Dean Row, Fulshaw, Handforth, High Legh, Hough, Knutsford Bexton, Knutsford Nether, Knutsford Norbury Booths, Knutsford Over, Lacey Green, Mere, Mobberley, Morley & Styal, Plumley. Cheshire West and Chester District Council: Barnton, Cogshall, Lostock & Wincham, Rudheath & South Witton, Seven Oaks & Marston, Shakerley.
Warrington North BC	72,235	1,509		Charlotte Nichols‡		Wendy Maisey†	Warrington Borough Council: Birchwood, Burtonwood and Winwick, Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft, Fairfield and Howley, Orford, Poplars and Hulme, Poulton North, Poulton South, Rixton and Woolston, Westbrook.
Warrington South BC	86,015	2,010		Andy Carter†		Faisal Rashid‡	Warrington Borough Council: Appleton, Bewsey and Whitecross, Grappenhall and Thelwall, Great Sankey North, Great Sankey South, Hatton, Stretton and Walton, Latchford East,Latchford West, Lymm, Penketh and Cuerdley, Stockton Heath, Whittle Hall.
Weaver Vale CC	70,551	563		Mike Amesbury‡		Adam Wordsworth†	Halton Borough Council: Beechwood, Daresbury, Halton Lea, Norton North, Norton South, Windmill Hill. Cheshire West and Chester District Council: Forest, Frodsham North, Frodsham South, Hartford & Whitegate, Helsby, Kingsley, Leftwich & Kingsmead, Milton Weaver, Northwich Castle, Northwich Winnington, Northwich Witton, Weaverham.

Boundary changes for 2010

Following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies by the Boundary Commission for England, the existing 11 constituencies were retained with changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. These changes were implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Name	Pre-2010 Boundaries	Post-2010 Boundaries
City of Chester CC Congleton CC Crewe and Nantwich CC Eddisbury CC Ellesmere Port and Neston CC Halton CC Macclesfield CC Tatton CC Warrington North BC Warrington South BC Weaver Vale CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire	Proposed Revision

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[5] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[6] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[7] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[8]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cheshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	267,127	46.4%	1.2%	6	2
Labour	227,481	39.5%	8.1%	5	2
Liberal Democrats	51,665	9.0%	4.8%	1	0
Greens	13,872	2.4%	1.4%	0	0
Brexit	14,287	2.5%	new	0	0
Others	1,426	0.2%	1.8%	0	0
Total	575,858	100.0		11

Percentage votes

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	45.6	44.8	44.7	33.4	35.6	37.1	40.7	43.0	45.2	46.4
Labour	29.7	34.4	39.1	46.5	46.3	40.5	32.4	36.6	47.6	39.5
Liberal Democrat^1	24.4	20.6	15.3	12.3	15.6	20.3	21.2	5.6	4.2	9.0
Green Party	-	*	*	*	*	*	0.5	2.6	1.0	2.4
UKIP	-	-	-	*	*	*	2.6	11.9	1.4	*
Brexit Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.5
Other	0.2	0.3	0.9	7.8	2.5	2.0	2.5	0.2	0.6	0.2

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	7	7	5	3	4	4	8	7	4	6
Labour	3	3	5	7	7	7	3	4	7	5
Independent^1		-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

¹Martin Bell, MP for Tatton.

Maps

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Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal   Liberal-Labour   Liberal Unionist

Constituency	1885	86	1886	87	1892	93	94	1895	00	1900	05	1906	Jan 1910	10	Dec 1910	12	13	16
Altrincham	J. Brooks	W. Brooks			Disraeli							Crossley			Kebty-Fletcher		Hamilton
Birkenhead	Hamley				Keppel		Lees					Vivian			Bigland
Chester	Foster		Yerburgh									Mond	Yerburgh					Philipps
Crewe	Latham		McLaren					Ward		Tomkinson				McLaren		Craig
Eddisbury	Tollemache											Stanley	Barnston
Hyde	Ashton		Sidebotham							Chapman		Schwann	Neilson					Jacobsen
Knutsford	Egerton											King	Sykes
Macclesfield	W. C. Brocklehurst		Bromley-Davenport									W. B. Brocklehurst
Northwich	J. T. Brunner		Verdin	J. T. Brunner									J. F. Brunner
Stalybridge	Sidebottom									Ridley	Cheetham		Wood
Stockport	Jennings					Whiteley			→	Leigh		Duckworth	Hughes
	Tipping		Gedge		Leigh			Melville				Wardle
Wirral	Cotton-Jodrell									Hoult		Lever	Stewart

1918 to 1950

  Coalition Labour   Coalition Liberal (1918–22) / National Liberal (1922–23)   Common Wealth   Conservative   Independent   Labour   Liberal   National Liberal (1931–68)

Constituency	1918	20	1922	1923	1924	25	29	1929	31	1931	33	1935	37	39	40	42	43	44	45	1945
Altrincham / Altrincham and Sale (1945)	Hamilton			Alstead	Atkinson						Grigg									Erroll
Bucklow																				Shepherd
Birkenhead East	Bigland		White		Stott			White												Soskice
Birkenhead West	Grayson		Stott	Egan	Nuttall			Egan		Allen										Collick
Chester	Philipps		Cayzer												Nield
Crewe	Davies		Hemmerde		Craig			Bowen		Somervell										Allen
Eddisbury	Barnston						Russell		→								Loverseed	→	→	Barlow
Knutsford	Sykes		Makins																	Bromley-Davenport
Macclesfield	Remer													Weston						Harvey
Northwich	Dewhurst		Crichton-Stuart																	Foster
Stalybridge and Hyde	Wood		Rhodes	Tattersall	Wood			Lawrie		Hope		Dunne	Trevor-Cox							Lang
Stockport	Wardle	Greenwood				Townend				Dower		Gridley
	Hughes	Fildes		Royle	Hammersley							Hulbert
Wallasey	McDonald		Chadwick							Moore-Brabazon						Reakes				Marples
Wirral	Stewart			Dodds	Grace					Clayton		Graham								Lloyd

1950 to 1983

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal   Social Democratic   Speaker

Constituency	1950	1951	55	1955	56	1959	1964	65	1966	1970	71	Feb 1974	Oct 1974	76	79	1979	81	Destination
Altrincham and Sale	Erroll							Barber					Montgomery					Manchester
Bebington / & Ellesmere Port (1974)	Oakshott						Howe		Brooks	Cockeram		Bates				Porter		Cheshire, Merseyside
Birkenhead	Collick						Dell									Field		Merseyside
Cheadle	Shepherd								Winstanley	Normanton								Manchester, Cheshire
Chester	Nield				Temple							Morrison						Cheshire
Crewe	Allen											Dunwoody						Cheshire
Hazel Grove												Winstanley	Arnold					Manchester
Knutsford	Bromley-Davenport									Davies					Bruce-Gardyne			Cheshire
Macclesfield	Harvey										Winterton							Cheshire
Nantwich				Grant-Ferris								Cockcroft				Bonsor		Cheshire
Northwich	Foster											Goodlad						Cheshire
Runcorn	Vosper						Carlisle											Cheshire
Stalybridge and Hyde	Lang	Blackburn								Pendry								Manchester
Stockport North	Hulbert						Gregory			Owen		Bennett						Manchester
Stockport South	Gridley		Steward				Orbach									McNally	→	Manchester
Wallasey	Marples											Chalker						Merseyside
Wirral	Lloyd										→			Hunt				Merseyside

1983 to present

  Conservative   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency	1983	1987	1992	1997	99	2001	2005	08	2010	2015	2017	19	2019
Congleton	Winterton								Bruce
Eddisbury	Goodlad				O'Brien					Sandbach		→	Timpson
Macclesfield	Winterton								Rutley
Tatton	Hamilton			Bell		Osborne					McVey
City of Chester	Morrison		Brandreth	Russell					Mosley	Matheson
Warrington South	Carlisle	Butler	Hall	Southworth					Mowat		Rashid		Carter
Crewe and Nantwich	Dunwoody							Timpson			Smith		Mullan
Ellesmere Port and Neston	Woodcock		Miller							Madders
Halton	Oakes			Twigg
Warrington North	Hoyle			Jones									Nichols
Weaver Vale				Hall					Evans		Amesbury

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in the North West (region)
• List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• History of Parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Cheshire

Notes

1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

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2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
4. Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
5. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
6. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
7. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
8. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)