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 twelve parliamentary constituencies; one borough constituency, and 11 county constituencies.
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Reform UK
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[2] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission opted to combine Cheshire with Merseyside as a sub-region of the North West Region, with the creation of two cross-county boundary constituencies of Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, and Widnes and Halewood, which avoided the need for a constituency which spans the River Mersey. As a consequence, there are significant changes in the west of the county. The town of Neston would be moved from Ellesmere Port and Neston to City of Chester, resulting in these constituencies being replaced by Chester North and Neston, and Ellesmere Port and Bromborough respectively. Halton would be abolished, with Widnes being included in the new constituency of Widnes and Halewood, and Runcorn in the new constituency of Runcorn and Helsby. Eddisbury and Weaver Vale would both be abolished, being replaced by Chester South and Eddisbury, and Mid Cheshire.[3][4][5]
The following constituencies were proposed and adopted:
Containing electoral wards from Cheshire East
Containing electoral wards from Cheshire West and Chester
Containing electoral wards from Halton
Containing electoral wards from Warrington
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.
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cheshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cheshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
22019 - Brexit Party
* Included in Other
1Martin Bell, MP for Tatton.
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.
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist
Coalition Labour Coalition Liberal (1918–22) / National Liberal (1922–23) Common Wealth Conservative Independent Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931–68)
Conservative Labour Liberal Social Democratic Speaker
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats
1contains areas of Merseyside
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