List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire
The ceremonial county of Staffordshire (which includes the area of the Stoke-on-Trent unitary authority) is divided into 12 seats - 4 Borough and 8 County constituencies. Staffordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England. At the 2019 general election, for the first time since at least 1885, all of Staffordshire's elected MPs were Conservatives.
Constituencies
Conservative † Labour ‡
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Burton CC | 75,036 | 14,496 | Kate Griffiths † | Louise Walker ‡ | |||
Cannock Chase CC | 74,813 | 19,879 | Amanda Milling † | Anne Hobbs ‡ | |||
Lichfield CC | 76,616 | 23,638 | Michael Fabricant † | Dave Robertson ‡ | |||
Newcastle-under-Lyme BC | 68,211 | 7,446 | Aaron Bell † | Carl Greatbatch ‡ | |||
South Staffordshire CC | 73,668 | 28,250 | Gavin Williamson † | Adam Freeman ‡ | |||
Stafford CC | 72,572 | 14,377 | Theo Clarke † | Joyce Still ‡ | |||
Staffordshire Moorlands CC | 65,485 | 16,428 | Karen Bradley † | Darren Price ‡ | |||
Stoke-on-Trent Central BC | 55,419 | 670 | Jo Gideon † | Gareth Snell ‡ | |||
Stoke-on-Trent North BC | 68,298 | 6,286 | Jonathan Gullis † | Ruth Smeeth ‡ | |||
Stoke-on-Trent South BC | 64,491 | 11,271 | Jack Brereton † | Mark McDonald ‡ | |||
Stone CC | 69,378 | 19,945 | Bill Cash † | Mike Stubbs ‡ | |||
Tamworth CC | 71,572 | 19,634 | Christopher Pincher † | Christopher Bain ‡ | |||
At the 2017 General Election, the Conservative Party (its candidates) made a net gain of one seat by gaining Stoke-On-Trent South. This also saw Newcastle-under-Lyme become the third-most-marginal Labour seat in England.
In the 2019 UK General Election, Conservative candidates made a net gain of three seats: gaining Stoke-On-Trent North, Stoke-On-Trent Central and Newcastle-under-Lyme. This meant all seats in Staffordshire had a Conservative MP.
The above were all at the expense of Labour seats, in the same way that Labour gained most of its maximal 9 seats in the county, recorded to date, in 1997.
Historic Constituencies
Before 1832
- Staffordshire County Constituency (2 members)
- Lichfield Borough Constituency
- Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Constituency
- Stafford Borough Constuency
1832-1885
The County Constituency was divided into:
- North Staffordshire
- South Staffordshire
- Walsall new Borough Constituency
- Wolverhampton new Borough Constituency
1885-1918
The County Constituencies were divided into:
- Burton (still exists)
- Handsworth (until 1918 when it became a Birmingham constituency)
- Hanley (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stoke-on-Trent Central)
- Kingswinford (until 1950 when it was replaced by Brierley Hill)
- Leek (until 1983 when replaced by Staffordshire Moorlands)
- Lichfield (until 1950 when it was replaced by Lichfield and Tamworth)
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (still exists)
- Stafford (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stafford and Stone)
- Staffordshire North-West (until 1918)
- Staffordshire West (until 1918)
- Stoke-upon-Trent (until 1918)
- Tamworth (still exists)
- Walsall (until 1955)
- Wednesbury (until 1974)
- West Bromwich (until 1974)
- Wolverhampton East (until 1950)
- Wolverhampton South (until 1918)
- Wolverhampton West (until 1950)
1918-1950
- Burslem (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stoke-on-Trent North)
- Burton (still exists)
- Cannock (created out of Kingswinford, West Staffordshire and Lichfield)
- Hanley (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stoke-on-Trent Central)
- Kingswinford (until 1950 when it was replaced by Brierley Hill)
- Leek (until 1983 when replaced by Staffordshire Moorlands)
- Lichfield (until 1950 when it was replaced by Lichfield and Tamworth)
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (still exists)
- Smethwick (until 1974 when it was replaced by Warley East)
- Stafford (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stafford and Stone)
- Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stoke-on-Trent Central, Stoke-on-Trent North and Stoke-on-Trent South)
- Stone (until 1950 when it was replaced by Stafford and Stone)
- Tamworth (still exists)
- Walsall (until 1955)
- Wednesbury (until 1974)
- West Bromwich (until 1974)
- Woverhampton Bilston (until 1974)
- Wolverhampton East (until 1950)
- Wolverhampton West (until 1950)
1950-1983
- Aldridge-Brownhills (since 1974, created out of Walsall North and Walsall South)
- Brierley Hill (until 1974)
- Burton (still exists)
- Cannock
- Leek
- Lichfield and Tamworth
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Smethwick (until 1974)
- South West Staffordshire (1974
- Stafford and Stone
- Stoke-on-Trent Central
- Stoke-on-Trent North
- Stoke-on-Trent South
- Walsall (until 1955)
- Walsall North (created out of Walsall in 1955)
- Walsall South (created out of Walsall in 1955)
- Wednesbury (until 1974)
- West Bromwich (until 1974)
- West Bromwich East (from 1974)
- West Bromwich West (from 1974)
- Wolverhampton Bilston (until 1974)
- Wolverhampton North East (from 1950)
- Wolverhampton South East (from 1974)
- Wolverhampton South West (from 1950)
1983-1997
Boundary changes
Name | Pre-2010 boundaries | Boundaries from 2010 |
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The proposals by the Boundary Commission for England retained these 12 constituencies with changes to align with current local government wards, and to better equalise the electorates. These changes were implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
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. They propose to bring forward primary legislation to remove the statutory obligation to implement the 2018 Boundary Review recommendations, as well as set the framework for future boundary reviews in time for the next review which is due to begin in early 2021 and report no later than October 2023. It is proposed that the number of constituencies now remains 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.[3]
Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[4]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Staffordshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 336,621 | 61.6% | 12 | ||
Labour | 154,301 | 28.2% | 0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 30,431 | 5.6% | 0 | 0 | |
Greens | 16,826 | 3.1% | 0 | 0 | |
Brexit | 5,986 | 1.1% | new | ||
Others | 2,135 | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 546,300 | 100.0 | 12 |
Percentage votes
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 44.9 | 44.9 | 44.0 | 33.7 | 35.9 | 35.2 | 41.6 | 45.7 | 56.3 | 61.6 |
Labour | 32.9 | 33.9 | 41.8 | 51.3 | 48.0 | 41.4 | 31.1 | 29.2 | 37.9 | 28.2 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 22.1 | 21.1 | 13.4 | 10.7 | 12.5 | 15.5 | 17.9 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 5.6 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.2 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 3.1 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 5.1 | 17.6 | 0.9 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.1 |
Other | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 |
Labour | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Total | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Maps
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
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 National Party
*Transferred to Warwickshire 1911
1918 to 1950
Coalition Labour Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Coalition National Democratic & Labour Conservative Constitutionalist Independent Labour Labour Liberal National Government National Labour National Liberal (1931-68) National Party New Party
*majority moved to Sutton Coldfield (new constituency 1945); see Warwickshire list
1950 to 1983
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 53 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 63 | 1964 | 1966 | 67 | 69 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 76 | 1979 |
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Aldridge-Brownhills | Edge | Shepherd | |||||||||||||||
West Bromwich East | Snape | ||||||||||||||||
Walsall South | H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid | George | |||||||||||||||
Stafford and Stone | Fraser | ||||||||||||||||
Burton | Colegate | Jennings | Lawrence | ||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton South West | Powell | Budgen | |||||||||||||||
Brierley Hill / Staffordshire South West (1974) | Simmons | Talbot | Montgomery | Cormack | |||||||||||||
Leek | Davies | Knox | |||||||||||||||
Lichfield and Tamworth | Snow | J. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid | Grocott | Heddle | |||||||||||||
Cannock | Lee | Cormack | Roberts | ||||||||||||||
Walsall / Walsall North (1955) | Wells | Stonehouse | Hodgson | Winnick | |||||||||||||
Bilston / Wolverhampton South East (1974) | Nally | Edwards | |||||||||||||||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | Mack | Swingler | Golding | ||||||||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent Central | Stross | Cant | |||||||||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent North | Davies | Slater | Forrester | ||||||||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent South | Smith | Ashley | |||||||||||||||
West Bromwich / West Bromwich West (1974) | Dugdale | Foley | Boothroyd | ||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton North East | Baird | Short | |||||||||||||||
Smethwick | Gordon Walker | Griffiths | Faulds | ||||||||||||||
Wednesbury | Evans | Stonehouse |
1983 to present
Conservative Independent Labour
Constituency | 1983 | 84 | 86 | 1987 | 90 | 1992 | 96 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 17 | 2017 | 18 | 18 | 2019 |
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Stone | Cash | ||||||||||||||||
South Staffordshire | Cormack | Williamson | |||||||||||||||
Mid Staffordshire / Lichfield (1997) | Heddle | Heal | Fabricant | ||||||||||||||
Stafford | Fraser | Cash | Kidney | Lefroy | Clarke | ||||||||||||
Staffordshire Moorlands | Knox | Atkins | Bradley | ||||||||||||||
Burton | Lawrence | Dean | A. Griffiths | → | → | K. Griffiths | |||||||||||
South East Staffordshire / Tamworth (1997) | Lightbown | Jenkins | Pincher | ||||||||||||||
Cannock and Burntwood / Cannock Chase (1997) | Howarth | Wright | Burley | Milling | |||||||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent South | Ashley | Stevenson | Flello | Brereton | |||||||||||||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | J. Golding | L. Golding | Farrelly | Bell | |||||||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent Central | Fisher | Hunt | Snell | Gideon | |||||||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent North | Forrester | Walley | Smeeth | Gullis |
Notes
- BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
References
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