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 in history all of Staffordshire's elected MPs were Conservatives.
Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election |
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 Kniveton † | 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 | 1,316 | Sarah Edwards ‡ | Andrew Cooper † |
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.
The county constituency was divided into:
The county constituencies were divided into:
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 12 constituencies covering Staffordshire for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
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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.[3] 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 proposed that Staffordshire be combined with the Black Country as a sub-region of the West Midlands Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named Kingswinford and South Staffordshire, which would include part of the abolished constituency of South Staffordshire; remaining areas of this seat would be combined with parts of the abolished constituency of Stone to form Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge. Although the seat was unchanged, Burton was renamed Burton and Uttoxeter.[4][5]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Cannock Chase
Containing electoral wards from East Staffordshire
Containing electoral wards from Lichfield
Containing electoral wards from Newcastle-under-Lyme
Containing electoral wards from South Staffordshire
Containing electoral wards from Stafford
Containing electoral wards from Staffordshire Moorlands
Containing electoral wards from Stoke-on-Trent
Containing electoral wards from Tamworth
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 Staffordshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 336,621 | 61.6% | 5.3% | 12 | 3 |
Labour | 154,301 | 28.2% | 9.7% | 0 | 3 |
Liberal Democrats | 30,431 | 5.6% | 2.5% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 16,826 | 3.1% | 1.6% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 5,986 | 1.1% | new | ||
Others | 2,135 | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 546,300 | 100.0 | 12 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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 |
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 National Party
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 86 | 90 | 91 | 1892 | 93 | 1895 | 96 | 98 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 16 |
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Burton | M. Bass | Evershed | Ratcliff | → | ||||||||||||||||
Handsworth* | Wiggin | → | H. Meysey-Thompson | E. Meysey-Thompson | → | |||||||||||||||
Hanley | Woodall | Heath | Edwards | → | Outhwaite | |||||||||||||||
Kingswinford | A. Staveley Hill | Webb | H. Staveley-Hill | |||||||||||||||||
Leek | Crompton | Davenport | Bill | Pearce | Heath | Pearce | ||||||||||||||
Lichfield | Swinburne | Darwin | Fulford | Warner | ||||||||||||||||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | Allen | Coghill | Allen | Haslam | Wedgwood | |||||||||||||||
Stafford | C. McLaren | Salt | Shaw | Essex | ||||||||||||||||
Staffordshire, North West | Leveson-Gower | Edwards-Heathcote | Heath | Billson | Stanley | → | Finney | |||||||||||||
Staffordshire, West | H. Bass | → | Henderson | H. McLaren | Lloyd | → | ||||||||||||||
Stoke-upon-Trent | Bright | Leveson-Gower | Coghill | → | Ward | |||||||||||||||
Walsall | Forster | Holden | James | Hayter | Gedge | Hayter | Dunne | Cooper | ||||||||||||
Wednesbury | Lloyd | Stanhope | Lloyd | Green | Hyde | Norton-Griffiths | ||||||||||||||
West Bromwich | Blades | Spencer | Hazel | Legge | ||||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton East | Fowler | Thorne | ||||||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton South | Villiers | → | Gibbons | Norman | Hickman | |||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton West | Hickman | Plowden | Hickman | Richards | Bird |
*Transferred to Warwickshire 1911
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
Constituency | 1918 | 19 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 31 | 32 | 1935 | 38 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 1945 | 45 |
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Newcastle-under-Lyme | Wedgwood | → | Mack | |||||||||||||||||||
Wednesbury | Short | Ward | Banfield | Evans | ||||||||||||||||||
West Bromwich | Roberts | Ramsay | Roberts | Dugdale | ||||||||||||||||||
Burslem | Finney | MacLaren | Robinson | MacLaren | Allen | → | MacLaren | Davies | ||||||||||||||
Cannock | J. Parker | Adamson | Ward | Adamson | Lee | |||||||||||||||||
Hanley | Seddon | M. Parker | Clowes | Hollins | Hales | Hollins | Stross | |||||||||||||||
Kingswinford | Sitch | Todd | Henderson | |||||||||||||||||||
Leek | Bromfield | Ratcliffe | Bromfield | Davies | ||||||||||||||||||
Lichfield | Warner | Hodges | Wilson | Lovat-Fraser | → | Poole | ||||||||||||||||
Stoke | Ward | → | → | → | C. Mosley | → | Copeland | Smith | ||||||||||||||
Walsall | Cooper | → | Collins | Preston | McShane | Leckie | → | Schuster | Wells | |||||||||||||
Smethwick | Davison | O. Mosley | → | Wise | Dobbs | Gordon Walker | ||||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton Bilston | Hickman | Howard-Bury | Baker | Peto | Hannah | Gibbons | Nally | |||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton West | A. Bird | R. Bird | Brown | → | R. Bird | Hughes | ||||||||||||||||
Burton | J. Gretton | J. F. Gretton | Lyne | |||||||||||||||||||
Stafford | Ormsby-Gore | Thorneycroft | Swingler | |||||||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton East | Thorne | Mander | Baird | |||||||||||||||||||
Stone | Hill Child | Lamb | Fraser |
The West Midlands Order 1965 transferred the Dudley area from Worcestershire to Staffordshire and part of the Warley area from Staffordshire to Worcestershire. These changes were incorporated into the new constituency boundaries for the February 1974 general election.
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 53 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 63 | 1964 | 1966 | 67 | 69 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 76 | 1979 |
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Aldridge-Brownhills | Edge | Shepherd | |||||||||||||||
West Bromwich East | Snape | ||||||||||||||||
Dudley West | Phipps | Blackburn | |||||||||||||||
Walsall South | H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid | George | |||||||||||||||
Stafford and Stone | Fraser | ||||||||||||||||
Burton | Colegate | Jennings | Lawrence | ||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton South West | Powell | Budgen | |||||||||||||||
Brierley Hill / Staffs SW (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 / W'hampton SE ('74) | 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 / W. Brom. W ('74) | Dugdale | Foley | Boothroyd | ||||||||||||||
Wolverhampton North East | Baird | Short | |||||||||||||||
Rowley Regis & Tipton / Dudley E ('74) | Henderson | Archer | Gilbert | ||||||||||||||
Smethwick | Gordon Walker | Griffiths | Faulds | ||||||||||||||
Wednesbury | Evans | Stonehouse |
Constituency | 1983 | 84 | 86 | 1987 | 90 | 1992 | 96 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
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Stone | Cash | |||||||||
South Staffordshire | Cormack | |||||||||
Mid Staffordshire / Lichfield (1997) | Heddle | Heal | Fabricant | |||||||
Stafford | Fraser | Cash | Kidney | |||||||
Staffordshire Moorlands | Knox | Atkins | ||||||||
Burton | Lawrence | Dean | ||||||||
South East Staffordshire / Tamworth (1997) | Lightbown | Jenkins | ||||||||
Cannock and Burntwood / Cannock Chase (1997) | Howarth | Wright | ||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent South | Ashley | Stevenson | Flello | |||||||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | J. Golding | L. Golding | Farrelly | |||||||
Stoke-on-Trent Central | Fisher | |||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent North | Forrester | Walley |
Conservative Independent Labour
Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 17 | 2017 | 18 | 18 | 2019 | 22 | 23 | 2024 |
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Stone / Stone, Great Wyrley & Penkridge ('24) | Cash | |||||||||
S Staffordshire / Kingswinford & S Staffs ('24) | Williamson | |||||||||
Lichfield | Fabricant | |||||||||
Stafford | Lefroy | Clarke | ||||||||
Staffordshire Moorlands | Bradley | |||||||||
Burton / Burton and Uttoxeter (2024) | Griffiths | → | → | Kniveton | ||||||
Tamworth | Pincher | → | Edwards | |||||||
Cannock Chase | Burley | Milling | ||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent South | Flello | Brereton | ||||||||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | Farrelly | Bell | ||||||||
Stoke-on-Trent Central | Hunt | Snell | Gideon | |||||||
Stoke-on-Trent North | Walley | Smeeth | Gullis |