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 in history all of Staffordshire's elected MPs were Conservatives.

Constituencies

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
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.

Historic constituencies

Before 1832

• Staffordshire County Constituency (2 members)
• Lichfield Borough Constituency
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Constituency
• Stafford Borough Constituency

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 (until 1950)
• 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 (until 1950)
• 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

• Burton
• Cannock and Burntwood
• Mid Staffordshire
• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• South Staffordshire
• South West Staffordshire
• Stafford
• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stoke-on-Trent Central
• Stoke-on-Trent North
• Stoke-on-Trent South
• Stone

1997 to present

• Burton
• Cannock Chase
• Lichfield
• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• South Staffordshire
• Stafford
• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stoke-on-Trent Central
• Stoke-on-Trent North
• Stoke-on-Trent South
• Stone
• Tamworth

2010 Boundary changes

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
Burton CC Cannock Chase CC Lichfield CC Newcastle-under-Lyme BC South Staffordshire CC Stafford CC Staffordshire Moorlands CC Stoke-on-Trent Central BC Stoke-on-Trent North BC Stoke-on-Trent South BC Stone CC Tamworth CC

Proposed boundary changes

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

• Cannock Chase

Containing electoral wards from East Staffordshire

• Burton and Uttoxeter
• Lichfield (part)

Containing electoral wards from Lichfield

• Lichfield (part)
• Tamworth (part)

Containing electoral wards from Newcastle-under-Lyme

• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Stafford (part)
• Stoke-on-Trent North (part)

Containing electoral wards from South Staffordshire

• Kingswinford and South Staffordshire (part also in the West Midlands metropolitan borough of Dudley)
• Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge (part)

Containing electoral wards from Stafford

• Stafford (part)
• Stoke-on-Trent South (part)
• Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge (part)

Containing electoral wards from Staffordshire Moorlands

• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stoke-on-Trent South (part)

Containing electoral wards from Stoke-on-Trent

• Stoke-on-Trent Central
• Stoke-on-Trent North (part)
• Stoke-on-Trent South (part)

Containing electoral wards from Tamworth

• Tamworth (part)

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[6]

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%	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

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 Democrat^1	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

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1918-1945

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1950-1979

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1983-present

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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   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
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

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

Constituency	1918	19	22	1922	1923	1924	24	26	28	1929	31	1931	31	32	1935	38	41	42	43	44	1945	45
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

1950 to 1983

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.

  Conservative   Labour

Constituency	1950	1951	53	1955	57	1959	63	1964	1966	67	69	1970	73	Feb 1974	Oct 1974	76	1979
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 / 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
Rowley Regis and Tipton / Dudley East (1974)	Henderson								Archer					Gilbert
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	22	23
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			Griffiths				→	→	Kniveton
South East Staffordshire / Tamworth (1997)	Lightbown						Jenkins				Pincher							→	Edwards
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

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region)

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 25 April 2020.
3. "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
4. Madeley, Peter. "In detail: Proposed boundary changes for the Black Country and Staffordshire". Express & Star. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
5. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 1271-1293. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
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