Ellesmere Port and Bromborough | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cheshire Merseyside |
Electorate | 71,027 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Ellesmere Port, Bromborough, Port Sunlight |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Justin Madders (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ellesmere Port and Neston and Wirral South |
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] It was first contested at the 2024 general election. [3] The seat is currently represented by Justin Madders of the Labour Party. Madders was MP for the predecessor seat of Ellesmere Port and Neston from 2015 to 2024.
The constituency was created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and is composed of the following wards:
The seat covers the majority of, and replaces, the Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency, comprising the town of Ellesmere Port, with Neston being included in the new seat of Chester North and Neston. It extends northwards to include the two Wirral Borough communities of Bromborough and Eastham from the abolished constituency of Wirral South. [5] The two parts of the constituency are not internally connected by any public road or path.
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Justin Madders | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Justin Madders | 24,186 | 57.6 | −1.7 | |
Reform UK | Michael Aldred | 7,278 | 17.3 | +13.0 | |
Conservative | Lee Evans | 5,210 | 12.4 | −14.7 | |
Green | Harry Gorman | 2,706 | 6.4 | +4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Carubia | 2,328 | 5.5 | −1.9 | |
Independent | Ruth Boulton | 256 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,908 | 40.3 | +8.1 | ||
Rejected ballots | 153 | ||||
Turnout | 41,964 | 59.3 | −4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 70,799 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −7.3 |
Changes are from the notional 2019 results on the 2024 boundaries. [8]
2019 notional result [9] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 26,811 | 59.3 | |
Conservative | 12,234 | 27.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3,355 | 7.4 | |
Brexit Party | 1,957 | 4.3 | |
Green | 859 | 1.9 | |
Turnout | 45,216 | 63.7 | |
Electorate | 71,027 |
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