List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

Last updated March 30, 2022

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

Conservative † Labour ‡

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 2]}
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

1997 to present

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 and published their initial proposals on 8 June 2021.^[3]

The commission has 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 would be combined with parts of the abolished constituency of Stone to form Stone and Great Wyrley.^[4]^[5]

The following constituencies are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase CC

Containing electoral wards from East Staffordshire

Burton CC
Lichfield CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Lichfield

Lichfield CC (part)
Tamworth CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Newcastle-under-Lyme

Containing electoral wards from South Staffordshire

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

Containing electoral wards from Stafford

Stafford CC (part)
Stoke-on-Trent South CC (part)
Stone and Great Wyrley CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Staffordshire Moorlands

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

Containing electoral wards from Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent Central BC
Stoke-on-Trent North BC (part)
Stoke-on-Trent South CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from Tamworth

Tamworth (part)

Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.

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

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

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
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.

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References

↑ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
↑ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
↑ Madeley, Peter. "In detail: Proposed boundary changes for the Black Country and Staffordshire". www.expressandstar.com. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
↑ "West Midlands | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
↑ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[4] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[2] Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[:0-3] 1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

[5] "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-06.

[6] Madeley, Peter. "In detail: Proposed boundary changes for the Black Country and Staffordshire". www.expressandstar.com. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

[7] "West Midlands | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

[8] Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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