Cleveland was abolished in 1996 both as a county council and a non-metropolitan county, but the name Cleveland continues to be used unofficially in subsequent boundary reviews as presented by the Boundary Commission for England to describe the area covered by the former county for the purpose of the rules which strongly deter cross-council constituencies (spanning more than one local authority within its area). The area covers the unitary authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees. The constituency boundaries used up to the 2005 United Kingdom general election were drawn up when it was a county. The area is divided into 6 parliamentary constituencies – 5 borough constituencies and 1 county constituency.
Constituency [nb 1] | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] [nb 2] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Electoral wards [3] [4] | Map | ||
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Hartlepool BC | 70,855 | 6,940 | Jill Mortimer† | Paul Williams‡ | Hartlepool Borough Council: Brus, Burn Valley, Dyke House, Elwick, Fens, Foggy Furze, Grange, Greatham, Hart, Owton, Park, Rift House, Rossmere, St Hilda, Seaton, Stranton, Throston. | |||
Middlesbrough BC | 60,764 | 8,390 | Andy McDonald‡ | Ruth Betson† | Middlesbrough Borough Council: Acklam, Ayresome, Beckfield, Beechwood, Brookfield, Clairville, Gresham, Kader, Linthorpe, Middlehaven, North Ormesby and Brambles Farm, Pallister, Park, Thorntree, University. | |||
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland CC | 72,348 | 11,626 | Simon Clarke† | Lauren Dingsdale‡ | Middlesbrough Borough Council: Coulby Newham, Hemlington, Ladgate, Marton, Marton West, Nunthorpe, Park End, Stainton and Thornton. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council: Brotton, Guisborough, Hutton, Lockwood, Loftus, Saltburn, Skelton, Westworth. | |||
Redcar BC | 66,864 | 3,527 | Jacob Young† | Anna Turley‡ | Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council: Coatham, Dormanstown, Eston, Grangetown, Kirkleatham, Longbeck, Newcomen, Normanby, Ormesby, St Germain's, South Bank, Teesville, West Dyke, Zetland. | |||
Stockton North BC | 66,649 | 1,027 | Alex Cunningham‡ | Steven Jackson† | Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: Billingham Central, Billingham East, Billingham North, Billingham South, Billingham West, Hardwick, Newtown, Northern Parishes, Norton North, Norton South, Norton West, Roseworth, Stockton Town Centre, Western Parishes. | |||
Stockton South BC | 76,870 | 5,260 | Matt Vickers† | Paul Williams‡ | Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree, Eaglescliffe, Fairfield, Grangefield, Hartburn, Ingleby Barwick East, Ingleby Barwick West, Mandale and Victoria, Parkfield and Oxbridge, Stainsby Hill, Village, Yarm. | |||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Cleveland's constituencies 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 Stockton North and Stockton South.
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. [5] 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 has proposed that the four unitary authorities which make up the former county of Cleveland be combined with the Borough of Darlington (previously considered with County Durham) to form a Tees Valley sub-division of the North East region. The proposals would involve Middlesbrough being renamed Middlesbrough and Thornaby East, and Stockton South renamed Stockton West. [6] [7]
The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards in Hartlepool
Containing electoral wards in Middlesbrough
Containing electoral wards in Redcar and Cleveland
Containing electoral wards in Stockton-on-Tees
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [8]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cleveland in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 112,092 | 43.5% | 4.7% | 3 | 2 |
Labour | 104,691 | 40.6% | 13.2% | 3 | 2 |
Liberal Democrats | 10,452 | 4.1% | 1.5% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 2,257 | 0.9% | 0.5% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 19,837 | 7.7% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 8,465 | 3.2% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 257,794 | 100.0 | 6 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative | 35.8 | 33.8 | 37.1 | 25.2 | 26.3 | 23.0 | 27.7 | 29.0 | 38.8 | 43.5 |
Labour | 37.9 | 44.7 | 50.0 | 62.4 | 59.5 | 51.9 | 39.9 | 43.3 | 53.8 | 40.6 |
Liberal Democrat 1 | 26.2 | 20.9 | 12.8 | 9.8 | 12.4 | 19.3 | 21.4 | 5.3 | 2.6 | 4.1 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | - | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.3 | 17.9 | 4.2 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.7 |
Other | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 5.8 | 6.7 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 3.2 |
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 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Labour | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Liberal Democrat 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Conservative Labour Social Democratic
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 91 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 04 | 2005 |
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Hartlepool | Leadbitter | Mandelson | Wright | |||||
Middlesbrough | Bell | |||||||
Stockton North | Cook | |||||||
Redcar | Tinn | Mowlam | Baird | |||||
Langbaurgh / Middlesbrough S & E Cleveland ('97) | Holt | Kumar | Bates | Kumar | ||||
Stockton South | Wrigglesworth | Devlin | Taylor |
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 2010 | 12 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 2024 |
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Hartlepool | Wright | Hill | Mortimer | ||||||
Middlesbrough / Middlesbrough & Thornaby E ('24) | Bell | McDonald | → | → | |||||
Stockton North | Cunningham | ||||||||
Redcar | Swales | Turley | Young | ||||||
Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland | Blenkinsop | Clarke | |||||||
Stockton South / Stockton West (2024)1 | Wharton | Williams | Vickers |
1also includes some areas in the Darlington area of County Durham
Tees Valley is a combined authority area in Northern England, around the lower River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley; the local term for the valley is Teesdale. The combined authority covers five council areas: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.
Stockton South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Matt Vickers, a Conservative MP.
The County Borough of Teesside was a county borough in the north-east of England, which existed for just six years. It was created in 1968 to cover the Teesside conurbation which had grown up around the various port and industrial towns near the mouth of the River Tees. The council was based in Middlesbrough, the area's largest town. The county borough was abolished in 1974 on the creation of the new county of Cleveland, which covered a larger area, with the county borough's territory being split between three of the four districts created in the new county.
The county of Durham has returned 7 MPs to the UK Parliament since 1983. Under the Local Government Act 1972, which came into effect on 1 April 1974, the boundaries of the historic/administrative county were significantly altered with the north-east of the county, comprising more than half the electorate, being transferred to the new metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. In addition, the borough of Hartlepool was included in the new county of Cleveland. These changes were reflected in the following redistribution of parliamentary seats which did not come into effect until the 1983 general election, resulting in a reduction in the county's representation from 16 to 7 MPs.
The non-metropolitan county of Cleveland was created under the Local Government Act 1972, which came into effect on 1 April 1974, comprising the urban areas around the mouth of the River Tees, previously parts of the administrative counties of Durham and North Riding of Yorkshire. Although it was abolished in 1996, the four unitary authorities which succeeded it have been considered together for the purposes of reviewing parliamentary boundaries. The area has returned 6 MPs to the UK Parliament since 1983.
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