List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire


The ceremonial county of Staffordshire 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 since at least 1885, all of Staffordshire's elected MPs were Conservatives.

Constituencies

At the 2017 General Election, the Conservative Party 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

The County Constituency was divided into:
The County Constituencies were divided into:
The proposals by the Boundary Commission for England retained these 12 constituencies with changes to align with current local government wards, and to better equalise the electorates. These changes were implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. They propose to bring forward primary legislation to remove the statutory obligation to implement the 2018 Boundary Review recommendations, as well as set the framework for future boundary reviews in time for the next review which is due to begin in early 2021 and report no later than October 2023. It is proposed that the number of constituencies now remains at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

Results history

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

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:
PartyVotes%Change from 2017SeatsChange from 2017
Conservative336,62161.6%5.3%123
Labour154,30128.2%9.7%03
Liberal Democrats30,4315.6%2.5%00
Greens16,8263.1%1.6%00
Brexit5,9861.1%new
Others2,1350.4%0.8%00
Total546,300100.012

Percentage votes

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other

Seats

Maps

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

*Transferred to Warwickshire 1911

1918 to 1950

*majority moved to Sutton Coldfield ; see Warwickshire list

1950 to 1983

1983 to present