Ellesmere Port and Bromborough is a

constituency An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

of the

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in the

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. It was first contested at the

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. The seat is currently represented by

Justin Madders Justin Piers Richard Madders (born 22 November 1972) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, previously Ellesmere Port and Neston, since 2015. He has served as Pa ...

of the Labour Party. Madders was MP for the predecessor seat of

Ellesmere Port and Neston Ellesmere Port and Neston was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It covered the southern part of the Wirral Peninsula, namely that part which is not included in the Metropolitan Borou ...

from 2015 to 2024.

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the

2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency map for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The new constituency b ...

, and is composed of the following wards: * The Borough of Cheshire West and Chester wards of Central & Grange, Ledsham & Manor, Netherpool, Strawberry, Sutton Villages, Westminster, Whitby Groves, Whitby Park, and Wolverham. * The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral wards of Bromborough and Eastham. The seat covers the majority of, and replaces, the

constituency, comprising the town of

Ellesmere Port Ellesmere Port ( ) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England. Ellesmere Port is on the south-eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. In the 2021 Unite ...

, with

Neston Neston is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire, England. It is within the part of the Wirral Peninsula that belongs to the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester. The built up area (as defined by the Office for National Statistic ...

being included in the new seat of

Chester North and Neston Chester North and Neston is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested in the 2024 general election. The Member of Parli ...

. It extends northwards to include the two Wirral Borough communities of

Bromborough Bromborough ( ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England, on the Wirral Peninsula south-east of Bebington and north of Eastham. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Merseysi ...

and Eastham from the abolished constituency of Wirral South. The two parts of the constituency are not internally connected by any public road or path.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Changes are from the notional 2019 results on the 2024 boundaries.

Elections in the 2010s

References

External links

Ellesmere Port and Bromborough UK Parliament constituency
(boundaries from June 2024) at ''MapIt UK'' {{Constituencies in North West England Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2024