Runcorn and Helsby is a

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of the

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in the

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. Further to the completion of the

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, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. The incumbent MP is

Sarah Pochin Sarah Joanne Pochin (''née'' Hyde born 1969 or 1970) is a British Reform UK politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runcorn and Helsby since May 2025. Formerly a Conservative councillor who later sat as an independent mem ...

, who defeated Labour Party candidate Karen Shore by six votes at a

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on 1 May 2025, overturning a 34.8% majority. It was reported that she is the first non-Labour MP elected in Runcorn in over fifty years though this is not correct as the Runcorn and Helsby constituency was only created in 2024 - before this, the constituency was called Weaver Vale which had a Conservative MP, Graham Evans, from 2010 to 2017.

Boundaries

The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020): * The Borough of Cheshire West and Chester wards of: Frodsham; Gowy Rural; Helsby; Sandstone. * The Borough of Halton wards of: Beechwood & Heath; Bridgewater; Daresbury, Moore & Sandymoor; Grange; Halton Castle; Halton Lea; Mersey & Weston; Norton North; Norton South & Preston Brook. The seat comprises the following areas: * Helsby, Frodsham and the parts of the

Borough of Halton The Borough of Halton () is a local authority district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, North West England. It is administered by Halton Borough Council, a unitary authority since 1998. The borough contains the towns ...

transferred from the former constituency of

Weaver Vale Weaver Vale was a constituency in Cheshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished at the 2024 general election. Just ...

, comprising about half the electorate * The town of

Runcorn Runcorn is an industrial town and Runcorn Docks, cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. Runcorn is on the south bank of the River Mersey, where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. It is upstream from the port of Live ...

, transferred from the former constituency of Halton * The Gowy Rural ward. This includes village of

Elton Elton may refer to: Places England * Elton, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), a village ** Elton Hall, a baronial hall * Elton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish * Elton, County Durham, a village and civil parish in the Borough of ...

, transferred from the former constituency 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 ...

Guilden Sutton Guilden Sutton is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies approximately to the east of Chester and is south of the village of Mickle Traf ...

, transferred from the former constituency of City of Chester and other small villages plus Dunham-on-the-Hill from the former constituency of Eddisbury.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Changes are from the notional results of the 2019 election on the new boundaries.

Elections in the 2010s

References

External links

Runcorn and Helsby UK Parliament constituency
(boundaries from June 2024) at ''MapIt UK'' {{Constituencies in North West England Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2024 Borough of Halton