Cannock Chase is a constituency represented in the

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of the

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since 2015 by

Amanda Milling Amanda Anne Milling (born 12 March 1975) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase since the 2015 general election. She served as Minister without Portfolio in the UK cabinet and, alongside Ben Elliot, as C ...

of the Conservative Party. She served as the Minister for Asia and the Middle East in the

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from 16 September 2021 to 7 September 2022.

Members of Parliament

Boundaries

The constituency contains three towns,

Cannock Cannock () is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the nearby towns of Walsall, Burntwood, Stafford and Telford. The cities of Lichfield and Wolv ...

Rugeley Rugeley ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Cannock Chase District in Staffordshire, England. It lies on the north-eastern edge of Cannock Chase next to the River Trent; it is situated north of Lichfield, south-east of Stafford, nort ...

, and

Hednesford Hednesford (pronounced ) is a historic market town in the Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire, England. Cannock Chase is to the north, the town of Cannock to the south and Rugeley to the southwest.The population at the 2011 census was 1 ...

, with several pit villages, and the Chase itself situated between

and

. Since 2010 the seat has broadly the same boundaries as did the 1974-1983 seat of

. Prior to 1997, Cannock and Hednesford were part of the Cannock and Burntwood constituency, while Rugeley was part of the Mid Staffordshire constituency. Between 1997 and 2010 the village of Huntington was part of the constituency though it was part of

South Staffordshire South Staffordshire is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. The district lies to the north and west of the West Midlands county, bordering Shropshire to the west and Worcestershire to the south. It contains notable settlement ...

local government district. 2010–present: The District of Cannock Chase. 1997–2010: The District of Cannock Chase, and the District of South Staffordshire ward of Huntington.

History

The seat was created for the 1997 election; the Labour Party held the seat for 13 years, until Aidan Burley of the Conservative Party was elected at the 2010 general election with a large 14% swing, the second largest Labour to Conservative swing at that election.

has subsequently held the seat, increasing the Conservative majority in both 2015 and 2017. In

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, the Conservative majority increased to nearly 20,000 votes.

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

The vote share change in 2010 comes from the notional, not actual, 2005 results because of the boundary change (loss of Huntington).

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Notes

References

External links

nomis Constituency Profile for Cannock Chase
— presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cannock Chase (Uk Parliament Constituency) Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire Cannock Chase District South Staffordshire District Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997