List of parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire
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The ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (which includes the area of the Peterborough unitary authority) is divided into eight parliamentary constituencies. There is one borough constituency and seven county constituencies, which each elect one Member of Parliament to represent it in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Constituencies
[edit]† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat ± Reform
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2][nb 3] | Electoral wards[3][4] | Map | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cambridge BC | 70,321 | 11,078 | Daniel Zeichner ‡ | Cheney Payne ¤ | Cambridge City Council: Abbey, Arbury, Castle, Coleridge, East Chesterton, King's Hedges, Market, Newnham, Petersfield, Romsey, Trumpington, West Chesterton. | ![]() | ||
Ely and East Cambridgeshire CC | 79,112 | 495 | Charlotte Cane ¤ | Lucy Frazer † | East Cambridgeshire District Council: Bottisham, Burwell, Downham Villages, Ely East, Ely North, Ely West, Fordham & Isleham, Haddenham, Littleport, Soham North, Soham South, Stretham, Sutton, Wodditton. South Cambridgeshire District Council: Cottenham, Milton & Waterbeach. | ![]() | ||
Huntingdon CC | 79,074 | 1,499 | Ben Obese-Jecty † | Alex Bulat ‡ | Huntingdonshire District Council: Alconbury, Brampton, Buckden, Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots, Great Staughton, Hemingford Grey & Houghton, Holywell-cum-Needingworth, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Kimbolton, Sawtry, Somersham, St. Ives East, St. Ives South, St. Ives West, The Stukeleys, Warboys. | ![]() | ||
North East Cambridgeshire CC | 71,511 | 7,189 | Steve Barclay † | Chris Thornhill ± | Fenland District Council: Bassenhally, Benwick, Coates & Eastrea, Birch, Clarkson, Doddington & Wimblington, Elm & Christchurch, Kirkgate, Lattersey, Manea, March East, March North, March West, Medworth, Octavia Hill, Parson Drove & Wisbech St. Mary, Peckover, Roman Bank, Slade Lode, St. Andrews, Staithe, Stonald, The Mills, Waterlees Village, Wenneye. | ![]() | ||
North West Cambridgeshire CC | 75,915 | 39 | Sam Carling ‡ | Shailesh Vara † | Huntingdonshire District Council: Ramsey, Stilton, Folksworth & Washingley, Yaxley. Peterborough City Council: Barnack, Fletton & Stanground, Fletton & Woodston, Glinton & Castor, Hampton Vale, Hargate & Hempsted, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Stanground South, Wittering. | ![]() | ||
Peterborough CC | 73,378 | 118 | Andrew Pakes ‡ | Paul Bristow † | Peterborough City Council: Bretton, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye, Thorney & Newborough, Gunthorpe, North, Park, Paston & Walton, Ravensthorpe, Werrington, West. | ![]() | ||
South Cambridgeshire CC | 77,327 | 10,641 | Pippa Heylings ¤ | Chris Carter-Chapman † | Cambridge City Council: Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith's. South Cambridgeshire District Council: Balsham, Barrington, Bassingbourn, Duxford, Fen Ditton & Fulbourn, Foxton, Gamlingay, Hardwick, Harston & Comberton, Linton, Melbourn, Sawston, Shelford, The Mordens, Whittlesford. | ![]() | ||
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire CC | 78,115 | 4,648 | Ian Sollom ¤ | Anthony Browne † | Huntingdonshire District Council: Fenstanton, Great Paxton, St. Neots East, St. Neots Eatons, St. Neots Eynesbury, St. Neots Priory Park & Little Paxton. South Cambridgeshire District Council: Bar Hill, Caldecote, Cambourne, Caxton & Papworth, Girton, Histon & Impington, Longstanton, Over & Willingham, Swavesey. | ![]() |
Boundary changes
[edit]2024
[edit]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 proposed that the number of seats in Cambridgeshire be increased from 7 to 8, with the creation of the constituency of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire, resulting in significant changes to Huntingdon, North West Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire and South East Cambridgeshire ( renamed Ely and East Cambridgeshire).[6][7][8]
The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards in Cambridge
- Cambridge
- South Cambridgeshire (part)
Containing electoral wards in East Cambridgeshire
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire (part)
Containing electoral wards in Fenland
Containing electoral wards in Huntingdonshire
Containing electoral wards in Peterborough
- North West Cambridgeshire (part)
- Peterborough
Containing electoral wards in South Cambridgeshire
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire (part)
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (part)
- South Cambridgeshire (part)
2010
[edit]The 2007 report of the Boundary Commission for England retained the same seven constituencies that had existed since the 1997 election, with minor boundary changes to align with current local government wards and to better equalise the electorates. These changes, which were implemented at the 2010 general election, included the transfer back of Thorney and Eye from North East Cambridgeshire to Peterborough, the return of the Cambridge ward of Trumpington from South Cambridgeshire to the Cambridge constituency, and small transfers of rural wards from North West Cambridgeshire to Huntingdon, and from South East Cambridgeshire to South Cambridgeshire.
Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–2024 | |
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1 | Cambridge BC | ![]() |
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2 | Huntingdon CC | ||
3 | North East Cambridgeshire CC | ||
4 | North West Cambridgeshire CC | ||
5 | Peterborough BC | ||
6 | South Cambridgeshire CC | ||
7 | South East Cambridgeshire CC |
Results history
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[9]
2024
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cambridgeshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:[2]
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 114,186 | 30.6% | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
Labour | 94,767 | 25.4% | ![]() |
3 | ![]() |
Liberal Democrats | 83,359 | 22.4% | ![]() |
3 | ![]() |
Reform | 41,173 | 11.0% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Green | 25,065 | 6.7% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Others | 14,115 | 3.8% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Total | 372,665 | 100.0 | 8 |
2019
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cambridgeshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 204,994 | 50.1% | ![]() |
6 | ![]() |
Labour | 99,582 | 24.3% | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
Liberal Democrats | 87,890 | 21.5% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Greens | 9,959 | 2.4% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Brexit | 3,168 | 0.8% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 3,895 | 0.9% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Total | 409,488 | 100.0 | 7 |
Percentage votes
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 51.0 | 53.1 | 54.5 | 42.0 | 42.9 | 42.8 | 45.0 | 45.6 | 49.8 | 50.1 | 30.6 |
Labour | 17.0 | 18.5 | 23.3 | 34.5 | 32.3 | 25.8 | 16.2 | 21.6 | 33.8 | 24.3 | 25.4 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 31.6 | 27.9 | 19.7 | 17.9 | 21.3 | 26.9 | 29.0 | 13.2 | 12.9 | 21.5 | 22.4 |
Reform2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.8 | 11.0 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.8 | 4.7 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 6.7 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 5.1 | 14.4 | 1.7 | * | * |
Other | 0.4 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 3.8 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
2As the Brexit Party in 2019
* Included in Other
Seats
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Conservative | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
[edit]1885-1910
[edit]1918-1945
[edit]
1950-1979
[edit]1983-present
[edit]Timeline
[edit]1290 – 1295 | 1295 – 1541 | 1541 – 1603 | 1603 – 1885 | 1885 – 1918 | 1918 – 1950 | 1950 – 1983 | 1983 – 1997 | 1997 – present | |
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Cambridge | 1295 – present | ||||||||
Cambridgeshire | 1290 – 1885 | 1918 – 1983 | |||||||
Chesterton | 1885 – 1918 | ||||||||
Huntingdon | 1295 – 1918 | 1983 – present | |||||||
Huntingdonshire | 1290 – 1885 | 1918 – 1983 | |||||||
Isle of Ely | 1918 – 1983 | ||||||||
Newmarket | 1885 – 1918 | ||||||||
North East Cambridgeshire | 1983 – present | ||||||||
North West Cambridgeshire | 1997 – present | ||||||||
Peterborough | 1541 – present | ||||||||
Ramsey | 1885 – 1918 | ||||||||
South Cambridgeshire | 1997 – present | ||||||||
South East Cambridgeshire | 1983 – present | ||||||||
South West Cambridgeshire | 1983 – 1997 | ||||||||
Wisbech | 1885 – 1918 |
Historical representation by party
[edit]A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1852 to 1885
[edit]Conservative Liberal Radical Whig
Constituency | 1852 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 1857 | 57 | 1859 | 63 | 1865 | 66 | 1868 | 73 | 74 | 1874 | 74 | 76 | 77 | 79 | 1880 | 81 | 84 |
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Cambridge | Macaulay | Adair | Macaulay | Forsyth | Gorst | Torrens | Marten | Fowler | |||||||||||||
Astell | Mowatt | Steuart | Powell | Fowler | Smollett | Shield | |||||||||||||||
Cambridgeshire | Ball | Manners | Rodwell | Bulwer | |||||||||||||||||
Yorke | Royston | Yorke | Hicks | ||||||||||||||||||
Manners | Adeane | → | Young | Brand | A. Thornhill | ||||||||||||||||
Huntingdon | Baring | Karslake | E. Montagu | R. Peel | |||||||||||||||||
J. Peel | |||||||||||||||||||||
Huntingdonshire | E. Fellowes | W. Fellowes | |||||||||||||||||||
W. Mandeville | Rust | R. Montagu | Pelly | G. Mandeville | Gordon | ||||||||||||||||
Heathcote |
1885 to 1918
[edit]Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 91 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 03 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 13 | 17 |
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Cambridge | Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald | Buckmaster | Paget | Geddes | |||||||||
Chesterton | Hall | Hoare | Greene | E. Montagu | |||||||||
Huntingdon | Coote | Smith-Barry | G. Montagu | Whitbread | Cator | ||||||||
Newmarket | Newnes | McCalmont | Rose | Verrall | Rose | Denison-Pender | |||||||
Ramsey | W. Fellowes | A. Fellowes | Boulton | Locker-Lampson | |||||||||
Wisbech | Rigby | Selwyn | Brand | Giles | Brand | Beck | Primrose | Coote |
1918 to 1950
[edit]Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 34 | 1935 | 1945 |
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Cambridge | Geddes | Newton | Tufnell | Symonds | |||||||
Cambridgeshire | Montagu | Gray | Briscoe | Stubbs | |||||||
Huntingdonshire | Locker-Lampson | Murchison | Costello | Murchison | Peters | → | Renton | ||||
Isle of Ely | Coote | Coates | Mond | Lucas-Tooth | de Rothschild | Legge-Bourke |
1950 to 1983
[edit]Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 61 | 1964 | 1966 | 67 | 68 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 76 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cambridge | Kerr | Davies | Lane | Rhodes James | |||||||||||
Cambridgeshire | Howard | Pym | |||||||||||||
Huntingdonshire | Renton | → | Major | ||||||||||||
Isle of Ely | Legge-Bourke | Freud | |||||||||||||
Peterborough1 | Nicholls | Ward | Mawhinney |
1transferred from Northamptonshire
1983 to present
[edit]Change UK Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cambridge | Rhodes James | Campbell | Howarth | Huppert | Zeichner | |||||||||
Peterborough | Mawhinney | Clark | Jackson | Onasanya | → | Forbes | Bristow | Pakes | ||||||
Huntingdon | Major | Djanogly | Obese-Jecty | |||||||||||
North East Cambridgeshire | Freud | Moss | Barclay | |||||||||||
SE Cambs / Ely & E Cambs (2024) | Pym | Paice | Frazer | Cane | ||||||||||
SW Cambs / S Cambs (1997) | Grant | Lansley | Allen | → | → | Browne | Heylings | |||||||
North West Cambridgeshire | Mawhinney | Vara | Carling | |||||||||||
St Neots & Mid Cambridgeshire | Sollom |
See also
[edit]- List of parliamentary constituencies in the East of England (region)
- History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Cambridgeshire
- Parliamentary representation from Cambridgeshire
- Parliamentary representation from Huntingdonshire
Notes
[edit]- ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
- ^ As of the 2024 general election.
References
[edit]- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: names, designations and composition - Eastern".
- ^ a b c d "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
- ^ Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
- ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ Hatton, Benjamin (8 June 2021). "New parliamentary constituency proposed for Cambridgeshire". CambridgeshireLive. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ^ "Maps of Boundary Commission's proposed constituencies: Concerns in Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith's and Cambourne". Cambridge Independent. 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 235-262. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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