List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

County Cleveland was abolished in 1996 both as a county council and a non-metropolitan county, but the name Cleveland continues to be used unofficially in subsequent boundary reviews as presented by the Boundary Commission for England to describe the area covered by the former county for the purpose of the rules which strongly deter cross-council constituencies (spanning more than one local authority within its area). The area covers the unitary authorities of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees. The constituency boundaries used up to the 2005 United Kingdom general election were drawn up when it was a county. The area is divided into 6 Parliamentary constituencies – 5 Borough constituencies and 1 County constituency.

Constituencies
Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour   ¤ Liberal Democrat   UKIP

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Electoral wards[3][4] Map
Hartlepool BC 70,855 3,595   Mike Hill‡   Stefan Houghton† Hartlepool Borough Council: Brus, Burn Valley, Dyke House, Elwick, Fens, Foggy Furze, Grange, Greatham, Hart, Owton, Park, Rift House, Rossmere, St Hilda, Seaton, Stranton, Throston.
Middlesbrough BC 60,764 8,390   Andy McDonald‡   Ruth Betson† Middlesbrough Borough Council: Acklam, Ayresome, Beckfield, Beechwood, Brookfield, Clairville, Gresham, Kader, Linthorpe, Middlehaven, North Ormesby and Brambles Farm, Pallister, Park, Thorntree, University.
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland CC 72,348 11,626   Simon Clarke†   Lauren Dingsdale‡ Middlesbrough Borough Council: Coulby Newham, Hemlington, Ladgate, Marton, Marton West, Nunthorpe, Park End, Stainton and Thornton. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council: Brotton, Guisborough, Hutton, Lockwood, Loftus, Saltburn, Skelton, Westworth.
Redcar BC 66,864 3,527   Jacob Young†   Anna Turley‡ Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council: Coatham, Dormanstown, Eston, Grangetown, Kirkleatham, Longbeck, Newcomen, Normanby, Ormesby, St Germain’s, South Bank, Teesville, West Dyke, Zetland.
Stockton North BC 66,649 1,027   Alex Cunningham‡   Steven Jacksonr† Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: Billingham Central, Billingham East, Billingham North, Billingham South, Billingham West, Hardwick, Newtown, Northern Parishes, Norton North, Norton South, Norton West, Roseworth, Stockton Town Centre, Western Parishes.
Stockton South BC 76,870 5,260   Matt Vickers†   Paul Williams‡ Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree, Eaglescliffe, Fairfield, Grangefield, Hartburn, Ingleby Barwick East, Ingleby Barwick West, Mandale and Victoria, Parkfield and Oxbridge, Stainsby Hill, Village, Yarm.

Boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England proposed retaining these 6 constituencies, with changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. These changes were implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

NamePre-2010 BoundariesPost-2010 Boundaries
  1. Hartlepool BC
  2. Middlesbrough BC
  3. Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland CC
  4. Redcar BC
  5. Stockton North BC
  6. Stockton South BC
Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland
Proposed Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) 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.[5] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[6] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain 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.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[7] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[8]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cleveland in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 112,092 43.5% 4.7% 3 2
Labour 104,691 40.6% 13.2% 3 2
Liberal Democrats 10,452 4.1% 1.5% 0 0
Greens 2,257 0.9% 0.5% 0 0
Brexit 19,837 7.7% new 0 0
Others 8,465 3.2% 1.2% 0 0
Total 257,794 100.0 6

Percentage votes
Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 35.8 33.8 37.1 25.2 26.3 23.0 27.7 29.0 38.8 43.5
Labour 37.9 44.7 50.0 62.4 59.5 51.9 39.9 43.3 53.8 40.6
Liberal Democrat1 26.2 20.9 12.8 9.8 12.4 19.3 21.4 5.3 2.6 4.1
Green Party - * * * * * - 2.3 0.4 0.9
UKIP - - - * * * 4.3 17.9 4.2 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - 7.7
Other 0.1 0.6 0.2 2.6 1.8 5.8 6.7 2.2 0.2 3.2

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats
Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 3
Labour 4 4 4 6 6 6 4 5 5 3
Liberal Democrat1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Total 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps
  • 1983
  • 1987
  • 1992
  • 1997
  • 2001
  • 2005
  • 2010
  • 2015
  • 2017
  • 2019

Historical representation by party

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Social Democratic

Constituency 1983 1987 91 1992 1997 2001 04 2005 2010 12 2015 2017 2019
Hartlepool Leadbitter Mandelson Wright Hill
Middlesbrough Bell McDonald
Stockton North Cook Cunningham
Redcar Tinn Mowlam Baird Swales Turley Young
Langbaurgh / Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (1997) Holt Kumar Bates Kumar Blenkinsop Clarke
Stockton South Wrigglesworth Devlin Taylor Wharton Williams Vickers

See also

Notes
  1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References
  1. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Commons Library. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  4. Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
  5. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  6. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
  7. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  8. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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