List of parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire explained

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

See also: 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Constituency^[1]	Electorate^[2]	Majority^[3] ^[4]	Member of Parliament	Nearest opposition^[5]	Electoral wards^[6] ^[7]	Map
Cambridge BC	72,560	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	76,279	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	75,590	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	70,806	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	73,556	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	72,273	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	75,484	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	74,699	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

2024

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.^[8] 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).^{[9] [10] [11]}

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

• North East Cambridgeshire

Containing electoral wards in Huntingdonshire

• Huntingdon
• North West Cambridgeshire (part)
• St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (part)

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

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
1	Cambridge BC
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

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[12]

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Cambridgeshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Conservative	114,186	30.6%	19.5%	2	4
Labour	94,767	25.4%	1.1%	3	2
Liberal Democrats	83,359	22.4%	0.9%	3	3
Reform	41,173	11.0%	10.2%	0	0
Green	25,065	6.7%	4.3	0	0
Others	14,115	3.8%	2.9%	0	0
Total	372,665	100.0		8

2019

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%	0.3%	6
Labour	99,582	24.3%	9.5%	1	1
Liberal Democrats	87,890	21.5%	8.6%	0	0
Greens	9,959	2.4%	0.7%	0	0
Brexit	3,168	0.8%	new	0	0
Others	3,895	0.9%	0.9%	0	0
Total	409,488	100.0		7

Percentage votes

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 Democrat^1	31.6	27.9	19.7	17.9	21.3	26.9	29.0	13.2	12.9	21.5	22.4
Reform^2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	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

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 Democrat^1	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

1983-present

Timeline

	1290 – 1295	1295 – 1541	1541 – 1603	1603 – 1885	1885 – 1918	1918 – 1950	1950 – 1983	1983 – 1997	1997 – present
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

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

Constituency	1852	53	54	55	1857	57	1859	63	1865	66	1868	73	74	1874	74	76	77	79	1880	81	84
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

Constituency	1885	1886	87	91	1892	1895	1900	03	1906	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	13	17
Cambridge	Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald								Buckmaster	Paget			Geddes
	Hall				Hoare	Greene			E. Montagu
Huntingdon	Coote	Smith-Barry					G. Montagu		Whitbread	Cator
	Newnes					McCalmont		Rose		Verrall	Rose	Denison-Pender
Ramsey	W. Fellowes		A. Fellowes						Boulton	Locker-Lampson
	bgcolor=	Rigby	Selwyn		Brand		Giles	Brand		bgcolor=	Beck	Primrose			Coote

1918 to 1950

Constituency	1918	22	1922	1923	1924	1929	31	1931	34	1935	1945
Cambridge	Geddes	Newton							Tufnell		Symonds
Cambridgeshire	Montagu		Gray	Briscoe							Stubbs
Huntingdonshire	Locker-Lampson		Murchison	Costello	Murchison	Peters	→				Renton
Isle of Ely	Coote		Coates	bgcolor=	Mond	Lucas-Tooth	de Rothschild					Legge-Bourke

1950 to 1983

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
Peterborough^1												Nicholls	Ward		Mawhinney

¹transferred from Northamptonshire

1983 to present

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

• 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 and References

1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
2. Web site: The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: names, designations and composition - Eastern.
3. Web site: Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014. BBC News. en. 2024-07-09.
4. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
5. As of the 2024 general election.
6. Web site: The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4. Crown copyright. Office of Public Sector Information. 7 November 2009. 13 June 2007.
7. [Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)|Boundary Commission for England]
8. Web site: 2023 Review Boundary Commission for England. 2021-10-07. boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk.
9. Web site: Hatton. Benjamin. 2021-06-08. New parliamentary constituency proposed for Cambridgeshire. 2021-10-09. CambridgeshireLive. en.
10. Web site: 2021-06-09. Maps of Boundary Commission's proposed constituencies: Concerns in Cherry Hinton, Queen Edith's and Cambourne. 2021-10-09. Cambridge Independent. en.
11. Web site: The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report Boundary Commission for England . 2023-07-09 . paras 235-262.
12. Watson. Christopher. Uberoi. Elise. Loft. Philip. 2020-04-17. General election results from 1918 to 2019. en-GB.