The ceremonial county of Staffordshire (which includes the area of the Stoke-on-Trent unitary authority) is divided into 12 seats - 4 borough and 8 county constituencies. Staffordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England. At the 2024 general election, nine of the seats were won by Labour and three by the Conservatives.
See also: 2024 United Kingdom general election.
| Constituency[1] | Electorate | Majority[2] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition< | --!rowspan=1 class=unsortable | Electoral wards[3] [4] --> | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burton and Uttoxeter CC | 77,992 | 2,266 | Jacob Collier ‡ | Kate Kniveton † | |||
| Cannock Chase CC | 76,974 | 3,125 | Josh Newbury ‡ | Amanda Milling † | |||
| Kingswinford and South Staffordshire CC | 71,662 | 6,303 | Mike Wood † | Sally Benton ‡ | |||
| Lichfield CC | 76,118 | 810 | Dave Robertson ‡ | Michael Fabricant † | |||
| Newcastle-under-Lyme CC | 67,839 | 5,069 | Adam Jogee ‡ | Simon Tagg † | |||
| Stafford CC | 70,608 | 4,595 | Leigh Ingham ‡ | Theo Clarke † | |||
| Staffordshire Moorlands CC | 69,892 | 1,175 | Karen Bradley † | Alastair Watson ‡ | |||
| 73,693 | 6,409 | Gareth Snell ‡ | Luke Shenton ¤ | ||||
| Stoke-on-Trent North BC | 69,790 | 5,082 | David Williams ‡ | Jonathan Gullis † | |||
| Stoke-on-Trent South CC | 68,263 | 627 | Allison Gardner ‡ | Jack Brereton † | |||
| Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge CC | 71,570 | 5,466 | Gavin Williamson † | Jacqueline Brown ‡ | |||
| Tamworth CC | 75,059 | 1,382 | Sarah Edwards ‡ | Eddie Hughes † | |||
The county constituency was divided into:
The county constituencies were divided into:
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Staffordshire be combined with the Black Country as a sub-region of the West Midlands Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named Kingswinford and South Staffordshire, which included part of the abolished constituency of South Staffordshire; remaining areas of this seat wwee combined with parts of the abolished constituency of Stone to form Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge. Although the seat was unchanged, Burton was renamed Burton and Uttoxeter.[5] [6]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Cannock Chase
Containing electoral wards from East Staffordshire
Containing electoral wards from Lichfield
Containing electoral wards from Newcastle-under-Lyme
Containing electoral wards from South Staffordshire
Containing electoral wards from Stafford
Containing electoral wards from Staffordshire Moorlands
Containing electoral wards from Stoke-on-Trent
Containing electoral wards from Tamworth
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 12 constituencies covering Staffordshire for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[7]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Staffordshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 183,181 | 35.4% | 7.1% | 9 | 9 | |
| Conservative | 164,440 | 31.8% | 29.8% | 3 | 9 | |
| Reform | 105,605 | 20.4% | 19.3% | 0 | ||
| Greens | 23,018 | 4.4% | 1.3% | 0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 21,396 | 4.1% | 1.5% | 0 | ||
| Others | 9,757 | 1.9% | 1.5% | 0 | ||
| Total | 517,614 | 100.0 | 12 |
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 32.9 | 33.9 | 41.8 | 51.3 | 48.0 | 41.4 | 31.1 | 29.2 | 37.9 | 28.2 | 35.4 | |
| Conservative | 44.9 | 44.9 | 44.0 | 33.7 | 35.9 | 35.2 | 41.6 | 45.7 | 56.3 | 61.6 | 31.8 | |
| Reform1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.1 | 20.4 | |
| Green Party | - | 0.2 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 4.4 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrat2 | 22.1 | 21.1 | 13.4 | 10.7 | 12.5 | 15.5 | 17.9 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 5.6 | 4.1 | |
| UKIP | - | - | - | 5.1 | 17.6 | 0.9 | ||||||
| Other | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 7.8 | 4.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.9 |
* Included in Other
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
| Conservative | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 3 | |
| Total | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
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.
The West Midlands Order 1965 transferred the Dudley area from Worcestershire to Staffordshire and part of the Warley area from Staffordshire to Worcestershire. These changes were incorporated into the new constituency boundaries for the February 1974 general election.