List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire

Location of the county of Cambridgeshire (red) and the Peterborough unitary authority (orange) in England.

The ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (which includes the area of the Peterborough unitary authority) is divided into seven parliamentary constituencies. There are two borough constituencies and five county constituencies, which each elect one Member of Parliament to represent it in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Constituencies

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour   ¤ Liberal Democrat

Constituency[nb 1]	Electorate[1]	Majority[nb 2][2]	Member of Parliament		Nearest opposition[nb 3]		Electoral wards[3][4]	Map
Cambridge BC	83,384	599		Daniel Zeichner ‡		Julian Huppert ¤	Cambridge City Council: Abbey, Arbury, Castle, Cherry Hinton, Coleridge, East Chesterton, King’s Hedges, Market, Newnham, Petersfield, Romsey, Trumpington, West Chesterton.
Huntingdon CC	82,593	19,403		Jonathan Djanogly †		Nik Johnson ‡	Huntingdonshire District Council: Alconbury and The Stukeleys, Brampton, Buckden, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden and The Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Little Paxton, St Ives East, St Ives South, St Ives West, St Neots Eaton Ford, St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park, The Hemingfords.
North East Cambridgeshire CC	82,999	16,874		Stephen Barclay †		Andrew Charalambous	East Cambridgeshire District Council: Downham Villages, Littleport East, Littleport West, Sutton. Fenland District Council: Bassenhally, Benwick, Coates and Eastrea, Birch, Clarkson, Delph, Doddington, Elm and Christchurch, Hill, Kingsmoor, Kirkgate, Lattersey, Manea, March East, March North, March West, Medworth, Parson Drove and Wisbech St Mary, Peckover, Roman Bank, St Andrews, St Marys, Slade Lode, Staithe, The Mills, Waterlees, Wenneye, Wimblington.
North West Cambridgeshire CC	92,159	19,795		Shailesh Vara †		Peter Reeve	Peterborough City Council: Barnack, Fletton, Glinton and Wittering, Northborough, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Orton With Hampton, Stanground Central, Stanground East. Huntingdonshire District Council: Earith, Ellington, Elton and Folksworth, Ramsey, Sawtry, Somersham, Stilton, Upwood and The Raveleys, Warboys and Bury, Yaxley and Farcet.
Peterborough BC	72,530	1,925		Stewart Jackson †		Lisa Forbes ‡	Peterborough City Council: Bretton North, Bretton South, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye and Thorney, Newborough, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton, Werrington North, Werrington South, West.
South Cambridgeshire CC	84,132	20,594		Heidi Allen †		Dan Greef ‡	Cambridge City Council: Queen Edith’s. South Cambridgeshire District Council: Bar Hill, Barton, Bassingbourn, Bourn, Caldecote, Comberton, Cottenham, Duxford, Fowlmere and Foxton, Gamlingay, Girton, Hardwick, Harston and Hauxton, Haslingfield and The Eversdens, Longstanton, Melbourn, Meldreth, Orwell and Barrington, Papworth and Elsworth, Sawston, Swavesey, The Abingtons, The Mordens, The Shelfords and Stapleford, Whittlesford.
South East Cambridgeshire CC	84,570	16,837		Lucy Frazer †		Jonathan Chatfield ¤	East Cambridgeshire District Council: Bottisham, Burwell, Cheveley, Dullingham Villages, Ely East, Ely North, Ely South, Ely West, Fordham Villages, Haddenham, Isleham, Soham North, Soham South, Stretham, The Swaffhams. South Cambridgeshire District Council: Balsham, Fulbourn, Histon and Impington, Linton, Milton, Teversham, The Wilbrahams, Waterbeach, Willingham and Over.

Boundary changes

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 were implemented at the United Kingdom general election, 2010.

	Name	Boundaries 1997 – 2010	Boundaries 2010 – present
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

Election results

1997	2001	2005	2010	2015

The total number of votes cast for each political party or individual candidate who fielded candidates in constituencies within Cambridgeshire in the 2010 general election were as follows;

Party	Votes	Votes%	Seats
Conservatives	169,389	45.0	6
Liberal Democrats	109,159	29.0	1
Labour	60,983	16.2
UKIP	19,288	5.1
Greens	6,784	1.8
Independents	5,034	1.3
English Democrats	2,564	0.7
BNP	1,747	0.5
Monster Raving Loony	548	0.1
Christian Peoples Alliance	489	0.1
TUSC	362	0.1
Animal Protection Party	181	0.0
Total	376,528	100.0	7

Former constituencies

Cambridge has been continuously represented in Parliament since 1295. The remainder of the county was represented by Cambridgeshire from 1290 to 1885, returning two members prior to 1832 and three members from 1832 to 1885. The county was divided in 1885 between the single member divisions of Chesterton, Newmarket and Wisbech. Cambridgeshire was recreated as a single member constituency in 1918 but did not cover the administrative county of Isle of Ely, which was now represented by the Isle of Ely constituency. Both Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely were abolished in 1983, and replaced with North East Cambridgeshire, South East Cambridgeshire and South West Cambridgeshire. The latter was abolished in 1997 to form the new constituency of South Cambridgeshire.

Additionally, Cambridge University returned two Members of Parliament from 1603 to 1950. However it was not a geographic area and instead represented the graduates of the university.

Huntingdonshire, historically a county in its own right, returned two members from the Huntingdonshire constituency from 1290 and two members from Huntingdon from 1295 until 1868 when representation from the latter was reduced to one member. In 1885 the county was divided between the two single member divisions of Huntingdon and Ramsey. Huntingdonshire was recreated in 1918 as a single member constituency and was renamed Huntingdon in 1983. The historic county was again divided in 1997 when North West Cambridgeshire was created.

Peterborough was historically a part of Northamptonshire. Some parts of the modern-day constituencies of North West Cambridgeshire and Peterborough were represented as part of Northamptonshire prior to 1832, followed by North Northamptonshire until 1918 when that constituency was abolished and merged into the Peterborough constituency.

	1290 – 1295	1295 – 1541	1541 – 1603	1603 – 1885	1885 – 1918	1918 – 1950	1950 – 1983	1983 – 1997	1997 – present
Cambridgeshire	1290 – 1885					1918 – 1983
Huntingdonshire	1290 – 1885					1918 – 1983
Cambridge		1295 – present
Huntingdon		1295 – 1918						1983 – present
Peterborough			1541 – present
Cambridge University				1603 – 1950
Chesterton					1885 – 1918
Newmarket					1885 – 1918
Ramsey					1885 – 1918
Wisbech					1885 – 1918
Isle of Ely						1918 – 1983
South West Cambridgeshire								1983 – 1997
North East Cambridgeshire								1983 – present
South East Cambridgeshire								1983 – present
North West Cambridgeshire									1997 – present
South Cambridgeshire									1997 – present

Historical representation by party

Where a cell is marked --> (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) it indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918 (6 MPs)

Constituency	1885	1886	87	91	1892	1895	1900	03	1906	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	13	17
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 1983 (4 MPs)

Constituency	1918	1922	1923	1924	1929	1931	34	1935	1945	1950	1951	1955	1959	61	1964	1966	67	1970	73	Feb 74	Oct 74	76	1979
Cambridge	Geddes	Newton					Tufnell		Symonds	Kerr						Davies	Lane					Rhodes James
Cambridgeshire	Montagu	Gray	Briscoe						Stubbs	Howard				Pym
Huntingdonshire	Locker-Lampson	Murchison	Costello	Murchison	Peters	-->			Renton									Renton					Major
Isle of Ely	Coote	Coates	Mond	Lucas-Tooth	de Rothschild				Legge-Bourke										Freud

1983 to present (6, then 7 MPs)

Constituency		1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015
Cambridge		Rhodes James		Campbell			Howarth	Huppert	Zeichner
Peterborough	transferred from Northamptonshire Apr 1974	Mawhinney			Clark		Jackson
Huntingdon		Major				Djanogly
North East Cambridgeshire		Freud	Moss					Barclay
South East Cambridgeshire		Pym	Paice						Frazer
South West Cambridgeshire / South Cambridgeshire (1997)		Grant			Lansley				Allen
North West Cambridgeshire					Mawhinney		Vara

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.
3. As of the 2010 general election.

References

1. "2015 Electorates".
2. Results of the 2010 general election, BBC News
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