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

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, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and

Stockton-on-Tees Stockton-on-Tees, often simply referred to as Stockton, is a market town in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is on the northern banks of the River Tees, part of the Teesside built-up area. The town had an estimated ...

. The constituency boundaries used up to the

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were drawn up when it was a county. The area is divided into 6 parliamentary constituencies – 5 borough constituencies and 1 county constituency.

Constituencies

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Cleveland's constituencies 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 Stockton North and Stockton South.

Proposed boundary changes

''See

2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies is the current cycle of the process to redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons. The process for periodic reviews of parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom is gover ...

for further details.'' 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. Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. Final proposals will be published by 1 July 2023. The commission has proposed that the four unitary authorities which make up the former county of Cleveland be combined with the Borough of Darlington (previously considered with

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) to form a

Tees Valley Tees Valley is a mayoral combined authority and Local enterprise partnership area in northern England, around the River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley. The LEP was established in 2011 and the combined authority was established i ...

sub-division of the North East region. The proposals would involve Middlesbrough being renamed Middlesbrough and Thornaby East, and

Stockton South Stockton South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Matt Vickers, a Conservative MP. Boundaries 1983–1997: The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees wards of Bishopsgarth, Egglescliffe, Fai ...

renamed Stockton West. The following seats are proposed: Containing electoral wards in

Containing electoral wards in Middlesbrough * Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (part) *

Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland is a constituency created in 1997 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Simon Clarke of the Conservative Party. Boundaries 1997–2010: The Redcar and Cleveland Borou ...

(part) Containing electoral wards in Redcar and Cleveland * Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (part) *

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Containing electoral wards in

* Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (part) *

Stockton North Stockton North is a constituency covering the town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham and other nearby settlements in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees located north of the River Tees, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament ...

* Stockton West (part also in Darlington)

Results history

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

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:

Percentage votes

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance * Included in Other

Seats

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency1983Results.svg, 1983 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency1992Results.svg, 1987 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency1992Results.svg, 1992 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg, 1997 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg, 2001 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2005Results.svg, 2005 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2010Results.svg, 2010 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2015Results.svg, 2015 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2017Results.svg, 2017 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2019Results.svg, 2019 File:ClevelandParliamentaryConstituency2021Results.png, 2021

Historical representation by party

Notes

References

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