Chester North and Neston

The Chester North and Neston constituency is located in Cheshire in the district of Cheshire West and Chester. It contains most of the city of Chester and the rural areas to its north-west stretching along the England-Wales border to the Dee Estuary. Other settlements include the small town of Neston and the villages of Little Neston, Willaston and Saughall. Chester is a popular tourist and retail destination; it is a historic cathedral city and was a major Roman settlement.

Residents of the constituency have average levels of wealth and are more likely to be degree-educated and work in professional occupations compared to national averages. White people make up 93% of the population.^[4] Most of the constituency has below-average levels of deprivation and the neighbourhoods of Abbot's Meads and Boughton Heath are particularly affluent,^[5] however there is deprivation in the Chester suburb of Blacon, which was once one of the largest council estates in Europe.^[6] At the local council, Chester and Neston are represented mostly by Labour Party councillors, whilst the rural areas between them elected Conservatives. At the 2016 referendum on European Union membership, an estimated 53% of voters in the constituency favoured remaining in the EU compared to 48% nationally.^[4]

The constituency is composed of the following wards of the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• Blacon; Chester City & the Garden Quarter; Great Boughton; Little Neston; Neston; Newton & Hoole; Parkgate; Saughall & Mollington; Upton; Willaston & Thornton.^[7]

The seat covers the majority of, and replaces, the former City of Chester constituency, comprising areas of Chester to the north of the River Dee, including the city centre. It extends northwards to include the town of Neston, previously part of the abolished Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency.^[8]

City of Chester and Ellesmere Port and Neston prior to 2024