Ellesmere Port and Bromborough

Ellesmere Port and Bromborough is a constituency located in North West England. It covers the large town of Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, which has a population of around 65,000,^[4] and the smaller town of Bromborough in Merseyside, including the neighbourhoods of New Ferry, Port Sunlight and Eastham. The constituency lies on the Wirral Peninsula on the bank of the Mersey estuary. Ellesmere Port is port town with a large oil refinery and a history of industry, whilst Bromborough is a historic market town. The constituency has average levels of wealth; the southern and western suburbs of Ellesmere Port are affluent and fall within the 10% least-deprived areas in England, whilst there are high levels of deprivation in New Ferry and in the east of Ellesmere Port.^[5] House prices are lower than regional and national averages.^[6]

Residents of the constituency have average levels of education, income and professional employment compared with the rest of the country. White people made up 96% of the population at the 2021 census.^[6] At the local council level, Ellesmere Port is represented mostly by Labour Party councillors, Eastham by Liberal Democrats and Bromborough by Greens. An estimated 55% of voters in the constituency supported leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum, marginally higher than the nationwide figure of 52%.^[6]

The constituency was created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and is composed of the following wards:

• The Borough of Cheshire West and Chester wards of Central & Grange, Ledsham & Manor, Netherpool, Strawberry, Sutton Villages, Westminster, Whitby Groves, Whitby Park, and Wolverham.

• The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral wards of Bromborough and Eastham.^[7]

The seat covers the majority of, and replaces, the Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency, comprising the town of Ellesmere Port, with Neston being included in the new seat of Chester North and Neston. It extends northwards to include the two Wirral Borough communities of Bromborough and Eastham from the abolished constituency of Wirral South.^[8] The two parts of the constituency are not internally connected by any public road or path.