Politics and History of The Constituency
The constituency was created for the 1983 General Election, out of parts of the former Labour seat of Crewe and the former Conservative seat of Nantwich. It was represented by Labour's Gwyyneth Dunwoody between the seat's creation and her death on 17 April 2008. The by-election that was triggered by the death of Mrs Dunwoody was won by the Conservative candidate Edward Timpson on 22 May 2008, giving the seat its first Conservative MP in what was the first gain from another party at a parliamentary by-election since the Mitcham and Morden by-election during the Falklands War, and the first from Labour since the Ilford North by-election of 1978. The Labour Candidate for the next Parliamentary Election (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate) will be Dr. Adrian Heald
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