Boundaries
The constituency was created following the boundary review of 1995, and was first contested at the 1997 general election. Prior to this, much of the region had been part of the South West Cambridgeshire constituency represented by Sir Anthony Grant from 1983 to 1997, while the wards of Bar Hill, Coton, Elsworth, Girton, Longstanton and Swavesey had been part of South East Cambridgeshire.
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