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, 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. House prices are lower than regional and national averages. 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. 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%. == Boundaries ==