Macclesfield
North West · County constituency · Cheshire East borough
About the Macclesfield constituency
Macclesfield is a county constituency in the North West. The sitting MP is Tim Roca (Labour), first elected in July 2024. At the 2024 general election, Labour won with 46.7% to 29.5% for the Conservatives, a majority of 9,120 votes on a 69.1% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has Labour on 38.6% and the Conservatives on 26.1%, a margin of 12.5 points.
Who lives in Macclesfield? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Macclesfield vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?
2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.
2024 general election
Current projection
Map of Macclesfield
Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from the 2021 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›
Macclesfield within Cheshire East
Macclesfield sits entirely within Cheshire East Council. Cheshire East was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| Cheshire East | 100% |
Recent council by-elections
Council ward by-elections held inside this seat, most recent first. The result column shows which party won; the share column shows the top three parties’ vote shares on the day.
| Date | Ward | Result | Top 3 vote shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2025 | Macclesfield Central | Grn GAIN from Lab | Grn 42% Lab 29% Ref 16% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent available result. How this table is sourced ›
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bollington | Labour 49.8%vs Conservative 25.9% | 2023 Labour 33.2%vs Conservative 24.1% | - | 47.0% |
| Broken Cross and Upton | Labour 50.7%vs Conservative 28.7% | 2023 Labour 59.3%vs Conservative 40.7% | - | 32.8% |
| Disley | Labour 42.9%vs Conservative 30.9% | 2023 Conservative 56.6%vs Labour 34.1% | - | 40.7% |
| Gawsworth | Conservative 41.6%vs Labour 34.9% | 2023 Conservative 63.3%vs Labour 15.3% | - | 37.5% |
| Macclesfield Central | Labour 57.2%vs Conservative 19.7% | 2023 Labour 62.5%vs Conservative 17.0% | - | 35.2% |
| Macclesfield East | Labour 48.6%vs Conservative 23.1% | 2023 Independent 58.9%vs Labour 21.8% | - | 37.1% |
| Macclesfield Hurdsfield | Labour 57.0%vs Conservative 18.9% | 2023 Labour 69.2%vs Lib Dem 18.7% | - | 27.2% |
| Macclesfield South | Labour 53.4%vs Conservative 21.9% | 2023 Labour 51.9%vs Independent 23.1% | - | 29.9% |
| Macclesfield Tytherington | Labour 42.3%vs Conservative 31.6% | 2023 Others 48.2%vs Conservative 30.4% | - | 44.5% |
| Macclesfield West and Ivy | Labour 51.1%vs Conservative 25.5% | 2023 Labour 67.6%vs Conservative 32.4% | - | 28.3% |
| Poynton East and Pott Shrigley | Labour 43.0%vs Conservative 34.9% | 2023 Conservative 53.1%vs Labour 33.2% | - | 45.3% |
| Poynton West and Adlington | Labour 43.4%vs Conservative 33.5% | 2023 Conservative 55.1%vs Labour 33.4% | - | 42.0% |
| Prestbury | Conservative 40.7%vs Labour 33.5% | 2023 Conservative 74.4%vs Independent 25.6% | - | 36.0% |
| Sutton | Conservative 39.7%vs Labour 38.0% | 2023 Conservative 45.5%vs Lib Dem 20.9% | - | 43.0% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Macclesfield at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Macclesfield at past general elections?
2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Con hold | David Rutley | 20.3% | 47.0% | 23.1% | 11,959 | 66.4% |
| 2015 | Con hold | David Rutley | 22.7% | 52.5% | 7.7% | 14,811 | 69.2%+2.8 |
| 2017 | Con hold | David Rutley | 36.8% | 52.7% | 6.2% | 8,608 | 72.2%+3.0 |
| 2019notional | Conservative winner | David Rutley 2019 MP, pre-review boundary | 32.6% | 52.5% | 10.6% | 10,711 | 71.0%-1.2 |
| 2024 | Lab gain from Con | Tim Roca | 46.7% | 29.5% | 4.7% | 9,120 | 69.1%-1.9 |
Earlier years are on pre-2024 boundaries; comparable results on the new boundary will be added when sourced.
Constituencies most like Macclesfield
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Macclesfield. Politics shown for context.
- ↑Owner-occupied72.4 / 72.7vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3523.2 / 23.1vs 30.2
- ↑Graduate40.6 / 40.1vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied72.4 / 70.1vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3523.2 / 23.2vs 30.2
- ↑Graduate40.6 / 39.6vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied72.4 / 73.3vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3523.2 / 23.7vs 30.2
- ↑Graduate40.6 / 39.6vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied72.4 / 71.8vs 61.9
- ↓Under 3523.2 / 23.6vs 30.2
- ↓Leave47.2 / 45.9vs 53.2
- ↓Under 3523.2 / 22.9vs 30.2
- ↑Owner-occupied72.4 / 69.1vs 61.9
- ↑Graduate40.6 / 39.8vs 33.7
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Related
Sources
Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›
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- 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
- Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
- Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
- Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
- May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
- Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
- Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
- EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
- MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
- Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
- Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic swingometer applied to the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls. Not a true MRP - vote-share movements are applied through per-constituency sensitivity multipliers derived from demographic regressions.
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