City of Chester (constituency)

City of Chester
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of City of Chester in Cheshire.
Location of Cheshire within England.
County	Cheshire
Population	92,995 (2011 census)
Electorate	68,280 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Chester
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of parliament	Chris Matheson (Labour)
Number of members	One
1545–1918
Number of members	1545–1880: Two 1885–1918: One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

The City of Chester is a constituency created in 1545 (turned into a county division in 1885 and reformed in narrowed geographical guise in 1918) and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Chris Matheson of the Labour Party.

The constituency covers the English city of Chester on the border of Wales and parts of the surrounding Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority, including the villages of Aldford, Capenhurst, Christleton, Guilden Sutton, Mollington, Newtown, Pulford and Saughall.

Much of the city of Chester itself is residential of varying characteristics, with more middle-class areas such as Upton and the large rural former council estate of Blacon which is, except where purchased under the right to buy, owned and managed by the local housing association, Chester And District Housing Trust.

In its 2007 review of parliamentary representation the Boundary Commission for England made minor boundary changes as a consequence of population changes, its selected wards being: