Justin Madders
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Shadow Minister for Business, Employment Rights and Levelling Up[lower-alpha 1]
Assumed office
4 December 2021
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byOffice established
Shadow Minister for Secondary Care, Workforce and Patient Health[lower-alpha 2]
In office
10 April 2020 – 4 December 2021
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byOffice re-established
Succeeded byFeryal Clark
In office
18 September 2015 – 14 March 2019
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byJamie Reed
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Shadow Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
In office
10 July 2018 – 14 March 2019
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Member of Parliament
for Ellesmere Port and Neston
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byAndrew Miller
Majority8,764 (17.9%)
Personal details
Born (1972-11-22) 22 November 1972
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
WebsiteOfficial website

Justin Piers Richard Madders (born 22 November 1972) is a British Labour Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Neston since the May 2015 general election.[1]

Early life and education

Madders studied law at the University of Sheffield and worked as a solicitor, specialising in employment law, before entering politics.[2][3]

Political career

Before his election to Parliament, he was the leader of the Labour opposition on Cheshire West and Chester Council and leader of Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council.[3]

In the 2005 general election, Madders unsuccessfully stood in the safe Conservative seat of Tatton, coming second to the sitting MP, George Osborne.[4]

He was appointed a member of the shadow health team in September 2015.[5] He supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.[6] He resigned from his frontbench position in March 2019, after defying the Labour whip in a vote on a second Brexit referendum.[7]

He was re-elected in the 2019 general election with a majority of 8,764.[8]

Personal life

He is married and has three children.[9]

Electoral record

2019 General Election

General election 2019: Ellesmere Port and Neston[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Justin Madders 26,001 53.3 Decrease 5.8
Conservative Alison Rodwell 17,237 35.4 Decrease 1.4
Liberal Democrats Ed Gough 2,406 4.9 Increase 3.2
Brexit Party Christopher Stevens 2,138 4.4 N/A
Green Chris Copeman 964 2.0 Increase 1.3
Majority 8,764 17.9 Decrease 4.5
Turnout 46,340 69.3 Decrease 4.9
Labour hold Swing Decrease 2.2

2017 General Election

General election 2017: Ellesmere Port and Neston[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Justin Madders 30,137 59.2 Increase 11.4
Conservative Nigel Jones 18,747 36.8 Increase 2.5
Liberal Democrats Ed Gough 892 1.8 Decrease 1.6
UKIP Fred Fricker 821 1.6 Decrease 10.4
Green Steven Baker 342 0.7 Decrease 1.4
Majority 11,390 22.4 Increase 9.0
Turnout 50,939 74.2 Increase 5.6
Labour hold Swing +4.5

2015 General Election

General election 2015: Ellesmere Port and Neston[12][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Justin Madders 22,316 47.8 +3.1
Conservative Katherine Fletcher 16,041 34.3 −0.5
UKIP Jonathan Starkey 5,594 12.0 +8.3
Liberal Democrats Trish Derraugh 1,563 3.3 −11.7
Green Michelle Palmer 990 2.1 N/A
TUSC Felicity Dowling 192 0.4 N/A
Independent John Dyer 31 0.1 N/A
Majority 6,275 13.4
Turnout 46,727 68.6
Labour hold Swing +1.8

Notes

  1. ↑ Employment Rights (2021 to 2023)
  2. ↑ Health and Social Care (2015–19)

References

  1. ↑ "Ellesmere Port & Neston parliamentary constituency - Election 2015 - BBC News". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Election 2015: We ask Justin Madders". Cheshire Live. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Election 2015: Ellesmere Port and Neston won by Labour". Chester Chronicle. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Electoral Commission | Tatton". www.electoralcommission.org.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Labour Frontbench". Labour Party. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith". LabourList. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  7. ↑ Wearmouth, Rachel (14 March 2019). "3 Shadow Ministers Resign Over Vote To Block Second Brexit Referendum". HuffPost. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  8. ↑ "General Election 2019: Results revealed for the Ellesmere Port and Neston area". Cheshire Live. 13 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "Biography". Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated 2019" (PDF). Cheshire West and Chester Council. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  11. ↑ "Ellesmere Port and Neston". Cheshire West and Chester Council. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  12. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "Ellesmere Port & Neston". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
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