Stoke-on-Trent North (UK Parliament constituency)
Stoke-on-Trent North is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by David Williams, a member of the Labour Party.Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency was defined as composing the following as they existed on 1 December 2020: In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, the Kidsgrove district of Newchapel was transferred from Staffordshire Moorlands.Burslem and Tunstall are Stoke-on-Trent North's long-established ceramics and porcelain settlements; see Staffordshire Potteries.The area has relatively fast connections compared to other seats in the county, equally to Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 5.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, the middle figure of the three rates for the city's seats.