This was a new seat created in the 1995 boundary changes.
It was formed from the northern half of the then prime minister John Major’s Huntingdon constituency and four wards south of the Nene from Brian Mawhinney’s previous seat, Peterborough.
A prosperous region, bolstered by the construction of many private housing estates. Most employment is in managerial positions and there are many wealthy arable farmers.
Although the City of Peterborough itself is a separate constituency, many of the City’s western suburbs fall within Brian Mawhinney’s seat.
It is here in areas like Fletton and Orton Longueville that pockets of Labour support can be found in an area otherwise steadily blue.
The constituency contains the village of Stilton to where the eponymous cheese was brought from Leicestershire and then loaded on to stage coaches heading to London. There is still an annual ‘cheese rolling’ competition in May each year.
Another larger village on the edge of the fens between St Ives and Ramsey, Warboys, is the last recorded place from which three witches were ultimately hanged at Huntingdon in 1593 after being found guilty of witchcraft at Huntingdon Assizes.