Subject to boundary changes, including the addition of the villages of Anlaby, Willerby and Kirk Ella, it was replaced by Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice, first contested in the 2024 general election.

[citation needed] This seat contained the wards of Boothferry, Derringham, Myton, Newington, Pickering, and St Andrew's in the City of Kingston upon Hull and Hessle in the District of East Riding of Yorkshire.

[4] The area still has some way to go before it is fully restored to healthy economic life, and unemployment remains high; this has not been helped by the declining fishing industry.

Hessle is a quiet suburb to the west, conservative by nature and having little in common with its larger neighbour apart from mostly working-class roots.

[citation needed] In 2005, The Guardian described the seat as a "City centre and fishing port of isolated, rather grim east coast town.