About Sam

Samantha Dixon is Labour’s Member of Parliament for Chester North and Neston.

She served as the Member of Parliament for the City of Chester from December 2022 until the dissolution of Parliament in May 2024.

On the 4th July 2024, Sam was re-elected as a Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Chester North and Neston.

Sam has campaigned on ending sewage dumping in the River Dee, supporting residents and businesses through the cost of living crisis, and reforming the leasehold system to give homeowners a better deal.

Between 2011 an 2023, Sam was a local councillor for the City and Garden Quarter ward in Cheshire West and Chester council, before becoming leader of the council in 2015. She led the council during the Storyhouse and the Northgate development, established the country’s first council-led Poverty Truth commission, and was awarded an MBE for her services to the city.

She studied English Literature at Sheffield University and was involved in the university newspaper.

Sam has lived in Chester since she was a child, and continues to live in the city with her husband and three children.