Stockport_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Stockport (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards

Stockport is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Navendu Mishra of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

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Stockport
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Stockport in Greater Manchester
Location of Greater Manchester within England
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	62,764 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Stockport, Brinnington, Four Heatons
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of Parliament	Nav Mishra (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Stockport North, Stockport South
1832–1950
Seats	Two
Replaced by	Stockport North, Stockport South

History

Stockport was created as a two-member parliamentary borough by the Reform Act 1832. Under the Representation of the People Act 1918, the constituency was retained as one of only 12 two-member non-university seats, with the boundaries being brought into line with those of the county borough, which had expanded through absorbing the urban districts of Reddish and Heaton Norris (formerly part of the Stretford constituency), and into neighbouring parishes in the abolished constituency of Hyde.

Under the Representation of the People Act 1948, all 2-member seats were abolished and Stockport was split into the single member seats of Stockport North and Stockport South.

Following the formation of the metropolitan borough of Stockport under the Local Government Act 1972, the single Stockport seat, electing one MP, was recreated for the 1983 general election, encompassing central and southern parts of the ex-county borough, with northern parts, including Reddish, forming part of the new Denton and Reddish seat.

Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

1918-1950: The County Borough of Stockport.^[2]

1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport wards of Cale Green, Davenport, Edgeley, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, and Manor.^[3]

1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport wards of Brinnington, Cale Green, Davenport, Edgeley, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Moor, and Manor.^[4]

Brinnington ward transferred from Denton and Reddish.

2010–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport wards of Brinnington and Central, Davenport and Cale Green, Edgeley and Cheadle Heath, Heatons North, Heatons South, and Manor.^[5]

Boundaries adjusted to take account of revision of local authority wards.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

Brinnington and Central; Davenport and Cale Green; Edgeley and Cheadle Heath; Heatons North; Heatons South; Reddish North; Reddish South.^[6]

To bring the electorate within the permitted range, the two Reddish wards will be transferred from the (to be abolished) constituency of Denton and Reddish, partly offset by the transfer of Manor ward to Hazel Grove.

Members of Parliament

Prominent members

Edward William Watkin was a railway entrepreneur, who helped to fund and plan lines across Britain, in Canada and, to a lesser extent, in the USA.

George Whiteley became later in his tenure for Stockport Chief Whip between 1905 and 1908 in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith.

In the 21st century, Ann Coffey was PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer while this role was held by Alistair Darling.

MPs 1832–1950

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Election	1st Member^[7]		1st Party		2nd Party
1832		Thomas Marsland	Tory^[8]^[9]	John Horatio Lloyd	Radical^[8]
1834			Conservative^[8]^[9]	John Horatio Lloyd	Radical^[8]
1835			Conservative^[8]^[9]	Henry Marsland	Radical^[8]^[9]^[10]
1841		Richard Cobden	Radical^[8]	Henry Marsland	Radical^[8]^[9]^[10]
July 1847		Richard Cobden	Radical^[8]	James Heald	Conservative
December 1847		James Kershaw	Radical^[11]^[12]	James Heald	Conservative
1852			Radical^[11]^[12]	John Benjamin Smith	Radical^[13]^[11]^[14]
1859			Liberal		Liberal
May 1864		Edward Watkin	Liberal
1868		William Tipping	Conservative
1874		Charles Henry Hopwood	Liberal	Frederick Pennington	Liberal
1885		Louis John Jennings	Conservative	William Tipping	Conservative
1886				Sydney Gedge	Conservative
1892				Sir Joseph Leigh	Liberal
February 1893		George Whiteley	Conservative	Sir Joseph Leigh	Liberal
1895			Conservative	Beresford Melville	Conservative
1900			Liberal
1900		Sir Joseph Leigh	Liberal
1906		James Duckworth	Liberal	George Wardle	Labour
January 1910		Spencer Leigh Hughes	Liberal		Labour
1918		Spencer Leigh Hughes	Coalition Liberal		Coalition Labour
1920		William Greenwood	Coalition Conservative	Henry Fildes	Coalition Liberal
1922			Conservative	Henry Fildes	National Liberal
1923				Charles Royle	Liberal
1924				Samuel Hammersley	Conservative
1925		Arnold Townend	Labour
1931		Alan Dower	Conservative
1935		Sir Arnold Gridley	Conservative	Norman Hulbert	Conservative
1950	Constituency abolished

MPs 1983–present

Constituency recreated (1983)

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	Member^[7]	Party
1983	Anthony Favell	Conservative
1992	Ann Coffey	Labour
February 2019	Ann Coffey	The Independent Group for Change
2019	Nav Mishra	Labour