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Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)

Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwards


Wythenshawe and Sale East is a parliamentary constituency in the city of Manchester and the borough of Trafford. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

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The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat, and the southern tip of the constituency includes Manchester Airport; the constituency also borders rural Cheshire to the south. The current MP is Mike Kane of the Labour Party who was elected at the 2014 by-election in February 2014. He succeeded Labour's Paul Goggins who died in January 2014, and who had held the seat since its inception in 1997.

53°25′N 2°16′W

Boundaries

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1997–2010: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Benchill, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston, and Woodhouse Park, and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor.

2010–present: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston and Woodhouse Park, and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory1, and Sale Moor.

1 Renamed Sale Central following a local government boundary review in Trafford which became effective in May 2023.[2][3]

The constituency of Wythenshawe and Sale East is one of three in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford and one of five in the City of Manchester, encompassing three of the five electoral wards in Sale and all five wards of Wythenshawe. The constituency was created at the 1997 general election combining all of the former Manchester Wythenshawe constituency with the Sale parts of the Altrincham and Sale and Davyhulme constituencies.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency (based on the ward structure which existed on 1 December 2020) will be unchanged from the next general election (due by January 2025).[4]

Constituency profile

The seat broadly comprises two very contrasting areas - the massive post-war built council estate in Wythenshawe (once the biggest in Europe), eight miles south of Manchester city centre, and the eastern half of the more suburban, middle-class and affluent Sale, particularly in Brooklands, the constituency's biggest Tory ward. But the similarly named ward in Manchester is currently held by Labour, as are other areas around Wythenshawe such as Woodhouse Park, Baguley and Sharston, with the Priory and Sale Moor wards from Trafford also usually inclined to Labour. The southernmost Woodhouse Park ward is the largest in size as it contains mostly uninhabited area at Manchester Airport alongside the parish of Ringway, and there are green spaces at Sale Water Park and the park around the Tudor-era manor house Wythenshawe Hall.

The Wythenshawe area has historically suffered from some severe social and economic problems (the former ward of Benchill was assessed as the most deprived in the country in the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000).

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Elections

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See also


References

  1. "Wythenshawe by-election: Ukip knocks Tories into third as Labour wins". The Independent. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  2. LGBCE. "Trafford | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 5 North West region.
  4. "Blackley & Broughton Parliamentary constituency". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  6. "Wythenshawe & Sale East". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  7. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. "Wythenshawe & Sale East". Election 2001. BBC News Online. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  9. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  10. This is compared to Worthington's performance as the Socialist Alternative candidate at the prior election.
  11. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  12. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 2005: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  13. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  14. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, June 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  15. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 1997: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.

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