Manchester Blackley (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Manchester, Blackley Borough constituency |
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| Manchester, Blackley shown within Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester shown within England | |
| Created: | 1918 |
| MP: | Graham Stringer |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Greater Manchester |
| EP constituency: | North West England |
Manchester, Blackley is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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[edit] Boundaries
This is now Labour's safest seat in Manchester, with such areas as Blackley (pronounced, blake-ley) itself, and the deprived inner-city Harpurhey heavily voting in their favour.
[edit] Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, the Boundary Commission for England have made modifications to the existing Blackley seat as a consequence of the loss of one seat in the region.
This seat forms one part of a new Blackley and Broughton seat with two electoral wards from Salford
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Manchester, Blackley | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Graham Stringer | 17,187 | 62.3 | -6.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Iain Donaldson | 5,160 | 18.7 | +7.3 | |
| Conservative | Amar Ahmed | 3,690 | 13.4 | -1.0 | |
| UK Independence | Roger Bullock | 1,554 | 5.6 | +5.6 | |
| Majority | 12,027 | 43.6 | |||
| Turnout | 27,591 | 45.8 | +0.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -7.0 | |||
| General Election 2001: Manchester, Blackley | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Graham Stringer | 18,285 | 68.9 | ||
| Conservative | Lance Stanbury | 3,821 | 14.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Gary Riding | 3,015 | 11.4 | ||
| Socialist Labour | Kevin Barr | 485 | 1.8 | ||
| Socialist Alliance | Karren Reissmann | 461 | 1.7 | ||
| Anti-Corruption Forum | Aziz Bhatti | 456 | 1.7 | ||
| Majority | 14,464 | 54.4 | |||
| Turnout | 44.9 | ||||
[edit] References
- Pre-1945 MPs taken from http://www.manchester.gov.uk/elections/archive/gen1945.htm
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
