Salford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Salford Borough constituency
Salford shown within Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester shown within England
Created:	1832, 1997
MP:	Hazel Blears
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater Manchester
EP constituency:	North West England

Salford is a 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary Review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

A very safe Labour seat which has some of the UK's most deprived areas, typified by council estates like Ordsall, Pendleton and Langworthy, which are now due for apparent redevelopment. Higher Broughton has a considerable Jewish population and has some very decent residential housing, but even here Labour are usually in the lead at local level; the Tories, like all the other neighbouring Manchester seats, are now in third place in General Elections.

[edit] Boundary Review

Following its review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Salford be split into three new constituencies:

• Blackley and Broughton, a cross-border constituency formed with wards in the current Manchester Blackley seat.

• Salford and Eccles takes the existing Salford seat and marries it with central electoral wards of Eccles

• Worsley and Eccles South brings Walkden, Worsley and Eccles together in a new seat following the removal of the Wigan-Salford link

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Hazel Blears, Labour (1997 - Present)

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Salford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hazel Blears	13,007	57.6	-7.5
	Liberal Democrat	Norman Owen	5,062	22.4	+6.2
	Conservative	Laetitia Cash	3,440	15.2	-0.1
	UK Independence	Lisa Duffy	1,091	4.8	+4.8
Majority			7,945	35.2
Turnout			22,600	35	-6.6
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.9%

General Election 2001: Salford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hazel Blears	14,649	65.1	-3.9
	Liberal Democrat	Norman Owen	3,637	16.2	+5.9
	Conservative	Christopher King	3,446	15.3	-2.1
	Socialist Alliance	Peter Grant	414	1.8	N/A
	Independent	Hazel Wallace	216	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Roy Masterson	152	0.7	N/A
Majority			11,012	48.9
Turnout			22,514	41.6	-14.7
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

Constituencies in North West England
Labour	Ashton-under-Lyne | Barrow and Furness | Birkenhead | Blackburn | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Blackpool South | Bolton North East | Bolton South East | Bolton West | Bootle | Burnley | Bury North | Bury South | Carlisle | Chorley | City of Chester | Copeland | Crosby | Denton and Reddish | Eccles | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Halton | Heywood and Middleton | Hyndburn | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Knowsley South | Leigh | Liverpool Garston | Liverpool Riverside | Liverpool Walton | Liverpool Wavertree | Liverpool West Derby | Makerfield | Manchester Blackley | Manchester Central | Manchester Gorton | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Oldham West and Royton | Pendle | Preston | Rossendale and Darwen | Salford | South Ribble | St Helens North | St Helens South | Stalybridge and Hyde | Stockport | Stretford and Urmston | Wallasey | Warrington North | Warrington South | Weaver Vale | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral South | Wirral West | Workington | Worsley | Wythenshawe and Sale East
Conservative	Altrincham and Sale West | Crewe and Nantwich | Congleton | Eddisbury | Fylde | Lancaster and Wyre | Macclesfield | Penrith and The Border | Ribble Valley | Tatton
Liberal Democrat	Cheadle | Hazel Grove | Manchester Withington | Rochdale | Southport | Westmorland and Lonsdale
North West European constituency: Conservative (4) | Labour (3) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1)