Worsley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Worsley County constituency
Worsley shown within Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Barbara Keeley
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater Manchester
EP constituency:	North West England

Worsley 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

This is a safe Labour seat including mostly working-class areas from the boroughs of Salford and Wigan, including: Walkden, Little Hulton, Astley and Irlam. The only Tory areas of strength here ironically are Worsley itself and Boothstown.

[edit] Boundary review

Following its review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Worsley be merged into a new constituency of Worsley and Eccles South. That constituency is to be fought at the next general election.

The existing link between Salford and Wigan for parliamentary purposes has been broken, hence the requirement to alter the existing Worsley seat

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1983 – 2005: Terence Lewis, Labour
• 2005 – present: Barbara Keeley, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Worsley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barbara Keeley	18,859	51.0	-6.1
	Conservative	Graham Evans	9,491	25.7	+1.9
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Clayton	6,902	18.7	+1.2
	UK Independence	Bernard Gill	1,694	4.6	+4.6
Majority			9,368	25.4
Turnout			36,946	53.1	+2.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.0

General Election 2001: Worsley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Lewis	20,193	57.1	-5.1
	Conservative	Tobias Ellwood	8,406	23.8	-0.5
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Bleakley	6,188	17.5	+3.9
	Socialist Labour	Dorothy Entwistle	576	1.6	N/A
Majority			11,787	33.3
Turnout			35,363	51.0	-16.8
	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)