Denton and Reddish | |
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Borough constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Denton and Reddish in Greater Manchester. |
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Location of Greater Manchester within England. |
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County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 65,684 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Andrew Gwynne (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Denton and Reddish is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.
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With an electorate of 68,000, located in eastern Greater Manchester, the constituency presently consists of the electoral wards of Audenshaw, Denton North East, Denton South, Denton West, and Dukinfield from the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, and Reddish North and Reddish South from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. It covers the former townships of Audenshaw, Denton, Dukinfield, Haughton Green, Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris, Lancashire Hill, and Reddish.
Prior to the seat's creation in 1983, Reddish was part of the marginal Stockport North constituency; the large Brinnington council estate was in the safe Labour seat of Stockport South; Audenshaw and Denton formed the core of the Manchester Gorton constituency; and Dukinfield was part of the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency.
From 1983 to 1997 the constituency consisted of the electoral wards of Brinnington, Reddish North, and Reddish South, from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport; and Audenshaw, Denton North East, Denton South, and Denton West, from the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside.
In 1997 Labour-leaning Brinnington ward was moved out of the constituency and transferred to the Stockport seat, and was replaced with the equally Labour-leaning Dukinfield ward in Tameside. All the other wards of the constituency are very strongly Labour-leaning, except Audenshaw ward, which in local elections is presently a three-way marginal between the three main parties, although in parliamentary elections it tends to support Labour as heavily as the rest of the constituency. Labour won Audenshaw ward from the Liberal Democrats in the 2006 local elections, and held it in 2007 and 2008.
Historically both Audenshaw and Denton West wards returned Conservative councillors, but this has not occurred since 1992 and 1987 respectively.
In the Boundary Commission's provisional recommendations for parliamentary constituencies, which were published in 2005, the Reddish part of the constituency was to be re-patriated with the Stockport constituency. Denton, Audenshaw and Dukinfield would have been joined with Droylsden East, Droylsden West and the St Peter's wards of Tameside to form a Denton borough constituency, wholly in Tameside. The proposed new seat would almost certainly have remained a Labour stronghold.
However, following a public inquiry into Greater Manchester's constituencies held in late 2005, a number of changes to the original proposals for the county were made. It was recommended that the Denton and Reddish seat should remain unchanged with five wards from Tameside (Denton North East, South and West; Audenshaw and Dukinfield) and two wards from Stockport (Reddish North and Reddish South), with slight readjustments to reflect the new ward boundaries introduced in 2004. The new parliamentary boundaries in Greater Manchester took effect at the 2010 general election.
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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1983 | Andrew Bennett | Labour | |
2005 | Andrew Gwynne | Labour |
General Election 2010: Denton and Reddish | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Gwynne | 19,191 | 51.0 | -6.4 | |
Conservative | Julie Searle | 9,360 | 24.9 | +5.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Stephen Broadhurst | 6,727 | 17.4 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | William Robinson | 2,060 | 5.5 | +2.3 | |
Independent | Jeff Dennis | 297 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 9,831 | 26.1 | |||
Turnout | 37,635 | 58.1 | +5.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -6.3 |
General Election 2005: Denton and Reddish | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Gwynne | 20,340 | 57.4 | -7.8 | |
Conservative | Alex Story | 6,842 | 19.3 | -0.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Allison Seabourne | 5,814 | 16.4 | +4.0 | |
BNP | John Edgar | 1,326 | 3.7 | +3.7 | |
UKIP | Gerald Price | 1,120 | 3.2 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 13,498 | 38.1 | |||
Turnout | 35,442 | 51.9 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.8 |
General Election 2001: Denton and Reddish | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Bennett | 21,913 | 65.2 | -0.2 | |
Conservative | Paul Newman | 6,583 | 19.6 | -1.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Roger Fletcher | 4,152 | 12.4 | -0.9 | |
UKIP | Alan Cadwallader | 945 | 2.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,330 | 45.6 | |||
Turnout | 33,593 | 48.5 | -18.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1997: Denton and Reddish | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Bennett | 30,137 | 65.4 | ||
Conservative | Barbara Nutt | 9,826 | 21.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Iain Donaldson | 6,121 | 13.3 | ||
Majority | 20,311 | ||||
Turnout | 66.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1992: Denton and Reddish[4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Bennett | 29,021 | 55.2 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | Jeff Horswell | 16,937 | 32.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Dr Fred Ridley | 4,953 | 9.4 | −7.1 | |
Liberal | MW Powell | 1,296 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
Natural Law | JPG Fuller | 354 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 12,084 | 23.0 | +7.3 | ||
Turnout | 52,561 | 76.8 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.6 |
General Election 1987: Denton and Reddish | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Bennett | 26,023 | 49.6 | ||
Conservative | P Slater | 17,773 | 33.9 | ||
Social Democrat | T I Huffer | 8,697 | 16.6 | ||
Majority | 8,250 | 15.7 | |||
Turnout | 75.8 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1983: Denton and Reddish | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Bennett | 22,123 | 44.2 | ||
Conservative | J Snadden | 16,998 | 34.0 | ||
Social Democrat | J Begg | 10,869 | 21.7 | ||
Majority | 5,125 | 10.2 | |||
Turnout | 72.5 |