Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)
| Wythenshawe and Sale East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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Boundary of Wythenshawe and Sale East in Greater Manchester. | |
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Location of Greater Manchester within England. | |
| County | Greater Manchester |
| Electorate | 85,058 (February 2014)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1997 |
| Member of parliament | Mike Kane (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Manchester Wythenshawe, Altrincham and Sale, Davyhulme |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | North West England |
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.
The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat. 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.
Coordinates: 53°25′N 2°16′W / 53.41°N 2.27°W
Boundaries
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 most of the former Manchester Wythenshawe constituency with parts of the Altrincham and Sale constituency.
Sale East contains the following wards:
- Brooklands - All three Conservative
- Priory - All three Labour
- Sale Moor - All three Labour
Wythenshawe contains the following wards:
- Northenden - Two seats Labour, one seat Liberal Democrat
- Brooklands - All three Labour
- Baguley - All three Labour
- Sharston - All three Labour
- Woodhouse Park - All three Labour
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 suburban, more middle-class and affluent areas of Sale. Two different wards in the constituency are somewhat confusingly named Brooklands; on the Trafford side of the seat, it is safely Conservative, while on the Manchester side it is safely Labour, as are virtually all of the wards there. The Priory ward is Labour's strongest in Sale, and they also have councillors in Sale Moor.
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) and these safe Labour holdings are enough to make this a secure seat for them at Westminster, despite some Conservative strength in Sale. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats suffered a huge setback at the 2014 by-election, when UKIP pushed them into third and fourth place respectively, though Labour maintained a strong majority (securing more than 55% of the vote) despite low voter turn-out.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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| 1997 | Paul Goggins | Labour | |
| 2014 | Mike Kane | Labour | |
Elections
Election in 2015
| General Election 2015: Wythenshawe and Sale East | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Victor Max Mark Chamberlain[3] | ||||
| UKIP | Lee Francis Clayton | ||||
| Monster Raving Loony | Johnny Disco[4] | ||||
| Conservative | Fiona Mary Green[5] | ||||
| Labour | Mike Kane[6] | ||||
| Green | Jessica Mayo[7] | ||||
| TUSC | Lynn Worthington[8] | ||||
Prior elections
| Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General election, 1997 [9] Electorate: 72,086 Turnout: 45,533 (63.2%) | Labour hold Majority: 15,019 (33.0%) +18.4 Swing: 9.2% from Con to Lab | Paul Goggins | Labour | 26,448 | 58.1 | +8.6 | ||
| Paul Fleming | Conservative | 11,429 | 25.1 | −9.8 | ||||
| Vanessa M. Tucker | Liberal Democrat | 5,639 | 12.4 | −2.1 | ||||
| Brian Stanyer | Referendum Party | 1,060 | 2.3 | N/A | ||||
| Jim D. Flannery | Socialist Labour | 957 | 2.1 | N/A | ||||
| General election, 2001 [10] Electorate: 72,127 Turnout: 35,055 (48.6%) −14.6 | Labour hold Majority: 12,608 (36.0%) +3.0 Swing: 1.5% from Con to Lab | Paul Goggins | Labour | 21,032 | 60.0 | +1.9 | ||
| Susan Fildes | Conservative | 8,424 | 24.0 | −1.1 | ||||
| Vanessa M. Tucker | Liberal Democrat | 4,320 | 12.3 | −0.1 | ||||
| Lance D. Crookes | Green | 869 | 2.5 | N/A | ||||
| Fred B. Shaw | Socialist Labour | 410 | 1.2 | −0.9 | ||||
| General election, 2005 [11] Electorate: 70,744 Turnout: 36,184 (50.4%) +1.8 | Labour hold Majority: 10,827 (29.9%) −6.1 Swing: 3.0% from Lab to Con | Paul Goggins | Labour | 18,878 | 52.2 | −7.8 | ||
| Jane E. P. Meehan | Conservative | 8,051 | 22.3 | −1.7 | ||||
| Alison P. Firth | Liberal Democrat | 7,766 | 21.5 | +9.2 | ||||
| William H. Ford | UKIP | 1,120 | 3.1 | N/A | ||||
| Lynn Worthington | Socialist Alternative | 369 | 1.0 | N/A | ||||
| General election 2010 [12][13] Electorate: 79,923 Turnout: 40,751 (54.3%) +3.1 | Labour hold Majority: 7,575 (18.6%) Swing: 5.9% from Lab to Con | Paul Goggins | Labour | 17,987 | 44.1 | -8.0 | ||
| Janet Clowes | Conservative | 10,412 | 25.6 | +3.3 | ||||
| Martin Eakins | Liberal Democrat | 9,107 | 22.3 | +0.9 | ||||
| Bernard Todd | BNP | 1,572 | 3.9 | N/A | ||||
| Christopher Cassidy | UKIP | 1,405 | 3.4 | +0.4 | ||||
| Lynn Worthington | TUSC | 268 | 0.7 | -0.3[14] | ||||
| By-election 2014 [1] Electorate: 85,058 Turnout: 23,961 (28%) -23 | Labour hold Majority: 8,960 (37%) | Mike Kane | Labour | 13,261 | 55.3 | +11.2 | ||
| John Bickley | UKIP | 4,301 | 18.0 | +14.5 | ||||
| Daniel Critchlow | Conservative | 3,479 | 14.5 | -11 | ||||
| Mary Di Mauro | Liberal Democrat | 1,176 | 4.9 | -17 | ||||
| Nigel Woodcock | Green | 748 | 3.1 | N/A | ||||
| Eddy O'Sullivan | BNP | 708 | 3.0 | -0.9 | ||||
| Captain Chaplington-Smythe | Monster Raving Loony | 288 | 1.2 | N/A | ||||
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Wythenshawe by-election: Ukip knocks Tories into third as Labour wins". The Independent. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
- ↑ "2015 candidates". North West Lib Dems. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ https://yournextmp.com/constituency/65669/wythenshawe-and-sale-east/
- ↑ "Fiona Green PPC page". Conservative Party (UK). Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ↑ http://labourlist.org/2014/01/mike-kane-selected-as-labours-candidate-for-wythenshawe-and-sale-east/
- ↑ http://northwest.greenparty.org.uk/elections-2015.html
- ↑ https://yournextmp.com/constituency/65669/wythenshawe-and-sale-east/
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 1997: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, June 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 2005: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ↑ "Wythenshawe & Sale East". Election 2001. BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ↑ This is compared to Worthington's performance as the Socialist Alternative candidate at the prior election.
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