Blackley and Broughton (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°30′36″N 2°12′07″W / 53.510°N 2.202°W
Blackley and Broughton | |
---|---|
Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Blackley and Broughton in Greater Manchester. | |
Location of Greater Manchester within England. | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Population | 110,754 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 69,006 (December 2010)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Graham Stringer (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Manchester Blackley and part of Salford. |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Blackley and Broughton /ˈbleɪkli ænd brɔːtən/ is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its creation in 2010 by Graham Stringer of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Boundaries
The City of Manchester wards of Charlestown, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, and Higher Blackley, and the City of Salford wards of Broughton and Kersal.
Formed following the Boundary Commission for England's review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, this seat is a cross-border constituency with electoral wards from Salford City Council and Manchester City Council. The constituency of Blackley and Broughton is the successor seat to Manchester Blackley.
Constituency profile
The seat covers an urban area with many small parks, coupled with major roads and is semi- rural in the north and east
History
- Results of the party
The area has been held by the Labour Party since the 1964 election (including predecessor seats). The 2015 result made the seat the 20th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[3]
- Results of other parties
The 2015 general election saw much more than the national average swing (+16.5%) to the UKIP candidate (compared with 9.5% nationwide), however Labour's candidate won more than thrice that share of the vote, scoring 61.9%. In the same election the area was one of several urban seats in which the Green Party achieved more than 4% of the vote and beat the Liberal Democrat candidate. The last time Conservatives fielded a candidate who achieved second place was in 2010.
- Turnout
Turnout has risen to date, from 49.7% to 51.6% of electors.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Graham Stringer | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Graham Stringer | 28,258 | 70.45 | +8.55 | |
Conservative | David Goss | 8,657 | 21.58 | +6.58 | |
UKIP | Martin Power | 1,825 | 4.55 | -11.95 | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard Gadsden | 737 | 1.84 | -0.56 | |
Green | David Jones | 462 | 1.15 | -3.05 | |
Christian Peoples | Abi Ajoku | 174 | 0.24 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,601 | 48.86 | +3.36 | ||
Turnout | 40,113 | 56.13 | +4.53 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.99 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Graham Stringer | 22,982 | 61.9 | +7.7 | |
UKIP | Martin Power | 6,108 | 16.5 | +13.8 | |
Conservative | Michelle Tanfield-Johnson | 5,581 | 15.0 | -3.3 | |
Green | David Jones | 1,567 | 4.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard Gadsden | 874 | 2.4 | -11.9 | |
Majority | 16,874 | 45.5 | +9.5 | ||
Turnout | 37,112 | 51.6 | +2.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Graham Stringer | 18,563 | 54.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Edsberg | 6,260 | 18.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | William Hobhouse | 4,861 | 14.2 | N/A | |
BNP | Derek Adams | 2,469 | 7.2 | N/A | |
Respect | Kay Phillips | 996 | 2.9 | N/A | |
UKIP | Robert Willescroft | 894 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Christian | Shafiq uz Zaman | 161 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,303 | 36.0 | |||
Turnout | 34,204 | 49.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Blackley and Broughton: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ List of Labour MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 2017-03-29
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
- ↑ "Blackley and Broughton Constituency - Statement of Persons Nominated & Notice of Poll". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 19 May 2017. Pdf.
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Blackley & Broughton". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.