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Manchester Withington
Manchester Withington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour. Of the 30 seats with the highest percentage of winning majority in 2017, the seat ranks 25th with a 55.7% margin, and is the only one of the twenty nine of these seats won by the Labour Party in which the second-placed candidate was a Liberal Democrat, rather than Conservative. This is despite being a Conservative seat right up to 1987, then becoming relatively safely Labour, then Liberal Democrat from 2005 to 2015 before they lost on a large swing in 2015, after which Smith substantially increased his majority. History Over the past 35 years Manchester Withington has elected all three major parties. Mostly Conservative before 1987 (with three years of Liberal Party representation near its 1918 inception), it even resisted being gained by Labour in its massive landslide victories in 1945 and 1966. However, in 1987 the seat turned red for the fir ...
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The county was created on 1 April 1974, as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, and designated a functional city region on 1 April 2011. Greater Manchester is formed of parts of the historic counties of Cheshire, Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Greater Manchester spans , which roughly covers the territory of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, the second most populous urban area in the UK. Though geographically landlocked, it is connected to the sea by the Manchester Ship Canal which is still open to shipping in Salford and Trafford. Greater Manchester borders the ceremonial counties of Cheshire (to the south-west and south), Derbyshire (to the south-east), West Yorkshire (to the n ...
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Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites and reformist Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century it had formed four governments under William Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 general election. Under prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the party leader, its dominant figure was David Lloyd George. Asquith was overwhelmed by the wartime role of coalition prime minister and Lloyd George replaced him in late 1916, but Asquith remained as Liberal Party leader. The split between Lloyd George's breakaway faction and Asquith's official ...
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Manchester Central (UK Parliament Constituency)
Manchester Central is a parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester created in 1974 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2012 by Lucy Powell of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party. Constituency profile The seat covers the city centre and all its major attractions and both of Manchester's large universities, and fringe areas such as Hulme and Ancoats which have undergone extensive regeneration since the 1990s, an example of which is the New Islington development. Flats in the city centre can sell for several million pounds while there are more deprived areas to the east, including Moston, Beswick and Ardwick. There is a high proportion of graduates and students in the city centre, and the constituency as a whole has the highest proportion of Chinese people in the country. Moss Side is home to a large Afro-Caribbean population. This constituency has always (since its 1974 creation) been a safe Labour seat. The current MP Lucy Powell won t ...
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2015 United Kingdom General Election
The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. It was the first and only general election held at the end of a Parliament under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Local elections took place in most areas on the same day. Polls and commentators had predicted the outcome would be too close to call and would result in a second consecutive hung parliament whose composition would be either similar to or more complicated than the 2010 general election. Opinion polls were eventually proven to have underestimated the Conservative vote as the party, having governed in coalition with the Liberal Democrats since 2010, won 330 seats and 36.9% of the vote share, giving them a small overall majority of 12 seats (including Speaker John Bercow—ten seats without him) and their first outright win since 1992. It therefore won a mandate to govern alone with David Cameron continuing as Prime Minister. The Lab ...
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Withington (ward)
Withington is an area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. It is represented in Westminster by Jeff Smith MP for Manchester Withington Manchester Withington is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smit .... The 2011 Census recorded a population of 13,422. Councillors , three councillors serve the ward: Becky Chambers (Lab), Chris Wills (Lab Co-op), and Angela Gartside (Lab). indicates seat up for re-election. Elections in 2020s * denotes incumbent councillor seeking re-election. May 2022 May 2021 Elections in 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 May 2011 May 2010 Elections in 2000s ...
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Old Moat (ward)
Old Moat is an area and electoral ward in Manchester, England. It is represented in Westminster Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster. The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, B ... by Jeff Smith MP for Manchester Withington. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 14,490. Councillors , three councillors serve the ward: Garry Bridges (Lab), Gavin White (Lab), and Suzannah Reeves (Lab). indicates seat up for re-election. Elections in 2020s * denotes incumbent councillor seeking re-election. May 2021 Elections in 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 May 2011 May 2010 Elections in 2000s ...
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Didsbury West (ward)
Didsbury West is a suburb and electoral ward of Manchester, England. It is represented in Westminster by Jeff Smith MP for Manchester Withington Manchester Withington is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smit .... The 2011 Census recorded a population of 12,455. Councillors File:GregStanton-MCCOfficialPortrait.jpg, Greg Stanton ( Labour) File:John Leech canvassing in south Manchester.png, John Leech ( Lib Dem) File:Councillor-Debbie-Hilal.jpg, Debbie Hilal ( Labour) indicates seat up for re-election. indicates seat won in by-election. indicates councillor changed party. Elections in the 2020s * denotes incumbent councillor seeking re-election. May 2022 May 2021 Elections in the 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 *Leech's win si ...
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Didsbury East (ward)
Didsbury East is an area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. It is represented in Westminster by Jeff Smith MP for Manchester Withington Manchester Withington is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smit .... The 2011 Census recorded a population of 14,333. Councillors Three councillors serve the ward: James Wilson (Lab), Linda Foley (Lab), and Andrew Simcock (Lab) indicates seat up for re-election. Elections in 2020s * indicates incumbent councillor seeking re-election. May 2021 Elections in 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 May 2011 May 2010 Elections in 2000s References {{Reflist ...
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Chorlton Park (ward)
Chorlton Park is an area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. Different parts of this ward are represented by different MPs following boundary changes in 2018; the majority of the ward is part of the Manchester Withington constituency but a portion is part of the Manchester Gorton Manchester Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Labour's Afzal Khan, who was elected at the 2017 general election. It is the safest Labour seat in Greater Manchester by numerical majority and ... constituency. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 15,147. Councillors Three councillors serve the ward: Dave Rawson (Lab), Mandie Shilton Godwin (Lab Co-op), and Joanna Midgley (Lab). indicates seat up for re-election. Elections in 2020s * denotes incumbent councillor seeking re-election. May 2021 Elections in 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 ...
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Chorlton (ward)
Chorlton is an electoral ward of Manchester, England. Different parts of this ward are represented by different MPs following boundary changes in 2018; the majority of the ward is part of the Manchester Withington constituency but a portion is part of the Manchester Gorton Manchester Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Labour's Afzal Khan, who was elected at the 2017 general election. It is the safest Labour seat in Greater Manchester by numerical majority and ... constituency. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 14,138. Councillors The ward has three seats. , the sitting councillors are Eve Holt (Lab), Mathew Benham (Lab), and John Hacking (Lab Co-op). indicates seat up for re-election. indicates councillor defected. indicates seat won in by-election. Elections in 2020s * denotes incumbent councillor seeking re-election. Nov 2021 May 2021 Elections in 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May ...
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Burnage (ward)
Burnage is an area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. Different parts of this ward are represented by different MPs following boundary changes in 2018; the majority of the ward is part of the Manchester Withington constituency but a portion is part of the Manchester Gorton constituency. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 15,227. Councillors three councillors serve the ward: Azra Ali (Lab), Ben Clay (Lab), and Bev Craig Bev Craig is a Labour councillor in Burnage, Manchester, England, and Leader of Manchester City Council. Craig was elected Leader of Manchester City Council by the ruling Labour group of councillors in October 2021, and officially succeeded R ... (Lab). indicates seat up for re-election. indicates seat won in by-election. Elections in 2020s * denotes incumbent councillor seeking re-election. May 2021 Elections in 2010s May 2019 May 2018 May 2016 May 2015 May 2014 May 2012 ...
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