Blackley and Broughton ( and ) is a constituency represented in the

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of the

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Graham Stringer Graham Eric Stringer (born 17 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician serving as MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997. Before entering Parliament, he served as leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996, and chair o ...

. He was first elected in 1997 for the former

Manchester Blackley Manchester, Blackley was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In boundary changes for the ...

and prior to this was Leader of Manchester City Council. The constituency covers north Manchester and east Salford.

Boundaries

The City of Manchester wards of Charlestown,

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Crumpsall Crumpsall is an outer suburb and electoral ward of Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, bordered by Cheetham Hill, Blackley, Harpurhey, Broughton, and Prestwich. The population at the 2011 census was 15,959. Historically par ...

Harpurhey Harpurhey ( ) is an inner-city suburb of Manchester in North West England, three miles north east of the city centre. Historically in Lancashire, the population at the 2011 census was 17,652. Areas of Harpurhey include Kingsbridge Estate, Bar ...

, and

Higher Blackley Higher Blackley is an electoral district or ward in the north of the City of Manchester, England. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 11,688. Heaton Park, one of Europe's largest parks, is in this ward. A new "education village ...

, and the City of Salford wards of Broughton and Kersal. Formed following the

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's review of parliamentary representation in

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, this seat is a cross-border constituency with electoral wards from

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and Manchester City Council. This redrawn constituency uses the River Irwell as the eastern border with

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. The constituency of Blackley and Broughton is the successor seat to

. This is one of only five seats in the UK that each cover two cities, in this case Manchester and Salford. The others in England are Cities of London and Westminster in Central London, and Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire, which includes parts of Leeds and

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. In Northern Ireland the two cities of Newry and Armagh are included in the constituency of that name, and Belfast West includes part of the city of Lisburn.

Constituency profile

The seat covers a mostly residential area, major roads with many small parks and two large green spaces,

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which is one of the largest municipal parks in Europe and hosts the annual

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concert, and

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, a large ancient woodland in Blackley towards the east. A diverse constituency which stretches from the city centre's outskirts (including

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and the

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), featuring a large Asian population in Cheetham and Orthodox Jewish populations in parts of Crumpsall and the Salford suburbs of Broughton and Kersal. There is also an above-average number of Irish (the Irish World Heritage Centre is based here) and other European residents. Blackley itself is a mostly owner occupied, suburban residential area at the northern half of the seat, while the inner-city Harpurhey district has a high proportion of social housing and has faced problems with deprivation, and is mostly white working-class. More affluent areas include Higher Kersal and the Broughton Park area, with leafy roads and large detached houses. The Constituency narrowly voted Leave in the

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in 2016 and the incumbent,

was a prominent

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History

;Results of the Incumbent party Most of the area has been held by Labour since 1964. ;Results of other parties In 2019, the Conservatives came second with 24.6% vote share a 3% increase again from 2017. The

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came second in 2017, with 21.6% of the vote, a 7% increase on the 2015 election. A March 2017 by-election saw the Conservatives win the ward of Kersal within the constituency from Labour and in the 2018 Local Elections another Conservative candidate was elected meaning the Conservatives now hold 2/3 Salford City Council seats in the area. The 2015 general election saw much more than the national average swing (+16.5%) to the

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candidate (compared with 9.5% nationwide). UKIP came second overall. ;Turnout At the 2019 General Election, turnout fell by 3.3% to 52.8%, for the first time since the constituency was created in 2010, having risen from 49.7% in 2010 and to 56.1% of electors in 2017. In 2019 the constituency had the 5th lowest turnout in the country, and the lowest of all the Manchester seats.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Notes

References

External links

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