Wythenshawe And Sale East
The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat, and the southern tip of the constituency includes Manchester Airport; the constituency also borders rural Cheshire to the south. 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.
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Boundaries
1997–2010: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Benchill, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston, and Woodhouse Park, and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor.
2010–present: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston and Woodhouse Park, and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor.
Renamed Sale Central following a local government boundary review in Trafford which became effective in May 2023.
The boundaries were unchanged by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies (which was based on the ward structure in place on 1 December 2020).
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 all of the former Manchester Wythenshawe constituency with the Sale parts of the Altrincham and Sale and Davyhulme constituencies.
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 eastern half of the more suburban, middle-class and affluent Sale, particularly in Brooklands, the constituency's biggest Tory ward. But the similarly named ward in Manchester is currently held by Labour, as are other areas around Wythenshawe such as Woodhouse Park, Baguley and Sharston, with the Priory and Sale Moor wards from Trafford also usually inclined to Labour. The southernmost Woodhouse Park ward is the largest in size as it contains mostly uninhabited area at Manchester Airport alongside the parish of Ringway, and there are green spaces at Sale Water Park and the park around the Tudor-era manor house Wythenshawe Hall.
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).
Members of Parliament
Elections | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1997 2001 2005 2010 |
Paul Goggins |
Labour | |
2014 by 2015 2017 2019 2024 |
Mike Kane |
Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Goggins | 26,448 | 58.1 | +8.6 | |
Conservative | Paul Fleming | 11,429 | 25.1 | –9.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Vanessa Tucker | 5,639 | 12.4 | –2.1 | |
Referendum | Brian Stanyer | 1,060 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Jim Flannery | 957 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,019 | 33.0 | +18.4 | ||
Turnout | 45,533 | 63.2 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Goggins | 21,032 | 60.0 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | Susan Fildes | 8,424 | 24.0 | −1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Yasmin Zalzala | 4,320 | 12.3 | −0.1 | |
Green | Lance Crookes | 869 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Fred Shaw | 410 | 1.2 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 12,608 | 36.0 | +3.0 | ||
Turnout | 35,055 | 48.6 | −14.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Goggins | 18,878 | 52.2 | –7.8 | |
Conservative | Jane Meehan | 8,051 | 22.3 | –1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Firth | 7,766 | 21.5 | +9.2 | |
UKIP | William Ford | 1,120 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Socialist Alternative | Lynn Worthington | 369 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,827 | 29.9 | –6.1 | ||
Turnout | 36,184 | 50.4 | +1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –3.0 |
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Goggins | 17,987 | 44.1 | –8.0 | |
Conservative | Janet Clowes | 10,412 | 25.6 | +3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Eakins | 9,107 | 22.3 | +0.9 | |
BNP | Bernard Todd | 1,572 | 3.9 | N/A | |
UKIP | Christopher Cassidy | 1,405 | 3.4 | +0.4 | |
TUSC | Lynn Worthington | 268 | 0.7 | –0.3 | |
Majority | 7,575 | 18.5 | –11.4 | ||
Turnout | 40,751 | 54.3 | +3.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –5.9 |
TUSC candidate's result compared to their performance as the Socialist Alternative candidate in 2005.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mike Kane | 13,261 | 55.3 | +11.2 | |
UKIP | John Bickley | 4,301 | 18.0 | +14.6 | |
Conservative | Daniel Critchlow | 3,479 | 14.5 | –11.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mary Di Mauro | 1,176 | 4.9 | –17.4 | |
Green | Nigel Woodcock | 748 | 3.1 | N/A | |
BNP | Eddy O'Sullivan | 708 | 3.0 | –0.9 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Captain Chaplington-Smythe | 288 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,960 | 37.3 | +18.8 | ||
Turnout | 23,961 | 28.0 | –26.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mike Kane | 21,693 | 50.1 | +6.0 | |
Conservative | Fiona Green | 11,124 | 25.7 | +0.1 | |
UKIP | Lee Clayton | 6,354 | 14.7 | +11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Victor Chamberlain | 1,927 | 4.5 | –17.8 | |
Green | Jess Mayo | 1,658 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Johnny Disco | 292 | 0.7 | N/A | |
TUSC | Lynn Worthington | 215 | 0.5 | –0.2 | |
Majority | 10,569 | 24.4 | +5.9 | ||
Turnout | 43,263 | 56.9 | +2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mike Kane | 28,525 | 62.2 | +12.1 | |
Conservative | Fiona Green | 13,581 | 29.6 | +3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | William Jones | 1,504 | 3.3 | –1.2 | |
UKIP | Mike Bayley-Sanderson | 1,475 | 3.2 | –11.5 | |
Green | Dan Jerrome | 576 | 1.3 | –2.5 | |
Independent | Luckson Augustine | 185 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,944 | 32.6 | +8.2 | ||
Turnout | 45,846 | 60.0 | +3.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mike Kane | 23,855 | 53.3 | –8.9 | |
Conservative | Peter Harrop | 13,459 | 30.1 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Lepori | 3,111 | 7.0 | +3.7 | |
Brexit Party | Julie Fousert | 2,717 | 6.1 | N/A | |
Green | Robert Nunney | 1,559 | 3.5 | +2.2 | |
Communist League | Caroline Bellamy | 58 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,396 | 23.2 | –9.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,759 | 58.8 | –1.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –4.7 |
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mike Kane | 20,596 | 52.6 | –0.7 | |
Reform UK | Julie Fousert | 5,986 | 15.3 | +9.2 | |
Conservative | Sarah Beament | 5,392 | 13.8 | –16.3 | |
Green | Melanie Earp | 4,133 | 10.6 | +7.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Lepori | 1,985 | 5.1 | –1.9 | |
Workers Party | John Barstow | 714 | 1.8 | N/A | |
SDP | Hilary Salt | 326 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,610 | 37.3 | +14.1 | ||
Turnout | 39,132 | 50.3 | –7.9 | ||
Registered electors | 77,765 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | –5.0 |
See also
References
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External links
- Wythenshawe and Sale East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Wythenshawe and Sale East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Wythenshawe and Sale East UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK