Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)

Wythenshawe and Sale East
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Wythenshawe and Sale East in Greater Manchester.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	75,602 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Paul Goggins (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. 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.

Boundaries

The constituency of Wythenshawe and Sale East is one of three in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford and five in Manchester City, encompassing three of the five 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 seats Conservative
• Priory - All seats Labour
• Sale Moor - Two seats Labour, One seat Conservative

Wythenshawe contains the following wards:

• Northenden - Two seats Liberal Democrat, one seat Labour
• Brooklands - All three Labour
• Baguley - All three Labour
• Sharston - All three Labour
• Woodhouse Park - All three Labour

Constituency Profile

The seat is comprised broadly of 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.

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 local election results suggesting the majority of residents in Sale are Conservative voters.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Paul Goggins	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Wythenshawe and Sale East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	17,987	44.1	-8.0
	Conservative	Janet Clowes	10,412	25.6	+3.3
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Eakins	9,107	22.3	+0.9
	BNP	Bernard Todd	1,572	3.9	+3.9
	UKIP	Christopher Cassidy	1,405	3.4	+0.4
	Trade Unionist & Socialist	Lynn Worthington	268	0.7	+0.7
Majority			7,575	18.6
Turnout			40,751	54.3	+3.1
	Labour hold		Swing	5.9%

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Wythenshawe and Sale East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	18,878	52.2	-7.8
	Conservative	Jane Meehan	8,051	22.3	-1.7
	Liberal Democrat	Alison Firth	7,766	21.5	+9.2
	UKIP	William Ford	1,120	3.1
	Socialist Alternative	Lynn Worthington	369	1.0
Majority			10,827	29.9
Turnout			36,184	50.4	+1.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.0

General Election 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	21,032	60.0	+1.9
	Conservative	Susan Fildes	8,424	24.0	-1.1
	Liberal Democrat	Vanessa Tucker	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
Turnout			35,055	48.6	-14.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Wythenshawe and Sale East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	26,448	58.1	+8.6
	Conservative	P. Fleming	11,429	25.1	-9.8
	Liberal Democrat	Vanessa Tucker	5,639	12.4	-2.1
	Referendum Party	B. Stanyer	1,060	2.3	N/A
	Socialist Labour	J.D. Flannery	957	2.1	N/A
Majority			15,019	32.99
Turnout				63.17
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.20

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester