Salford | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater Manchester |
1997–2010 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Salford East, Eccles |
Replaced by | Salford and Eccles |
1832–1885 | |
Created from | Lancashire |
Replaced by | Salford North, Salford South and Salford West |
2024–2024 | |
Created from | Salford and Eccles |
Salford is a borough constituency in Greater Manchester 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. The borough constituency dated from 1997 and was abolished in 2010, replaced by Salford and Eccles.
A parliamentary borough of the same name existed from 1832 to 1885. The historic constituency returned two MPs from 1868.[1]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the 2024 general election, formed primarily from the (to be abolished) constituency of Salford and Eccles.[2]
In 1832 the constituency was formed from the townships of Broughton, Pendleton and Salford, with part of the township of Pendlebury. The exact boundaries were defined in the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832:[3]
From the Northernmost Point at which the Boundary of the Township of Salford meets the Boundary of the Township of Broughton, Northward, along the Boundary of the Township of Broughton, to the Point at which the same meets the Boundary of the Township of Pendleton; thence, Westward, along the Boundary of the Township of Pendleton to the Point at which the same meets the Boundary of the detached Portion of the Township of Pendlebury; thence, Southward, along the Boundary of the detached Portion of the Township of Pendlebury to the Point at which the same meets the Boundary of the Township of Salford; thence, Westward, along the Boundary of the Township of Salford to the Point first described.
In 1883 the detached portion of Pendlebury was absorbed by Pendleton.[1]
The constituency was re-created for the 1997 election. It boundaries were defined by the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1995, and consisted of eight wards of the City of Salford: Blackfriars, Broughton, Claremont, Kersal, Langworthy, Ordsall, Pendleton, and Weaste & Seedley.[4]
A very safe Labour seat which had some of the UK's most deprived areas, typified by council estates like Ordsall, Pendleton and Langworthy, which are now due for apparent redevelopment. Higher Broughton has a considerable Jewish population and has some very decent residential housing, but even here Labour are usually in the lead at local level; the Conservatives, like all the other neighbouring Manchester seats, are now in third place in General Elections.
Following its review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Salford be split into three new constituencies and this was enacted in 2010:
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the re-established constituency will be composed of the following wards of the City of Salford (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The constituency will comprise the majority of, and replace, the constituency of Salford and Eccles - excluding the towns of Eccles and Swinton. It will also include Broughton, transferred from Blackley and Broughton (to be abolished).
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1832 | Joseph Brotherton | Radical[7][8][9][10] | |
1857 by-election | Edward Ryley Langworthy | Independent Whig[11] | |
1857 | William Nathaniel Massey | Radical[12][13] | |
1859 | Liberal | ||
1865 | John Cheetham | Liberal | |
Representation increased to two members 1868 |
Election | 1st Member [6] | 1st Party | 2nd Member[6] | 2nd Party | ||
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1868 | Charles Edward Cawley | Conservative | William Thomas Charley | Conservative | ||
1877 by-election | Oliver Ormerod Walker | Conservative | ||||
1880 | Benjamin Armitage | Liberal | Arthur Arnold | Liberal | ||
1885 | Parliamentary borough split into three single-member divisions: see Salford North, Salford South, Salford West |
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1997 | Hazel Blears | Labour | |
2010 | Constituency abolished: see Salford and Eccles |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rebecca Long-Bailey[14] | 21,132 | 53.2 | ||
Reform UK | Keith Whalley[15] | 6,031 | 15.2 | ||
Green | Wendy Olsen[16] | 5,188 | 13.1 | ||
Conservative | Hilary Scott | 3,583 | 9.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jake Austin[17] | 2,752 | 6.9 | ||
Workers Party | Mustafa Abdullah[18] | 791 | 2.0 | ||
SDP | Stephen Lewthwaite[19] | 227 | 0.6 | ||
Majority | 15,101 | 38.0 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hazel Blears | 13,007 | 57.6 | −7.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Norman Owen | 5,062 | 22.4 | +6.2 | |
Conservative | Laetitia Cash | 3,440 | 15.2 | −0.1 | |
UKIP | Lisa Duffy | 1,091 | 4.8 | New | |
Majority | 7,945 | 35.2 | -13.7 | ||
Turnout | 22,600 | 42.4 | +0.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hazel Blears | 14,649 | 65.1 | −3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Norman Owen | 3,637 | 16.2 | +5.9 | |
Conservative | Christopher King | 3,446 | 15.3 | −2.2 | |
Socialist Alliance | Peter Grant | 414 | 1.8 | New | |
Independent | Sheilah Wallace | 216 | 1.0 | New | |
Independent | Roy Masterson | 152 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 11,012 | 48.9 | -2.6 | ||
Turnout | 22,514 | 41.6 | −14.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Hazel Blears | 22,848 | 69.0 | ||
Conservative | Elliot Bishop | 5,779 | 17.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Norman J. Owen | 3,407 | 10.3 | ||
Referendum | Robert W. Cumpsty | 926 | 2.8 | ||
Natural Law | Susan Herman | 162 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 17,069 | 51.5 | |||
Turnout | 33,122 | 56.3 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Benjamin Armitage | 11,116 | 28.6 | +3.8 | |
Liberal | Arthur Arnold | 11,110 | 28.5 | +4.1 | |
Conservative | William Thomas Charley | 8,400 | 21.6 | −3.8 | |
Conservative | Oliver Ormerod Walker | 8,302 | 21.3 | −4.1 | |
Majority | 2,710 | 7.0 | N/A | ||
Majority | 2,808 | 7.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 19,464 (est) | 87.1 (est) | +15.3 | ||
Registered electors | 22,334 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +3.8 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oliver Ormerod Walker | 8,642 | 50.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Joseph Kay[24] | 8,372 | 49.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 270 | 1.6 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 17,014 | 77.2 | +5.4 | ||
Registered electors | 22,041 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles Edward Cawley | 7,003 | 25.4 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | William Thomas Charley | 6,987 | 25.4 | +0.3 | |
Liberal | Joseph Kay[24] | 6,827 | 24.8 | −0.1 | |
Liberal | Henry Lee | 6,709 | 24.4 | +0.0 | |
Majority | 160 | 0.6 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 13,763 (est) | 71.8 (est) | -5.9 | ||
Registered electors | 19,177 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles Edward Cawley | 6,312 | 25.6 | New | |
Conservative | William Thomas Charley | 6,181 | 25.1 | New | |
Liberal | John Cheetham | 6,141 | 24.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Henry Rawson[25] | 6,018 | 24.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 40 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,326 (est) | 77.7 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 15,862 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Cheetham | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,397 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Cheetham | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Nathaniel Massey | 1,919 | 51.8 | −8.0 | |
Liberal | Henry Ashworth[26] | 1,787 | 48.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 132 | 3.6 | −16.0 | ||
Turnout | 3,706 | 87.8 | +9.7 | ||
Registered electors | 4,222 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −8.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | William Nathaniel Massey | 1,880 | 59.8 | N/A | |
Radical | Elkanah Armitage[27] | 1,264 | 40.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 616 | 19.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,144 | 78.1 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 4,028 | ||||
Radical gain from Ind. Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent Whig | Edward Ryley Langworthy | Unopposed | |||
Ind. Whig gain from Radical |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Radical | Joseph Brotherton | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,950 | ||||
Radical hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Radical | Joseph Brotherton | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,605 | ||||
Radical hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Radical | Joseph Brotherton | 991 | 53.2 | +3.1 | |
Conservative | William Garnett | 873 | 46.8 | −3.1 | |
Majority | 118 | 6.4 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,864 | 76.3 | +8.6 | ||
Registered electors | 2,443 | ||||
Radical hold | Swing | +3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Radical | Joseph Brotherton | 890 | 50.1 | −8.1 | |
Conservative | William Garnett | 888 | 49.9 | +8.1 | |
Majority | 2 | 0.2 | −16.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,778 | 67.7 | +9.2 | ||
Registered electors | 2,628 | ||||
Radical hold | Swing | −8.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Radical | Joseph Brotherton | 795 | 58.2 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | John Dugdale | 572 | 41.8 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 223 | 16.4 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 1,367 | 58.5 | −24.3 | ||
Registered electors | 2,336 | ||||
Radical hold | Swing | +0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Radical | Joseph Brotherton | 712 | 57.9 | ||
Tory | William Garnett | 518 | 42.1 | ||
Majority | 194 | 15.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,230 | 82.8 | |||
Registered electors | 1,497 | ||||
Radical win (new seat) |