Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)

Wythenshawe and Sale East is a parliamentary constituency in the city of Manchester and the borough of Trafford. 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.

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
CountyGreater Manchester
Electorate85,058 (February 2014)[1]
Current constituency
Created1997
Member of ParliamentMike Kane (Labour)
Number of membersOne
Created fromManchester Wythenshawe, Altrincham and Sale, Davyhulme

The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat, and the southern part of the constituency includes Manchester Airport. 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.

Boundaries
Wythenshawe and Sale East electoral wards - Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor within Trafford Council (left) and Baguley, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston and Woodhouse Park within Manchester City Council (right).

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.

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. 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
ElectionMember[2]PartyNotes
1997 Paul Goggins Labour Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office May 2007-May 2010. Died January 2014
2014 by-election Mike Kane Labour Elected in February 2014 by-election

Elections

Elections in the 2010s
General election 2019: Wythenshawe and Sale East[3]
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 44,884 58.8 1.2
Labour hold Swing 4.7
General election 2017: Wythenshawe and Sale East[4]
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 −2.6
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
See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Wythenshawe and Sale East
General election 2015: Wythenshawe and Sale East[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Kane 21,693 50.1 +6.0
Conservative Fiona Green 11,124 25.7 +0.2
UKIP Lee Clayton 6,354 14.7 +11.2
Liberal Democrats Victor Chamberlain 1,927 4.5 −17.9
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 +5.8
Turnout 43,263 56.9 +2.6
Labour hold Swing +3.0
By-election 13 February 2014: Wythenshawe and Sale East[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Kane 13,261 55.3 +11.2
UKIP John Bickley 4,301 18.0 +14.5
Conservative Daniel Critchlow 3,479 14.5 −11
Liberal Democrats Mary Di Mauro 1,176 4.9 −17
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 37.0 +19.4
Turnout 23,961 28.0 −23.0
Labour hold Swing
General election 2010: Wythenshawe and Sale East[7][8][9]
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[10]
Majority 7,575 18.6 -11.3
Turnout 40,751 54.3 +3.1
Labour hold Swing −5.9

Elections in the 2000s
General election 2005: Wythenshawe and Sale East[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Goggins 18,878 52.2 −7.8
Conservative Jane E. P. Meehan 8,051 22.3 −1.7
Liberal Democrats Alison P. Firth 7,766 21.5 +9.2
UKIP William H. 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
General election 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East[13][14]
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 D. Crookes 869 2.5 N/A
Socialist Labour Fred B. 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

Elections in the 1990s
General election 1997: Wythenshawe and Sale East[15][16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Goggins 26,448 58.1 +8.6
Conservative Paul Fleming 11,429 25.1 −9.8
Liberal Democrats Vanessa M. Tucker 5,639 12.4 −2.1
Referendum Brian Stanyer 1,060 2.3 N/A
Socialist Labour Jim D. Flannery 957 2.1 N/A
Majority 15,019 33.0 +18.4
Turnout 45,533 63.2
Labour win (new seat)

See also

Notes and references
  1. "Wythenshawe by-election: Ukip knocks Tories into third as Labour wins". The Independent. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
  3. "Blackley & Broughton Parliamentary constituency". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  4. "Wythenshawe and Sale East - Statement of Persons Nominated & Notice of Poll". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 19 May 2017. Pdf.
  5. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  6. "Wythenshawe & Sale East". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  7. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. "Wythenshawe & Sale East". Election 2001. BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  9. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  10. This is compared to Worthington's performance as the Socialist Alternative candidate at the prior election.
  11. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  12. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 2005: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  13. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  14. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, June 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  15. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. Kimber, Richard. "General Election result, May 1997: Wythenshawe and Sale East". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
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