Gorton and Denton | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 74,306 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Gorton and Denton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Andrew Gwynne (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Manchester Gorton, Manchester Withington (part), & Denton and Reddish (part) |
Gorton and Denton is a constituency of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which came into being for the 2024 general election, following to the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies. [2] Since 2024, it has been represented by Labour's Andrew Gwynne, who was MP for the Denton and Reddish from 2005 to 2024.
The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It comprises the following areas: [4]
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Andrew Gwynne | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Gwynne | 18,555 | 50.8 | –16.4 | |
Reform UK | Lee Moffitt | 5,142 | 14.1 | +9.2 | |
Green | Amanda Gardner | 4,810 | 13.2 | +10.7 | |
Workers Party | Amir Burney | 3,766 | 10.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ruth Welsh | 2,888 | 7.9 | –11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Reid | 1,399 | 3.8 | –2.0 | |
Majority | 13,413 | 36.7 | –11.7 | ||
Turnout | 36,560 | 46.8 | –14.9 | ||
Registered electors | 78,125 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | –12.8 |
2019 notional result [8] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 30,814 | 67.2 | |
Conservative | 8,639 | 18.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2,671 | 5.8 | |
Brexit Party | 2,225 | 4.9 | |
Green | 1,155 | 2.5 | |
Others | 324 | 0.7 | |
Turnout | 45,828 | 61.7 | |
Electorate | 74,306 |
Longsight is an inner city area of Manchester, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the city centre, bounded by Ardwick and West Gorton to the north and east; Levenshulme to the south; and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Victoria Park and Fallowfield to the west. Historically in Lancashire, it had a population of 15,429 at the 2011 census.
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