Heywood and Middleton North | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Heywood and Middleton North in North West England | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 73,306 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Heywood, Middleton, Alkrington, Castleton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Elsie Blundell (Labour Party) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Heywood and Royton; Middleton and Prestwich |
Heywood and Middleton is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Elsie Blundell of the Labour Party.
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposes that two of the Middleton wards will be included in a new constituency named Blackley and Middleton South and this seat will be renamed Heywood and Middleton North, to be first contested at the 2024 general election. [2] [3]
The constituency covers the west half of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, including the towns of Heywood and Middleton, and some of the western fringes of Rochdale itself such as Castleton. Norden and Bamford are strong Conservative areas, with several million-pound houses, but all other wards are mostly favourable to Labour. Middleton includes the large overspill council estate of Langley though the South Middleton ward includes a relatively affluent area in Alkrington Garden Village, but even this ward generally returns Labour councillors.
Electoral Calculus categorises the seat as a "Somewhere" demographic, indicating socially conservative, economically soft left views and strong support for Brexit. [4]
1983–1997: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Heywood North, Heywood South, Heywood West, Middleton Central, Middleton East, Middleton North, Middleton South, and Middleton West.
1997–2010: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Castleton, Heywood North, Heywood South, Heywood West, Middleton Central, Middleton East, Middleton North, Middleton South, Middleton West, and Norden and Bamford.
2010–2024: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Bamford, Castleton, East Middleton, Hopwood Hall, Norden, North Heywood, North Middleton, South Middleton, West Heywood, and West Middleton.
2024-present: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 general election the constituency of Heywood and Middleton North will be composed of the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
East Middleton and South Middleton wards will now be included in the new constituency of Blackley and Middleton South, partly compensated by the addition of the Spotland and Falinge ward from Rochdale.
The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the former seats of Heywood and Royton and Middleton and Prestwich and had been held by the Labour Party since then until the 2019 Election.
From 1983 until his retirement in 1997, the MP was Jim Callaghan, not to be confused with a former Prime Minister with the same name.
In a 2014 by-election UKIP came within 617 votes of winning the seat, which was on the same day as the Rochester and Strood by-election, and in 2015 it produced one of their largest results in the country, as a result the constituency heavily voted to Leave in the referendum and swung to the Conservatives for the first time in 2019, in line with many other Leave-voting Labour seats in the North and Midlands.
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1983 | Jim Callaghan | Labour | |
1997 | Jim Dobbin | Labour Co-op | |
2014 by-election | Liz McInnes | Labour | |
2019 | Chris Clarkson | Conservative | |
2024 | Elsie Blundell | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elsie Blundell | 15,069 | 40.6 | –2.5 | |
Reform UK | Steve Potter | 8,987 | 24.2 | +15.8 | |
Conservative | Laura-Beth Thompson | 6,423 | 17.3 | –24.2 | |
Independent | Chris Furlong | 4,349 | 11.7 | +11.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Shaw | 2,302 | 6.2 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 6,082 | 16.4 | +14.8 | ||
Turnout | 37,130 | 49.6 | −8.3 | ||
Registered electors | 74,786 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -9.1 |
Heywood and Middleton North is the only constituency (in England or Wales) where the Green Party of England and Wales didn’t stand a candidate. [8] [9] [10]
2019 notional result [11] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 18,281 | 43.1 | |
Conservative | 17,601 | 41.5 | |
Brexit Party | 3,581 | 8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1,787 | 4.2 | |
Green | 1,196 | 2.8 | |
Turnout | 42,446 | 57.9 | |
Electorate | 73,306 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Clarkson | 20,453 | 43.1 | +5.1 | |
Labour | Liz McInnes | 19,790 | 41.7 | –11.6 | |
Brexit Party | Colin Lambert | 3,952 | 8.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony Smith | 2,073 | 4.4 | +2.2 | |
Green | Nigel Ainsworth-Barnes | 1,220 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 663 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,488 | 59.2 | –3.2 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +8.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Liz McInnes | 26,578 | 53.3 | +10.2 | |
Conservative | Chris Clarkson | 18,961 | 38.0 | +18.9 | |
UKIP | Lee Seville | 3,239 | 6.5 | –25.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bill Winlow | 1,087 | 2.2 | –1.1 | |
Majority | 7,617 | 15.3 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,865 | 62.4 | +1.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Liz McInnes | 20,926 | 43.1 | +3.0 | |
UKIP | John Bickley | 15,627 | 32.2 | +29.6 | |
Conservative | Iain Gartside | 9,268 | 19.1 | –8.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony Smith | 1,607 | 3.3 | –19.4 | |
Green | Abi Jackson | 1,110 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,299 | 10.9 | –2.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,538 | 60.7 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –16.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Liz McInnes | 11,633 | 40.9 | +0.8 | |
UKIP | John Bickley | 11,016 | 38.7 | +36.1 | |
Conservative | Iain Gartside [14] | 3,496 | 12.3 | –14.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony Smith [15] | 1,457 | 5.1 | –17.6 | |
Green | Abi Jackson [16] | 870 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 617 | 2.2 | –10.7 | ||
Turnout | 28,472 | 36.0 | −21.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –18.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Jim Dobbin | 18,499 | 40.1 | –8.2 | |
Conservative | Mike Holly | 12,528 | 27.2 | +5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Wera Hobhouse | 10,474 | 22.7 | +2.5 | |
BNP | Peter Greenwood | 3,239 | 7.0 | +2.6 | |
UKIP | Victoria Cecil | 1,215 | 2.6 | +0.7 | |
Independent | Chrissy Lee | 170 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,971 | 12.9 | –13.6 | ||
Turnout | 46,125 | 57.5 | +3.7 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | –6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Jim Dobbin | 19,438 | 49.8 | –7.9 | |
Conservative | Stephen Pathmarajah | 8,355 | 21.4 | –6.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Crea Lavin | 7,261 | 18.6 | +7.4 | |
BNP | Gary Aronsson | 1,855 | 4.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | Philip Burke | 1,377 | 3.5 | +0.9 | |
UKIP | John Whittaker | 767 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,083 | 28.4 | –1.7 | ||
Turnout | 39,053 | 54.6 | +1.5 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | –0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Jim Dobbin | 22,377 | 57.7 | 0.0 | |
Conservative | Marilyn Hopkins | 10,707 | 27.6 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Greenhalgh | 4,329 | 11.2 | –4.4 | |
Liberal | Philip Burke | 1,021 | 2.6 | +1.1 | |
Christian Democrats | Christine West | 345 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,670 | 30.1 | –4.6 | ||
Turnout | 38,779 | 53.1 | −15.3 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | –2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Jim Dobbin | 29,179 | 57.7 | +11.2 | |
Conservative | Sebastian Grigg | 11,637 | 23.0 | –8.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Clayton | 7,908 | 15.6 | –4.3 | |
Referendum | Christine West | 1,076 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | Philip Burke | 750 | 1.5 | –0.3 | |
Majority | 17,542 | 34.7 | +15.8 | ||
Turnout | 50,550 | 68.4 | −6.5 | ||
Labour Co-op win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Callaghan | 22,380 | 52.3 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Eric Ollerenshaw | 14,306 | 33.4 | –0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael B. Taylor | 5,252 | 12.3 | –3.5 | |
Liberal | Philip Burke | 757 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Anne-Marie Scott | 134 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,074 | 18.9 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 42,829 | 74.9 | +1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Callaghan | 21,900 | 49.9 | +6.6 | |
Conservative | Roy Walker | 15,052 | 34.3 | +0.5 | |
SDP | Ian Greenhalgh | 6,953 | 15.8 | –6.3 | |
Majority | 6,848 | 15.6 | +6.1 | ||
Turnout | 43,905 | 73.8 | +3.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jim Callaghan | 18,111 | 43.3 | ||
Conservative | Christine Hodgson | 14,137 | 33.8 | ||
SDP | Arthur Rumbelow | 9,262 | 22.1 | ||
BNP | Kenneth Henderson | 316 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 3,974 | 9.5 | |||
Turnout | 41,826 | 69.9 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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