Congleton is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire,England. It is on the River Dane,21 miles (34 km) south of Manchester and 13 miles (21 km) north of Stoke on Trent. At the 2021 census,it had a population of 30,015.
Wythenshawe is an area of Manchester,England. Historically part of Cheshire,in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester,which had begun building a large housing estate there in the 1920s. With an area of approximately 11 square miles (28 km2),Wythenshawe became the largest council estate in Europe.
Northenden is a suburb of Manchester,in Greater Manchester,England,with a population of 15,064 at the 2021 census. It lies on the south side of the River Mersey,4 miles (6.4 km) west of Stockport and 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Manchester city centre,bounded by Didsbury to the north,Gatley to the east,Sale to the west and Wythenshawe to the south.
Congleton is a parliamentary constituency in Cheshire,represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sarah Russell of the Labour Party.
Macclesfield is a constituency in Cheshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Tim Roca,a member of the Labour Party.
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.
North West England was a constituency of the European Parliament. From the 2009 elections it elected 8 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation,until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Michael Lee Amesbury is a British politician serving as an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Runcorn and Helsby (previously Weaver Vale,since 2017. A member of the Labour Party,he was suspended in October 2024 after a video emerged of him punching a man,and in January 2025 he pleaded guilty to common assault.
Knutsford was a county constituency in Cheshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Anthony Edward Timpson,is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Eddisbury in Cheshire from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Cheshire East Council is the local authority for Cheshire East,a local government district with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire,England. The council is a unitary authority,being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. It has been under no overall control since 2019,being run by a coalition of Labour,local parties and independent councillors,led by Labour councillor Sam Corcoran.
Fiona Claire Bruce is a former British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Congleton from 2010 to 2024.
On 13 February 2014,a by-election was held for the UK parliamentary constituency of Wythenshawe and Sale East,following the death of the former MP,Paul Goggins.
Michael Joseph Patrick Kane is a British politician who has served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,Kane has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wythenshawe and Sale East since 2014.
The Women's Equality Party (WEP) was a feminist political party set up in the United Kingdom in 2015. The idea was conceived by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig at the Women of the World Festival,when they concluded that there was a need for a party to campaign for gender equality to the benefit of all. The launch meeting was on 28 March 2015 under the title "The Women's Equality Party needs you. But probably not as much as you need the Women's Equality Party". The party's full policy was launched by its then-leader Sophie Walker at Conway Hall on 20 October 2015. In January 2020,Mandu Reid took over as the party's leader.
Martin David Whitfield is a Scottish Labour politician and former lawyer and primary school teacher who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South Scotland region and the Convener of the Standards and Procedures and Public Appointments Committee since 2021.
Katherine Fletcher is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Ribble in Lancashire,from 2019 to 2024. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and Minister for Women between September and October 2022.
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of the City of Chester was held on 1 December 2022. It followed the resignation of incumbent member of Parliament Chris Matheson as on 21 October 2022 after accusations of sexual misconduct and a recommendation from the Independent Expert Panel that he be suspended from the House of Commons for four weeks.
Juan Timothy Charles Roca is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Macclesfield since 2024,when he gained the seat from the Conservative Party. Roca is the first ever Labour MP for Macclesfield,which had been held by the Conservative Party since 1918.
Sarah Madeleine Webster Smith is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament for Hyndburn since 2024.
