Stretford and Urmston | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Stretford and Urmston in North West England | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 73,212 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Stretford, Urmston, Davyhulme, Partington |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Andrew Western (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Davyhulme, Stretford |
Stretford and Urmston is a constituency [n 1] in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since a 2022 by-election by Andrew Western, a Labour MP.
Stretford and Urmston was created in 1997 from significant parts of the former constituencies of Davyhulme – a Conservative-held marginal whose last member was the Conservative Winston Churchill (grandson of the former Prime Minister) – and safely Labour Stretford, whose last member was Tony Lloyd (Labour).
The constituency was first represented by Beverley Hughes, who stood down at the 2010 general election. [2] Kate Green, a Labour front-bencher, held the seat from 2010 until she resigned in November 2022 after being nominated as Greater Manchester's deputy mayor for policing and crime, taking over from Beverley Hughes once again. [3] [4]
1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Bucklow, Clifford, Davyhulme East, Davyhulme West, Flixton, Longford, Park, Stretford, Talbot, and Urmston.
2010–2023: The Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Bucklow-St. Martins, Clifford, Davyhulme East, Davyhulme West, Flixton, Gorse Hill, Longford, Stretford, and Urmston.
2023–present: Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [5] [6] the constituency now comprises the following wards of Metropolitan Borough of Trafford:
This is one of three seats in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford and covers its north and west. As of 2000, the total electorate for the constituency was 72,414. [8]
The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies left the boundaries unchanged. [9]
The Conservatives are traditionally strongest in the affluent suburbs of Davyhulme and Flixton, whereas Urmston is often a marginal battle between them and Labour. But in the 2018 and 2019 Local Elections, Labour won every ward in the constituency for the first time ever, gaining Flixton and both Davyhulme wards. These were crucial seats in terms of giving them control of Trafford Council in May 2019. The rest of the wards, which include Stretford and its suburbs, and the areas of Carrington and Partington (Bucklow-St Martins) are strongly Labour. There is significant commercial activity in the north-east of the seat along the ship canal at Trafford Park, which also includes the Trafford Centre, opened in 1998 and is one of the largest shopping centres in the UK.
The seat is also home to Manchester United's Old Trafford football ground as well as the cricket ground of the same name.
The constituency is of approximately average scale in area for Greater Manchester, featuring several green spaces, and is convenient for workers in both the cities of Salford and Manchester. It is the only borough in Greater Manchester to retain state-funded grammar schools, two of which, Stretford Grammar and Urmston Grammar, are in this seat, with the others being in Altrincham in the neighbouring seat.
As to other parties, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP are to date the only parties to have achieved the retention of deposit threshold of 5% of the vote, the former achieving a peak vote share of 16.9% in 2010.
Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher the regional average of 4.4%, at 4.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . This in turn was higher than the national average at the time of 3.8% [10]
Election | Member [11] | Party | |
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1997 | Beverley Hughes | Labour | |
2010 | Kate Green | Labour | |
2022 by-election | Andrew Western | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Western | 22,642 | 49.2 | −11.1 | |
Conservative | Mark Cornes | 6,492 | 14.1 | −13.4 | |
Reform UK | Charlotte Faulkner | 5,485 | 11.9 | 8.4 | |
Workers Party | Khalila Chaudry | 4,461 | 9.7 | N/A | |
Green | Dan Jerrome | 4,398 | 9.6 | +6.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Clayton | 2,216 | 4.8 | −1.1 | |
Rejoin EU | Jim Newell | 308 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,150 | 35.1 | +2.3 | ||
Turnout | 46,170 | 61.4 | −8.0 | ||
Registered electors | 75,153 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.1 |
Changes in vote share from the 2019 general election*
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Western | 12,828 | 69.6 | +9.3 | |
Conservative | Emily Carter-Kandola | 2,922 | 15.9 | –11.7 | |
Green | Dan Jerrome | 789 | 4.3 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Fryer | 659 | 3.6 | –2.4 | |
Reform UK | Paul Swansborough | 650 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Rejoin EU | Jim Newell | 237 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Hazel Gibb | 183 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Freedom Alliance | Christina Glancy | 76 | 0.4 | N/A | |
SDP | Julien Yvon | 74 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,906 | 53.7 | +21.0 | ||
Turnout | 18,418 | 25.8 | –43.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kate Green | 30,195 | 60.3 | –6.5 | |
Conservative | Mussadak Mirza | 13,778 | 27.5 | ±0.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Fryer | 2,969 | 5.9 | +3.9 | |
Brexit Party | Gary Powell | 1,768 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Green | Jane Leicester | 1,357 | 2.7 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 16,417 | 32.8 | –6.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,067 | 69.4 | –0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kate Green | 33,519 | 66.8 | +13.8 | |
Conservative | Lisa Cooke | 13,814 | 27.5 | –0.3 | |
UKIP | Andrew Beaumont | 1,094 | 2.2 | –8.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anna Fryer | 1,001 | 2.0 | –0.9 | |
Green | Michael Ingleson | 641 | 1.3 | –3.4 | |
CPA | Rose Doman | 122 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,705 | 39.3 | +14.1 | ||
Turnout | 50,191 | 70.0 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kate Green | 24,601 | 53.0 | +4.4 | |
Conservative | Lisa Cooke | 12,916 | 27.8 | –0.9 | |
UKIP | Kalvin Chapman | 5,068 | 10.9 | +7.5 | |
Green | Geraldine Coggins | 2,187 | 4.7 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Louise Ankers | 1,362 | 2.9 | –14.0 | |
Whig | Paul Bradley-Law | 169 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Population Party UK | Paul Carson | 83 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,685 | 25.2 | +5.3 | ||
Turnout | 46,386 | 66.8 | +2.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kate Green | 21,821 | 48.6 | –2.4 | |
Conservative | Alex Williams | 12,886 | 28.7 | –1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Cook | 7,601 | 16.9 | +2.9 | |
UKIP | David Owen | 1,508 | 3.4 | +1.2 | |
Green | Margaret Westbrook | 916 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Christian | Samuel Jacob | 178 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,935 | 19.9 | –0.7 | ||
Turnout | 44,910 | 64.1 | +2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Beverley Hughes | 19,417 | 51.0 | –10.1 | |
Conservative | Damian Hinds | 11,566 | 30.4 | +3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Faraz Bhatti | 5,323 | 14.0 | +4.0 | |
Respect | Mark Krantz | 950 | 2.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Michael McManus | 845 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,851 | 20.6 | –13.4 | ||
Turnout | 38,101 | 61.5 | +6.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Beverley Hughes | 23,836 | 61.1 | +2.6 | |
Conservative | Jonathan D. Mackie | 10,565 | 27.1 | –3.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | John R. Bridges | 3,891 | 10.0 | +1.8 | |
Independent | Katie Price | 713 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,271 | 34.0 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,005 | 54.8 | –14.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Beverley Hughes | 28,480 | 58.5 | ||
Conservative | John Gregory | 14,840 | 30.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | John R. Bridges | 3,978 | 8.2 | ||
Referendum | Caroline Dore | 1,397 | 2.9 | ||
Majority | 13,640 | 28.0 | |||
Turnout | 48,695 | 69.7 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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