Blackley and Broughton (UK Parliament constituency)


Blackley and Broughton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Graham Stringer. He was first elected in 1997 for the former Manchester Blackley and prior to this was Leader of Manchester City Council.

Boundaries

The City of Manchester wards of Charlestown, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Harpurhey, and Higher Blackley, and the City of Salford wards of Broughton and Kersal.
Formed following the Boundary Commission for England's review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, this seat is a cross-border constituency with electoral wards from Salford City Council and Manchester City Council. The constituency of Blackley and Broughton is the successor seat to Manchester Blackley.
This is one of only five seats in the UK that each cover two cities, in this case Manchester and Salford. The others in England are Cities of London and Westminster in Central London, and Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire, which includes parts of Leeds and Wakefield. In Northern Ireland the two cities of Newry and Armagh are included in the constituency of that name, and Belfast West includes part of the city of Lisburn.

Constituency profile

The seat covers a mostly residential area, major roads with many small parks and two large green spaces, Heaton Park is one of the largest municipal parks in Europe which hosts the annual Parklife concert and Boggart Hole Clough a large ancient woodland in Blackley towards the east. A diverse constituency which stretches from the city centre's outskirts, featuring an Asian population in Cheetham and Orthodox Jewish populations in parts of Crumpsall and the Salford suburbs of Broughton and Kersal. There is also an above-average number of Irish and other European residents.
Blackley itself is a mostly owner occupied, suburban residential area at the northern half of the seat, while the inner-city Harpurhey district has a high proportion of social housing and has faced problems with deprivation.
The Constituency voted Leave in the European referendum in 2016 and The incumbent, Graham Stringer was a prominent Vote Leave campaigner and displayed dismay at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the party.

History

;Results of the Incumbent party
Most of the area has been held by Labour since 1964.
;Results of other parties
In 2019, the Conservatives came second with 24.6% a 3% increase again from 2017.
The Conservatives came second in 2017, with 21.6% of the vote, a 7% increase. This result was reflected in vote share increases all over the city.
A March 2017 by-election saw the Conservatives win the ward of Kersal within the constituency from Labour and in the 2018 Local Elections another Conservative candidate was elected meaning the Conservatives now hold 2/3 Salford City Council seats in the area.
The 2015 general election saw much more than the national average swing to the UKIP candidate. UKIP came second, beating the Conservatives.
;Turnout
At the 2019 General Election, turnout fell by 3.3% to 52.8%, for the first time since the constituency was created in 2010, having risen from 49.7% in 2010 and to 56.1% of electors in 2017. In 2019 the constituency had the 5th lowest turnout in the country, and the lowest of all the Manchester seats.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s