List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester


The ceremonial and metropolitan county of Greater Manchester is divided into 27 Parliamentary constituencies—16 borough constituencies and 11 county constituencies. At the 2019 general election in Greater Manchester, Labour won 18 seats and the Conservatives won 9.

Constituencies

Boundary changes made for 2010

Previous

The Boundary Commission for England recommended that the county should be divided into 27 constituencies for implementation at the 2010 general election.

Revised

The constituencies were allocated to boroughs or groups of boroughs as follows:

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. They propose to bring forward primary legislation to remove the statutory obligation to implement the 2018 Boundary Review recommendations, as well as set the framework for future boundary reviews in time for the next review which is due to begin in early 2021 and report no later than October 2023. It is proposed that the number of constituencies now remains at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Greater Manchester in the 2019 general election were as follows:
PartyVotes%Change from 2017SeatsChange from 2017
Labour597,27147.9%9.0%185
Conservative435,65134.9%2.4%95
Liberal Democrats109,5558.8%2.7%00
Brexit68,4625.5%new00
Greens29,6422.4%1.4%00
Others6,6020.5%3.0%00
Total1,247,183100.027

Percentage votes

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other

Seats

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.