Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)

Wythenshawe and Sale East
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Wythenshawe and Sale East in Greater Manchester.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	85,058 (February 2014)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Mike Kane (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Manchester Wythenshawe, Altrincham and Sale, Davyhulme
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

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.

The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat. The current MP is Mike Kane of the Labour Party who was elected at the 2014 by-election in February 2014. He succeeded Labour's Paul Goggins who died in January 2014, and who had held the seat since its inception in 1997.

Boundaries

1997-2010: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Benchill, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston, and Woodhouse Park; and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor.

2010-present: The City of Manchester wards of Baguley, Brooklands, Northenden, Sharston, and Woodhouse Park; and the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford wards of Brooklands, Priory, and Sale Moor.

The constituency of Wythenshawe and Sale East is one of three in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford and one of five in the City of Manchester, encompassing three of the five electoral wards in Sale and all five wards of Wythenshawe. The constituency was created at the 1997 general election combining most of the former Manchester Wythenshawe constituency with parts of the Altrincham and Sale constituency.

Constituency profile

The seat broadly comprises two very contrasting areas - the massive post-war built council estate in Wythenshawe (once the biggest in Europe), eight miles south of Manchester city centre, and the suburban, more middle-class and affluent areas of Sale. Two different wards in the constituency are somewhat confusingly named Brooklands; on the Trafford side of the seat, it is safely Conservative, while on the Manchester side it is safely Labour, as are virtually all of the wards there. Priory ward was Labour's strongest and safest seat in Sale, until 2015 when Labour Leader Andrew Western was nearly defeated by first time Conservative candidate Michael Taylor. They also have councillors in Sale Moor.

The Wythenshawe area has historically suffered from some severe social and economic problems (the former ward of Benchill was assessed as the most deprived in the country in the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000) and these safe Labour holdings are enough to make this a secure seat for them at Westminster, despite some Conservative strength in Sale. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats suffered a huge setback at the 2014 by-election, when UKIP pushed them into third and fourth place respectively, though Labour maintained a strong majority (securing more than 55% of the vote) despite low voter turn-out.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Paul Goggins	Labour
	2014	Mike Kane	Labour

Elections

Election in 2015

See also: Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15 § Wythenshawe and Sale East

General Election 2015: Wythenshawe and Sale East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Kane	21,693	50.1	+6.0
	Conservative	Fiona Green	11,124	25.7	+0.2
	UKIP	Lee Clayton	6,354	14.7	+11.2
	Liberal Democrat	Victor Chamberlain	1,927	4.5	-17.9
	Green	Jess Mayo	1,658	3.8	+3.8
	Monster Raving Loony	Johnny Disco	292	0.7	+0.7
	TUSC	Lynn Worthington	215	0.5	-0.2
Majority			10,569	24.4
Turnout			43,263	56.9

Prior elections

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
By-election 2014  Electorate: 85,058 Turnout: 23,961 (28%) -23		Labour hold Majority: 8,960 (37%)		Mike Kane	Labour	13,261	55.3	+11.2
				John Bickley	UKIP	4,301	18.0	+14.5
				Daniel Critchlow	Conservative	3,479	14.5	-11
				Mary Di Mauro	Liberal Democrat	1,176	4.9	-17
				Nigel Woodcock	Green	748	3.1	N/A
				Eddy O'Sullivan	BNP	708	3.0	-0.9
				Captain Chaplington-Smythe	Monster Raving Loony	288	1.2	N/A
General election 2010  Electorate: 79,923 Turnout: 40,751 (54.3%) +3.1		Labour hold Majority: 7,575 (18.6%) Swing: 5.9% from Lab to Con		Paul Goggins	Labour	17,987	44.1	-8.0
				Janet Clowes	Conservative	10,412	25.6	+3.3
				Martin Eakins	Liberal Democrat	9,107	22.3	+0.9
				Bernard Todd	BNP	1,572	3.9	N/A
				Christopher Cassidy	UKIP	1,405	3.4	+0.4
				Lynn Worthington	TUSC	268	0.7	-0.3
General election, 2005  Electorate: 70,744 Turnout: 36,184 (50.4%) +1.8		Labour hold Majority: 10,827 (29.9%) −6.1 Swing: 3.0% from Lab to Con		Paul Goggins	Labour	18,878	52.2	−7.8
				Jane E. P. Meehan	Conservative	8,051	22.3	−1.7
				Alison P. Firth	Liberal Democrat	7,766	21.5	+9.2
				William H. Ford	UKIP	1,120	3.1	N/A
				Lynn Worthington	Socialist Alternative	369	1.0	N/A
General election, 2001  Electorate: 72,127 Turnout: 35,055 (48.6%) −14.6		Labour hold Majority: 12,608 (36.0%) +3.0 Swing: 1.5% from Con to Lab		Paul Goggins	Labour	21,032	60.0	+1.9
				Susan Fildes	Conservative	8,424	24.0	−1.1
				Vanessa M. Tucker	Liberal Democrat	4,320	12.3	−0.1
				Lance D. Crookes	Green	869	2.5	N/A
				Fred B. Shaw	Socialist Labour	410	1.2	−0.9
General election, 1997  Electorate: 72,086 Turnout: 45,533 (63.2%)		Labour hold Majority: 15,019 (33.0%) +18.4 Swing: 9.2% from Con to Lab		Paul Goggins	Labour	26,448	58.1	+8.6
				Paul Fleming	Conservative	11,429	25.1	−9.8
				Vanessa M. Tucker	Liberal Democrat	5,639	12.4	−2.1
				Brian Stanyer	Referendum	1,060	2.3	N/A
				Jim D. Flannery	Socialist Labour	957	2.1	N/A

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester