Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)

Wythenshawe and Sale East
Wythenshawe and Sale East
Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Wythenshawe and Sale East in North West England
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	85,058 (February 2014)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	Mike Kane (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Manchester Wythenshawe, Altrincham and Sale, Davyhulme

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, and the southern tip of the constituency includes Manchester Airport; the constituency also borders rural Cheshire to the south. 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.

53°25′N 2°16′W / 53.41°N 2.27°W / 53.41; -2.27

Boundaries

Map of current 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, Priory¹, and Sale Moor.

¹ Renamed Sale Central following a local government boundary review in Trafford which became effective in May 2023.^[2]^[3]

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 all of the former Manchester Wythenshawe constituency with the Sale parts of the Altrincham and Sale and Davyhulme constituencies.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency (based on the ward structure which existed on 1 December 2020) will be unchanged from the 2024 United Kingdom general election.^[4]

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 eastern half of the more suburban, middle-class and affluent Sale, particularly in Brooklands, the constituency's biggest Tory ward. But the similarly named ward in Manchester is currently held by Labour, as are other areas around Wythenshawe such as Woodhouse Park, Baguley and Sharston, with the Priory and Sale Moor wards from Trafford also usually inclined to Labour. The southernmost Woodhouse Park ward is the largest in size as it contains mostly uninhabited area at Manchester Airport alongside the parish of Ringway, and there are green spaces at Sale Water Park and the park around the Tudor-era manor house Wythenshawe Hall.

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).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[5]	Party	Notes
	1997	Paul Goggins	Labour	Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office May 2007-May 2010. Died January 2014
	2014 by-election	Mike Kane	Labour	Elected in February 2014 by-election

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Results^[7]

General election 2024: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Kane	20,596	52.6	0.7
	Reform UK	Julie Fousert	5,986	15.3	9.2
	Conservative	Sarah Beament^[8]	5,392	13.8	16.2
	Green	Melanie Earp^[9]	4,133	10.6	7.1
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Lepori^[10]	1,985	5.1	1.9
	Workers Party	John Barstow^[11]	714	1.8	New
	SDP	Hilary Salt^[12]	326	0.8	New
Majority			14,610	37.3	14.1
Turnout			39,132	50.3	7.9
	Labour hold		Swing	5.0

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Kane	23,855	53.3	―8.9
	Conservative	Peter Harrop	13,459	30.1	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Lepori	3,111	7.0	+3.7
	Brexit Party	Julie Fousert	2,717	6.1	New
	Green	Robert Nunney	1,559	3.5	+2.2
	Communist League	Caroline Bellamy	58	0.1	New
Majority			10,396	23.2	―9.4
Turnout			44,759	58.8	―1.2
	Labour hold		Swing	―4.7

General election 2017: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Kane	28,525	62.2	+12.1
	Conservative	Fiona Green	13,581	29.6	+3.9
	Liberal Democrats	William Jones	1,504	3.3	―1.2
	UKIP	Mike Bayley-Sanderson	1,475	3.2	―11.5
	Green	Dan Jerrome	576	1.3	―2.5
	Independent	Luckson Augustine	185	0.4	New
Majority			14,944	32.6	+8.2
Turnout			45,846	60.0	+3.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.1

General election 2015: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[15]^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Kane	21,693	50.1	+6.0
	Conservative	Fiona Green	11,124	25.7	+0.1
	UKIP	Lee Clayton	6,354	14.7	+11.3
	Liberal Democrats	Victor Chamberlain	1,927	4.5	―17.8
	Green	Jess Mayo	1,658	3.8	New
	Monster Raving Loony	Johnny Disco	292	0.7	New
	TUSC	Lynn Worthington	215	0.5	―0.2
Majority			10,569	24.4	+5.9
Turnout			43,263	56.9	+2.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.0

By-election 13 February 2014: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Kane	13,261	55.3	+11.2
	UKIP	John Bickley	4,301	18.0	+14.6
	Conservative	Daniel Critchlow	3,479	14.5	―11.1
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Di Mauro	1,176	4.9	―17.4
	Green	Nigel Woodcock	748	3.1	New
	BNP	Eddy O'Sullivan	708	3.0	―0.9
	Monster Raving Loony	Captain Chaplington-Smythe	288	1.2	New
Majority			8,960	37.3	+18.8
Turnout			23,961	28.0	―26.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 2010: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[17]^[18]^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	17,987	44.1	―8.0
	Conservative	Janet Clowes	10,412	25.6	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Eakins	9,107	22.3	+0.9
	BNP	Bernard Todd	1,572	3.9	New
	UKIP	Christopher Cassidy	1,405	3.4	+0.4
	TUSC	Lynn Worthington	268	0.7	―0.3^[20]
Majority			7,575	18.5	―11.4
Turnout			40,751	54.3	+3.1
	Labour hold		Swing	―5.9

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[21]^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	18,878	52.2	―7.8
	Conservative	Jane Meehan	8,051	22.3	―1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Firth	7,766	21.5	+9.2
	UKIP	William Ford	1,120	3.1	New
	Socialist Alternative	Lynn Worthington	369	1.0	New
Majority			10,827	29.9	―6.1
Turnout			36,184	50.4	+1.8
	Labour hold		Swing	―3.0

General election 2001: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[23]^[24]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	21,032	60.0	+1.9
	Conservative	Susan Fildes	8,424	24.0	−1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Yasmin Zalzala	4,320	12.3	−0.1
	Green	Lance Crookes	869	2.5	New
	Socialist Labour	Fred Shaw	410	1.2	−0.9
Majority			12,608	36.0	+3.0
Turnout			35,055	48.6	−14.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.5

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Wythenshawe and Sale East^[25]^[26]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Goggins	26,448	58.1	+8.6
	Conservative	Paul Fleming	11,429	25.1	―9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Vanessa Tucker	5,639	12.4	―2.1
	Referendum	Brian Stanyer	1,060	2.3	New
	Socialist Labour	Jim Flannery	957	2.1	New
Majority			15,019	33.0	+18.4
Turnout			45,533	63.2
	Labour win (new seat)

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