Worsley and Eccles | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Major settlements | Worsley and Eccles |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | None |
Seats | One |
Created from | Salford and Eccles & Worsley and Eccles South |
Worsley and Eccles is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election. [2]
The constituency will be composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The seat will cover the majority of, and replace, the Worsley and Eccles South constituency, following the addition of remaining parts of Eccles, as well as the town of Swinton from Salford and Eccles (to be renamed Salford). The Wigan Borough ward of Astley Mosley Common will be transferred from Leigh. [4]
1 Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [5] [6] from the next general election, the parts in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan will comprise most of the Astley ward and a small part of the Tyldesley & Mosley Common ward. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform UK | Craig Birtwhistle | ||||
Green | David Jones [7] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Jemma De Vincenzo [8] | ||||
Labour | Michael Wheeler [9] | ||||
The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest town, Wigan but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Golborne, Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Leigh and Tyldesley. The borough also covers the villages and suburbs of Abram, Aspull, Astley, Bryn, Hindley Green, Lowton, Mosley Common, Orrell, Pemberton, Shevington, Standish, Winstanley and Worsley Mesnes. The borough is also the second-most populous district in Greater Manchester.
Salford, also known as the City of Salford, is a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury. The borough had a population of 278,064 in 2022, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton.
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