Manchester, Withington | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 71,614 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Burnage, Chorlton, Didsbury, Withington |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Jeff Smith (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Manchester South and Stretford |
Manchester Withington is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour.[n 2] Of the 30 seats with the highest percentage of winning majority in 2017, the seat ranks 25th with a 55.7% margin, and is the only one of the twenty nine of these seats won by the Labour Party in which the second-placed candidate was a Liberal Democrat, rather than Conservative.[2] This is despite being a Conservative seat right up to 1987, then becoming relatively safely Labour, then Liberal Democrat from 2005 to 2015 before they lost on a large swing in 2015, after which Smith substantially increased his majority.
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