Bury South (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coordinates: 53°34′48″N 2°17′56″W / 53.580°N 2.299°W
Bury South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Bury South in Greater Manchester | |
![]() Location of Greater Manchester within England | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Population | 97,842 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 75,140 (December 2010)[2] |
Major settlements | Prestwich, Radcliffe, Whitefield |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Christian Wakeford (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Middleton and Prestwich & Bury and Radcliffe |
Bury South is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As of the 2019 General Election it is the 10th most marginal seat in the country[citation needed], with a majority of 402 for the Conservatives' Christian Wakeford.
Constituency profile[]
The seat covers Prestwich, Whitefield and Radcliffe, towns that were absorbed into Bury Council in 1974. The western border contains much of Bury's green belt land including Philips Park in Whitefield, Prestwich Clough and Drinkwater Park, making up 500 acres of green space. Prestwich and Whitefield are residential areas with one of the largest Jewish communities outside London. Radcliffe is a former mill town which declined after the loss of industry, with its only secondary school shut down; it is attempting regeneration as a commuter suburb and features a large park-and-ride Metrolink station. North Radcliffe includes Ainsworth, a rural area, along with Simister to the east of Prestwich which still has some farmland, now under threat from development. Overall this is an economically diverse area, as there are pockets of social housing in each town, while houses in areas such as Ringley Road in Whitefield, and Sheepfoot Lane in Prestwich, facing Heaton Park, can sell for over £1 million, with mostly owner-occupied semi-detached housing in between. The proportion of graduates and those employed in managerial/professional occupations is slightly above the national average.[3]
At local elections, Prestwich mostly returns Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors, with some Conservative representation in Sedgley. Whitefield is a mix of safe Conservative and safe Labour, and Unsworth marginally Labour. Radcliffe was generally Labour with the exception of Radcliffe North. In 2019, the Conservatives gained their second Radcliffe North seat, and Labour lost both Radcliffe East and West wards to an independent local party, Radcliffe First.
Boundaries[]
1983–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Bury wards of Besses, Holyrood, Pilkington Park, Radcliffe Central, Radcliffe North, Radcliffe South, St Mary's, and Sedgley.
2010–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Bury wards of Besses, Holyrood, Pilkington Park, Radcliffe East, Radcliffe North, Radcliffe West, St Mary's, Sedgley, and Unsworth.
The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the former seats of Middleton and Prestwich & Bury and Radcliffe, both of which were Labour-Conservative marginals, held by Labour on slim majorities at the 1979 election. It covers the suburban towns of Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. The constituency does not contain any area of the town of Bury itself (which is in Bury North), apart from Unsworth , but only towns in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury.
The seat was contested by future cabinet minister Hazel Blears in 1992, narrowly losing and would later be elected in her hometown in nearby Salford the following election until retiring in 2015.
The 2018 Boundary Commission proposals would have seen Bury South boundaries changed, once again becoming Prestwich and Middleton, taking Middleton from the existing Heywood and Middleton constituency and losing Radcliffe to a new Farnworth and Radcliffe constituency, while Unsworth becomes part of a newly created Bury constituency.
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member[4][5] | Party | |
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1983 | David Sumberg | Conservative | |
1997 | Ivan Lewis | Labour | |
2017[6] | Independent | ||
2019 | Christian Wakeford | Conservative |
Elections[]
Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christian Wakeford | 22,034 | 43.8 | ![]() | |
Labour | Lucy Burke | 21,632 | 43.0 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Kilpatrick | 2,315 | 4.6 | ![]() | |
Brexit Party | Andrea Livesey | 1,672 | 3.3 | New | |
Independent | Ivan Lewis | 1,366 | 2.7 | New | |
Green | Glyn Heath | 848 | 1.7 | New | |
Independent | Michael Boyle | 277 | 0.6 | New | |
Women's Equality | Gemma Evans | 130 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 402 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,274 | 66.9 | ![]() | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ivan Lewis | 27,165 | 53.3 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Robert Largan[8] | 21,200 | 41.6 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Ian Henderson | 1,316 | 2.6 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Page | 1,065 | 2.1 | ![]() | |
Independent | Peter Wright | 244 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 5,965 | 11.7 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 50,990 | 69.2 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ivan Lewis | 21,272 | 45.1 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Daniel Critchlow | 16,350 | 34.6 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Séamus Martin | 6,299 | 13.3 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Ankers | 1,690 | 3.6 | ![]() | |
Green | Glyn Heath | 1,434 | 3.0 | ![]() | |
English Democrat | Valerie Morris | 170 | 0.4 | ![]() | |
Majority | 4,922 | 10.5 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 47,215 | 63.9 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ivan Lewis | 19,508 | 40.4 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Michelle Wiseman | 16,216 | 33.6 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Victor D'Albert | 8,796 | 18.2 | ![]() | |
BNP | Jean Purdy | 1,743 | 3.6 | New | |
UKIP | Paul Chadwick | 1,017 | 2.1 | ![]() | |
English Democrat | Valerie Morris | 494 | 1.0 | New | |
Green | George Heron | 493 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 3,292 | 6.8 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 48,267 | 65.6 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ivan Lewis | 19,741 | 50.4 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Alexander Williams | 10,829 | 27.7 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Victor D'Albert | 6,968 | 17.8 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Jim H. Greenhalgh | 1,059 | 2.7 | New | |
Independent | Yvonne Hossack | 557 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 8,912 | 22.7 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 39,154 | 58.5 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ivan Lewis | 23,406 | 59.2 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Nicola Le Page | 10,634 | 26.9 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Pickstone | 5,499 | 13.9 | ![]() | |
Majority | 12,772 | 32.3 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 39,539 | 58.8 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ivan Lewis | 28,658 | 56.9 | ![]() | |
Conservative | David Sumberg | 16,277 | 32.3 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Victor D'Albert | 4,227 | 8.4 | ![]() | |
Referendum | Bryan Slater | 1,216 | 2.4 | New | |
Majority | 12,381 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,378 | 75.4 | ![]() | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Sumberg | 24,873 | 46.0 | ![]() | |
Labour | Hazel Blears | 24,085 | 44.6 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Adrian Cruden | 4,832 | 8.9 | ![]() | |
Natural Law | Norma Sullivan | 228 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 788 | 1.4 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 54,018 | 82.1 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 1980s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Sumberg | 23,878 | 46.0 | ![]() | |
Labour | Derek Boden | 21,199 | 40.9 | ![]() | |
SDP | Derek Eyre | 6,772 | 13.1 | ![]() | |
Majority | 2,679 | 5.1 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 51,849 | 79.7 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Sumberg | 21,718 | 44.0 | ||
Labour | Derek Boden | 17,998 | 36.5 | ||
SDP | Keith Evans | 9,628 | 19.5 | ||
Majority | 3,720 | 7.5 | |||
Turnout | 49,344 | 76.1 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also[]
Notes and references[]
- ^ "Bury South: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/lmp/wpca/1929379923/report.aspx
- ^ "Bury South 1983-". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
- ^ "MP Ivan Lewis suspended by Labour". BBC News. 23 November 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ^ Sansome, Jessica; Otter, Saffron (2019-11-14). "All the Greater Manchester General Election 2019 candidates". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "Norfolk North and Penistone & Stocksbridge choose their candidates. Latest selection news. | Conservative Home". Conservative Home.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Bury South". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Election 2010 | Constituency | Bury South". news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
External links[]
- nomis Constituency Profile for Bury South — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
- Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983
- Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury