The ceremonial and metropolitan county of Greater Manchester is divided into 27 parliamentary constituencies—19 borough constituencies and 8 county constituencies. At the 2024 general election in Greater Manchester, Labour won 25 seats and the Liberal Democrats won 2.
See also: 2024 United Kingdom general election.
| Constituency[1] | Electorate | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altrincham and Sale West BC | 74,026 | 4,174 | ||||
| Ashton-under-Lyne BC | 6,791 | |||||
| Blackley and Middleton South BC | 72,097 | 10,220 | ||||
| Bolton North East BC | 80,011 | 6,653 | ||||
| Bolton South and Walkden BC | 79,622 | 6,743 | ||||
| Bolton West CC | 74,933 | 4,945 | ||||
| Bury North BC | 77,703 | 6,944 | ||||
| Bury South BC | 75,339 | 9,361 | ||||
| Cheadle BC | 74,385 | 12,235 | ||||
| Gorton and Denton BC | 78,125 | 13,413 | ||||
| Hazel Grove CC | 72,843 | 6,500 | ||||
| Heywood and Middleton North CC | 74,786 | 6,082 | ||||
| Leigh and Atherton BC | 79,978 | 8,881 | ||||
| Makerfield BC | 76,641 | 5,399 | ||||
| Manchester Central BC | 85,049 | 13,797 | ||||
| Manchester Rusholme BC | 72,604 | 8,235 | ||||
| Manchester, Withington BC | 70,549 | 13,982 | ||||
| Oldham East and Saddleworth CC | 72,760 | 6,357 | ||||
| Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton BC | 75,346 | 4,976 | ||||
| Rochdale CC | 71,264 | 1,440 | ||||
| Salford BC | 83,633 | 15,101 | ||||
| Stalybridge and Hyde CC | 72,265 | 8,539 | ||||
| Stockport BC | 76,625 | 15,270 | ||||
| Stretford and Urmston BC | 75,153 | 16,150 | ||||
| Wigan CC | 77,538 | 9,549 | ||||
| Worsley and Eccles CC | 78,643 | 11,091 | ||||
| Wythenshawe and Sale East BC | 77,765 | 14,610 | ||||
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[2]
Initial proposals were published on 8 June and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023, approved by the Privy Council on 15 November 2023 and came into law on 29 November.
The commission proposed that Greater Manchester be considered as a sub-region of the North West Region, retaining a total of 27 constituencies. However, there were significant changes made to realign boundaries to revised ward boundaries and ensure electorates are within the statutory range. Denton and Reddish was broken up and Manchester Rusholme re-established, resulting in major re-configurations of the Manchester Central and Manchester Gorton constituencies, with the latter being renamed Gorton and Denton. Other boundary changes resulted in name changes as follows:[3] [4] [5]
Oldham West and Royton was renamed Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton.The following are the constituencies in place following the changes:
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Bolton
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Bury
Containing electoral wards in the city of Manchester
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Oldham
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Rochdale
Containing electoral wards in the city of Salford
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Stockport
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Tameside
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Trafford
Containing electoral wards in the borough of Wigan
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to reduce the number of seats in Greater Manchester from 28 to 27, leading to significant changes in the city of Salford, where the three constituencies of Eccles, Salford and Worsley were abolished and replaced by the two constituencies of Salford and Eccles, and Worsley and Eccles South. Manchester, Blackley was replaced with Blackley and Broughton.
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Greater Manchester in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 597,271 | 47.9% | 9.0% | 18 | 5 | |||
| 435,651 | 34.9% | 2.4% | 9 | 5 | |||
| 109,555 | 8.8% | 2.7% | 0 | 0 | |||
| 68,462 | 5.5% | new | 0 | 0 | |||
| 29,642 | 2.4% | 1.4% | 0 | 0 | |||
| Others | 6,602 | 0.5% | 3.0% | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 1,247,183 | 100.0 | 27 | ||||
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36.2 | 35.9 | 35.5 | 24.1 | 24.3 | 23.7 | 27.3 | 26.4 | 32.5 | 34.9 | |||
| 39.7 | 44.0 | 47.3 | 56.3 | 53.7 | 47.2 | 40.3 | 46.1 | 56.9 | 47.9 | |||
| 1 | 23.6 | 19.9 | 15.7 | 16.0 | 18.3 | 23.3 | 23.8 | 7.1 | 6.1 | 8.8 | ||
| - | 0.6 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 2.4 | ||||||||
| - | - | - | 3.2 | 16.1 | 2.8 | |||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5.5 | |||
| Other | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||
* Included in Other
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 18 | 25 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 30 | 30 | 30 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | ||
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.