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Worsley (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Worsley County constituency |
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| Worsley shown within Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester shown within England | |
| Created: | 1983 |
| MP: | Barbara Keeley |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Greater Manchester |
| EP constituency: | North West England |
Worsley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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This is a safe Labour seat including mostly working-class areas from the boroughs of Salford and Wigan, including: Walkden, Little Hulton, Astley and Irlam. The only Tory areas of strength here ironically are Worsley itself, a pleasant village with black and white timbered housing, and also Boothstown.
Following its review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Worsley be merged into a new constituency of Worsley and Eccles South. That constituency is to be fought at the next general election.
The existing link between Salford and Wigan for parliamentary purposes has been broken, hence the requirement to alter the existing Worsley seat
- 1983 – 2005: Terence Lewis, Labour
- 2005 – present: Barbara Keeley, Labour
| General Election 2005: Worsley | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Barbara Keeley | 18,859 | 51.0 | -6.1 | |
| Conservative | Graham Evans | 9,491 | 25.7 | +1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Richard Clayton | 6,902 | 18.7 | +1.2 | |
| UK Independence | Bernard Gill | 1,694 | 4.6 | +4.6 | |
| Majority | 9,368 | 25.4 | |||
| Turnout | 36,946 | 53.1 | +2.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -4.0 | |||
| General Election 2001: Worsley | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Terence Lewis | 20,193 | 57.1 | -5.1 | |
| Conservative | Tobias Ellwood | 8,406 | 23.8 | -0.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Robert Bleakley | 6,188 | 17.5 | +3.9 | |
| Socialist Labour | Dorothy Entwistle | 576 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,787 | 33.3 | |||
| Turnout | 35,363 | 51.0 | -16.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||