The Boundary Commission has this morning published its proposals for the redrawing of Parliamentary Constituences in time for the 2020 election.
Across the UK, the number has been reduced from 650 to 600 while in the North West, the number has reduced from 75 to sixty eight while in Greater Manchester twenty five constituencies become twenty three
Manchester has come away fairly unscathed in the proposals , Wigan, Makerfield, Leigh, Worsley and Eccles South, Salford and Eccles, Blackley and Broughton, Manchester Gorton, Manchester Withington, and Wythenshawe and Sale East are completely unchanged in the proposals.
The only change will be for Manchester Central, which, with an electorate of
87,339 is outside the permissible range, allowed in the review and the Commission has proposed the transfer of the Moston ward to the Oldham constituency.
Elsewhere though there are changes, most notably George Osborne’s constituency of Tatton disappearing to be merged into a new Altrincham and Tatton Park constituency.
To the North of Manchester, the Bolton North East constituency takes the Rumworth and Great Lever wards from the existing Bolton South East constituency.
Radcliffe’s electorate will be split in half, its East ward moves from the existing Bury South constituency which will now be called simply Bury, to Bury North, while a new constituency, called Farnworth, will be created from
The Borough of Bolton wards and three Borough of Bury wards from the existing Bolton South East and Bury South constituencies respectively.
The constituency of Heywood and Middleton will now be called Prestwich and Middleton while Rochdale’s constituency will remain but will include wards from the existing Heywood and Middleton constituency
as well as the five from the existing Rochdale constituency
In this area of north‐east Greater Manchester a new rural, moor‐based constituency called Littleborough and Saddleworth has been proposed which will include Littleborough and the towns of Shaw
and Uppermill. There will then be a new Oldham constituency centred on the town.
A new Failsworth and Droylsden constituency is proposed constructed from four existing constituencies, it would contain parts of only two boroughs (Oldham and Tameside). The commission has said that it has tried to keep communities together in this area, and proposes that the Failsworth East, Failsworth West, Droylsden East,
and Droylsden West wards be contained within the constituency.
To Ashton where the proposed constituency will now extend eastwards to include the towns of Stalybridge and Mossley, and the Dukinfield ward and the Dukinfield Stalybridge ward .
Heading further south a new cross‐borough boundary constituency of Marple and Hyde is proposed which would include four Borough of Tameside wards including the town of Hyde and four Borough of Stockport wards including the towns of Romiley and Marple, while the core of the existing Denton and Reddish constituency will be contained in another cross‐borough constituency, which has been named Stockport North and Denton.
There will be a new Stockport South and Cheadle constituency which will include Cheadle Hulme and Cheadle remain together in a new constituency, which contains only Borough of Stockport wards while there will be a new constituency called Bramhall and Poynton.
The commission say that their proposals in Greater Manchester mean that the composition of 12 constituencies, almost half of the entitlement to constituencies in the metropolitan county, are either unchanged, or have been changed by the transfer of just one ward.
A public consultation is now under way and final proposals will not be made until 2018.
