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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885-2024 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leigh was a constituency[n 1] in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
Leigh | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Leigh in Greater Manchester | |
![]() Location of Greater Manchester within England | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 77,001 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Leigh, Astley, Tyldesley, Lowton, Golborne |
1885–2024 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | South West Lancashire |
Replaced by | Leigh and Atherton |
From 2019 to 2024, Leigh was held by James Grundy of the Conservative Party. Before this, the seat was represented by Andy Burnham of the Labour Party, who served as the MP from 2001, and Shadow Home Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet until October 2016.[n 2] Burnham stood down following his victory at the 2017 Greater Manchester mayoral election, and was succeeded by the Labour and Co-operative Party's Jo Platt who was MP from 2017 to 2019. Burnham, who was re-elected as Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2021 with an increased majority, still resides in the Leigh constituency.
The constituency was abolished as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. With the addition of the town of Atherton, it was reformed as Leigh and Atherton, and was first contested in the 2024 general election.[2]
Leigh was a marginal seat in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and on the border with Warrington, with virtually all wards held by the Labour Party at local level, although also containing the more Conservative-inclined area of Lowton East. In line with the wider borough of Wigan it voted by a majority to Leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum, but has slightly lower levels of deprivation than the town of Wigan itself,[3] and is mostly made of skilled working-class families in residential areas, with some light industry, all factors in the swing towards the Conservatives in 2019. Leigh, Tyldesley and Golborne are former mill and mining towns undergoing urban regeneration. Pennington Flash in between Lowton and Leigh is an important local nature reserve and area of natural regeneration in a former mining area.
Following the review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester in 2009, the Boundary Commission for England recommended alterations to constituencies in the Wigan area. The electoral wards used in the altered Leigh constituency were:
The constituency was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 as a result of the South West Lancashire constituency being divided into eight single member seats. Between 1922 and December 2019, candidates belonging to the Labour Party had continuously served the seat, which for the political party made it one of their longest held constituencies. One recent Labour incumbent was Andy Burnham, Shadow Home Secretary from September 2015 to October 2016.
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Caleb Wright | Liberal | |
1895 | C. P. Scott | Liberal | |
1906 | Sir John Brunner | Liberal | |
January 1910 | Peter Raffan | Liberal | |
1922 | Henry Twist | Labour | |
1923 | John Tinker | Labour | |
1945 | Harold Boardman | Labour | |
1979 | Lawrence Cunliffe | Labour | |
2001 | Andy Burnham | Labour | |
2017 | Jo Platt | Labour Co-op | |
2019 | James Grundy | Conservative | |
2024 | constituency abolished | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Grundy | 21,266 | 45.3 | +9.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Jo Platt | 19,301 | 41.1 | ―15.1 | |
Brexit Party | James Melly | 3,161 | 6.7 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Clayton | 2,252 | 4.8 | +2.8 | |
Independent | Ann O'Bern | 551 | 1.2 | New | |
UKIP | Leon Peters | 448 | 0.9 | ―5.0 | |
Majority | 1,965 | 4.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,979 | 60.9 | ―0.6 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +12.3 |
The 2019 result saw the largest 2017 majority for a party overturned in the country.[6] It also saw the largest fall in the UKIP vote share.[6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jo Platt | 26,347 | 56.2 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | James Grundy | 16,793 | 35.8 | +13.2 | |
UKIP | Mark Bradley | 2,783 | 5.9 | ―13.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Kilpatrick | 951 | 2.0 | ―0.5 | |
Majority | 9,554 | 20.4 | ―10.1 | ||
Turnout | 46,874 | 61.5 | +4.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ―5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Andy Burnham | 24,312 | 53.9 | +5.9 | |
Conservative | Louisa Townson | 10,216 | 22.6 | +1.7 | |
UKIP | Les Leggett | 8,903 | 19.7 | +16.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bill Winlow | 1,150 | 2.5 | ―15.7 | |
TUSC | Stephen Hall | 542 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 14,096 | 31.3 | +4.2 | ||
Turnout | 45,123 | 59.4 | −2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Andy Burnham | 21,295 | 48.0 | ―15.3 | |
Conservative | Shazia Awan | 9,284 | 20.9 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Blackburn | 8,049 | 18.2 | ―2.1 | |
BNP | Gary Chadwick | 2,724 | 6.1 | New | |
UKIP | Mary Lavelle | 1,535 | 3.5 | New | |
Independent | Norman Bradbury | 988 | 2.2 | New | |
Independent | Terry Dainty | 320 | 0.7 | New | |
Christian | Ryan Hessell | 137 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 12,011 | 27.1 | −20.2 | ||
Turnout | 44,332 | 62.0 | +10.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ―4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Andy Burnham | 23,097 | 63.3 | ―1.2 | |
Conservative | Laurance Wedderburn | 5,825 | 16.0 | ―2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Dave Crowther | 4,962 | 13.6 | +0.8 | |
Community Action | Ian Franzen | 2,185 | 6.0 | New | |
Legalise Cannabis | Thomas Hampson | 415 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 17,272 | 47.3 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 36,484 | 50.3 | +0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Andy Burnham | 22,783 | 64.5 | ―4.4 | |
Conservative | Andrew Oxley | 6,421 | 18.2 | +2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ray Atkins | 4,524 | 12.8 | +1.6 | |
Socialist Labour | William Kelly | 820 | 2.3 | New | |
UKIP | Chris Best | 750 | 2.1 | New | |
Majority | 16,362 | 46.3 | ―7.0 | ||
Turnout | 35,298 | 49.7 | ―16.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ―3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Lawrence Cunliffe | 31,652 | 68.9 | +7.6 | |
Conservative | Edward Young | 7,156 | 15.6 | ―9.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Hough | 5,163 | 11.2 | ―1.4 | |
Referendum | Roy Constable | 1,949 | 4.2 | New | |
Majority | 24,496 | 53.3 | +17.5 | ||
Turnout | 45,920 | 65.7 | ―9.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lawrence Cunliffe | 32,225 | 61.3 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Joseph Egerton | 13,398 | 25.5 | ―0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Bleakley | 6,621 | 12.6 | ―2.5 | |
Natural Law | Adrian Tayler | 320 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 18,827 | 35.8 | +3.5 | ||
Turnout | 52,564 | 75.0 | +0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lawrence Cunliffe | 30,064 | 58.6 | +7.4 | |
Conservative | Louis Brown | 13,458 | 26.3 | −0.5 | |
SDP | Steven Jones | 7,743 | 15.1 | −6.2 | |
Majority | 16,606 | 32.3 | +7.7 | ||
Turnout | 51,265 | 74.1 | +1.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lawrence Cunliffe | 25,477 | 51.2 | −2.9 | |
Conservative | Paul Johnstone | 13,163 | 26.8 | −9.7 | |
SDP | David Eccles | 10,468 | 21.3 | New | |
Majority | 12,314 | 24.6 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 49,108 | 72.2 | −4.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lawrence Cunliffe | 27,736 | 54.1 | −2.1 | |
Conservative | David Lawrence Shaw | 18,713 | 36.5 | +10.7 | |
Liberal | Michael Godwin | 4,796 | 9.4 | −8.6 | |
Majority | 9,023 | 17.6 | −12.8 | ||
Turnout | 51,245 | 76.9 | +3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 27,036 | 56.2 | +5.2 | |
Conservative | Maureen Williams | 12,401 | 25.8 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | Roy D. Pemberton | 8,640 | 18.0 | −6.4 | |
Majority | 14,635 | 30.4 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,077 | 73.9 | −6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 26,310 | 51.0 | −7.2 | |
Conservative | William Legge | 12,663 | 24.6 | −8.9 | |
Liberal | Roy D. Pemberton | 12,594 | 24.4 | New | |
Majority | 13,647 | 26.4 | −1.3 | ||
Turnout | 51,567 | 80.0 | +9.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 26,625 | 58.2 | −10.5 | |
Conservative | James Peter McGuire | 15,314 | 33.5 | +2.2 | |
Ratepayers | Joseph Knowles | 3,776 | 8.3 | New | |
Majority | 11,311 | 27.7 | −9.6 | ||
Turnout | 45,715 | 71.0 | −3.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 29,552 | 68.7 | +1.2 | |
Conservative | Robert R Hipkiss | 13,490 | 31.3 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 16,062 | 37.4 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 43,042 | 74.3 | −3.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 30,102 | 67.5 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Neville Montague B Brown | 14,478 | 32.5 | −2.3 | |
Majority | 15,624 | 35.0 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 44,580 | 77.6 | −4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 31,672 | 65.2 | +2.8 | |
Conservative | William Cameron | 16,897 | 34.8 | −2.6 | |
Majority | 14,775 | 30.4 | +5.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,569 | 82.4 | −17.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 30,098 | 62.4 | −1.0 | |
Conservative | John Bryan Leck | 18,142 | 37.6 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 11,956 | 24.8 | −2.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,240 | 80.0 | −6.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 33,881 | 63.4 | −0.1 | |
Conservative | Henry Donald Moore | 19,585 | 36.6 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 14,296 | 26.8 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 53,466 | 86.0 | −1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 34,320 | 63.5 | −6.3 | |
Conservative | John W Whiteley | 19,720 | 36.5 | +6.3 | |
Majority | 14,600 | 27.0 | −12.6 | ||
Turnout | 54,040 | 87.4 | +6.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harold Boardman | 32,447 | 69.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Eric Heriot Hill | 14,029 | 30.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,418 | 39.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,476 | 81.0 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joe Tinker | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joe Tinker | 23,965 | 52.32 | ||
Conservative | Peter Eckersley | 21,837 | 47.68 | ||
Majority | 2,128 | 4.64 | |||
Turnout | 45,802 | 87.38 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joe Tinker | 25,635 | 57.0 | +5.5 | |
Unionist | Claude Herbert Grundy | 10,942 | 24.3 | −24.2 | |
Liberal | Thomas Hardy | 8,435 | 18.7 | New | |
Majority | 14,693 | 32.7 | +29.7 | ||
Turnout | 45,012 | 88.3 | +0.1 | ||
Registered electors | 50,982 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +14.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joe Tinker | 17,262 | 51.5 | +8.5 | |
Unionist | Edwin Owen | 16,247 | 48.5 | +21.8 | |
Majority | 1,015 | 3.0 | −9.7 | ||
Turnout | 33,509 | 88.2 | +1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 38,010 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joe Tinker | 13,989 | 43.0 | −2.0 | |
Liberal | Robert Burrows | 9,854 | 30.3 | +9.2 | |
Unionist | Herbert Metcalfe (magistrate) | 8,664 | 26.7 | −7.2 | |
Majority | 4,135 | 12.7 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 32,507 | 86.5 | −3.4 | ||
Registered electors | 37,597 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Henry Twist | 15,006 | 45.0 | −1.4 | |
Unionist | Herbert Metcalfe | 11,279 | 33.9 | New | |
Liberal | Joseph Ashworth | 7,012 | 21.1 | −32.5 | |
Majority | 3,727 | 11.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 33,297 | 89.9 | +23.0 | ||
Registered electors | 37,050 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +15.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Peter Raffan | 12,892 | 53.6 | −1.6 | |
Labour | Richard Owen Jones | 11,146 | 46.4 | New | |
Majority | 1,746 | 7.2 | −3.2 | ||
Turnout | 24,038 | 66.9 | −20.0 | ||
Registered electors | 35,912 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.6 |
General Election 1914–15
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Peter Raffan | 6,790 | 55.2 | +15.0 | |
Conservative | William Thomas Oversby | 5,507 | 44.8 | +9.7 | |
Majority | 1,283 | 10.4 | +5.3 | ||
Turnout | 12,297 | 86.9 | −6.7 | ||
Registered electors | 14,150 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Peter Raffan | 5,325 | 40.2 | −17.9 | |
Conservative | F Cuthbert Smith | 4,646 | 35.1 | −6.8 | |
Labour | Thomas Greenall | 3,268 | 24.7 | New | |
Majority | 679 | 5.1 | −11.1 | ||
Turnout | 13,239 | 93.6 | +1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 14,150 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Brunner | 7,175 | 58.1 | +7.5 | |
Conservative | Donald MacMaster | 5,169 | 41.9 | −7.5 | |
Majority | 2,006 | 16.2 | +15.0 | ||
Turnout | 12,344 | 92.3 | +5.3 | ||
Registered electors | 13,380 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +7.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | C. P. Scott | 5,239 | 50.6 | −2.9 | |
Conservative | William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald | 5,119 | 49.4 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 120 | 1.2 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 10,358 | 87.0 | −2.0 | ||
Registered electors | 11,907 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | C. P. Scott | 5,130 | 53.5 | −1.6 | |
Conservative | William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald | 4,453 | 46.5 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 677 | 7.0 | −3.2 | ||
Turnout | 9,583 | 89.0 | −1.4 | ||
Registered electors | 10,763 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Caleb Wright | 4,899 | 55.1 | −2.7 | |
Conservative | William Charles Jones | 3,995 | 44.9 | +2.7 | |
Majority | 904 | 10.2 | −5.4 | ||
Turnout | 8,894 | 90.4 | +3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 9,839 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −2.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Caleb Wright | 4,297 | 57.8 | −0.7 | |
Conservative | William Myers | 3,134 | 42.2 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 1,163 | 15.6 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,431 | 86.7 | −5.4 | ||
Registered electors | 8,572 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Caleb Wright | 4,621 | 58.5 | ||
Conservative | Lees Knowles | 3,275 | 41.5 | ||
Majority | 1,346 | 17.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,896 | 92.1 | |||
Registered electors | 8,572 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
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