Election 97

Manchester Blackley

Current MP Ken Eastham (Retiring)
Conservative 97 5,454
Labour 97 25,042
LibDem 97 3,937
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Manchester Blackley

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Manchester Blackley
Conservative 92 11,285
Labour 92 26,977
LibDem 92 4,768
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 342
Elected party Labour

As in Liverpool, a declining population within metropolitan Manchester has required successive Boundary Commissions to revisit the city to redraw boundaries and reduce the number of seats. The new northern constituency of Manchester Blackley is, like all of Manchester's seats, now safe for Labour. There are communities of old terraced housing, modern tower blocks, poor inner-city areas and a few more mixed residential neighbourhoods, but the overall pattern is firmly skewed to the lower half of the social scale, and offers no prospects for the Tories.


Super Profiles

0 0.00 9.03 0
210 0.52 11.17 5
2,003 4.98 11.25 44
6,738 16.74 14.70 114
4,156 10.33 10.45 99
312 0.78 2.81 28
2,569 6.38 8.01 80
4,387 10.90 15.25 71
3,982 9.89 7.13 139
15,588 38.73 10.17 381