Election 97

Salford

Current MP Stan Orme (Retiring)
Conservative 97 5,779
Labour 97 22,848
LibDem 97 3,407
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 162
Elected party
Salford

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Salford East
Conservative 92 10,545
Labour 92 23,532
LibDem 92 5,017
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 711
Elected party Labour

Working-class and intensely Labour, Manchester's twin city Salford has suffered dramatic urban depopulation in the last 50 years. By 1981, the population had more than halved, and Salford's East and West constituencies were amalgamated into one. That has been pared down further in the latest round of changes. The city's deprived landscape of tower blocks interspersed with classic Victorian terraces (as immortalised by Coronation Street) is prime Labour territory and, although Labour's veteran MP Stan Orme is retiring, whoever succeeds him will have an easy ride.


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