Election 97

Stretford and Urmston

Current MP Winston Churchill
Conservative 97 14,840
Labour 97 28,480
LibDem 97 3,978
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Stretford and Urmston

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Davyhulme
Conservative 92 22,443
Labour 92 26,925
LibDem 92 5,084
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 567
Elected party Labour

This could be the first parliament in a long time without a Winston Churchill in it - the Boundary Commission has struck again. This is partly the successor to Tory Winston Churchill's seat of Davyhulme, which was a strongly Conservative-voting north-western suburb of Manchester. But part of Davyhulme has been united with a good chunk of Labour-voting Stretford, much of which is classic 'inner-city' territory with a large ethnic population - one ward is 45 per cent non-white. Although Churchill held the old Stretford seat that existed before 1983, social changes and a pro-Labour regional swing seem likely to deny him his seat this time.


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