Election 97

Stretford and Urmston


Result 97 gain
from Labour
Current MP 97 Winston Churchill
Majority 0 ( 0.0%)
Conservative 97 14,840 (30.5%)
Labour 97 28,480 (58.5%)
LibDem 97 3,978 ( 8.2%)
Nationalist 97 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 97 1,397 ( 2.9%)
Elected party 97
Electorate 97 69,913
Turnout 97 48,695 (69.7%)



1992 MP Winston Churchill
Old constituency name Davyhulme
Majority 92 4,482 ( 8.1%)
Conservative 92 22,443 (40.8%)
Labour 92 26,925 (48.9%)
LibDem 92 5,084 ( 9.2%)
Nationalist 92 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 92 567 ( 1.0%)
Elected party 92 Labour
Electorate 92 73,507
Turnout 92 55,019 (74.8%)
Stretford and Urmston



Tory change -10.3%
Labour change +9.5%
Lib Dem change -1.1%
Nationalist change +0.0%
Other change +1.8%
Electorate change -4.9%
Turnout Change -5.2%
Robert Waller wrote

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.


Super Profiles

1,815 4.71 9.03 52
2,694 7.00 11.17 63
9,953 25.84 11.25 230
8,270 21.47 14.70 146
3,755 9.75 10.45 93
20 0.05 2.81 2
2,029 5.27 8.01 66
2,987 7.76 15.25 51
2,947 7.65 7.13 107
3,846 9.99 10.17 98