| Worsley and Eccles | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
 Boundary of Worsley and Eccles in North West England | |
| County | Greater Manchester |
| Electorate | 76,915 (2023)[1] |
| Major settlements | Worsley,Boothstown,Eccles,Irlam,Cadishead,Astley |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2024 |
| Member of Parliament | Michael Wheeler (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Salford and Eccles &Worsley and Eccles South |
Worsley and Eccles is aconstituency of theHouse of Commons in theUK Parliament.[2] Following completion of the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the2024 United Kingdom general election.[3] Since 2024, it has been represented byMichael Wheeler of theLabour Party.
The constituency covers the western half of the City of Salford, mostly safe Labour territory, but the seat also contains two of the Conservatives' strongest wards in the relatively affluent areas ofWorsley andBoothstown & Ellenbrook; these wards, along withEccles, were the only wards in this constituency that voted Remain in the EU referendum.Worsley itself is a desirable area with tourist attractions including historic Tudor-style manor houses along theBridgewater Canal and the 150-acreRHS Garden Bridgewater. Eccles contains the middle-class suburb ofMonton while other areas of Eccles,Barton,Winton andPatricroft are relatively working-class. The seat also contains half of the town ofSwinton, shared with theSalford constituency.
In the far south-west of the constituency along theManchester Ship Canal are the villages ofIrlam andCadishead, separated from the other settlements by swathes of green belt land and farms in the form ofChat Moss, a protected peatland area. Further to the west is theWigan ward ofAstley, a residential suburb ofLeigh which was previously in theLeigh constituency though its joining with a Salford constituency is not unprecedented, having been included in a historicWorsley constituency from 1983-2010.
The constituency is composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The seat covers the majority of, and replaces, theWorsley and Eccles South constituency - excluding the town ofWalkden, which is now part of the new seat ofBolton South and Walkden. The remaining parts ofEccles, together with the town ofSwinton, were transferred fromSalford and Eccles (renamedSalford). The Wigan Borough ward of Astley Mosley Common was transferred fromLeigh (renamedLeigh and Atherton).[5]
1 Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,[6][7] from the 2024 general election, the parts in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan now comprise most of the Astley ward and a small part of the Tyldesley & Mosley Common ward.[5]
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Michael Wheeler | Labour | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Michael Wheeler | 20,277 | 47.7 | +1.2 | |
| Reform | Craig Birtwistle | 9,186 | 21.6 | +14.5 | |
| Conservative | Bradley Mitchell | 6,791 | 16.0 | −22.5 | |
| Green | David Jones | 3,283 | 7.7 | +5.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jemma (Vella) De Vincenzo | 1,851 | 4.4 | −0.9 | |
| Workers Party | Nas Barghouti | 466 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | Danny Moloney | 448 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| TUSC | Sally Griffiths | 241 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,091 | 26.1 | +14.1 | ||
| Turnout | 42,543 | 54.1 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 78,643 | ||||
| Labourhold | Swing | −6.7 | |||
| 2019notional result[10] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Labour | 23,058 | 46.5 | |
| Conservative | 19,097 | 38.5 | |
| Brexit Party | 3,541 | 7.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 2,607 | 5.3 | |
| Green | 1,260 | 2.5 | |
| Turnout | 49,563 | 64.4 | |
| Electorate | 76,915 | ||