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UK Parliament - Manchester Gorton
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Office | Parliament |
Honorific | Member of Parliament - Abbr: MP |
Type | General Election |
Filing Deadline | April 20, 2010 - 06:00pm Central |
Polls Open | May 06, 2010 - 01:00am Central |
Polls Close | May 06, 2010 - 04:00pm Central |
Term Start | May 17, 2010 - 12:00pm |
Term End | May 17, 2015 - 12:00pm |
Contributor | Ralphie |
Last Modified | RBH May 07, 2010 07:06am |
Data Sources | [Link] |
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BBC Profile:
Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman has held this seat and its predecessor in Parliament since 1970, when he became the member for Ardwick, which was reconstituted as Manchester Gorton in 1983.
In 2005 election Sir Gerald won a majority of 5,808, with a 10.8% swing to the Liberal Democrats.
At the election, boundary changes have moved parts of Ardwick and Moss Side into neigbouring Manchester Central Ward and parts of Withington and Old Moat into Manchester Withington, while the wards of Whalley Range, Gorton North, and Fallowfield, which were previously shared with Manchester Central, are now completely within the seat's boundaries. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.
Situated to the south and east of the city centre, Manchester Gorton takes in Fallowfield and Rusholme in the west (close to Manchester Citys former Maine Road football ground), and Levenshulme in the east.
The seat is mostly residential, with around half the population owner-occupiers. The Asian community here makes up almost a fifth of the population.
Rusholme, famously home to the neon-lit strip known as the Curry (or Golden) mile, full of Indian restaurants and Asian jewellers, runs along the Wilmslow Road, south of Manchester University. Students at Manchesters three universities have moved into the area.
The 2002 Commonwealth Games delivered a considerable boost to the local [More...]
BBC Profile:
Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman has held this seat and its predecessor in Parliament since 1970, when he became the member for Ardwick, which was reconstituted as Manchester Gorton in 1983.
In 2005 election Sir Gerald won a majority of 5,808, with a 10.8% swing to the Liberal Democrats.
At the election, boundary changes have moved parts of Ardwick and Moss Side into neigbouring Manchester Central Ward and parts of Withington and Old Moat into Manchester Withington, while the wards of Whalley Range, Gorton North, and Fallowfield, which were previously shared with Manchester Central, are now completely within the seat's boundaries. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.
Situated to the south and east of the city centre, Manchester Gorton takes in Fallowfield and Rusholme in the west (close to Manchester Citys former Maine Road football ground), and Levenshulme in the east.
The seat is mostly residential, with around half the population owner-occupiers. The Asian community here makes up almost a fifth of the population.
Rusholme, famously home to the neon-lit strip known as the Curry (or Golden) mile, full of Indian restaurants and Asian jewellers, runs along the Wilmslow Road, south of Manchester University. Students at Manchesters three universities have moved into the area.
The 2002 Commonwealth Games delivered a considerable boost to the local economy. The Commonwealth Village itself was based in the seat at Owens Park, Fallowfield. Another ancillary benefit was the linking up of the inner-city relief road that runs into the city centre and around the Commonwealth stadium itself.
Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
Lab 17,224 (53.14%)
LD 10,869 (33.53%)
C 3,194 (9.85%)
UKIP 785 (2.42%)
Others 340 (1.05%) [Less...]
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Gerald Kaufman |
Qassim Afzal |
Caroline Healy |
Justine Hall |
Mohammed Zulfikar |
Karren Reissmann |
Peter Harrison |
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Uncertified Votes | 19,211 (50.13%) |
12,508 (32.64%) |
4,224 (11.02%) |
1,048 (2.74%) |
507 (1.32%) |
337 (0.88%) |
254 (0.66%) |
Margin | 0 (0.00%) |
-6,703 (-17.49%) |
-14,987 (-39.11%) |
-18,163 (-47.39%) |
-18,704 (-48.80%) |
-18,874 (-49.25%) |
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Uncertified Votes | 236 (0.62%) |
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Margin | -18,975 (-49.51%) |
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