Denton and Reddish Borough constituency
Denton and Reddish shown within Greater Manchester, and Greater Manchester shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Andrew Gwynne
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Greater Manchester
EP constituency:	North West England

Denton and Reddish is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. A borough constituency (in Scotland, a burgh constituency) is a type of parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 967 AD  Area  -  Total 130,395 km²  50,346 sq mi  Population  -  2007 estimate... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Andrew John Gwynne (born June 4, 1974, Manchester) is the Labour MP for the Denton and Reddish constituency. ... This is a list of political parties in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Political parties 8 Committees 22 Last election June 2004 (785 MEPs) Meeting place Brussels and Strasbourg Secretariat Luxembourg and Brussels Website europarl. ... North West England is a constituency of the European Parliament. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Houses of Parliament, as seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... The plurality voting system, also known as first past the post, is a voting system used to elect a single winner in a given election. ...

Boundaries

Situated in eastern Greater Manchester, with an electorate of around 68,000, the constituency of Denton and Reddish contains the council wards of Audenshaw, Denton North East, Denton South, Denton West and Dukinfield from Tameside Metropolitan Borough and Reddish North and Reddish South from Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. It covers the former townships of Audenshaw, Denton, Dukinfield, Haughton Green, Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris, Lancashire Hill and Reddish. It has existed as a Parliamentary Constituency since 1983. Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in north west England. ... Stockport is a large town in the north west of England. ... Audenshaw is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England. ... Denton is the name of many places. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Haughton Green is a village in Denton, Greater Manchester, England. ... Reddish is an area of Stockport, Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. ...

Prior to the seat's creation in 1983, the Reddish part of the seat was contained within the Conservative-Labour marginal Stockport North constituency, and the large Brinnington council estate was in the more Labour-inclined Stockport South seat. Audenshaw and Denton then formed the main part of the Manchester Gorton constituency. Dukinfield, prior to 1997 was part of the Stalybridge and Hyde seat. Stockport North was a Borough constituency which returned one Member to the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1983. ... Stockport South was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1983. ... Audenshaw is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England. ... Denton is the name of many places. ... Manchester Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Stalybridge and Hyde is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

In 1997, the Labour leaning Brinnington Ward (Stockport MBC) was transferred out of the constituency, into the Stockport seat, and was replaced with the equally Labour leaning Dukinfield Ward in Tameside. All other wards here are very strongly Labour-inclined, except Audenshaw, which is now a three-way marginal battleground in local elections between the main parties, although in parliamentary elections it tends to support Labour as heavily as the rest of the constituency. Labour regained the Audenshaw ward from the Lib Dems in both the 2006 and 2007 local elections. Stockport is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Historically, both Audenshaw and Denton West returned Conservative councillors, but this has not occurred since 1992 and 1987 respectively.

In the Boundary Commission's provisional recommendations for parliamentary constituencies, which were published in 2005, the Reddish part of the constituency was to be re-patriated with the Stockport Parliamentary seat. Denton, Audenshaw and Dukinfield would have been joined with Droylsden East, West and the St. Peter's Wards in Tameside to form a 'Denton Borough Constituency', wholly in Tameside. The proposed new seat would almost certainly have remained a Labour Party stronghold. Reddish is an area of Stockport, Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. ... Denton is the name of many places. ... Audenshaw is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Droylsden is a town within the Tameside borough of Greater Manchester, England. ... Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in north west England. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in England, Scotland and Wales. ...

However, following a public inquiry into Greater Manchester's constituencies, held in late 2005, the Inspector made a number of changes to the original proposals for the county. He recommended that the Denton and Reddish seat should continue as at present with five Wards (Denton North East, South and West; Audenshaw and Dukinfield) from Tameside and two Wards (Reddish North, Reddish South) from Stockport, with slight readjustments to reflect the new Ward boundaries introduced in 2004. The new Parliamentary boundaries in Greater Manchester will be in force at the next General Election, expected in 2009/10. A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. ...

Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1983) 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• 1983 – 2005: Andrew Bennett, Labour
• 2005 – present: Andrew Gwynne, Labour

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Election results

Elections in the 2000s

General election of 2005

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General election of 2001

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Elections in the 1990s

General election of 1997

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General election of 1992

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Elections in the 1980s

General election of 1987

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General election of 1983

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See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

The ceremonial county of Greater Manchester is divided into 28 Parliamentary constituencies - 18 Borough constituencies and 10 County constituencies. ...

Sources

• Election results 1992-2005
• Election results 1983-1992