manchester central Constituency Details


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CONSTITUENCY OVERVIEW

CONTROLLING PARTYLabour
ELECTORATE110,362 voters
AREA10 sq. miles


Manchester Central is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Lucy Powell of the Labour party.

The Manchester Central constituency has a total population of 136,160, of which 110,362 are eligible (18+) to vote (81.1%).

Manchester Central ranks 504th in a list of the largest constituencies in the UK (geographical size), and 7th in a list of the largest constituencies by population size.

CONSTITUENCY MP

Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell

Lucy Maria Powell (born 10 October 1974) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and Member of Parliament for Manchester Central in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Powell is the first woman Labour MP in Manchester and the only woman currently elected from Manchester, after the elections of Florence Horsbrugh and Eveline Hill in 1950. She was elected at the Manchester Central by-election in November 2012.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Powell

MP DETAILS
AddressLucy Powell MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Phone Number020 7219 4272
Political PartyLabour
Email Addresscontact@lucypowell.org.uk
ConstituencyManchester Central
GenderFemale
Date of Birth10/10/1974
WebsiteWebsite
TwitterTwitter Profile
Party PageWebsite
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2015 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

SHARE OF VOTES
13.5%
61.3%
4.1%
8.5 %
11.1%
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Green Party
UKIP
ELECTION TURNOUT

Election turnout for the Manchester Central constituency in 2015 was 52.70%, lower than the average UK turnout at 66.1%.

2015 CANDIDATES

Candidate Party Gender Date of Birth LinkedIn Website
Alex DavidsonTrade Unionist and Socialist CoalitionMale---
John ReidLiberal DemocratMale--http://www.jcreid.org.uk/
Kieran Turner-DaveGreenMale30 January 1991 (33)--
Loz KayePirate Party UKMale--http://manchester.pirateparty.org.uk/
Lucy PowellLabourFemale10 October 1974 (50)-http://www.lucypowell.org.uk/
Myles PowerUK Independence PartyMale15 July 1974 (50)-http://mylespowerukip.co.uk/
Paul DaviesCommunist League Election CampaignMale---
Xingang WangConservativeMale--http://www.xingangwang.com/

2010 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

SHARE OF VOTES
11.78%
52.74%
26.6%
%
%
2.29%
4.1%
1.52%
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Scottish National
Plaid Cymru
Green Party
BNP
UKIP
2005 GENERAL ELECTION WINNERS
Labour
VOTE COUNTS
PartyVotesShare
 BNP1,6364.1%
 Conservative4,70411.8%
 Green9152.3%
 Ind11200.3%
 Labour21,05952.7%
 Liberal-Democrat10,62026.6%
 SEP540.1%
 SocLab1530.4%
 UK-Independence-Party6071.5%
 WRP590.1%
TOTALS
Electorate90,110
Votes39,927
Turnout44.3%
2010 CANDIDATES
ConservativeRahuja, Suhail
LabourLloyd, Tony
Liberal DemocratRamsbottom, Marc
GreenO'Donovan, Gayle
BNPTrebilcock, Tony
UKIPWeatherill, Nicola
ELECTION TURNOUT

Election turnout for the Manchester Central constituency in 2010 was 44.3%, higher than the average UK turnout at 65.1%.

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