New constituency boundaries for the 2024 general election mean some Salfordians will be voting in different constituencies.
There are changes for voters in Eccles, Swinton, Walkden, Little Hulton, Broughton and Wardley.
Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey’s current Salford and Eccles constituency will be renamed simply Salford taking in Broughton but losing Swinton, Wardley and Eccles.
They will move to the newly-named Worsley and Eccles constituency.
Just over a third of existing Worsley and Eccles South voters will move out of Labour MP Barbara Keeley’s seat to be part of Bolton South and Walkden.
The new Worsley and Eccles seat will gain 12.8 per cent of Leigh constituents.
Leigh elected Tory MP James Grundy in 2019 but the new Worsley and Eccles seat is expected to remain in Labour hands as is the new Salford constituency.
Broughton residents will now vote in Salford instead of Blackley and Broughton which becomes Blackley and Middleton South for the 2024 general election.
Anyone unsure of which what constituency they will be in can find out using Seat Explorer (electoralcalculus.co.uk).
An independent commission has completely redrawn the country’s political map to make all constituencies between 69,272 voters and 77,062 voters.
As a result, 90 per cent of the 650 seats will face changes.
The boundary changes also mean that the north-west will have two fewer seats in the House of Commons in the 2024 general election.
The changes in the north-west mean that Labour will lose two seats, the Lib Dems will lose their only seat in the north-west while the Conservatives will gain a seat.
In fact, according to Electoral Calculus’ calculations, the Conservatives could gain 13 new seats across the country based on the boundary changes.
Political scientist John Curtice, speaking in ‘UK In A Changing Europe’, believes the new boundaries maintain and reinforce a substantial bias in the Conservatives’ favour.
“The explanation lies in the fact Labour’s vote is less efficiently distributed across constituencies. That disadvantage has not been affected by the boundary review, indeed if anything it has been increased somewhat.”
Electoral Calculus’ end of 2023 findings of the predicted election outcome predicts a large Labour majority for Keir Starmer.
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