Ashton-under-Lyne (UK Parliament constituency) (original) (raw)

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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1832 onwards

Ashton under Lyne
Borough constituencyfor the House of Commons
Map of constituencyBoundary of Ashton-under-Lyne in North West England
County Greater Manchester
Population 90,484 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate 72,278 (2023)[2]
Borough Tameside
Major settlements Ashton-under-Lyne, Droylsden, Failsworth
Current constituency
Created 1832
Member of Parliament Angela Rayner (Labour)
Seats 1
Created from Lancashire

Ashton-under-Lyne is a constituency[n 1] in Greater Manchester that was created in 1832. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Angela Rayner of the Labour Party since 2015.[n 2] Rayner currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in the cabinet of Keir Starmer, and was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 2020.

Constituency profile

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Like much of Greater Manchester, Ashton was a significant hub for textile production and retains some manufacturing.[3] Incomes and house prices are lower than UK averages.[4]

Map

Map of boundaries 1983–2024

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Map of boundaries from 2024

Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire, boundaries used 1974–83

1832–1885: The area defined by the Ashton-under-Lyne Improvement Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. lxxvii).[5]

1885–1918: The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne included in the local government district of Hurst as was not already included in the parliamentary borough.[6]

1918–1949: The Municipal Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the Urban District of Hurst.

1950–1955: The Municipal Boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne, and Mossley; and the Rural District of Limehurst.

1955–1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne, and Mossley; and the Rural District of Droylsden.[7]

1983–2024: The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham wards of Failsworth East and Failsworth West; and the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside wards of Ashton Hurst, Ashton St. Michael's, Ashton Waterloo, Droylsden East, Droylsden West and St Peter's.

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

The constituency gained the Audenshaw and Dukinfield wards from the abolished constituency of Denton and Reddish, and lost the two Failsworth wards to Manchester Central.

Members of Parliament

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Election Member[9] Party Notes
1832 George Williams Radical[10][11][12]
1835 Charles Hindley Radical[13][14][15]
1857 Thomas Milner Gibson Radical[16][17][18][19]
1859 Liberal
1868 Thomas Walton Mellor Conservative
1880 Hugh Mason Liberal
1885 John Addison Conservative
1895 Herbert Whiteley Conservative Also later MP for Droitwich
1906 Alfred Scott Liberal
1910 Sir Max Aitken Conservative
1916 by-election Sir Albert Stanley Conservative President of the Board of Trade
1920 by-election Sir Walter de Frece Conservative Also later MP for Blackpool
1924 Cornelius Homan Conservative
1928 by-election Albert Bellamy Labour President of the National Union of Railwaymen
1931 by-election John Broadbent Conservative
1935 Fred Simpson Labour President of the Railway Clerks' Association
1939 by-election Sir William Jowitt Labour later Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1945 by-election Hervey Rhodes Labour Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
1964 Robert Sheldon Labour Financial Secretary to the Treasury
2001 David Heyes Labour
2015 Angela Rayner Labour Deputy Prime Minister Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government

In the 1886 election, voting resulted in a tie between incumbent John Edmund Wentworth Addison and the Liberal candidate. Under the legislation of the time, the presiding officer had a casting vote, and Addison was reelected. In the by-election of 29 October 1928, the turnout was 89.1%, a record for Great Britain. The mayor arranged for the result to be signalled by coloured rockets.[20]

Elections in the 2020s

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Elections in the 2010s

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UKIP originally selected Angela McManus as candidate,[25] but she changed to the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency.[26]

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* Both candidates having received 3,049 votes each, Addison was elected on the Returning Officer's casting vote.

Mason

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  1. ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer).

  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

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