Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wythenshawe and Sale East is a parliamentary constituency in the city of Manchester and the borough of Trafford. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Wythenshawe and Sale East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Greater Manchester |
Electorate | 85,058 (February 2014)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Mike Kane (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Manchester Wythenshawe, Altrincham and Sale, Davyhulme |
The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat, and the southern tip of the constituency includes Manchester Airport; the constituency also borders rural Cheshire to the south. The current MP is Mike Kane of the Labour Party who was elected at the 2014 by-election in February 2014. He succeeded Labour's Paul Goggins who died in January 2014, and who had held the seat since its inception in 1997.