UK Parliamentary general election
Manchester, Withington constituency
This election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010.
7 candidates stood in the Manchester, Withington constituency.
Ballot Papers Issued | 62 |
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Turnout | 60% |
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Lucy Powell
Labour Party
18,216 votes -
Chris Green
Conservative and Unionist Party
5,005 votes -
Brian Candeland
Green Party
798 votes -
Robert Gutfreund-Walmsley
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
698 votes -
Yasmin Zalzala
Independent
147 votes -
Marcus Jonathan Farmer
Independent
57 votes
Wikipedia
Manchester Withington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour. Of the 30 seats with the highest percentage of winning majority in 2017, the seat ranks 25th with a 55.7% margin, and is the only one of the twenty nine of these seats won by the Labour Party in which the second-placed candidate was a Liberal Democrat, rather than Conservative. This is despite being a Conservative seat right up to 1987, then becoming relatively safely Labour, then Liberal Democrat from 2005 to 2015 before they lost on a large swing in 2015, after which Smith substantially increased his majority.
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