Manchester Wythenshawe (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°23′49″N 2°16′08″W / 53.397°N 2.269°W / 53.397; -2.269

Manchester Wythenshawe
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Greater Manchester
1950 (1950)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Wythenshawe and Sale East, Cheadle, Altrincham and Sale West

Manchester Wythenshawe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Wythenshawe suburb of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Wythenshawe and Sale East constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1950	Eveline Hill	Conservative
	1964	Alf Morris	Labour
	1997	constituency abolished: see Wythenshawe and Sale East, Cheadle, Altrincham and Sale West

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Manchester Wythenshawe[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Alf Morris	22,591	60.5	+3.7
	Conservative	Kevin A. McKenna	10,595	28.4	−0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen J. Fenn	3,633	9.7	−4.3
	Green	Guy N. Otten	362	1.0	N/A
	Natural Law	Mrs Elspeth Martin	133	0.4	N/A
Majority			11,996	32.1	+4.0
Turnout			37,314	69.7	−2.5
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	+2.0

Notes and references

1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
2. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i14.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.