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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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New
20 December 1832		1,230/1,497	82.16
Joseph Brotherton	Radical	712	57.89
William Garnett	Tory	518	42.11
Majority		194	15.77

10 January 1835		1,367/2,336	58.52
Joseph Brotherton	Radical	795	58.16
John Dugdale	Conservative Party	572	41.84
Majority		223	16.31

28 July 1837		1,778/2,628	67.66
Joseph Brotherton	Radical	890	50.06
William Garnett	Conservative Party	888	49.94
Majority		2	0.11

1837 Petition - dismissed.

3 July 1841		1,864/2,443	76.30
Joseph Brotherton	Radical	991	53.17
William Garnett	Conservative Party	873	46.83
Majority		118	6.33

30 July 1847		2,605
Joseph Brotherton	Radical	Unopposed

6 July 1852		2,950
Joseph Brotherton	Radical	Unopposed

7 January 1857 Death of Joseph Brotherton.

2 February 1857		4,028
Edward Ryley Langworthy	Radical	Unopposed

28 March 1857		3,144/4,028	78.05
William Nathaniel Massey	Radical	1,880	59.80
Sir Elkanah Armitage	Radical	1,264	40.20
Majority		616	19.59

30 April 1859		3,706/4,222	87.78
William Nathaniel Massey	Liberal Party	1,919	51.78
Henry Ashworth	Liberal Party	1,787	48.22
Majority		132	3.56

January 1865 Resignation of William Massey on appointment as a Member of the Council of India.

13 February 1865		5,397
John Cheetham	Liberal Party	Unopposed

11 July 1865		5,397
John Cheetham	Liberal Party	Unopposed

18 November 1868		12,326/15,862	77.71
Charles Edward Cawley	Conservative Party	6,312	51.21
William Thomas Charley	Conservative Party	6,181	50.15
John Cheetham	Liberal Party	6,141	49.82
Henry Rawson	Liberal Party	6,018	48.82
Majority		40	0.32

2 March 1869 Petition - dismissed.

5 February 1874		13,763/19,177	71.77
Charles Edward Cawley	Conservative Party	7,003	50.88
William Thomas Charley	Conservative Party	6,987	50.77
Joseph Kay	Liberal Party	6,827	49.60
Henry Lee	Liberal Party	6,709	48.75
Majority		160	1.16

9 April 1877 Death of Charles Cawley.

19 April 1877		17,014/22,041	77.19
Oliver Ormerod Walker	Conservative Party	8,642	50.79
Joseph Kay	Liberal Party	8,372	49.21
Majority		270	1.59

1 April 1880		19,464/23,334	83.41
Benjamin Armitage	Liberal Party	11,116	57.11
Arthur Arnold	Liberal Party	11,110	57.08
Sir William Thomas Charley	Conservative Party	8,400	43.16
Oliver Ormerod Walker	Conservative Party	8,302	42.65
Majority		2,710	13.92

New
1 May 1997		33,122/58,610	56.51
Hazel Anne Blears	Labour Party	22,848	68.98
Elliott Bishop	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,779	17.45
Norman Joseph Owen	Liberal Democrats	3,407	10.29
Robert William Cumpsty	Referendum Party	926	2.80
Susan Herman	Natural Law Party	162	0.49
Majority		17,069	51.53

7 June 2001		22,514/54,152	41.58
Hazel Anne Blears	Labour Party	14,649	65.07
Norman Joseph Owen	Liberal Democrats	3,637	16.15
Christopher John King	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,446	15.31
Peter Michael Grant	Socialist Alliance	414	1.84
Sheilah Hazel Wallace	Independent	216	0.96
Roy Masterson	Independent	152	0.68
Majority		11,012	48.91

5 May 2005		22,600/53,294	42.41
Hazel Anne Blears	Labour Party	13,007	57.55
Norman Joseph Owen	Liberal Democrats	5,062	22.40
Laetitia Mary Cash	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,440	15.22
Lisa Ann Duffy	UK Independence Party	1,091	4.83
Majority		7,945	35.15

Major Boundary Change
4 July 2024		39,704/83,633	47.47
Rebecca Long-Bailey	Labour Party	21,132	53.22
Keith Whalley	Reform UK	6,031	15.19
Wendy Olsen	Green Party	5,188	13.07
Hilary Jane Louise Crowder	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,583	9.02
Jake Austin	Liberal Democrats	2,752	6.93
Mustafa Abdullah	Workers Britain	791	1.99
Stephen James Lewthwaite	Social Democratic Party	227	0.57
Majority		15,101	38.03

23 July 2024 The Labour whip was withdrawn from Rebecca Long-Bailey following hiervoting against the government in a King's Speech debate.