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Stalybridge and Hyde is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Boundaries
The constituency is one of three covering the metropolitan borough of Tameside. It covers the east of the borough, including the former municipal boroughs of Stalybridge, Hyde and Mossley, as well as Hollingworth and Mottram in Longdendale. Until 1997 it also included the former municipal borough of Dukinfield which now forms part of the Denton and Reddish constituency.
History
The constituency is a largely working-class area, and is a safe Labour seat, with them having held it since 1945. Its current member of Parliament is James Purnell, a former Downing Street special advisor, who was first elected at the 2001 general election.
Members of Parliament
Before 1918, see the two predecessor constiuencies: Hyde and also Stalybridge
- 1918 – 1922: Sir John Wood, Conservative
- 1922 – 1923: John Phillips Rhodes, Conservative
- 1923 – 1924: John Lincoln Tattersall, Labour
- 1924 – 1929: Edmund Walter Hanbury Wood, Conservative
- 1929 – 1931: Hugh Hartley Lawrie, Labour
- 1931 – 1935: Sydney Hope, Conservative
- 1935 – 1937: Philip Russell Rendel Dunne, Conservative
- 1937 – 1945: Horace Trevor-Cox, Conservative
- 1945 – 1951: Rev. Gordon Lang, Labour
- 1951 – 1970: Fred Blackburn, Labour
- 1970 – 2001: Tom Pendry, Labour
- 2001 – present: James Purnell, Labour
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Purnell | 17,535 | 49.7 | −5.8 | |
| Conservative | Lisa Boardman | 9,187 | 26.0 | −1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Viv Bingham | 5,532 | 15.7 | +2.2 | |
| BNP | Nigel Byrne | 1,399 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
| Green | Mike Smee | 1,088 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
| UKIP | John Whittaker | 573 | 1.6 | −1.5 | |
| Majority | 8,348 | 23.7 | |||
| Turnout | 35,314 | 53.5 | +5.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Purnell | 17,781 | 55.5 | −3.4 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Reid | 8,922 | 27.8 | +3.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Brendon Jones | 4,327 | 13.5 | +1.5 | |
| UKIP | Frank Bennett | 1,016 | 3.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,859 | 27.7 | |||
| Turnout | 32,046 | 48.4 | −17.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||