Manchester Withington (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester, Withington
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Manchester Withington in North West England
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	71,614 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Burnage, Chorlton, Didsbury, Withington
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of Parliament	TBC (TBC)
Seats	One
Created from	Manchester South and Stretford

Manchester Withington is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour.^{[n 2]} 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.^[2] 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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