Heywood and Middleton

Heywood and Middleton
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	79,636 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Heywood and Middleton
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Liz McInnes
Number of members	One
Created from	Heywood and Royton; Middleton and Prestwich
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Heywood and Middleton is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2014 by Liz McInnes of the Labour Party.

1983-1997: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Heywood North, Heywood South, Heywood West, Middleton Central, Middleton East, Middleton North, Middleton South, and Middleton West.

1997-2010: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Castleton, Heywood North, Heywood South, Heywood West, Middleton Central, Middleton East, Middleton North, Middleton South, Middleton West, and Norden and Bamford.

2010-present: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Bamford, Castleton, East Middleton, Hopwood Hall, Norden, North Heywood, North Middleton, South Middleton, West Heywood, and West Middleton.

The constituency is one of three covering the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, covering the west of the borough — it includes the towns of Heywood and Middleton, some of the western fringes of Rochdale itself (such as Castleton, and parts of Norden and Bamford) and some of the rural green buffer area to the north.

The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the former seats of Heywood and Royton and Middleton and Prestwich and has been held by the Labour Party since then.