Manchester Gorton (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester, Gorton
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Manchester Gorton in Greater Manchester in 2010.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	74,681 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of parliament	Vacant, pending General Election
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Manchester, Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1983 to 2017 by Sir Gerald Kaufman, a Labour MP and Father of the House. His death in February 2017 triggered the Manchester Gorton by-election, 2017, to be held on 4 May 2017. The by-election has been countermanded (that is, cancelled) because the House of Commons has voted for a general election on 8 June 2017 where a new MP will be voted in.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 divided the existing seat of South East Lancashire into eight single-member constituencies, an Act which significantly increased representation across Britain.

This Westminster seat has been held by the Labour party's candidate since 1935, with large majorities exceeding 17% since 1979. The 2015 result made the seat the 8th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.

South-East Lancashire, Gorton Division consisted of the area of the Gorton Local Board and the townships or parishes of Denton, Haughton, and Openshaw. The constituency comprised an area bounded on the west by the city of Manchester and to the east and south by the county boundary with Cheshire. In 1890, Manchester's municipal boundaries were extended to include Gorton and Openshaw, although constituency boundaries remained unchanged until 1918.