Oldham East and Saddleworth

Oldham East and Saddleworth
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Oldham East and Saddleworth in Greater Manchester.
Location of Greater Manchester within England.
County	Greater Manchester
Electorate	72,249 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Oldham (part) Saddleworth Shaw and Crompton
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Littleborough & Saddleworth and Oldham Central & Royton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Oldham East and Saddleworth is a constituency in outer Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since January 2011 by Debbie Abrahams of the Labour Party.

1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham wards of Crompton, Lees, St James', St Mary's, Saddleworth East, Saddleworth West, Shaw, and Waterhead, and the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale ward of Milnrow.

2010–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham wards of Alexandra, Crompton, St James', St Mary's, Saddleworth North, Saddleworth South, Saddleworth West and Lees, Shaw, and Waterhead.

Oldham East and Saddleworth is the largest constituency in Greater Manchester by area and one of three covering the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. According to the Manchester Evening News it is:

... a juxtaposition of downbeat urban terraces and the rolling Pennine hills.

UK Polling Report describes it as:

A constituency at the eastern side of Greater Manchester, reaching from central Oldham up into the Pennines and Saddleworth Moor.

UK Polling Report specifically characterises East Oldham as "an area of deprived terraces and racial tensions", Shaw and Crompton as a "relatively prosperous (and unusually named) town" and Saddleworth as composed of "middle-class villages and hamlets".

Within its bounds are the eastern fringes of Oldham (such as Derker, Glodwick, Greenacres, and Sholver), Shaw and Crompton, Lees, and Saddleworth (the latter of which includes the rural villages of Denshaw, Diggle, Dobcross, Greenfield and Uppermill). Between 1997 and 2010, Oldham East and Saddleworth incorporated the suburban town of Milnrow in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale when boundary changes placed it in the neighbouring Rochdale constituency.