Denton and Reddish (UK Parliament Constituency) - Historic Boundaries

Historic Boundaries

Prior to the seat's creation in 1983, Reddish was part of the marginal Stockport North constituency; the large Brinnington council estate was in the safe Labour seat of Stockport South; Audenshaw and Denton formed the core of the Manchester Gorton constituency; and Dukinfield was part of the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency.

From 1983 to 1997 the constituency consisted of the electoral wards of Brinnington, Reddish North, and Reddish South, from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport; and Audenshaw, Denton North East, Denton South, and Denton West, from the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside.

In 1997 Labour-leaning Brinnington ward was moved out of the constituency and transferred to the Stockport seat, and was replaced with the equally Labour-leaning Dukinfield ward in Tameside.

Historically both Audenshaw and Denton West wards returned Conservative councillors, but this has not occurred since 1992 and 1987 respectively.

In the Boundary Commission's provisional recommendations for parliamentary constituencies, which were published in 2005, the Reddish part of the constituency was to be repatriated with the Stockport constituency. Denton, Audenshaw and Dukinfield would have been joined with Droylsden East, Droylsden West and the St Peter's wards of Tameside to form a Denton borough constituency, wholly in Tameside. However, following a public inquiry into Greater Manchester's constituencies held in late 2005, a number of changes to the original proposals for the county were made. It was recommended that the Denton and Reddish seat should remain unchanged with five wards from Tameside (Denton North East, South and West; Audenshaw and Dukinfield) and two wards from Stockport (Reddish North and Reddish South), with slight readjustments to reflect the new ward boundaries introduced in 2004. The new parliamentary boundaries in Greater Manchester took effect at the 2010 general election.