BBC Profile:
Salford has been a Labour seat for generations. Hazel Blears, the current MP has held it since 1997. In 2005, she won with a reduced majority of 7,945 following a 6.9% swing to the Liberal Democrats. She resigned from the cabinet in 2009 and later survived a de-selection vote by her local constituency party.

At the election, this new seat combines the old separate seats of Salford and Eccles. It is comprised of all but three wards from Salford, the northern half of Eccles. Broughton and Kersal are now in the new Blackley and Broughton seat, while Barton ward is in Worsley and Eccles. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

Although part of Greater Manchester, Salford (lying on the left bank of the river Irwell) is a city in its own right. The paintings of Salford's most famous artist, L S Lowry, depict an industrial landscape of terraces and factories. Indeed, Salford is the home of the Working Class Movement Library of which the local MP is a trustee.

Heavy industry has declined but the terraced communities survive, though depleted in number.

There has been some substantial regeneration - particularly around Salford Quays and it is home to the Lowry Arts Centre. There are also some expensive apartments which have more in common with the lofts of Manchester's Castlefield Urban Heritage Park than with rundown terraced housing.

Both Salford and Ec

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BBC Profile:
Salford has been a Labour seat for generations. Hazel Blears, the current MP has held it since 1997. In 2005, she won with a reduced majority of 7,945 following a 6.9% swing to the Liberal Democrats. She resigned from the cabinet in 2009 and later survived a de-selection vote by her local constituency party.

At the election, this new seat combines the old separate seats of Salford and Eccles. It is comprised of all but three wards from Salford, the northern half of Eccles. Broughton and Kersal are now in the new Blackley and Broughton seat, while Barton ward is in Worsley and Eccles. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

Although part of Greater Manchester, Salford (lying on the left bank of the river Irwell) is a city in its own right. The paintings of Salford's most famous artist, L S Lowry, depict an industrial landscape of terraces and factories. Indeed, Salford is the home of the Working Class Movement Library of which the local MP is a trustee.

Heavy industry has declined but the terraced communities survive, though depleted in number.

There has been some substantial regeneration - particularly around Salford Quays and it is home to the Lowry Arts Centre. There are also some expensive apartments which have more in common with the lofts of Manchester's Castlefield Urban Heritage Park than with rundown terraced housing.

Both Salford and Eccles have benefited from the extension of the Manchester Metrolink tram system.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
Lab 18,183 (55.43%)
LD 7,476 (22.79%)
C 5,528 (16.85%)
UKIP 1,618 (4.93%)

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