Leigh and Atherton

Declared: 2:12am on 5th July

Labour Party GAIN / provisional
Elected: Jo Platt

Candidates

Photograph of Jo PlattLab / 48.5%
Jo Platt
Photograph of George WoodwardReform / 26.9%
George Woodward
Photograph of Michael William WinstanleyCon / 15.7%
Michael William Winstanley
Photograph of Amelia JonesGreen / 4.0%
Amelia Jones
Photograph of Stuart David ThomasLD / 3.9%
Stuart David Thomas
Photograph of Craig BuckleyEnglish Democrats / 0.9%
Craig Buckley

Candidate images from Democracy Club. Data collated by Open Innovations.

Constituency Drill Down

Population: 108000

Households: 47800

Housing tenure type for Leigh and Atherton

0%25%50%Social rentedPrivate rentedOwned with a mortgage or loanOwned outrightOther tenureOther tenure
Percentage: 0.9%
Owned outright
Percentage: 31.9%
Owned with a mortgage or loan
Percentage: 31.4%
Private rented
Percentage: 18.3%
Social rented
Percentage: 17.5%

Age demographic for Leigh and Atherton

0%25%50%Aged 65 years and overAged 50 to 64 yearsAged 35 to 49 yearsAged 25 to 34 yearsAged 16 to 24 yearsAged 15 years and underAged 15 years and under
Percentage: 18.7%
Aged 16 to 24 years
Percentage: 9.2%
Aged 25 to 34 years
Percentage: 14%
Aged 35 to 49 years
Percentage: 19.3%
Aged 50 to 64 years
Percentage: 20.4%
Aged 65 years and over
Percentage: 18.4%

Data from the House of Commons Library.

2019 General Election

It is projected that this would have been a Conservative and Unionist Party seat in the 2019 General Election if it had been contested with the new constituency boundaries.