Leigh

[Robert Waller]

2011 Census

Age 65+ 15.6% 410/650
Owner-occupied 67.8% 290/650
Private rented 13.2% 385/650
Social rented 17.4% 284/650
White 96.8% 247/650
Black 0.6% 328/650
Asian 1.4% 429/650
Managerial & professional 27.0%
Routine & Semi-routine 30.7%
Degree level 20.2% 507/650
No qualifications 25.8% 222/650
Students 6.0% 476/650


2021 Census

Owner occupied 66.9% 259/573
Private rented 18.0% 287/573
Social rented 15.1% 292/573
White 94.0%
Black 1.5%
Asian 2.2%
Managerial & professional 29.3% 360/573
Routine & Semi-routine 27.3% 168/573
Degree level 26.6% 443/573
No qualifications 19.9% 199/573




General Election 2019: Leigh

Party Candidate Votes % ±%

Conservative James Grundy 21,266 45.3 +9.5
Labour Co-op Jo Platt 19,301 41.1 -15.1
Brexit Party James Melly 3,161 6.7 New
Liberal Democrats Mark Clayton 2,252 4.8 +2.8
Independent Ann O'Bern 551 1.2 New
UKIP Leon Peters 448 0.9 -5.0

C Majority 1,965 4.2

Turnout 46,979 60.9 -0.6

Conservative gain from Labour

Swing 12.3 Lab to C

[Pete Whitehead]

The initial proposals here split the town of Leigh in order to make the numbers work here. The revised proposals avoid doing that. The main change is that Atherton is added from Bolton West and Astley Mosley Common is added to Worsley & Eccles. Leigh is still over quota whichever of those two wards is included and the Boundary Commission propose resolving this with a seemingly bizarre splitting of two wards - Atherleigh and Leigh West - with small slithers of each going to Makerfield. The impact of that change will be negligible as the numbers involved are. Astley Mosley Common would have voted Conservative in 2019 and Atherton probably would not so the seat would have been even closer on these boundaries in 2019

Con	20882	45.1%
Lab	19918	43.0%
BxP	2639	5.7%
LD	1973	4.3%
Grn	92	0.2%
Oth	839	1.8%
Majority	964	2.1%