Altrincham and Sale West general election 2024 results in full

Voters in the Altrincham and Sale West constituency, throughout all its boundary change iterations, have returned Conservative MPs for 100 years. The last time the constituency had an MP other than a Tory one was in 1923, and that was just a year of Liberal Robert Alstead.

But on Friday morning - at a venue no stranger itself to centuries and records - a Conservative majority was knocked for six by the Labour Party. History says it's a shock result, but an upset on the counting floor at Lancashire Cricket Club was widely predicted by political pollsters. Ahead of the declaration, Labour chiefs in Trafford said there was a 'different feeling' on the doorsteps this time around.

In its current form, the constituency was created in 1997, when Tory grandee and chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs when parliament was dissolved, Sir Graham Brady, was first elected.

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Before that it was Altrincham and Sale. Before that Altrincham. But up until Friday morning, there's been no Labour MP.

In a result going against decades of voting in Trafford, Altrincham and Sale West was taken from the Tories by Labour's Connor Rand, 31, a union man who works as a researcher for the shopworkers’ union USDAW.

The cheers at the result were as loud as those that welcomed the exit poll announcement as polling stations closed at 10pm. Sir Graham, who announced ahead of this year's general election that he wouldn't be standing, held a 6,139 majority.

Mr Rand polled 20,798 votes - a 4,174 majority over Tory candidate Oliver Carroll, who came in second. Mr Rand - who was joined on the doorstep by Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell on Thursday as voters went to the polls - spoke of his huge pride at the result and of a sense of history.

"What an honour and a privilege it is to be elected the first ever Labour MP for Altrincham and Sale West," he said. Mr Rand paid tribute to Mr Brady 'for his 27 years of service to the people and to the country'.

"Tonight is a historic night," he added. "It is the final damning verdict of 14 years of wasteful, divisive and self-indulgent Conservative government." He vowed to work to put police officers back on the beat, clean-up waterways and give children in the constituency 'the best possible start in life'.

Reform UK, meanwhile, beat the Lib Dems into third. The constituency includes the areas of Altrincham, Ashton-upon-Mersey, Bowdon, Broadheath, Hale Barns, Hale, and Timperley.

Turn-out was 69.8 per cent, down from the 2019 general election figure of 74.9 per cent.