Manchester Gorton was a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

There is a large student population, particularly in Fallowfield which includes several halls of residence and private rented houses serving students of Manchester's large universities, though the universities’ campuses are in Manchester Central.

Manchester Gorton has returned MPs from the Labour Party since 1935, with majorities exceeding 17% since 1979.

[5] From 1983 to 2017, Sir Gerald Kaufman, Father of the House of Commons, represented the constituency.

[6][n 2] At that election, the Conservatives returned their lowest vote share for any seat in Great Britain, at 7.3%.

1885–1918: The Gorton Division of the parliamentary county of South East Lancashire was defined as consisting of the parishes of Denton, Haughton, and Openshaw, and the parish of Gorton (except for the detached part in the parliamentary borough of Manchester).

[8] The constituency comprised an area bounded on the west by the city of Manchester and to the east and south by the county boundary with Cheshire.

The redistribution reflected the boundary changes of 1890, with Gorton becoming a division of the parliamentary borough of Manchester.

Further to the completion of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished prior to the 2024 general election, with its contents split in two:[2] These are the same as the candidates who were to stand at the cancelled 2017 by-election, except for an Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidate and another independent, who did not stand at the general election.

Gerald Kaufman had been the MP for the Manchester Ardwick constituency, which had been abolished for this election, since 1970.