Subject to boundary changes, involving the loss of Eccles, it will be reformed as Salford, to be first contested at the 2024 general election.

Hazel Blears was chosen as the Labour Party candidate to represent the new constituency at the 2010 general election.

Aside from the flagship MediaCityUK complex whose housing consists of exclusive apartments, the nearby deprived areas such as Weaste and Seedley are also undergoing regeneration.

[3] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 5.0% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.2%.

In terms of tenure only 37.8% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census across the city.