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 | | The overall effect of the Commission's proposed changes in Greater Manchester is a reduction in the number of constituencies from twenty-eight to twenty-seven, and a reduction in the electoral disparity from 20,041 for the twenty-eight existing constituencies to 13,030 for the twenty-seven proposed constituencies. |
 | | Six wards of the Borough of Bolton:- Heaton and Lostock, Horwich and Blackrod, Horwich North East, Smithills, Westhoughton North and Chew Moor, Westhoughton South; one ward of the Borough of Wigan:- Atherton. |
 | | The existing constituencies in Stockport (and one partly in Tameside) have electorates ranging from 64,843 in Hazel Grove CC to 69,043 in Denton and Reddish BC, producing an electoral disparity of 4,200. |
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