Manchester Central

Current MP

Lucy Powell

Labour (Co-op)

Efficiency 1.6/1013 years as MP

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Election history

Most-signed petitions in Manchester Central

Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.

• Do not introduce Digital ID cards5,153 local · 2,984,191 total
• Call a General Election4,030 local · 3,084,713 total
• Call an immediate general election1,576 local · 1,059,229 total
• Repeal the Online Safety Act1,521 local · 550,136 total
• Keep 5-year ILR terms to Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visas963 local · 114,605 total
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants915 local · 720,772 total
• Keep 5-Year ILR and Restrict Access to Benefits for New ILR Holders903 local · 244,450 total
• Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders717 local · 188,125 total
• Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.645 local · 128,749 total
• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers638 local · 427,447 total
• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza582 local · 198,966 total
• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures539 local · 257,938 total
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership536 local · 239,407 total
• Tighten the rules on political donations521 local · 144,783 total
• Urge Israeli Government to stop law allowing execution of Palestinian prisoners507 local · 114,026 total
• Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal477 local · 106,570 total
• Keep the 5-Year ILR route for refugees. Do not extend it to 10 or 20 years440 local · 53,155 total
• Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold437 local · 189,887 total
• Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there433 local · 257,442 total
• Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data395 local · 260,974 total

About Manchester Central

Manchester Central is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in England and has a registered electorate of 85,204 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.