Editing Salford (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Salfordshire.png|thumb|left|The former [[Salford Hundred]] area mapped over Greater Manchester]]Salford was anciently part of the [[Manchester (ancient parish)|Manchester parish]] of the [[Salford (hundred)|Salford Hundred]], an area much larger than the present-day city of Salford, within the [[historic counties of England|historic county boundaries]] of [[Lancashire]]. A stroke of a [[Normans|Norman]] [[baron]]'s pen is said to have divorced Manchester and Salford, although it was not Salford that became separated from Manchester, but Manchester, with its humbler line of [[lord]]s, that was separated from Salford.<ref name="GM Evolution"/> Salford received its town charter from [[Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester]], then [[Lord of the Manor]], in 1230.<ref name="GM Gazetteer"/> From then until 1791, when police commissioners were appointed, it was governed by a [[Reeve (England)|reeve]], a medieval administrator and law enforcement official.<ref>{{Harvnb|Cooper|2005|p=22}}</ref> It was not recognised as a borough in the [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835]], but was granted [[municipal borough|borough status]] in 1844; the new Salford borough was made up of the township of Salford and part of [[Broughton, Greater Manchester|Broughton]]. The remainder of Broughton, the township of [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester|Pendleton]], and a small part of [[Pendlebury]] were added in 1853.<ref name="GM Gazetteer"/>

When the [[Administrative counties of England|administrative county]] of Lancashire was created by the [[Local Government Act 1888]], Salford was elevated to become the [[County Borough of Salford]] and was, in modern terms, a [[unitary authority]] area exempt from the administration of [[Lancashire County Council]].<ref name="GM Gazetteer"/> Following a campaign supported by [[William Joynson-Hicks]], [[Home Secretary]] and [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for a neighbouring constituency of Manchester, [[City status in the United Kingdom|city status]] was granted to the county borough by [[letters patent]] dated 21 April 1926.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33154|pages=2776–2777|date=23 April 1926}}</ref> This was in spite of the opposition of civil servants in the [[Home Office]] who dismissed the borough as "merely a scratch collection of 240,000 people cut off from Manchester by the river".<ref>Beckett, J. V., ''City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002''. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005</ref> In 1961, a small part of the [[Municipal Borough of Eccles]] was added to the city,<ref name="GM Gazetteer"/> and in 1966, Salford was [[Town twinning|twinned]] with [[Clermont-Ferrand]] in France.<ref>{{Citation|title=Salford's twin towns |url=http://www.salford.gov.uk/living/yourcom/salfordlife/twintowns.htm |publisher=Salford City Council |date=10 December 2008 |access-date=18 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217135452/http://www.salford.gov.uk/living/yourcom/salfordlife/twintowns.htm |archive-date=17 December 2007 }}</ref>

In 1974 the City and County Borough of Salford was abolished under the [[Local Government Act 1972]], and was replaced by the [[metropolitan borough]] of [[City of Salford]], a local government district of the new [[metropolitan county]] of [[Greater Manchester]],<ref name="GM Gazetteer">{{Citation|url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzs.htm |title=Greater Manchester Gazetteer |publisher=Greater Manchester County Record Office |access-date=11 November 2007 |at=Places names – S |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144349/http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzs.htm |archive-date=18 July 2011 }}</ref> with triple the territory of the former City of Salford, taking in neighbouring Eccles, Swinton and Pendlebury, and Worsley and Irlam.<ref name="McNev42">{{Harvnb|McNeil|Nevell|2000|p=42}}.</ref> Both Salford and the wider City of Salford are [[unparished area]]s.

===Parliamentary representation===
Salford is represented by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the [[Salford (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford constituency]], which was (re)created in 2023 and first used in the [[2024 UK general election]]. Its MP is [[Rebecca Long-Bailey]], who served as a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP in Salford since 2015.<ref name=UKP>{{cite web |title=Rebecca Long Bailey |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/4396/career |website=MPs and Lords |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=13 November 2024}}</ref> {{as of|2024}} she sits as an independent MP, after Labour suspended her for voting against a cap on child benefits, contradicting the [[party whip]].<ref name=UKP/><ref>{{cite news |author1=Sam Francis |author2=Nick Eardley |title=Labour suspends seven rebel MPs over two-child benefit cap |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c978m6z3egno |access-date=13 November 2024 |work=www.bbc.com |publisher=BBC |date=24 July 2024}}</ref>

Salford was enfranchised as a [[parliamentary borough]] by the [[Reform Act 1832]], returning a single [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP).<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/refact/refact.htm |title=The Reform Act of 1832 |publisher=Dr. Marjorie Bloy|access-date=29 January 2009}}</ref> It has been subject to numerous constituency changes throughout history. From 1868 it returned two MPs to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] until the [[Redistribution of Seats Act 1885]], when the constituency was split into three single-member divisions: [[Salford North (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford North]], [[Salford South (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford South]] and [[Salford West (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford West]].<ref>{{citation |title=Salford North 1885–1950 |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/constituencies/salford-north |publisher=Millbank Systems |access-date=22 July 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Salford South 1885–1950 |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/constituencies/salford-south |publisher=Millbank Systems |access-date=22 July 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Salford West 1885–1983 |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/constituencies/salford-west |publisher=Millbank Systems |access-date=22 July 2008 }}</ref> Boundaries changed again under the provisions of the [[Representation of the People Act 1948]] when the constituencies were reorganised into [[Salford East (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford East]] and Salford West.<ref>{{citation |title=Salford East 1950–1997 |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/constituencies/salford-west |publisher=Millbank Systems |access-date=22 July 2009 }}</ref> From 1997, Salford lay within a reconstituted [[Salford (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford parliamentary constituency]]. From the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|general election of 2010]], Salford (excluding Broughton and Kersal) was part of the new constituency of [[Salford and Eccles (UK Parliament constituency)|Salford and Eccles]]<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.salford.gov.uk/council/othertiers/ukparliament.htm|title=UK Parliament|publisher=Salford City Council|access-date=29 January 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025014304/http://www.salford.gov.uk/council/othertiers/ukparliament.htm|archive-date=25 October 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> until it was replaced again with the Salford constituency by the [[2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies]].