The constituency covers the western half of the City of Salford, mostly safe Labour territory, but the seat also contains two of the Conservatives' strongest wards in the relatively affluent areas of
Worsley and
Boothstown & Ellenbrook; these wards, along with
Eccles, were the only wards in this constituency that voted Remain in the EU referendum.
Worsley itself is a desirable area with tourist attractions including historic Tudor-style manor houses along the
Bridgewater Canal and the 150-acre
RHS Garden Bridgewater. Eccles contains the middle-class suburb of
Monton while other areas of Eccles,
Barton,
Winton and
Patricroft are relatively working-class. The seat also contains half of the town of
Swinton, shared with the
Salford constituency. In the far south-west of the constituency along the
Manchester Ship Canal are the villages of
Irlam and
Cadishead, separated from the other settlements by swathes of green belt land and farms in the form of
Chat Moss, a protected peatland area. Further to the west is the
Wigan ward of
Astley, a residential suburb of
Leigh which was previously in the
Leigh constituency though its joining with a Salford constituency is not unprecedented, having been included in a historic
Worsley constituency from 1983-2010. == Boundaries ==