Knowsley (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Knowsley in Merseyside.
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![]() Location of Merseyside within England.
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County | Merseyside |
Electorate | 79,334 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | George Howarth (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Knowsley South, Knowsley North and Sefton East |
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European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Knowsley is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by George Howarth of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
History
Created for the 2010 general election (during the Boundary Commission for England's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies[2]), the area returned the second highest share of the vote seen by a candidate for the Labour Party, of 70.9%, behind the 72.0% achieved in Liverpool Walton.
Boundaries
The new constituency covers a large part of the metropolitan borough, main settlements being Huyton and Kirkby. It replaced most of the previous Knowsley South constituency, as well as the parts of Knowsley North and Sefton East in the Knowsley borough. Distant parts from the centre of the metropolitan borough are covered by the new St Helens South and Whiston and Garston and Halewood constituencies.
The seat has electoral wards:
- Cherryfield Kirkby Central; Longview; Northwood; Page Moss; Park; Prescot West; Roby; St Bartholomews; St Gabriels; St Michaels; Shevington; Stockbridge; Swanside; Whitefield in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley
Constituency profile
Before its first election in 2010 it was believed to present the safest seat in the country, with an estimated Labour majority of 24,333.[3]
The constituency mainly consists of low-income social housing and ex-social housing built to decant the residents displaced by post-war slum clearance in Liverpool. It includes Huyton to the south (once represented by Harold Wilson) and Kirkby to the north. Between them is the green space of Knowsley Hall and Park, the ancestral home of the Earls of Derby and the site of Knowsley Safari Park. In 2010, The Guardian summarized the area as "One of the most deprived areas in the country. The new parliamentary constituency folds in Knowsley North and Knowsley South."[4]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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2010 | George Howarth | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Howarth | 39,628 | 78.1 | +7.2 | |
UKIP | Louise Bours | 4,973 | 9.8 | +7.2 | |
Conservative | Alice Bramall | 3,367 | 6.6 | -2.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Carl Cashman | 1,490 | 2.9 | -10.4 | |
Green | Vikki Gregorich | 1,270 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 34,655 | 68.3 | +10.8 | ||
Turnout | 50,728 | 64.1 | +8.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 0.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Howarth* | 31,650 | 70.9 | -0.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Flo Clucas | 5,964 | 13.4 | -0.4 | |
Conservative | David Dunne | 4,004 | 9.0 | -2.3 | |
BNP | Steven Greenhalgh | 1,895 | 4.2 | +2.2 | |
UKIP | Anthony Rundle | 1,145 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Majority | 25,690 | 57.5 | |||
Turnout | 44,654 | 56.1 | +2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.2 |
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
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- ↑ Knowsley Boundary Commission for England
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/22/new-parliamentary-constituencies-westminster-election The Guardian (22 January 2010); "Altered Constituencies Data"
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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
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- Politics of Knowsley
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 2010