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Revision as of 05:51, 7 May 2017
53°27′40″N 2°49′41″W / 53.461°N 2.828°W
Knowsley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Knowsley in Merseyside | |
Location of Merseyside within England | |
County | Merseyside |
Electorate | 79,334 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | George Howarth (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Knowsley South, Knowsley North and Sefton East |
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]
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. The same ranking of results nationally occurred in 2015.[3]
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.[4] In 2015 it became the safest seat in the country in absolute votes (not percentage of majority), beating East Ham by 403 votes. Narrowly neighbouring Liverpool Walton has the highest percentage of majority.
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 summarised the area as "One of the most deprived areas in the country. The new parliamentary constituency folds in Knowsley North and Knowsley South."[5]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[6] | Party | |
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style="background: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 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 Democrats | 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 Democrats | 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
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
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- ^ The respective percentages became 68.3% and 72.3% List of Labour MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 2017-01-29
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jan/22/new-parliamentary-constituencies-westminster-election The Guardian (22 January 2010); "Altered Constituencies Data"
- ^ "Knowsley". guardian.co.uk.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Knowsley". BBC News. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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