Knowsley North and Sefton East (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°27′40″N 2°49′41″W / 53.461°N 2.828°W / 53.461; -2.828

Knowsley North and Sefton East
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Knowsley North and Sefton East in Merseyside for the 2005 general election.
Location of Merseyside within England.
County	Merseyside
1997–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Knowsley, Sefton Central
Created from	Knowsley North, Crosby^[1]

Knowsley North and Sefton East was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

History

A primarily working-class industrial region, the seat was traditionally one of the strongest Labour-held seats in the country. The original Knowsley North constituency gained several wards from Crosby as a result of boundary changes in 1995. The constituency was represented throughout its existence by George Howarth (Labour), who had held the previous Knowsley North constituency from 1986.

Boundaries

The Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley wards of Cantril Farm, Cherryfield, Kirkby Central, Knowsley Park, Northwood, Park, Tower Hill, and Whitefield, and the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Molyneux, Park, and Sudell.

The constituency covered the localities of Kirkby and Knowsley Village in Knowsley; Maghull, Lydiate, Lunt, Sefton Village, Ince Blundell, Waddicar and Melling and Aintree in Sefton.

It was bordered in the south by Knowsley South; in the west by Crosby; in the north by West Lancashire; in the southwest by Liverpool Walton, Liverpool West Derby, and Bootle and in the east by St Helens North and St Helens South.

Following decisions by the Boundary Commission for England, Knowsley North and Sefton East was abolished for the 2010 general election. This seat formed a small part of a new Knowsley seat, with the Crosby, Maghull and Formby elements moving into a new Sefton Central constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[2]	Party
	1997	George Howarth	Labour
	2010	constituency abolished: see Knowsley & Sefton Central

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Knowsley North and Sefton East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Howarth	34,747	69.9	N/A
	Conservative	Carl Doran	8,600	17.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	David Bamber	5,499	11.1	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Chris Jones	857	1.7	N/A
Majority			26,147	52.6	N/A
Turnout				70.1	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	+12.50

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Knowsley North and Sefton East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Howarth	25,035	66.7	−3.2
	Conservative	Keith Chapman	6,108	16.3	−1.0
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Roberts	5,173	13.8	+2.7
	Socialist Labour	Ronald Waugh	574	1.5	−0.2
	Independent	Thomas Rossiter	356	0.9	N/A
	Independent	David Jones	271	0.7	N/A
Majority			18,927	50.4
Turnout			37,517	53.0	−17.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Knowsley North and Sefton East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	George Howarth	23,461	63.3	−3.4
	Liberal Democrat	Flo Clucas	7,192	19.4	+5.6
	Conservative	Naman Purewal	5,064	13.7	−2.6
	BNP	Michael McDermott	872	2.4	+2.4
	Socialist Labour	Stephen Whatham	464	1.3	−0.2
Majority			16,269	43.9
Turnout			37,053	52.6	−0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.5

Notes and references

↑ "'Knowsley North and Sefton East', May 1997 -". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)

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Conservative (22)	Altrincham and Sale West Blackpool North and Cleveleys Bolton West Bury North Carlisle Cheadle Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Eddisbury Fylde Hazel Grove Macclesfield Morecambe and Lunesdale Pendle Penrith and The Border Ribble Valley Rossendale and Darwen South Ribble Tatton Warrington South Weaver Vale Wyre and Preston North

Liberal Democrats (2)	Southport Westmorland and Lonsdale

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