St Helens North (UK Parliament constituency)
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of St. Helens North in Merseyside.
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Location of Merseyside within England.
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County | Merseyside |
Electorate | 75,688 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | St Helens, Billinge, Earlestown, Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Conor McGinn (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | St Helens, and Newton |
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European Parliament constituency | North West England |
St. Helens North is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by the Labour Party's Conor McGinn. Between 1997 and 2015 the MP was Labour's David Watts.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency is one of two covering the Metropolitan Borough, the other being St Helens South and Whiston. It includes the north of the town of St Helens, and Billinge, Seneley Green, Earlestown, Blackbrook, Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford.
Following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies by the Boundary Commission for the 2010 general election the constituency underwent small boundary changes, in order to match the modified ward boundaries introduced in the borough in 2004.
The seat has electoral wards:
- Billinge and Seneley Green, Blackbrook, Earlestown, Haydock, Moss Bank, Newton, Parr, Rainford, and Windle in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens.[2]
History
The constituency was created in 1983, primarily replacing parts of the St Helens and Newton constituencies. It has to date been safe seat for the Labour Party, having been held by a member of the party since its creation, first by the former Newton MP John Evans, then from 1997 by David Watts, a former leader of St Helens council.
Constituency profile
The seat includes the large town of St Helens noted by visitors for Rugby League, Football and the nearby horseracing racecourse at Haydock Park. Despite these prominent sports venues, workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 4.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, which was close to the Greater Manchester and Merseyside average but higher than the regional average of 4.4%.[3] With the exception of the Conservative area of Rainford, virtually every other ward in the seat is safely Labour.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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1983 | John Evans | Labour | |
1997 | Dave Watts | Labour | |
2015 | Conor McGinn | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Conor McGinn | 26,378 | 57.0 | +5.3 | |
Conservative | Paul Richardson | 9,087 | 19.6 | −2.7 | |
UKIP | Ian Smith | 6,983 | 15.1 | +10.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Denise Aspinall | 2,046 | 4.4 | −15.8 | |
Green | Elizabeth Ward | 1,762 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 17,291 | 37.4 | +8.0 | ||
Turnout | 46,256 | 61.5 | +1.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Watts | 23,041 | 51.7 | −8.2 | |
Conservative | Paul V. Greenall | 9,940 | 22.3 | +3.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | John L. Beirne | 8,992 | 20.2 | −1.1 | |
UKIP | Gary Robinson | 2,100 | 4.7 | +1.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Stephen Benjamin Whatham | 483 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,101 | 29.4 | |||
Turnout | 44,556 | 59.8 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.2 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Watts | 22,329 | 56.9 | −4.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | John L. Beirne | 8,367 | 21.3 | +3.7 | |
Conservative | Paul J. Oakley | 7,410 | 18.9 | +0.1 | |
UKIP | Mrs. Sylvia Hall | 1,165 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,962 | 35.6 | |||
Turnout | 39,271 | 57.8 | +5.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Watts | 22,977 | 61.1 | −3.8 | |
Conservative | Simon Nicholas Charles Pearce | 7,076 | 18.8 | +1.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | John L. Beirne | 6,609 | 17.6 | +4.8 | |
Socialist Labour | Stephen Benjamin Whatham | 939 | 2.5 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 15,901 | 42.3 | |||
Turnout | 37,601 | 52.7 | −16.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Watts | 31,953 | 64.9 | +11.3 | |
Conservative | Pelham J.C. Walker | 8,536 | 17.3 | −11.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | John L. Beirne | 6,270 | 12.7 | −0.4 | |
Referendum | David Johnson | 1,276 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Ron Waugh | 833 | 1.7 | N/A | |
UKIP | Richard D. Rubin | 363 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 23,417 | 47.6 | |||
Turnout | 49,231 | 68.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Evans | 31,930 | 57.9 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Brendan J. Anderson | 15,686 | 28.5 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | John L. Beirne | 7,224 | 13.1 | −6.0 | |
Natural Law | Mrs Anne M. Lynch | 287 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,244 | 29.5 | +3.1 | ||
Turnout | 55,127 | 77.4 | +1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.5 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Evans | 28,989 | 53.7 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Miss Melinda Jane Libby | 14,729 | 27.3 | −3.1 | |
Liberal | Neil Philip Derbyshire | 10,300 | 19.1 | −2.6 | |
Majority | 14,260 | 26.4 | |||
Turnout | 54,018 | 76.3 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Evans | 25,334 | 47.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | A. Rhodes | 16,075 | 30.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Neil Philip Derbyshire | 11,525 | 21.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,259 | 17.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,934 | 74.5 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
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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- ↑ 2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
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- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- Politics of St Helens, Merseyside