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Knowsley North and Sefton East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. A County constituency is a constituency in the United Kingdom that covers a predominantly rural area. ...
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Boundaries
The constituency covers the localities of Kirkby and Knowsley Village in Knowsley; Maghull, Lydiate, Lunt, Sefton Village, Ince Blundell, Waddicar and Melling and Aintree in Sefton. Arms of the former Kirkby Urban District Council Kirkby is a new town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. ...
Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. ...
Location within the British Isles Maghull is a town in Sefton, Merseyside, England. ...
Lydiate is a village in Sefton,Merseyside,England. ...
Lunt is a small village in Sefton on Merseyside, close to Sefton Village. ...
Sefton is a village in the Metropolitan borough of Sefton in Mersyside, England. ...
Ince Blundell is a village to the north of Liverpool on the A565. ...
Melling, in Sefton, translates from the Anglo-saxon for The homestead of Mealla, (or Malla). ...
Aintree is a suburb of Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ...
Note: See Sefton, Australia for Sefton, Sydney, Australia. ...
The constituency is bordered in the south by Liverpool Walton, Liverpool West Derby, Bootle and Knowsley South; in the east by Crosby; in the north by Lancashire West and in the west by St Helens North and St Helens South. Liverpool Walton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Liverpool West Derby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Bootle is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Knowsley South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Crosby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Lancashire West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
St Helens North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
St Helens South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Following decisions by the Boundary Commission for England, Knowsley North and Sefton East is to be abolished in time for the next General Election. This seat will form a small part of a new Knowsley seat, with the Crosby, Maghull and Formby elements moving into a new Sefton Central (UK Parliament constituency) Knowsley is a constituency to be represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Crosby, Formby and Maghull are the main population areas in Sefton Central, the new constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Member of Parliament The current MP for Knowsley North and Sefton East is George Howarth (Labour), who has stood since 1986. George Edward Howarth (born 29 June 1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Election results The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
George Edward Howarth (born 29 June 1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ...
The British National Party (BNP) is a political party of the far-right in the United Kingdom. ...
The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a small left-wing political party in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
George Edward Howarth (born 29 June 1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a small left-wing political party in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
Politics and history of the constituency A primarily working-class industrial region, the seat is 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. Knowsley North was a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons. ...
Crosby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also | Constituencies in North West England | | Labour | Ashton under Lyne | Barrow and Furness | Birkenhead | Blackburn | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Blackpool South | Bolton North East | Bolton South East | Bolton West | Bootle | Burnley | Bury North | Bury South | Carlisle | Chorley | City of Chester | Copeland | Crewe and Nantwich | Crosby | Denton and Reddish | Eccles | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Halton | Heywood and Middleton | Hyndburn | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Knowsley South | Leigh | Liverpool Garston | Liverpool Riverside | Liverpool Walton | Liverpool Wavertree | Liverpool West Derby | Makerfield | Manchester Blackley | Manchester Central | Manchester Gorton | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Pendle | Preston | Ribble South | Rossendale and Darwen | Salford | St Helens North | St Helens South | Stalybridge and Hyde | Stockport | Stretford and Urmston | Wallasey | Warrington North | Warrington South | Weaver Vale | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral South | Wirral West | Workington | Worsley | Wythenshawe and Sale East The ceremonial county of Merseyside is divided into 16 Parliamentary constituencies - 14 Borough constituencies and 2 County constituencies. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
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Barrow and Furness is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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Location within the British Isles. ...
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Knowsley South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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