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Encyclopedia > St Helens North (UK Parliament constituency)

St Helens North 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 constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Contents
1 Boundaries
2 Member of Parliament
3 Election results
4 Politics and history of the constituency

Boundaries

Member of Parliament

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Election results

General Election 2005: St Helens North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Watts 22,329 56.9 -4.2
Liberal Democrats John Beirne 8,367 21.3 +3.7
Conservative Paul Oakley 7,410 18.9 +0.1
UKIP Sylvia Hall 1,165 3.0 +3.0
Majority 13,962 35.6
Turnout 39,271 57.8 +5.1
Labour hold Swing -4.0
General Election 2001: St Helens North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Watts 22,977 61.1 -3.8
Conservative Simon Pearce 7,076 18.8 +1.5
Liberal Democrats John Beirne 6,609 17.6 +4.8
Socialist Labour Party Stephen Whatham 939 2.5 +0.8
Majority 15,901 42.3
Turnout 37,601 52.7 -16.2
Labour hold Swing

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on 5 May 2005, just over three weeks after the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April by Queen Elizabeth II, at the request of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... David Leonard Watts (born 26 August 1951) 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 in the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... David Leonard Watts (born 26 August 1951) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the Socialist Labour Party founded by Arthur Scargill in 1996. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...

Politics and history of the constituency


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St Helens North (UK Parliament constituency): (192 words)
St Helens North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency is one of two covering the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, the other being St Helens South.
The constituency was created in 1983, primarily replacing parts of the St Helens and Newton constituencies.
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