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Encyclopedia > St Helens South (UK Parliament constituency)

St Helens South 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 South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shaun Woodward 19,345 54.5 +4.8
Liberal Democrats Brian Spencer 10,036 28.3 +5.2
Conservative Una Riley 4,602 13.0 -0.8
UKIP Malcolm Nightingale 847 2.4 +1.4
Socialist Labour Party Michael Perry 643 1.8 -2.6
Majority 9,309 26.2
Turnout 35,473 46.0 -5.4
Labour hold Swing -0.2
General Election 2001: St Helens South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shaun Woodward 16,799 49.7 -18.9
Liberal Democrats Brian Spencer 7,814 23.1 +9.7
Conservative Lee Rotherham 4,675 13.8 -1.1
Socialist Alliance Neil Thompson 2,325 6.9 N/A
Socialist Labour Party Mike Perry 1,504 4.4 N/A
UKIP Bryan Slater 336 1.0 N/A
Independent Michael Murphy 271 0.8 N/A
Independent David Braid 80 0.2 N/A
Majority 8,985 26.6
Turnout 33,804 51.4 -15.1
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. ... Shaun Anthony Woodward (born October 26, 1958) is an British politician, and Labour member of Parliament for St Helens South. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... Shaun Anthony Woodward (born October 26, 1958) is an British politician, and Labour member of Parliament for St Helens South. ... 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 Socialist Alliance is a far left electoral alliance in England. ... This article is about the Socialist Labour Party founded by Arthur Scargill in 1996. ... 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. ...

Politics and history of the constituency


  Results from FactBites:
 
Parliament Parser (parlparse) (1226 words)
Structured versions of publicly available data from the UK parliament, and the source code that was used to generate the data.
An MP who was in two parliaments, or in one parliament then later became a Lord, will appear twice.
Sometimes someone changes constituency between two parliaments, such as Shaun Woodward (Witney) and Shaun Woodward (St Helens South).
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