Shows the general election results for Knowsley, which is a constituency in North West. Kilroy-Silk resigned on 1 October 1986, to pursue a media career. It existed from 1983 to 2010.
In 2017 it had a total electorate of 81,760 and a turnout of 67.9%.
The Knowsley constituency comprises Huyton, Kirkby, Knowsley Village, Stockbridge Village and the western part of Prescot.
[5] In 2015, it became the safest seat in the country in absolute votes (not percentage of majority), beating East Ham by 403 votes. General election 2017: How do I register to vote? It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. Merseyside has bucked the national trend with Labour holding 14 out of the 15 seats in the area. This was the largest numerical Labour majority at the 2019 general election.
Tim McCullough of The Brexit Party came third and the Green Party's Paul Woodruff came fourth. Knowsley North and Sefton East was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency mainly consists of low-income social housing and former social housing built to decant the residents displaced by post-war slum clearance in Liverpool. Election 2019: Will the Reds dominate Merseyside? The Labour candidate beat Conservative Rushi Millns by 39,942 votes, 2,272 votes less than the majority at the 2017 election. General election 2019: Latest national results, Election 2019: Election words and phrases explained.
Don't get left outside This story was created using some automation. Read about our approach to external linking. Veteran MP George Howarth has retained Knowsley for Labour with a 39,942 majority - 2,272 down on 2017. Change is calculated from the SDP candidate who represented the, Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knowsley_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&oldid=960481867, Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic), United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983, United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997, Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Previously MP for Ormskirk from 1974. Animated tour of the election in 10 stops, Five big things on Boris Johnson's to-do list. Labour has held its seat in Knowsley with a 39,942 majority. Before its first general election in 2010, it was believed to present the safest seat in the country, with an estimated Labour majority of 24,333 votes. Despite the Conservatives gaining in many Labour heartlands, seats including Birkenhead, Bootle, Knowsley and Sefton Central have remained red. This page was last edited on 3 June 2020, at 06:12.