St. Helens South and Whiston | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Merseyside |
Electorate | 70,937 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Eccleston, Lea Green, Prescot, Rainhill, St Helens, Sutton, Thatto Heath, Whiston |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Marie Rimmer (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | St Helens South, Knowsley South |
St. Helens South and Whiston is a constituency created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Marie Rimmer of the Labour Party. [n 1]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was subject to minor boundary changes, with parts of Whiston and Cronton being included in the new constituency of Widnes and Halewood , first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election. [2]
Following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies the Boundary Commission for England expanded and renamed the St Helens South seat, covering the south of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens and three wards of the Knowsley borough which were in a neighbouring seat.
The area has been held by the Labour Party since the 1945 election (including predecessor seats), and part since 1935. The 2015 result made the seat the 24th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [3]
The 2015 general election saw (with 11.3%) more than the national average swing (+9.5%) to UKIP (narrowly placed third). Labour's candidate won more than fivefold those votes, scoring 59.8%.
Turnout has risen from 59.1% to 62.3%
The boundaries have not changed to date.
Its electoral wards are:
2024-present
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency is composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Following boundary changes in the Borough of Knowsley, the majority of the Whiston & Cronton ward - excluding the town centre of Whiston - will be included in the new constituency of Widnes and Halewood.
Following a local government boundary review in St Helens which came into effect in May 2022, [5] [6] the constituency will now comprise the following from the 2024 general election:
Election | Member [8] | Party | |
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2010 | Shaun Woodward | Labour | |
2015 | Marie Rimmer | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Marie Rimmer [11] | 18,919 | 49.7 | –8.8 | |
Reform UK | Raymond Peters | 6,974 | 18.3 | +7.7 | |
Independent | James Tasker | 4,244 | 11.2 | New | |
Conservative | Emma Ellison | 3,057 | 8.0 | –12.5 | |
Green | Terence Price [12] | 2,642 | 7.0 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Spencer [13] | 2,199 | 5.8 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 11,945 | 31.4 | –6.6 | ||
Turnout | 38,120 | 53.3 | –10.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Marie Rimmer | 29,457 | 58.5 | ―9.3 | |
Conservative | Richard Short | 10,335 | 20.5 | ―1.3 | |
Brexit Party | Daniel Oxley | 5,353 | 10.6 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Spencer | 2,886 | 5.7 | +1.7 | |
Green | Kai Taylor | 2,282 | 4.5 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 19,122 | 38.0 | ―8.0 | ||
Turnout | 50,313 | 63.6 | ―3.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ―4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Marie Rimmer | 35,879 | 67.8 | +8.0 | |
Conservative | Ed McRandal | 11,536 | 21.8 | +5.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Spencer | 2,101 | 4.0 | ―1.7 | |
UKIP | Mark Hitchen | 1,953 | 3.7 | ―10.3 | |
Green | Jess Northey | 1,417 | 2.7 | ―1.9 | |
Majority | 24,343 | 46.0 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 52,886 | 66.9 | +4.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Marie Rimmer | 28,950 | 59.8 | +6.9 | |
Conservative | Gillian Keegan | 7,707 | 15.9 | ―1.9 | |
UKIP | John Beirne | 6,766 | 14.0 | +11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Spencer | 2,737 | 5.7 | ―16.5 | |
Green | James Chan | 2,237 | 4.6 | New | |
Majority | 21,243 | 43.9 | +13.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,397 | 62.3 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Shaun Woodward* | 24,364 | 52.9 | ―2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Spencer | 10,242 | 22.2 | ―6.6 | |
Conservative | Val Allen | 8,209 | 17.8 | +5.7 | |
BNP | James Winstanley | 2,040 | 4.4 | New | |
UKIP | John Sumner | 1,226 | 2.7 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 14,122 | 30.7 | ―3.9 | ||
Turnout | 46,081 | 59.1 | +5.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.9 |
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