County Cheshire Number of members 1 Electorate 71,836 (December 2010) Replaced by Warrington, Newton | Member of parliament Helen Jones Party Labour Party European Parliament constituency North West England Created from Warrington, Newton | |
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Warrington North is a parliamentary 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. The current MP is Helen Jones of the Labour Party — the constituency has always been a safe Labour seat.
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Boundaries
1983-1997: The Borough of Warrington wards of Bewsey, Burtonwood, Croft, Culceth and Glazebury, Fairfield, Howley, Hulme, Longford, Orford, Poulton-with-Fearnhead North, Poulton-with-Fearnhead South, Rixton and Woolston, Whitecross, and Winwick.
1997-2010: The Borough of Warrington wards of Bewsey, Burtonwood, Culceth, Glazebury and Croft, Fairfield, Hulme, Locking Stumps, Gorse Covert and Risley, Oakwood, Orford, Poplars, Poulton North, Poulton South, Rixton and Woolston, and Winwick.
2010-present: The Borough of Warrington wards of Birchwood, Burtonwood and Winwick, Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft, Fairfield and Howley, Orford, Poplars and Hulme, Poulton North, Poulton South, Rixton and Woolston, and Westbrook.
The constituency is one of two covering the unitary authority of Warrington, Cheshire, the other being Warrington South. It covers the northern and eastern parts of the town, including Birchwood, Orford, Padgate and Woolston, in effect suburbs that are contiguous. It also includes the villages of Burtonwood, Culcheth and Winwick. The southern boundary (with Warrington South) is the River Mersey.
History
The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the abolished Warrington and Newton constituencies.
Although in 2010 the Labour Party saw a 6.6% swing to the Conservative Party, all of its majorities to date have not been marginal and therefore Warrington North is a safe seat for the Labour Party, who have selected both of the candidates for MP since its creation. Its first member of Parliament was Doug Hoyle, who had first won the Warrington seat in a by-election in 1981, beating Roy Jenkins, the leader of the then-new Social Democratic Party in their first election.
Hoyle stood down at the 1997 general election, and was replaced by Helen Jones, who has held the seat since then.
Constituency profile
The constituency includes half of the historic but industrious town, which saw significant economic and population growth in the 20th century. In contrast to Warrington South, workless claimants who were registered jobseekers, constituted in November 2012 a higher proportion than the national average of 3.8% of the population, at 4.3%, this demonstrated marginally higher employment than in the North West as a whole, based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.
Elections in the 2010s
UKIP originally selected Andrew Fairfoull as candidate for 2015, but later announced Trevor Nicholls.