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Keighley and Ilkley / ˈ k iː θ l i / ⓘ is a constituency in West Yorkshire [n 1] created in 1885 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament [n 2] since 2019 by Robbie Moore of the Conservative Party.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine West Yorkshire with North Yorkshire as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of two new cross-county boundary constituencies: Selby which comprises the ...
She was selected as the prospective Labour candidate for the Keighley constituency, the seat her husband had held, from an all-women shortlist. [5] She was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Gary Waller by 7,132 votes. She made her maiden speech on 16 May 1997. [6]
Grogan lost his Keighley seat in the 2019 general election to the Conservative candidate Robbie Moore. [51] In November 2022, he was elected by members as the prospective parliamentary candidate in Keighley and Ilkley for the 2024 general election. [52] In the election he was defeated again by Robbie Moore, who won against the national swing. [53]
Before being elected as MP for Keighley in 2019, Moore was a councillor on Alnwick Town Council and represented Alnwick on Northumberland County Council. [6] He unsuccessfully contested the July 2019 by-election for Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, but at the general election in December, he gained the marginal seat of Keighley from the Labour incumbent, John Grogan.
After British Railways closed the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway line in 1962, Cryer was one of a group of people who formed the KWVR Preservation Society, which bought the line and reopened it. As the society's first chairman, he helped to facilitate the shooting of the film The Railway Children on the line in the summer of 1970 and had a ...
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Keighley is 8 miles (13 kilometres) north-west of Bradford, 4 mi (6.5 km) north-west of Bingley, 11 mi (18 km) north of Halifax and 8 mi (13 km) south-east of Skipton. It is governed by Keighley Town Council and Bradford City Council. Keighley is located in West Yorkshire, close to the borders of North Yorkshire and Lancashire.