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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 ...
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.
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]
The Commission calculated that the number of seats to be allocated to the Yorkshire and the Humber region would be unchanged, at 54. [3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
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Keighley and Ilkley: Robbie Moore: Kenilworth and Southam: Jeremy Wright: Kingswinford and South Staffordshire: Mike Wood: Leicester East: Shivani Raja: Louth and Horncastle: Victoria Atkins: Maidstone and Malling: Helen Grant: Maldon: John Whittingdale: Melton and Syston: Edward Argar: Meriden and Solihull East: Saqib Bhatti: Mid Bedfordshire ...
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]