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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. Although the constituency had contained the town of Ilkley since 1983, it was formally known as Keighley until the 2024 general ...
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.
MP for the predecessor seat of Jarrow: Keighley and Ilkley: Conservative: Robbie Moore: Conservative: Kenilworth and Southam: Conservative: Jeremy Wright: Conservative: Kensington and Bayswater: Labour: Joe Powell: Labour: Notional hold. Defeated Felicity Buchan, incumbent Conservative MP for the predecessor seat of Kensington. Kettering ...
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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]
Name Majority (vote) Majority (%) Aldridge-Brownhills: Wendy Morton: 4,231 10.3 Arundel and South Downs: Andrew Griffith: 12,134 22.2 Basildon and Billericay: Richard Holden: 20 0.04 Beaconsfield: Joy Morrissey: 5,455 11.4 Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk: John Lamont: 6,599 4.5 Beverley and Holderness: Graham Stuart: 124 0.3 Bexhill and ...
Keighley and Ilkley CC: 74,367 1,625 Robbie Moore† John Grogan‡ West Yorkshire: Kingston upon Hull East BC [nb 4] 70,650 3,920 Karl Turner‡ Neil Hunter# East Riding of Yorkshire (prev. Humberside) Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham BC [nb 4] 75,280 10,769 Diana Johnson‡ Martin Baker# East Riding of Yorkshire (prev. Humberside)