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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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]
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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 ...
Bradford (/ ˈ b r æ d f ər d / ⓘ), [6] also known as the City of Bradford, is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.It is named after its largest settlement, Bradford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns and villages of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley, Ilkley, Haworth, Silsden, Queensbury, Thornton and Denholme.
Boundaries of Keighley/Keighley and Ilkley — constituency of UK Parliament — form 2010 to 2024 (virtually unchanged in 2024): Source No source specified. Please edit this file description and provide a source. Date 19 August 2021 Author Rcsprinter123. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.