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Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency [n 1] in West Yorkshire of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was represented by Yvette Cooper of the Labour Party for the whole of its creation.
The constituency covered the West Yorkshire towns of Pontefract and Castleford. It was a very safe Labour seat, made up of former mining towns and villages. The MP from 1997 until its abolition in 2010, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, is married to former fellow Labour MP, former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
Cooper was selected as the Labour candidate to contest Pontefract and Castleford at the 1997 general election. She was elected as MP for Pontefract and Castleford with 75.7% of the vote and a majority of 25,725. [9] Cooper made her maiden speech in the Commons on 2 July 1997, speaking about her constituency's struggle with unemployment. [10]
Yvette Cooper has contributed opinion articles to The ... Cooper gave away mince pies and her office organised a competition to design a Christmas card at a primary school in her constituency. Links.
It is currently represented by Yvette Cooper of the Labour Party, [n 2] who currently serves as Home Secretary under the government of Keir Starmer. Cooper was MP for the predecessor seats of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford from 2010 to 2024, and Pontefract and Castleford from 1997 to 2010.
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