Knowsley (UK Parliament constituency)

Knowsley
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Knowsley in Merseyside.
Location of Merseyside within England.
County	Merseyside
Electorate	79,334 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	George Howarth (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Knowsley South, Knowsley North and Sefton East
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Coordinates: 53°27′40″N 2°49′41″W / 53.461°N 2.828°W / 53.461; -2.828

Knowsley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by George Howarth of the Labour Party.

Created for the 2010 general election (during the Boundary Commission for England's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies), the area returned the second highest share of the vote seen by a candidate for the Labour Party, of 70.9%, behind the 72.0% achieved in Liverpool Walton. The same ranking of results nationally occurred in 2015.

The new constituency covers a large part of the metropolitan borough, main settlements being Huyton and Kirkby. It replaced most of the previous Knowsley South constituency, as well as the parts of Knowsley North and Sefton East in the Knowsley borough. Distant parts from the centre of the metropolitan borough are covered by the new St Helens South and Whiston and Garston and Halewood constituencies.