St Helens North (UK Parliament constituency)

St. Helens North
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of St. Helens North in Merseyside.
Location of Merseyside within England.
County	Merseyside
Electorate	75,688 (December 2010)
Major settlements	St Helens, Billinge, Earlestown, Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Conor McGinn (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	St Helens, Newton, Ince, Ormskirk and Huyton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Coordinates: 53°29′10″N 2°42′50″W / 53.486°N 2.714°W / 53.486; -2.714

St. Helens North is a constituency created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by the Labour Party's Conor McGinn. Between 1997 and 2015 the MP was Labour's David Watts.

1983-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens wards of Billinge and Seneley Green, Blackbrook, Broad Oak, Haydock, Moss Bank, Newton East, Newton West, Rainford, and Windle.

2010-present: As above, less Broad Oak, plus Earlestown; Newton replaced Newton East and West wards.

The constituency is one of two covering the Metropolitan Borough, the other being St Helens South and Whiston. It includes the north of the town of St Helens, and Billinge, Seneley Green, Earlestown, Blackbrook, Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford.

The 2015 result made the seat the 42nd-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. The constituency was created in 1983, primarily replacing parts of the St Helens and Newton constituencies. It has been won to date by candidates fielded by the Labour Party — by the former Newton MP John Evans and from 1997 by David Watts, a former council leader. As to the predominantly-contributing two seats to the present division, St Helens has been won by the party since 1935 and so too Newton. The party's two successive candidates for MP have won an absolute majority (plurality) of the votes since 1987 (inclusive).