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St Helens South (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983–2010

Field	Value
name	St Helens South
parliament	uk
map1	StHelensSouth
map2	EnglandMerseyside
map_entity	Merseyside
map_year	2005
year	1983
abolished	2010
type	Borough
previous	St Helens, Widnes and Huyton
next	St Helens South and Whiston
year2	1885
region	England
county	Merseyside
european	North West England
elects_howmany	One

St Helens South was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The Borough of St Helens wards of Eccleston, Grange Park, Marshalls Cross, Parr and Hardshaw, Queen's Park, Rainhill, Sutton and Bold, Thatto Heath, and West Sutton.

The constituency was one of two covering the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, the other being St Helens North. It contained the southern part of the borough including the town centre of St Helens, the south of the town, Clock Face and Rainhill.

Following recommendations made by the Boundary Commission for England, St Helens South was replaced with a new St Helens South and Whiston constituency, which includes three wards from Knowsley borough.

History

The forerunner seat had been represented by members of the Labour Party since 1935.

The constituency was formed in 1983, and was represented by Labour's Gerry Bermingham from then until he stood down in 2001. He was replaced by Shaun Woodward, who had defected from the Conservatives to Labour in December 1999. Woodward was deemed unlikely to retain his Witney constituency in Oxfordshire as a Labour candidate (it was subsequently won by David Cameron, future Leader of the Conservatives and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), and was instead selected for this safe seat. Woodward had won all three elections however he lost his position in the cabinet because of the Labour party defeat to the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition government in the 2010 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election	s	1	date=March 2012}}
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1983	Gerry Bermingham
Labour Party (UK)}}"		2001	Shaun Woodward
	2010	Constituency abolished: see St Helens South and Whiston

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i17.htm|title=UK General Election results April 1992|date=9 April 1992|work=Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources|publisher=Politics Resources|accessdate=2010-12-06}}

Elections in the 2000s

References

"'St Helens South', June 1983 up to May 1997". Cognitive Computing Limited.
{{Rayment-hc. s. 1. (March 2012)
"Election Data 1983". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1987". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1992". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1997". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 2001". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 2005". [[Electoral Calculus]].

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