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    Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency in West Yorkshire of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was represented by Yvette Cooper...
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    1.316°W / 53.708; -1.316 Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until...
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    Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley is a constituency in West Yorkshire of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It is currently represented by...
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    June 1997. Yvette Cooper was elected as the MP for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the 1997 general election. In her maiden speech to the...
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  • Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament...
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    of Normanton from Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (renamed Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley). The constituency comprised the following wards...
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    69556°N 1.30389°W / 53.69556; -1.30389 Pontefract (or Pomfret) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II...
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  • West Yorkshire Normanton (UK Parliament constituency) (old) Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency) (new) Normanton (rugby league)...
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    was included in the constituency, despite being part of a Castleford ward, and due to move into a proposed "Pontefract and Castleford" seat which happened...
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    between the Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford constituency and the Wakefield constituency. At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by...
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    Yvette Cooper (category Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997. First elected to Parliament at...
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  • Commons parliamentary constituency of Pontefract and Castleford on 26 October 1978 following the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Joseph Harper...
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    Harrow The only other three-place constituency name in England at the time was Normanton, Pontefract, and Castleford in Yorkshire. Further to the 2023...
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    The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern...
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    650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. The UK Parliament consists of the...
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  • Julian Malins (category Reform UK politicians)
    councillor in the City of London, Malins also contested Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency) for the Conservatives at the 1987 General Election...
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  • Pontefract Borough Council. He was mayor of Pontefract in 1967, and leader of the council from 1969 to 1973. He was MP for Pontefract and Castleford from...
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    Kinross-shire Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley Queen's Park and Maida Vale Rawmarsh and Conisbrough Reading Central Reading West and Mid Berkshire...
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    sale for popular Pontefract community pantomime". Pontefract and Castleford Express. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020. "Pontefract Events 2020" (PDF)...
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  • created; and the town of Normanton is transferred from Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford to Hemsworth, resulting in the two new constituencies of Pontefract...
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  • Mervyn Pike (category Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    manufacturers. Pike contested Pontefract in 1951 and Leek in 1955 without success. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Melton at a by-election...
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    Chequerfield (category Pontefract)
    Retrieved 14 May 2020. "Book tells the story of life on estate". Pontefract and Castleford Express. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Wikimedia Commons...
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  • authorities - specifically to Castleford (which took 14,145 of the 23,981 in the district in 1931), Knottingley, and Pontefract. It was named after the Wapentake...
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    church in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The church is situated on Micklegate to the east of Pontefract town centre close to Pontefract Castle. It...
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    Pontefract Library is a public library in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The present day building is notable as one of the last examples of architecture...
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    town hall in Market Place in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1785 and was replaced by Pontefract Town Hall which was completed...
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  • Leicestershire, Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, Richmond Park, Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Southampton Itchen, St Albans, Wakefield and Rothwell, Waveney...
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    Pontefract and Castleford from 2010 until the constituency was abolished, and previously Pontefract and Castleford from 1997 until the constituency was...
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    2023. "2023 Review of UK Parliament Constituencies Boundary Commission for Scotland Final Recommendations laid before Parliament" (PDF). 28 June 2023....
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    Garforth and Great Preston. The Kippax and Methley ward of Leeds City Council is part of the UK Parliament constituency of Selby. The population of Kippax...
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