History
A primarily working-class industrial region, the seat was traditionally one of the strongest Labour-held seats in the country. The original Knowsley North constituency gained several wards from Crosby as a result of boundary changes in 1995. The constituency was represented throughout it existence by George Howarth (Labour), who had held the previous Knowsley North constituency from 1986.
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