| Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Caption 2: | Boundary of Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley in Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
| Type: | County |
| Region: | England |
| Party: | Labour |
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley is a constituency in West Yorkshire of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.[1] It is currently represented by Yvette Cooper of the Labour Party, who currently serves as Home Secretary under the government of Keir Starmer.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election.
The constituency composed of the following wards of the City of Wakefield (as they existed on 1 December 2020):[2]
It comprises the former Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford seat excluding the Normanton ward, which includes the town of Normanton and the civil parishes of Warmfield cum Heath and Kirkthorpe.
Normanton, Pontefract & Castleford prior to 2024
| 2019 notional result[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| 15,759 | 38.2 | ||
| 14,677 | 35.6 | ||
| 6,518 | 15.8 | ||
| 2,799 | 6.8 | ||
| Others | 1,515 | 3.7 | |
| Turnout | 41,268 | 56.7 | |
| Electorate | 72,751 | ||