Goole and Pocklington is a

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represented in the

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of the

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. Further to the completion of the

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, it was first contested at the

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. Its Member of Parliament (MP) is David Davis of the Conservative Party, the former Brexit Secretary. Davis previously represented the predecessor constituencies of Boothferry from 1987 to 1997, and Haltemprice and Howden from 1997 to 2024.

Boundaries

The constituency contains the following electoral wards of the

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: * Dale, Goole North, Goole South, Howden, Howdenshire, Pocklington Provincial, Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe & Marshland, South Hunsley, and Wolds Weighton (small part). It comprises the following areas: *

Goole Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's Historic counties of England, historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. At the 2021 United Kingdom censu ...

and

Snaith Snaith is a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, close to the River Aire and the M62 motorway, M62 and M18 motorway, M18 motorways, west of Goole, east of Knottingley, south of Selby, southwest of Howden and northwest of ...

from the abolished seat of Brigg and Goole *

Pocklington Pocklington () is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, its population was 10,123. It lies east of York, and ...

from the

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constituency (renamed Bridlington and the Wolds) *

Howden Howden () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of York to the north of the M62 motorway, M62, on the A614 road about south-east of York and north of Goole, ...

and

North Ferriby North Ferriby is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Haltemprice area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. History Humber Estuary "The archaeology of the intertidal wetlands of the Humber Estuary is of internatio ...

, with rural areas to the north of the

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in between, from the abolished constituency of Haltemprice and Howden (comprising half of the new seat's electorate)

Members of Parliament

'' Haltemprice and Howden prior to 2024''

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

References

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