Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

England PCON E14001428

Sitting MP

Yvette Cooper Labour Elected 1997-05-01

2024 General Election result

Labour Winner

47.5% Winning share

18.4pp Majority over Reform UK

35,957 Valid votes cast

Vote share by party

Labour 47.5%

Reform UK 29.1%

Conservative 15.0%

Labour 47.5%
Reform UK 29.1%
Conservative 15.0%
Green Party 4.6%
Liberal Democrats 3.4%
Social Democratic Party 0.4%

Personal Independence Payment

9,289 PIP claimants · Jan 2026

Source: DWP Stat-Xplore, PIP Monthly New. Constituency totals only. No demographic breakdown is published at constituency level.

Demographic snapshot

Aggregated up from the 1 of 1 constituent local authority profiles, weighted by share of constituency postcodes and 2021 population. Indicative only: a constituency that takes the dense core of an LA but a small share of its postcodes will be misweighted. For direct Census observations, use the local-authority pages linked below.

88.2% White British 2021 (derived)

61.6% -26.6pp White British 2051 projected (derived)

8.5% Foreign-born 2021 (derived)

30.1% Foreign-born 2051 projected (derived)

Method: each constituent local authority contributes the product of its postcode share within the constituency and its 2021 population. Underlying figures from Census 2021 (ONS custom dataset) and the Hamilton-Perry projection model. See the methodology page for the projection's limitations and validation.

Local authorities in this constituency

By share of postcodes from the constituency that fall in each LA.

Wakefield