Helen Southworth

Who is Helen Southworth?

Helen Mary Southworth is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She is the former Member of Parliament for Warrington South, and was first elected at the 1997 general election. She retained the Warrington South seat at the 2001 and 2005 general elections, each time with a reduced majority. On 15 June 2009, she announced that she would be retiring at the next general election. The seat that she vacated was subsequently won for the Conservative Party by David Mowat. She is the longest-serving representative for Warrington South and the only person to have won successive elections in the constituency.