Graham Cregeen is a Manx politician who served as

Member of the House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

for

Arbory, Castletown & Malew Arbory, Castletown & Malew is a House of Keys constituency in the south of the Isle of Man. It was created for the 2016 general election and elects 2 MHKs; currently Jason Moorhouse and Graham Cregeen Graham Cregeen is a Manx politician who ser ...

in the

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until 2021. He was Minister for Justice and Home Affairs from 2020 to 2021.

Political career

In 2006 he was elected MHK for the former

Malew and Santon Malew and Santon was a House of Keys constituency in the Isle of Man. The constituency was created in 1986. It elected one MHK and the constituency covered the parishes of Malew and Santon. This was slightly unusual since Malew and Santon are ...

constituency, and was re-elected for that constituency in 2011. From 2006 to 2016 he was a political member of a variety of government departments in turn, and for a few weeks in 2012 he was Minister for Community, Culture and Leisure (a position that was abolished in 2014). In 2016 he was elected MHK for the new

constituency, and appointed Minister for Education and Children. In 2017 the department was renamed as the

Department of Education, Sport and Culture The Department of Education, Sport and Culture (''Rheynn Ynsee Spoyrt as Cultoor'') is a department of the Isle of Man Government. The department was formerly the Department of Education and Children and was renamed as the Department of Educat ...

. In 2020 he was appointed Minister for Justice and Home Affairs.

Election results

2011

2016

In 2014,

Tynwald Tynwald ( gv, Tinvaal), or more formally, the High Court of Tynwald ( gv, Ard-whaiyl Tinvaal) or Tynwald Court, is the legislature of the Isle of Man. It consists of two chambers, known as the branches of Tynwald: the directly elected House of ...

approved recommendations from the Boundary Review Commission which saw the reform of the Island's electoral boundaries. Under the new system, the Island was divided into 12 constituencies based on population, with each area represented by two members of the

House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

. As a result Cregeen's former constituency of

was abolished, with Santon becoming part of the constituency of Middle and Malew becoming part of the newly formed Arbory, Castletown and Malew.

References

Living people Manx people Members of the House of Keys 2006–2011 Members of the House of Keys 2011–2016 Members of the House of Keys 2016–2021 Year of birth missing (living people) {{IsleofMan-politician-stub