List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
The English ceremonial county of West Yorkshire is divided into 22 parliamentary constituencies: 12 borough constituencies and 10 county constituencies.
Constituencies
Name[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Batley and Spen CC | 79,558 | 3,525 | Tracy Brabin ‡ | Mark Brooks† | |||
Bradford East BC | 73,206 | 18,144 | Imran Hussain‡ | Linden Kemkaran† | |||
Bradford South BC | 69,046 | 2,346 | Judith Cummins‡ | Narinder Sekhon† | |||
Bradford West BC | 70,694 | 27,019 | Naz Shah‡ | Mohammed Afzal† | |||
Calder Valley CC | 79,287 | 5,774 | Craig Whittaker† | Joshua Fenton-Glynn‡ | |||
Colne Valley CC | 84,174 | 5,103 | Jason McCartney† | Thelma Walker‡ | |||
Dewsbury CC | 81,253 | 1,561 | Mark Eastwood† | Paula Sherriff‡ | |||
Elmet and Rothwell CC | 80,957 | 17,353 | Alec Shelbrooke† | David Nagle‡ | |||
Halifax BC | 71,887 | 2,569 | Holly Lynch‡ | Kashif Ali† | |||
Hemsworth CC | 73,726 | 1,180 | Jon Trickett‡ | Louise Calland† | |||
Huddersfield BC | 65,525 | 4,937 | Barry Sheerman‡ | Ken Davy† | |||
Keighley CC | 72,778 | 2,218 | Robbie Moore† | John Grogan‡ | |||
Leeds Central BC | 90,971 | 19,270 | Hilary Benn‡ | Peter Fortune† | |||
Leeds East BC | 67,286 | 5,531 | Richard Burgon‡ | Jill Mortimer† | |||
Leeds North East BC | 70,580 | 17,089 | Fabian Hamilton‡ | Amjad Bashir† | |||
Leeds North West BC | 67,741 | 10,749 | Alex Sobel‡ | Stewart Harper† | |||
Leeds West BC | 67,727 | 10,564 | Rachel Reeves‡ | Mark Dormer† | |||
Morley and Outwood CC | 78,803 | 11,267 | Andrea Jenkyns† | Deanne Ferguson‡ | |||
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford CC | 84,527 | 1,276 | Yvette Cooper‡ | Andrew Lee† | |||
Pudsey BC | 73,212 | 3,517 | Stuart Andrew† | Jane Aitchison‡ | |||
Shipley CC | 74,029 | 6,242 | Philip Davies† | Jo Pike‡ | |||
Wakefield CC | 70,192 | 3,358 | Imran Ahmad-Khan† | Mary Creagh‡ |
1997-2010 constituencies
- Batley and Spen BC
- Bradford North BC
- Bradford South BC
- Bradford West BC
- Calder Valley CC
- Colne Valley CC
- Dewsbury CC
- Elmet CC
- Halifax BC
- Hemsworth CC
- Huddersfield BC
- Keighley CC
- Leeds Central BC
- Leeds East BC
- Leeds North East BC
- Leeds North West BC
- Leeds West BC
- Morley and Rothwell BC
- Normanton CC
- Pontefract and Castleford CC
- Pudsey BC
- Shipley CC
- Wakefield CC
Proposed boundary changes
The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. They propose to bring forward primary legislation to remove the statutory obligation to implement the 2018 Boundary Review recommendations, as well as set the framework for future boundary reviews in time for the next review which is due to begin in early 2021 and report no later than October 2023. It is proposed that the number of constituencies now remains at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.[3]
Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[4]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising West Yorkshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 497,235 | 46.0% | 13 | ||
Conservative | 429,429 | 39.7% | 9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 66,310 | 6.1% | 0 | 0 | |
Brexit | 45,667 | 4.2% | new | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 21,562 | 2.0% | 0 | 0 | |
Others | 20,909 | 2.0% | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,081,112 | 100.0 | 22 |
Percentage votes
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 37.3 | 37.9 | 38.2 | 28.8 | 30.1 | 27.8 | 32.9 | 32.7 | 37.8 | 39.7 |
Labour | 35.7 | 41.0 | 45.5 | 54.0 | 51.6 | 45.9 | 37.4 | 42.2 | 53.3 | 46.0 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 26.0 | 20.8 | 15.0 | 12.9 | 13.9 | 18.6 | 20.7 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 6.1 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 1.0 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 1.3 | 13.6 | 1.8 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4.2 |
Other | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 7.7 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 11 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 9 |
Labour | 10 | 14 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 13 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
Historical representation by party
Data given is for the West Riding of Yorkshire before 1983. A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1885 to 1918
Areas currently in North Yorkshire
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barkston Ash | Gunter | Andrews | Lane-Fox | ||||||
Ripon | Harker | Wharton | Lynch | Wood | |||||
Skipton | M. Wilson | Morrison | Roundell | Morrison | Thomson | Clough |
Areas currently in West Yorkshire
Conservative Independent Labour Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist
Areas currently in South Yorkshire
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 88 | 89 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 97 | 99 | 1900 | 02 | 1906 | 08 | 09 | Jan 1910 | 10 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
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Doncaster | Shirley | H. Wentworth-FitzWilliam | Fleming | Fison | C. Nicholson | |||||||||||||||||
Rotherham | Dyke Acland | Holland | Pease | Richardson | ||||||||||||||||||
Barnsley | Kenny | Compton | Walton | |||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Attercliffe | Coleridge | Langley | Pointer | Anderson | ||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Brightside | Mundella | Maddison | Hope | Walters | ||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Central | Vincent | Hope | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Ecclesall | Ashmead-Bartlett | Roberts | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sheffield Hallam | Stuart-Wortley | Fisher | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hallamshire | Mappin | Wadsworth | → | → | ||||||||||||||||||
Holmfirth | H. Wilson | Arnold |
1918 to 1950
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Coalition National Democratic & Labour Common Wealth Conservative Independent Labour Liberal National Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Speaker
1950 to 1983
Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Social Democratic
1983 to present
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Respect
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (region)
Notes
- BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
References
- Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Commons Library.
- "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".