Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bradford West
Borough constituency

Bradford West shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created: 1885, 1955
MP: Marsha Singh
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: West Yorkshire
EP constituency: Yorkshire and the Humber

Bradford West is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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[edit] Boundaries

This constituency covers the western part of Bradford, comprising six complete wards of the City of Bradford: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, Toller. It also includes part of Little Horton ward.

However, the Boundary Commission provisionally recommended in 2004 that the Little Horton ward should cease to be divided between three constituencies and should become part of the Bradford North constituency, which would be renamed Bradford East. Following objections from the Liberal Democrats, a public enquiry was held in July 2005. However, the Liberal Democrats did not attend to support their case, leading the Commission to uphold the proposal and describe the inquiry as "a quite unnecessary waste of public money".[1]

The new constituency boundaries for Bradford West will therefore consist of six wards: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, and Toller.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Name Party
1885 Alfred Illingworth Liberal
1895 Ernest Flower Conservative
1906 Fred Jowett Labour Party
1918 Constituency abolished
1955 New constituency created, following a boundary review. [2]
1955 Arthur Tiley Conservative
1966 Norman Haseldine Labour Co-operative
1970 John Wilkinson Conservative
1974 Edward Lyons Labour
1981 Social Democratic
1983 Max Madden Labour
1997 Marsha Singh Labour

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Mukhtar Ali
Conservative Zahid Iqbal
Labour Marsha Singh
UK Independence Jason Smith
General Election 2005: Bradford West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Marsha Singh 14,570 40.1 −7.9
Conservative Haroon Rashid 11,544 31.7 −5.4
Liberal Democrat Mukhtar Ali 6,620 18.2 +11.8
British National Party Paul Cromie 2,525 6.9 N/A
Green Parvez Darr 1,110 3.1 −3.9
Majority 3,026 8.3
Turnout 36,369 54.0 +0.4
Labour hold Swing
General Election 2001: Bradford West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Marsha Singh 18,401 48.0 +6.4
Conservative Mohammed Riaz 14,236 37.1 +4.1
Green John Robinson 2,672 7.0 +5.1
Liberal Democrat Abdul Khan 2,437 6.4 −8.4
UK Independence Imran Hussain 427 1.1 N/A
Asian League Farhan Khokhar 197 0.5 N/A
Majority 4,165 10.9
Turnout 38,370 53.6 −9.7
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1997: Bradford West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Marsha Singh 18,932 41.6 -11.7
Conservative M Riaz 15,055 33.0 -0.8
Liberal Democrat H Wright 6,737 14.8 +4.0
Socialist Labour A R Khan 1,551 3.4
Referendum Party C Royston 1,348 3.0
Green J Robinson 861 1.9
British National Party G Osborn 839 1.8
Socialist Party S Shah 245 0.5
Majority 3,877 8.6
Turnout 63.3
Labour hold Swing

[edit] References

  1. ^  Boundary Commission for England: Revised And Final Recommendations For Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries In West Yorkshire, January 2006, paragraph 8.
  2. ^  The Bradford West Constituency was created in 1955 after a boundary review. In previous elections the city was divided into four constituencies: Bradford Central, Bradford East, Bradford North and Bradford South. See UK General Election results October 1951 and UK General Election results May 1955.
  1. ^ Bradford West, UKPollingReport

[edit] See also


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