Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)
Bradford West is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Naz Shah of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Bradford West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Bradford West in West Yorkshire | |
![]() Location of West Yorkshire within England | |
County | West Yorkshire |
Population | 114,761 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 71,585 (December 2019)[2] |
Major settlements | Bradford |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1955 |
Member of Parliament | Naz Shah (Labour) |
Created from | Bradford Central, Bradford North and Bradford South |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Created from | Bradford |
History
Before 1974, the Labour and Conservative Parties held the seat marginally in various years, since which time the Labour Party always won the seat until 2012. In 1981 though, Edward Lyons, the sitting Bradford West MP joined the newly established Social Democratic Party, but he lost the seat at the 1983 general election.
George Galloway of the Respect Party won the seat in the 2012 Bradford West by-election with 55.9% of the votes cast; his 30.9% majority was at the time the largest majority in the history of the modern constituency, but he lost the seat in 2015 to the new Labour candidate Naz Shah by a substantial (28.3%) margin. Despite Galloway's threats to contest the result, he neither launched a legal challenge nor stood again in 2017, where Shah surpassed his record by winning a majority of 48.1%, the largest margin for a Bradford West MP in any incarnation of the seat. Despite Galloway not standing, his former Respect colleague Salma Yaqoob did stand as an Independent, garnering 6,345 votes (13.9%), not far behind the second-placed Conservative candidate.
At the 2019 general election Shah increased her vote share by 11.5%. This was easily the highest increase in the Labour Party's vote share in any constituency in the United Kingdom in an election where Labour's vote share decreased in all but 13 constituencies. [3]
Boundaries
1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Bolton, Great Horton, Heaton, and Manningham.
1955–1974: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Great Horton, Heaton, Manningham, and Thornton.
1974–1983: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Heaton, Little Horton, Manningham, Thornton, and University.
1983–2010: The City of Bradford wards of Clayton, Heaton, Little Horton, Thornton, Toller, and University.
2010–present: The City of Bradford wards of City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, and Toller.
Members of Parliament
The constituency was originally created in 1885, but was abolished in 1918. For the 1955 general election the constituency was recreated, following a boundary review.[4]
Election | Member[5][6][7][8] | Party | Notes | |
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1885 | Alfred Illingworth | Liberal | MP for Knaresborough 1868–1874, for Bradford 1880–1885 | |
1895 | Ernest Flower | Conservative | Defeated in 1906 | |
1906 | Fred Jowett | Labour | MP for Bradford East 1922–24, 1929–31 | |
1918 | constituency abolished | |||
1955 | constituency recreated | |||
Arthur Tiley | Conservative | Defeated in 1966 | ||
1966 | Norman Haseldine | Labour Co-op | Defeated in 1970 | |
1970 | John Wilkinson | Conservative | Defeated in Feb 1974. MP for Ruislip-Northwood from 1979 to 2005 | |
Feb 1974 | Edward Lyons | Labour | Elected as a Labour MP, defected to the SDP in 1981. Defeated in 1983 | |
1981 | SDP | |||
1983 | Max Madden | Labour | MP for Sowerby from 1974 to 1979. De-selected as Labour Candidate for 1997 | |
1997 | Marsha Singh | Labour | Resigned due to ill health in 2012. | |
2012 by-election | George Galloway | Respect | Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead, 1987–97, and Glasgow Kelvin, 1997–2005. Expelled from Labour Party in 2003. Respect MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, 2005–10 | |
2015 | Naz Shah | Labour | Elected as a Labour MP; suspended from the Labour Party 27 April – 5 July 2016. | |
Apr 2016 | Independent | |||
July 2016 | Labour | |||
Elections
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Elections of the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Naz Shah | 33,736 | 76.2 | +11.5 | |
Conservative | Mohammed Afzal | 6,717 | 15.2 | -1.4 | |
Brexit Party | Derrick Hodgson | 1,556 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Christie | 1,349 | 3.0 | +1.5 | |
Green | Darren Parkinson | 813 | 1.8 | +0.8 | |
Independent | Azfar Bukhari | 90 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 27,019 | 61.0 | +12.9 | ||
Turnout | 44,261 | 62.6 | -4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Naz Shah | 29,444 | 64.7 | +15.1 | |
Conservative | George Grant | 7,542 | 16.6 | +1.3 | |
Independent | Salma Yaqoob | 6,345 | 13.9 | N/A | |
UKIP | Derrick Hodgson | 885 | 1.9 | -5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alun Griffiths | 712 | 1.6 | -1.3 | |
Green | Celia Hickson | 481 | 1.1 | -1.6 | |
Independent | Hussain Khadim | 65 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Muhammad Hijazi | 54 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,902 | 48.1 | |||
Turnout | 45,528 | 67.4 | +3.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Naz Shah | 19,977 | 49.6 | +4.3 | |
Respect | George Galloway | 8,557 | 21.2 | +18.1 | |
Conservative | George Grant | 6,160 | 7.8 | +5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alun Griffiths | 1,173 | 2.9 | −8.8 | |
Green | Celia Hickson | 1,085 | 2.7 | +0.4 | |
Independent | James Kirkcaldy | 100 | 0.2 | N/A | |
English Democrat | Therese Muchewicz | 98 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,420 | 28.3 | |||
Turnout | 40,290 | 63.6 | +12.8 | ||
Labour gain from Respect | Swing | +6.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Respect | George Galloway | 18,341 | 55.9 | +52.8 | |
Labour | Imran Hussain | 8,201 | 25.0 | −20.3 | |
Conservative | Jackie Whiteley | 2,746 | 8.4 | −22.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeanette Sunderland | 1,505 | 4.6 | −7.1 | |
UKIP | Sonja McNally | 1,085 | 3.3 | +1.3 | |
Green | Dawud Islam | 481 | 1.5 | −0.8 | |
Democratic Nationalists | Neil Craig | 344 | 1.0 | −0.1 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Howling Laud Hope | 111 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,140 | 30.9 | |||
Turnout | 32,814 | 50.8 | −15.1 | ||
Respect gain from Labour | Swing | 36.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Marsha Singh | 18,401 | 45.3 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | Zahid Iqbal | 12,638 | 31.1 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Hall-Matthews | 4,732 | 11.7 | −7.4 | |
BNP | Jenny Sampson | 1,370 | 3.4 | −3.5 | |
Respect | Arshad Ali | 1,245 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Green | David Ford | 940 | 2.3 | -0.7 | |
UKIP | Jason Smith | 812 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Democratic Nationalists | Neil Craig | 438 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,763 | 14.2 | |||
Turnout | 40,576 | 65.9 | +10.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.9 |
Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Marsha Singh | 14,570 | 40.1 | -7.9 | |
Conservative | Haroon Rashid | 11,544 | 31.7 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mukhtar Ali | 6,620 | 18.2 | +11.8 | |
BNP | 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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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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 Democrats | Abdul Khan | 2,437 | 6.4 | -8.4 | |
UKIP | 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 |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Marsha Singh | 18,932 | 41.6 | -11.7 | |
Conservative | Mohammed Riaz | 15,055 | 33.0 | -0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Helen Wright | 6,737 | 14.8 | +4.0 | |
Socialist Labour | Abdul R. Khan | 1,551 | 3.4 | N/A | |
Referendum | Christopher Royston | 1,348 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Green | John Robertson | 861 | 1.9 | +0.4 | |
BNP | Gary Osborn | 839 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Socialist Alternative | Sajjad Shah | 245 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,877 | 8.6% | |||
Turnout | 45,568 | 63.3 | -6.61 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Max Madden | 26,046 | 53.2 | +1.3 | |
Conservative | Andrew J. Ashworth | 16,544 | 33.8 | -2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alun O. Griffiths | 5,150 | 10.5 | N/A | |
Green | Peter Braham | 735 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Islamic Party | David Pidcock | 471 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,502 | 19.41 | +4.21 | ||
Turnout | 48,946 | 69.91 | -0.29 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Max Madden | 25,775 | 51.9 | +12.2 | |
Conservative | Iain Duncan Smith | 18,224 | 36.7 | +3.8 | |
SDP | Manzoor Moghal | 5,657 | 11.4 | -15.7 | |
Majority | 7,551 | 15.2 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,636 | 70.2 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Max Madden | 19,499 | 39.7 | -14.1 | |
Conservative | Stephen Day | 16,162 | 32.9 | -3.8 | |
SDP | Edward Lyons | 13,301 | 27.1 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | B. Slaughter | 139 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,337 | 6.8 | -10.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,101 | 68.9 | -0.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Lyons | 24,309 | 53.8 | +5.3 | |
Conservative | Thomas Stow | 16,554 | 36.7 | -0.5 | |
Liberal | Nicholas Flood | 3,668 | 8.1 | -5.4 | |
National Front | G. Brown | 633 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,755 | 17.2 | +5.85 | ||
Turnout | 45,164 | 69.1 | -0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Lyons | 21,133 | 48.5 | +5.1 | |
Conservative | John Wilkinson | 16,192 | 37.2 | -1.5 | |
Liberal | S. Harris | 5,884 | 13.5 | -1.6 | |
More Prosperous Britain | Harold Smith | 339 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,941 | 11.35 | +6.75 | ||
Turnout | 43,548 | 69.5 | -7.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Lyons | 20,787 | 43.4 | -4.6 | |
Conservative | John Wilkinson | 18,568 | 38.7 | -13.3 | |
Liberal | Robert Francis Hutton Taylor | 7,216 | 15.1 | N/A | |
Anti-Immigration | Jim Merrick | 1,164 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Independent Democratic Alliance | Ralph Oakden Herbert | 200 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,219 | 4.6 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 47,935 | 77.1 | +3.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Wilkinson | 20,475 | 52.0 | -0.03 | |
Labour | Norman Haseldine | 18,936 | 48.0 | -0.03 | |
Majority | 1,539 | 3.9 | -0.15 | ||
Turnout | 39,411 | 73.8 | -2.81 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections of the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Norman Haseldine | 19,704 | 52.03 | -1.99 | |
Conservative | Arthur Tiley | 18,170 | 47.97 | +1.99 | |
Majority | 1,543 | 4.05 | -4.0 | ||
Turnout | 37,874 | 76.61 | -0.18 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative and National Liberal | Arthur Tiley | 21,121 | 54.02 | -2.22 | |
Labour Co-op | Norman Haseldine | 17,974 | 45.98 | +2.22 | |
Majority | 3,147 | 8.05 | -4.43 | ||
Turnout | 39,095 | 76.79 | -4.97 | ||
Conservative and National Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative and National Liberal | Arthur Tiley | 23,012 | 56.24 | +2.43 | |
Labour Co-op | Sydney Hyam | 17,906 | 43.76 | -2.43 | |
Majority | 5,106 | 12.48 | +4.86 | ||
Turnout | 40,918 | 81.76 | +0.04 | ||
Conservative and National Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative and National Liberal | Arthur Tiley | 22,306 | 53.81 | N/A | |
Labour Co-op | Muriel Ferguson | 19,147 | 46.19 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,159 | 7.62 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 41,453 | 81.72 | N/A | ||
Conservative and National Liberal win (new seat) |
Elections 1885–1918
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fred Jowett | 7,729 | 64.0 | -2.6 | |
Conservative | Ernest Flower | 4,339 | 36.0 | +2.6 | |
Majority | 3,390 | 28.0 | -5.2 | ||
Turnout | 12,068 | 81.4 | -8.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.6% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fred Jowett | 8,880 | 66.6 | +27.5 | |
Conservative | Ernest Flower | 4,461 | 33.4 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 4,319 | 33.2 | +26.8 | ||
Turnout | 12,341 | 90.0 | -0.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fred Jowett | 4,957 | 39.1 | -10.7 | |
Conservative | Ernest Flower | 4,147 | 32.7 | -17.5 | |
Liberal | William Claridge | 3,580 | 28.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 810 | 6.4 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 12,684 | 90.8 | +10.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ernest Flower | 4,990 | 50.2 | +9.5 | |
Labour | Fred Jowett | 4,949 | 49.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 41 | 0.4 | -4.4 | ||
Turnout | 9,939 | 80.5 | -5.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ernest Flower | 3,936 | 40.7 | +7.2 | |
Liberal | John Cousin Horsfall | 3,471 | 35.9 | -0.4 | |
Ind. Labour Party | Ben Tillett | 2,264 | 23.4 | -6.8 | |
Majority | 465 | 4.8 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 9,671 | 86.3 | +2.8 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | 3.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Alfred Illingworth | 3,206 | 36.3 | -23.9 | |
Conservative | Ernest Flower | 3,053 | 33.5 | N/A | |
Bradford Labour Union | Ben Tillett | 2,749 | 30.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 253 | 2.8 | -17.6 | ||
Turnout | 9,108 | 83.5 | +13.5 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Alfred Illingworth | 3,975 | 60.2 | +2.3 | |
Liberal Unionist | Archibald William Stirling | 2,623 | 39.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,352 | 20.4 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 6,598 | 70.0 | -15.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Alfred Illingworth | 4,688 | 57.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Henry Byron Reed | 3,408 | 42.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,280 | 15.8 | |||
Turnout | 9,424 | 85.9 | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Notes and references
- Notes
- A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- "Bradford West: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- "Constituency data: electorates – House of Commons Library". Parliament UK. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2019. Glasgow: Times Books. 2020. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1.
- 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.
- "Hansard 1803–2005". Bradford West 1885–1918. UK Parliament. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 81. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
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External links
- nomis Constituency Profile for Bradford West — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.