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 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References
5 See also

[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 and National Liberal
	1966	Norman Haseldine	Labour Co-operative
	1970	John Wilkinson	Conservative
	1974	Edward Lyons	Labour then Social Democrat
	1983	Max Madden	Labour
	1997	Marsha Singh	Labour

[edit] Election results

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 Democrats	Mukhtar Ali	6,620	18.2	+11.8
	British National	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 Democrats	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 Democrats	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	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

↑ Boundary Commission for England: Revised And Final Recommendations For Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries In West Yorkshire, January 2006, paragraph 8.
↑ 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.

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Bradford Constituencies:

Bradford North | Bradford West | Bradford South | Keighley | Shipley

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber
Labour	Barnsley Central \| Barnsley East and Mexborough \| Barnsley West and Penistone \| Batley and Spen \| Bradford North \| Bradford South \| Bradford West \| Brigg and Goole \| Calder Valley \| City of York \| Cleethorpes \| Colne Valley \| Dewsbury \| Don Valley \| Doncaster Central \| Doncaster North \| Elmet \| Great Grimsby \| Halifax \| Hemsworth \| Huddersfield \| Keighley \| Hull East \| Hull North \| Hull West and Hessle \| Leeds Central \| Leeds East \| Leeds North East \| Leeds West \| Morley and Rothwell \| Normanton \| Pontefract and Castleford \| Pudsey \| Rother Valley \| Rotherham \| Scunthorpe \| Selby \| Sheffield Attercliffe \| Sheffield Brightside \| Sheffield Central \| Sheffield Heeley \| Sheffield Hillsborough \| Wakefield \| Wentworth
Conservative	Beverley and Holderness \| East Yorkshire \| Haltemprice and Howden \| Richmond (Yorks) \| Ryedale \| Scarborough and Whitby \| Shipley \| Skipton and Ripon \| Vale of York
Liberal Democrat	Harrogate and Knaresborough \| Leeds North West \| Sheffield Hallam
Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Labour (2) \| Conservative (2) \| Liberal Democrats (1) \| UKIP (1)