Shipley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Shipley County constituency

Shipley shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Philip Davies
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Shipley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Recent politics
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results (2000 onwards)
4 Election results (historic)
5 See also
6 Sources

[edit] Boundaries

Shipley is composed of the following wards within the City of Bradford: Bingley Rural, Bingley, Shipley, Baildon, Wharfedale, most of Wrose and parts of Heaton

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[edit] Recent politics

Shipley was for a long time the seat of ex-Chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, Sir Marcus Fox. He held the seat for almost 30 years between the 1970 and 1997 General Elections.

After the 1997 general election, the young Labour candidate Christopher Leslie won the seat from Sir Marcus Fox.

However, Leslie only survived two elections as he was attacked on a number of issues. A number of traditional Labour supporters accused him of being an ardent Blairite, with the aim of developing his career further in the House of Commons. In the 2005 general election, he was beaten by Conservative candidate Philip Davies by 400 votes.

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1885	Joseph Craven	Liberal
1892	William Pollard Byles	Lib-Lab
1895	James Fortescue Flannery	Liberal Unionist
1906	Percy Holden Illingworth	Liberal
1915	Oswald Partington	Liberal
1918	Henry Norman Rae	Liberal
1923	William Mackinder	Labour
1930	James Horace Lockwood	Conservative
1935	Arthur Creech-Jones	Labour
1950	Geoffrey Hirst	Conservative
1970	Marcus Fox	Conservative
1997	Christopher Leslie	Labour
2005	Philip Davies	Conservative

[edit] Election results (2000 onwards)

General Election 2005: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Davies	18,608	39.0	−1.9
	Labour	Christopher Leslie	18,186	38.2	−5.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Briggs	7,018	14.7	+3.8
	British National	Tom Linden	2,000	4.2	N/A
	Green	Quentin Deakin	1,665	3.5	+0.5
	Iraq War. Not In My Name	David Crabtree	189	0.4	N/A
Majority			422	0.9
Turnout			47,666	80.0	+13.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	2.0

General Election 2001: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher Leslie	20,243	44.0	+0.6
	Conservative	David Senior	18,815	40.9	+3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Wright	4,996	10.9	−4.2
	Green	Martin Love	1,386	3.0	N/A
	UK Independence	Walter Whitaker	580	1.3	N/A
Majority			1,428	3.1
Turnout			46,020	66.2	−10.2
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Election results (historic)

[edit] Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Craven	7,022	59.3
	Conservative	L Hardy	4,825	40.7
Majority			2,197	18.6
Turnout			11,847	84.2

General Election 1886: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Craven

[edit] Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	William Pollard Byles	5,746	51.3	-8.0
	Liberal Unionist	T Peel	5,464	48.7	+8.0
Majority			282	2.6	-16
Turnout			11,210	76.0
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Fortescue Flannery	5,999	50.3	+1.6
	Lib-Lab	William Pollard Byles	5,921	49.7	-1.6
Majority			78	0.6
Turnout			11,920	83.0
	Liberal Unionist gain from Lib-Lab		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Fortescue Flannery	6,284	50.2	-0.1
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth	6,223	49.8	+0.1
Majority			61	0.4	-0.2
Turnout			12,507	83.4	+0.4
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1906: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth	9,144	63.0
	Liberal Unionist	W A S Hewins	5,369	37.0
Majority			3,775	26.0
Turnout			12,507	88.9
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth

Shipley by-election, 1915: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Oswald Partington

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

General Election, February 1974: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	19,439	43.1
	Labour	M J Wedgeworth	15,284	33.9
	Liberal	G G Roberts	10,158	22.6
	Independent Democratic Alliance	C G Campion	192	0.4
Majority			4,155	9.2
Turnout			45,073	87.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election, October 1974: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	18,518	44.0	+0.9
	Labour	M J Wedgeworth	15,482	36.8	+2.9
	Liberal	G G Roberts	8,094	19.2	-3.4
Majority			3,036	7.2	-2.0
Turnout			42,094	81.0	+6.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	22,641	52.5	+8.5
	Labour	P R Ward	14,281	33.2	-3.6
	Liberal	G G Roberts	5,673	13.2	-6.0
	Ecology	D R Pedley	486	1.1
Majority			8,360	19.3	+12.1
Turnout			43,081	80.5	-0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	25,866	49.7	-2.8
	Liberal	William Wallace	14,421	27.7	+14.5
	Labour	Martin Leathley	11,218	21.6	-11.6
	Ecology	S Shepherd	521	1.0	-0.1
Majority			11,445	22.0	+2.7
Turnout			52,026	77.0	-3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	26,941	49.5	-0.2
	Liberal	William Wallace	14,311	26.3	-1.4
	Labour	Christopher Butler	12,699	23.3	+1.7
	Green	C M Harris	507	0.9	-0.1
Majority			12,630	23.2	+1.2
Turnout			54,428	79.2	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.6

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	28,463	50.4	+0.9
	Labour	Annie Lockwood	16,081	28.5	+5.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Cole	11,288	20.0	-6.3
	Green	C M Harris	680	1.2	+0.3
Majority			12,382	21.9	-0.3
Turnout			56,512	82.1	+2.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.2

General Election 1997: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher Leslie	22,962	43.3	+14.8
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	19,996	37.8	-12.6
	Liberal Democrats	John Cole	7,984	15.1	-4.9
	Referendum Party	S Ellams	1,960	3.7
Majority			12,382	21.9	-0.3
Turnout			69,281	76.3	-5.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+13.8

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

[edit] Sources

Historical list of MPs
Election results, 1997 - 2005
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1974 - 1979

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)

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