Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bradford East Borough constituency

Bradford East shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created:	1885, In time for Next UK general election
MP:	[[]]
Party:	[[]]
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Bradford East was the name of a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885–1974. It will be recreated for the next general election, and will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Following a review of parliamentary boundaries in West Yorkshire, the Boundary Commission for England have re-shaped the existing Bradford North constituency to such a degree that the name change was felt necessary.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The new Bradford East is the successor seat to the existing Bradford North constituency, which was created for the 1918 general election. The report into the boundary review says;

"5. The Assistant Commissioner reported that he was also called upon to consider alternative names submitted for Bradford East..He rejected a number of alternatives...as he considered they did not have any merit...He also rejected the submissions that proposed that the name Bradford North should be retained...."

The wards in this new constituency are entirely within Bradford city boundaries:

Bolton and Undercliffe, Bowling and Barkerend, Bradford Moor, Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley and Little Horton

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
1885		constituency created
	1885	Sir Angus Holden,later Baron Holden
	1886	Henry Byron Reed
	1892	William Sproston Caine
	1895	Henry Byron Reed
	1896	Ronald Henry Fulke Greville
	1906	Sir William Edward Briggs Priestley
	1918	Charles Edgar Loseby	National Democratic
	1922	Frederick William Jowett	Labour
	1924	Thomas Davis Fenby	Liberal
	1929	Frederick William Jowett	Labour
	1931	Joseph Hepworth	Conservative
	1945	Frank McLeavy	Labour
	1966	Edward Lyons	Labour
1974		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

This seat will be fought for the first time at the next United Kingdom general election

[edit] See also

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)