Calderdale

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Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale

Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial county:	West Yorkshire
Historic county:	Yorkshire (West Riding)
Area: - Total	Ranked 131st 363.92 km²
Admin. HQ:	Halifax
ONS code:	00CY
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 68th 195,300 537 / km²
Ethnicity:	93.0% White 5.7% S.Asian
Politics
Calderdale Council http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Leader:	Councillor Ann Mcallister
Executive:	Conservative (council NOC)
MPs:	Christine McCafferty, Linda Riordan

Calderdale is a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, England, through which the upper part of the Calder flows. Its major settlement is Halifax.

The district is mostly rural and covers part of the Pennines, but there are some industrial towns in the east and some river valleys. Calderdale is named after the River Calder, which runs through it.

1 History
2 Locations
3 2006 Local government election
4 External Resources

[edit] History

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the county borough of Halifax, the boroughs of Brighouse, Todmorden and the urban districts of Elland, Hebden Royd, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, and part of Queensbury and Shelf urban district, and also Hepton Rural District.

[edit] Locations

Other places in Calderdale include:

Boothtown, Beechwood, Brighouse
Chiserley, Copley, Cornholme, Cragg Vale
Elland
Gauxholme, Greetland
Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Hipperholme,Holywell Green
Illingworth
Lightcliffe, Luddenden, Luddendenfoot
Midgley, Mill Bank, Mixenden, Mount Tabor, Mytholm, Mytholmroyd
Northowram
Ogden, Old Town, Ovenden
Pellon, Portsmouth
Ripponden, Rishworth
Savile Park, Skircoat Green, Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge, Sowood Green, Stainland
Todmorden, Triangle
Wainstalls, Walsden, Warley Town, West Vale, Wholestone Hill

[edit] 2006 Local government election

The borough is divided into 17 wards and each is represented on the borough council by three councillors. Each councillor is normally elected on a first past the post basis for a four-year period which is staggered with the other councillors of that ward so that only one councillor per ward is up for election at any one time. Exceptions to this include by-elections and ward boundary changes.

The table below summarises the results of the 2006 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered. Although these are the results after the election, the current number of seats per party is slightly different. Councillor Paul Rogan was returned by the Rastrick ward in this election for four years as a Conservative councillor and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below. However, after the 2006 election, he left the party and joined the English Democrats Party. This leaves the Conservatives with 19 seats and 1 held by the English Democrats. In December 2006, Illingworth and Mixenden ward Councillor Tom McElroy (Labour) died suddenly, leaving Labour with nine seats. The by-election to succeed him will take place on 22 February 2007.

The seventeen wards in Calderdale are: Brighouse; Calder; Elland; Greetland and Stainland; Hipperholme and Lightcliffe; Illingworth and Mixenden; Luddendenfoot; Northowram and Shelf; Ovenden; Park; Rastrick; Ryburn; Skircoat; Sowerby Bridge; Todmorden; Town; and Warley

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**Summary of the May 2006 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election results**
Parties		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
	Conservative	20	1	2	-1	39.2	28.8	15,657
	Liberal Democrats	16	1	0	+1	31.4	25.1	13,661
	Labour	10	1	0	+1	19.6	23.5	12,779
	British National	2	0	1	-1	3.9	10.9	5,937
	Independent	3	1	1	0	5.9	9.1	4,946
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	1,351
	Christian Peoples	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	103
Total		51						54,434