Beeston and Holbeck (ward)

Beeston and Holbeck
Beeston and Holbeck
	Beeston and Holbeck highlighted within Leeds
Population	18,712 (2023 electorate)
Metropolitan borough	City of Leeds ;
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire ;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber ;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
UK Parliament	Leeds South ;
Councillors	Shaf Ali(Labour); Annie Maloney(Labour); Andrew Scopes(Labour);
	List of places UK England Yorkshire

Last updated July 07, 2024

Beeston and Holbeck is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the inner city areas and urban suburbs of Beeston, Cottingley and Holbeck to the south of the city centre.

Councillors

Election
2004	Angela Gabriel (Lab)^{[lower-alpha 1]}^[4]	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)^{[lower-alpha 2]}^[5]	David Congreve (Lab)^{[lower-alpha 3]}^[6]
2006	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2007	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2008	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2010	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2011	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2012	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2014	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2015	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2016	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Adam Ogilvie (Lab)	David Congreve (Lab)
2018	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Gohar Almass (Lab)	Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2019	Angela Gabriel (Lab)	Gohar Almass (Lab)	Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2021	Angela Gabriel (Lab)^{[lower-alpha 4]}	Gohar Almass (Lab)	Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2022	Annie Maloney (Lab)	Gohar Almass (Lab)	Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2023	Annie Maloney (Lab)	Gohar Almass (Lab)	Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2024	Annie Maloney* (Lab)	Shaf Ali* (Lab)	Andrew Scopes* (Lab)

indicates seat up for re-election. * indicates incumbent councillor.

Elections since 2010

May 2024

2024
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shaf Ali	2,533	53.0	-9.9
	Green	Matt Rogan	1,092	22.8	+6.1
	Conservative	Bradley Chandler	572	12.0	+0.7
	SDP	Sasha Watson	247	5.2	+2.5
	Liberal Democrats	George Sykes	226	4.7	-0.6
	TUSC	Louie Fulton	113	2.4	+1.3
Majority			1,441	30.2	-16.0
Turnout			4,783	25.9	+4.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-8.0

May 2023

2023 ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Scopes*	2,494	62.9	+15.7
	Green	Mariana Polucciu	662	16.7	-5.5
	Conservative	Muhammad Azeem	450	11.3	-5.6
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Andrews	209	5.3	+1.2
	SDP	Nigel Perry	107	2.7	-3.0
	TUSC	Katherine Gwyther	44	1.1	N/A
Majority			1,832	46.2	+21.1
Turnout			3,996	21.4	-2.6
	Labour hold		Swing

May 2022

2022 ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Annie Maloney	2,070	47.2	-5.6
	Green	Mariana Polucciu	971	22.2	+8.0
	Conservative	Natalia Armitage	740	16.9	-2.0
	SDP	Nigel Perry	250	5.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Andrews	179	4.1	+1.9
	NIP	Emily Reaney	147	3.4	N/A
Majority			1,099	25.1	-8.8
Turnout			4,382	24.0	-5.4
	Labour hold		Swing

May 2021

2021 ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gohar Almass*	2,777	52.8	+5.3
	Conservative	Andrew Martin	996	18.9	+11.3
	Green	Becky Kellett	748	14.2	+7.1
	Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents	Francesca Robinson	468	8.8	-16.4
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Jaques	117	2.2	-2.2
	Freedom Alliance. No Lockdowns. No Curfews.	Bill Palfreman	82	1.6	N/A
	TUSC	Jay Slayton-Joslin	34	0.1	N/A
Majority			1,781	33.9	+11.6
Turnout			5,260	29.4	+4.2
	Labour hold		Swing

May 2019

2019 ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Scopes*	2,033	47.5	-5.8
	Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents	Laura Walton	1,079	25.2	-1.1
	UKIP	Bill Palfreman	349	8.2	+8.2
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	326	7.6	-2.6
	Green	Alaric Hall	302	7.1	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jarrod Gaines	187	4.4	+0.4
Majority			954	22.3	-4.7
Turnout			4,293	25.2	-3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.4

May 2018

2018 ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Gabriel*	2,593	53.3	-8.1
	Labour	Gohar Almass	2,471
	Labour	Andrew Scopes	2,257
	Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents	Bill Birch	1,281	26.3	N/A
	Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents	Laura Walton	1,269
	Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents	Sean Sturman	1,250
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	495	10.2	-0.1
	Conservative	Lyn Buckley	464
	Conservative	Ian Robertson	395
	Green	Owen Brear	343	7.0	+1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jarrod Gaines	197	4.0	+2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Durdin	159
Majority			1,312	27.0	-13.3
Turnout			16,927	28.8	+0.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

May 2016

2016 ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Gabriel*	2,547	61.4	+8.3
	UKIP	Luke Barry Senior	833	20.1	-2.9
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	429	10.3	-3.9
	Green	Adam David John Dent	232	5.6	-0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Kathryn Elizabeth Gagen	84	2.0	-0.4
	TUSC	Kevin Michael Pattison	26	0.6	-0.9
Majority			1,714	+40.3	+10.2
Turnout			4,151	28.3
	Labour hold		Swing

May 2015

2015 ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ogilvie*	4,335	53.1	-8.2
	UKIP	Tony Roberts	1,876	23.0	+13.9
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	1,158	14.2	-3.6
	Green	Emma Jaynes	480	5.9	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Kathryn Gagen	200	2.4	-2.8
	TUSC	Amy Cousens	119	1.5	+1.5
Majority			2,459	30.1	-13.4
Turnout			8,168	53.7
	Labour hold		Swing	-11.1

May 2014

2014 ^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Congreve*	2,063	48.4
	UKIP	Tony Roberts	1,288	30.2
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	499	11.7
	Green	David Smith	284	6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Bishop-Rowe	130	3.0
Majority			775
Turnout			4,264	28.72
	Labour hold		Swing

May 2012

2012 ^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Gabriel*	2,389	62.1	+0.8
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	443	11.5	-6.3
	UKIP	Wilfred Woodhouse	349	9.1	+0.0
	English Democrat	Ian Gibson	298	7.7	+7.7
	Green	David Smith	256	6.7	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Rory Laing	113	2.9	-2.3
Majority			1,946	50.6	+7.1
Turnout			3,848
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.5

May 2011

2011 ^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Ogilvie*	2,880	61.3	+13.9
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	838	17.8	-1.8
	UKIP	Wilfred Woodhouse	425	9.1	+4.8
	Green	David Smith	308	6.6	+4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Swain	245	5.2	-10.2
Majority			2,042	43.5	+15.8
Turnout			4,696	31
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.8

May 2010

2010 ^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Congreve*	3,934	47.4	+5.7
	Conservative	Robert Winfield	1,632	19.7	-3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Tyson	1,283	15.5	+5.0
	BNP	Dean Taylor	902	10.9	-4.2
	UKIP	Wilfred Woodhouse	355	4.3	-0.4
	Green	Colin Johnston	192	2.3	-3.1
Majority			2,302	27.7	+8.7
Turnout			8,298	57.0	+28.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.3

Notes

↑ Gabriel had been a Beeston ward councillor since the by-election held in November 1996 to replace Jon Trickett following his election as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth.
↑ Ogilvie had served as a Beeston ward councillor since 1999.
↑ Congreve had been a Beeston ward councillor since 1990.
↑ In December 2021, Gabriel was deselected by her local Constituency Labour Party and not allowed to stand as the Labour candidate for the next council election. Annie Maloney was chosen as the party's candidate instead and elected in May 2022.^[7]

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References

↑ "Councillor Shaf Ali". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 12 May 2024.
↑ "Councillor Annie Maloney". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 13 May 2022.
↑ "Councillor Andrew Scopes". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 15 October 2018.
↑ "Councillor Angela Gabriel". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 13 May 2022.
↑ "Councillor Adam Ogilvie". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 15 October 2018.
↑ "Councillor David Congreve". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 15 October 2018.
↑ Morton, Jeremy (14 December 2021). "Councillor Angela Gabriel in deselection shock". southleedslife.com. South Leeds Life.
↑ Morton, Jeremy (5 May 2023). "Labour lose another South Leeds seat as SDP win in Middleton Park". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
↑ Morton, Jeremy (6 May 2022). "Changing of the guard in local elections". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
↑ Jeremy Morton, 'No change as Labour hold three South Leeds wards', South Leeds Life (8 May 2021).
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[4] Gabriel had been a Beeston ward councillor since the by-election held in November 1996 to replace Jon Trickett following his election as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth.

[6] Ogilvie had served as a Beeston ward councillor since 1999.

[8] Congreve had been a Beeston ward councillor since 1990.

[11] In December 2021, Gabriel was deselected by her local Constituency Labour Party and not allowed to stand as the Labour candidate for the next council election. Annie Maloney was chosen as the party's candidate instead and elected in May 2022.^[7]

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[2] "Councillor Annie Maloney". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 13 May 2022.

[3] "Councillor Andrew Scopes". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 15 October 2018.

[5] "Councillor Angela Gabriel". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 13 May 2022.

[7] "Councillor Adam Ogilvie". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 15 October 2018.

[9] "Councillor David Congreve". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 15 October 2018.

[10] Morton, Jeremy (14 December 2021). "Councillor Angela Gabriel in deselection shock". southleedslife.com. South Leeds Life.

[12] Morton, Jeremy (5 May 2023). "Labour lose another South Leeds seat as SDP win in Middleton Park". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[13] Morton, Jeremy (6 May 2022). "Changing of the guard in local elections". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[14] Jeremy Morton, 'No change as Labour hold three South Leeds wards', South Leeds Life (8 May 2021).

[15] "Election results – local – Data Mill North" . Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[16] "Beeston & Holbeck Ward - South Leeds Life : South Leeds Life". 4 June 2018. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[17] Morton, Jeremy (6 May 2016). "2016 Council election results". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

[18] s11 (8 May 2015). "2015 South Leeds Council election results". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[19] s11 (23 May 2014). "Elections 2014: local election results for South Leeds". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[20] s11 (4 May 2012). "Council Election: Labour hold three South Leeds wards - Updated with mayor result". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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