Gipton and Harehills (ward)

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Gipton and Harehills
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Gipton and Harehills highlighted within Leeds
Population17,961 (2023 electorate)
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Gipton and Harehills is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the inner-city area of Harehills and residential suburb of Gipton.

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Councillors

ElectionCouncillorCouncillorCouncillor
2004 Alan Taylor (LD) [lower-alpha 1] [4] Javaid Akhtar (LD) [lower-alpha 2] [5] Roger Harington (Lab) [lower-alpha 3] [6]
2006 Alan Taylor (LD)Javaid Akhtar (LD) [lower-alpha 4] Roger Harington (Lab)
2007 Alan Taylor (LD)Arif Hussain (Lab)Roger Harington (Lab)
2008 Alan Taylor (LD)Arif Hussain (Lab)Roger Harington (Lab)
2010 Alan Taylor (LD)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab) [8]
2011 Alan Taylor (LD)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2012 Roger Harington (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2014 Roger Harington (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2015 Roger Harington (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2016 Salma Arif (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2018 Salma Arif (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2019 Salma Arif (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2021 Salma Arif (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2022 Salma Arif (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Kamila Maqsood (Lab)
2023 Salma Arif (Lab)Arif Hussain (Lab)Asghar Ali (Lab)
2024 Salma Arif* (Lab)Mothin Ali* (Grn)Asghar Ali* (Lab)

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

Elections since 2010

May 2024

2024
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Mothin Ali 3,070 51.6 +20.4
Labour Arif Hussain*2,32339.0−16.9
Conservative Liam Roberts2854.8−2.1
Liberal Democrats Thomas Race1562.6−0.7
TUSC Iain Dalton1202.0−0.5
Majority74712.6−12.0
Turnout 5,95433.1+6.6
Green gain from Labour Swing +18.7

May 2023

2023
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Asghar Ali 2,655 55.9 −4.6
Green Mothin Ali1,48431.2+8.9
Conservative Robert Harris3106.9−3.2
Liberal Democrats Mark Twitchett1563.3−1.3
TUSC Iain Dalton1212.5+0.7
Majority1,17124.6−13.7
Turnout 4,75126.5+1.2
Labour hold Swing

May 2022

2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Salma Arif* 2,722 60.5 −12.9
Green Mothin Ali1,00122.3+16.2
Conservative Robert Harris45410.1−1.6
Liberal Democrats Aqila Choudhry2064.6+0.5
TUSC Tanis Belsham-Wray821.8−0.8
Majority1,72138.3−23.3
Turnout 4,49825.3−4.6
Labour hold Swing

May 2021

2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arif Hussain* 3,854 73.4 −4.2
Conservative Sandy Goodall61611.7+5.4
Green Alaric Hall 3186.1−0.4
Liberal Democrats Darren Finlay2144.1−0.5
TUSC Iain Dalton1392.6+0.0
SDP Shaff Sheikh1132.2−0.2
Majority3,23861.6−9.6
Turnout 5,25429.9+3.3
Labour hold Swing

May 2019

2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kamila Maqsood* 3,426 77.6 +8.1
Green Lynne Caulfield2866.5−0.3
Conservative Robert Harris2766.3−0.8
Liberal Democrats Ashley Mark Cresswell2064.7−1.7
Socialist Alternative Iain Dalton1132.6−3.5
SDP Shaff Sheikh1082.4+2.4
Majority3,14071.1+8.7
Turnout 4,47526.6−4.7
Labour hold Swing +4.2

May 2018

2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Salma Arif* 4,020 69.5 −9.5
Labour Arif Hussain* 3,797
Labour Kamila Maqsood* 3,524
Conservative Robert Harris4117.1+1.9
Green Colin Noble3946.8+4.2
Liberal Democrats Heidi Farrar3706.4+1.5
TUSC Iain Dalton3576.1+4.9
Conservative Matthew Labbee323
Independent Shaff Sheikh2694.6N/A
Conservative Vajinder Singh218
Majority3,60962.4−9.4
Turnout 16,56431.3−1.3
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016

2016
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Salma Arif 3,972 79.0 +5.1
UKIP Khalil Mohammed Kungulilo3607.2−3.6
Conservative Beatrice Greenwood2635.2−1.4
Liberal Democrats Margaret Sandra Tait2454.9+0.0
Green Rhian Margaret Williams1302.6−1.2
TUSC Tanis Izabelle Belsham-Wray601.2+1.2
Majority3,61271.8+8.7
Turnout 5,03032.6
Labour hold Swing

May 2015

2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arif Hussain* 6,187 73.9 −6.3
UKIP Marvin Kushman90410.8+10.8
Conservative Joshua Harvey5546.6−1.1
Liberal Democrats Adam Douglas4134.9−3.5
Green Peter Phizacklea3193.8+3.8
Majority5,28363.1−8.6
Turnout 8,37751.5
Labour hold Swing -8.6

May 2014

2014
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kamila Maqsood* 3,756 76.1
Liberal Democrats Adam Douglas4038.2
Conservative Beatrice Greenwood3938.0
Green Neil Seepujak3817.7
Majority3,353
Turnout 493331.55
Labour hold Swing

May 2012

2012
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Roger Harington 3,900 71.7 −8.5
Liberal Democrats Abdul Abedin99718.3+9.9
Conservative Beatrice Greenwood3256.0−1.7
Alliance for Green SocialismAzar Iqbal2174.0+0.3
Majority2,90353.4−18.3
Turnout 5,439
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing -9.2

May 2011

2011
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arif Hussain* 4,805 80.2 +19.8
Liberal Democrats Qadeer Khan5068.4−16.1
Conservative Beatrice Greenwood4627.7+0.2
Alliance for Green SocialismAzar Iqbal2203.7+1.9
Majority4,29971.7+35.9
Turnout 5,99338
Labour hold Swing +17.9

May 2010

2010
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Kamila Maqsood 5,179 60.3 +18.0
Liberal Democrats Tasadaq Hussain2,10524.5−18.3
Conservative Beatrice Greenwood6427.5+3.9
BNP Anthony Wall5035.9−0.6
Alliance for Green SocialismAzar Iqbal1531.8+0.4
Majority3,07435.8+35.3
Turnout 8,58257.5+19.3
Labour hold Swing +18.1

See also

Notes

  1. Taylor had been a councillor for Harehills ward since 1999.
  2. Akhtar had been a Harehills ward councillor since winning a by-election in April 2000.
  3. Harington had been a councillor for Harehills ward since 2002.
  4. Akhtar lost the next election in 2007 and, after switching parties, was later elected as a Labour councillor for Hyde Park and Woodhouse ward in 2010. He went on to be elected for Little London and Woodhouse ward in 2018. [7]

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References

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  2. "Councillor Salma Arif". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council . Retrieved 13 December 2018.
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