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Dewsbury and Batley is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the next general election. The constituency will be located in the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire.
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- 1 2 "Independent Aleks Lukic takes seat from Labour in Dewsbury East". Examiner Live. 3 May 2019. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ↑ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED, NOTICE OF POLL AND SITUATION OF POLLING STATIONS" (PDF). Kirklees Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ↑ "Batley & Spen parliamentary constituency – Election 2019". BBC News . Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ↑ "'Politics is broken' says Independent candidate for Batley and Spen". Dewsbury Reporter. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
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