Leeds South West and Morley | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Yorkshire |
Electorate | 71,376 [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Mark Sewards (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from |
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Leeds South West and Morley is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested in the 2024 general election.
The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It comprises the following areas of the City of Leeds: [4]
Areas | Leeds City Council Wards | Former Constituency |
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Morley | Morley North & Morley South | Morley and Outwood |
Robin Hood, Tingley, East Ardsley, & West Ardsley | Ardsley and Robin Hood | Morley and Outwood |
Farnley & Wortley | Farnley and Wortley | Leeds West |
Morley & Outwood prior to 2024
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Mark Sewards | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mark Sewards | 17,681 | 44.0 | +7.2 | |
Conservative | Andrea Jenkyns | 9,258 | 23.0 | −30.1 | |
Reform UK | James Kendall | 8,187 | 20.4 | +18.6 | |
Green | Chris Bell | 2,522 | 6.3 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Fox | 1,798 | 4.5 | +1.7 | |
Yorkshire | Howard Graham Dews | 664 | 1.7 | −0.5 | |
SDP | Nigel Perry | 99 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,423 | 21.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,209 | 56.0 | −5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 71,854 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 18.7 |
2019 notional result [7] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 23,166 | 53.1 | |
Labour | 16,052 | 36.8 | |
Green | 1,440 | 3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1,207 | 2.8 | |
Others | 957 | 2.2 | |
Brexit Party | 780 | 1.8 | |
Turnout | 43,602 | 61.1 | |
Electorate | 71,376 |
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