Shipley | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Local government in England | West Yorkshire |
Electorate | 74,522 (December 2019) [1] |
Major settlements | Shipley, Bingley, Baildon |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of Parliament | Anna Dixon (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Northern West Riding of Yorkshire |
Shipley is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Anna Dixon, representing Labour. [n 2]
1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Bradford, and the civil parishes of Clayton, Eccleshill, Idle, North Bierley, and Shipley.
1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Baildon, Bingley, Guiseley, Shipley, and Yeadon, and in the Rural District of Wharfedale the civil parishes of Esholt, Hawksworth, and Menston.
1950–1983: The Urban Districts of Baildon, Bingley, and Shipley.
1983–2010: The District of Bradford wards of Baildon, Bingley, Bingley Rural, Rombalds, Shipley East, and Shipley West.
2010–present: The District of Bradford wards of Baildon, Bingley, Bingley Rural, Shipley, Wharfedale, and Windhill and Wrose.
This seat was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. Until 1923 the seat was almost exclusively represented by elected Liberals and Arthur Creech Jones was Secretary of State for the Colonies (1946–1950) during most of the Attlee Ministry.
Shipley was for a long time the seat of ex-Chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, Sir Marcus Fox. He held the seat for almost 30 years between the 1970 and 1997 general elections.
At the 1997 general election, the Labour candidate Chris Leslie gained the seat from Fox, becoming the youngest MP of that parliament. He held the seat at the 2001 election and became a junior minister. A number of traditional Labour supporters considered Leslie to be an ardent Blairite, though he was in fact equally close to Gordon Brown, one of whose staff he married, and whose campaign for election as Labour leader he helped run (after he had lost this seat). [2]
Leslie narrowly lost the seat in the 2005 election, when the Conservative Party candidate Philip Davies narrowly regained the seat with a majority of 422 votes, which then increased to nearly ten thousand votes at the May 2010 general election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Anna Dixon | 21,738 | 45.0 | +5.8 | |
Conservative | Philip Davies | 13,135 | 27.2 | −23.6 | |
Reform UK | Simon Dandy | 7,238 | 15.0 | N/A | |
Green | Kevin Warnes | 3,605 | 7.5 | +5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Graham Richard Reed | 1,341 | 2.8 | −3.1 | |
Yorkshire | Will Grant | 447 | 0.9 | −0.7 | |
Independent | Nagbea | 297 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Workers Party | Waqas Ali Khan | 269 | 0.6 | N/A | |
SDP | Paul Shkurka | 137 | 0.3 | N/A | |
CPA | Darryl Neale Morton-Wright | 96 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,603 | 17.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,303 | 65.2 | −7.7 | ||
Registered electors | 74,130 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 14.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Davies | 27,437 | 50.8 | −0.5 | |
Labour | Jo Pike | 21,195 | 39.2 | −3.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Jones | 3,188 | 5.9 | +1.8 | |
Green | Celia Hickson | 1,301 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Yorkshire | Darren Longhorn | 883 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,242 | 11.6 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 54,004 | 72.9 | −0.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Davies | 27,417 | 51.3 | +1.3 | |
Labour | Steve Clapcote | 22,736 | 42.6 | +11.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Jones | 2,202 | 4.1 | +0.2 | |
Women's Equality | Sophie Walker | 1,040 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,681 | 8.7 | −10.3 | ||
Turnout | 53,395 | 73.0 | +5.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Davies | 25,269 | 50.0 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Steve Clapcote | 15,645 | 31.0 | +2.6 | |
UKIP | Waqas Ali Khan | 4,479 | 8.9 | N/A | |
Green | Kevin Warnes | 2,657 | 5.3 | +2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Martin | 1,949 | 3.9 | −16.1 | |
Yorkshire First | Darren Hill | 543 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,624 | 19.0 | −1.1 | ||
Turnout | 50,542 | 71.7 | −1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Davies | 24,002 | 48.6 | +9.7 | |
Labour | Susan Hinchcliffe | 14,058 | 28.4 | −9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Harris | 9,890 | 20.0 | +4.8 | |
Green | Kevin Warnes | 1,477 | 3.0 | −0.4 | |
Majority | 9,944 | 20.1 | +19.1 | ||
Turnout | 49,427 | 73.0 | +4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Davies | 18,608 | 39.0 | −1.9 | |
Labour | Chris Leslie | 18,186 | 38.2 | −5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Briggs | 7,018 | 14.7 | +3.8 | |
BNP | Tom Linden | 2,000 | 4.2 | N/A | |
Green | Quentin Deakin | 1,665 | 3.5 | +0.5 | |
Iraq War. Not In My Name | David Crabtree | 189 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 422 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,666 | 69.7 | +3.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Chris Leslie | 20,243 | 44.0 | +0.7 | |
Conservative | David Senior | 18,815 | 40.9 | +3.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Helen Wright | 4,996 | 10.9 | −4.2 | |
Green | Martin Love | 1,386 | 3.0 | N/A | |
UKIP | Walter Whitaker | 580 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,428 | 3.1 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 46,020 | 66.2 | −10.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Chris Leslie | 22,962 | 43.3 | +14.9 | |
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 19,996 | 37.8 | −12.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Cole | 7,984 | 15.1 | −4.9 | |
Referendum | Stephen Ellams | 1,960 | 3.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,966 | 4.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,902 | 76.3 | −5.8 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Marcus Fox | 28,463 | 50.4 | +0.9 | |
Labour | Annie Lockwood | 16,081 | 28.5 | +5.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Cole | 11,288 | 20.0 | −6.3 | |
Green | Colin Harris | 680 | 1.2 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 12,382 | 21.9 | −0.3 | ||
Turnout | 56,512 | 82.1 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 26,941 | 49.5 | −0.2 | |
Liberal | William Wallace | 14,311 | 26.3 | −1.4 | |
Labour | Christopher Butler | 12,699 | 23.3 | +1.7 | |
Green | Colin Harris | 507 | 0.9 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 12,630 | 23.2 | +1.2 | ||
Turnout | 54,428 | 79.2 | +2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 25,866 | 49.7 | −2.8 | |
Liberal | William Wallace | 14,421 | 27.7 | +14.5 | |
Labour | Martin Leathley | 11,218 | 21.6 | −11.6 | |
Ecology | Stanley Shepherd | 521 | 1.0 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 11,445 | 22.0 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 52,026 | 77.0 | −3.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 22,641 | 52.55 | +8.56 | |
Labour | Peter R Ward | 14,281 | 33.15 | −3.63 | |
Liberal | G G Roberts | 5,673 | 13.17 | −6.04 | |
Ecology | D R Pedley | 486 | 1.13 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,360 | 19.40 | |||
Turnout | 43,081 | 80.51 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 18,518 | 43.99 | +0.86 | |
Labour | M J Wedgeworth | 15,482 | 36.78 | +2.87 | |
Liberal | G G Roberts | 8,094 | 19.23 | −3.31 | |
Majority | 3,036 | 7.21 | |||
Turnout | 42,094 | 81.00 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 19,439 | 43.13 | −7.3 | |
Labour | M J Wedgeworth | 15,284 | 33.91 | −5.0 | |
Liberal | G G Roberts | 10,158 | 22.54 | +11.9 | |
Independent Democratic Alliance | C G Campion | 192 | 0.43 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,155 | 9.22 | |||
Turnout | 45,073 | 87.41 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Marcus Fox | 20,938 | 50.37 | ||
Labour | Norman Free | 16,161 | 38.88 | ||
Liberal | A.M. Micklem | 4,468 | 10.75 | ||
Majority | 4,777 | 11.49 | |||
Turnout | 41,567 | 82.42 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Hirst | 18,466 | 46.47 | ||
Labour | John Collins | 16,966 | 42.70 | ||
Liberal | James P Heppell | 4,304 | 10.83 | ||
Majority | 1,500 | 3.77 | |||
Turnout | 39,736 | 86.58 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Hirst | 19,076 | 57.95 | ||
Labour | Christopher Price | 15,545 | 39.07 | ||
Liberal | James P Heppell | 5,165 | 12.98 | ||
Majority | 3,531 | 8.88 | |||
Turnout | 39,786 | 86.67 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Hirst | 22,536 | 56.97 | ||
Labour | Michael English | 17,025 | 43.03 | ||
Majority | 5,511 | 13.94 | |||
Turnout | 39,561 | 87.02 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Hirst | 22,582 | 56.69 | ||
Labour | Ernest Gardner | 17,251 | 43.31 | ||
Majority | 5,331 | 13.38 | |||
Turnout | 39,833 | 86.21 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Hirst | 20,396 | 47.78 | ||
Labour | Thomas J Roberts | 18,893 | 44.26 | ||
Liberal | Stanley Berwin | 3,399 | 7.96 | ||
Majority | 1,503 | 3.52 | |||
Turnout | 42,688 | 90.48 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Hirst | 18,390 | 43.83 | ||
Labour | Arthur Creech Jones | 18,309 | 43.64 | ||
Liberal | William Albert Lupton | 5,021 | 11.97 | ||
Communist | L.T. Robb | 237 | 0.56 | n/a | |
Majority | 81 | 0.19 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 41,957 | 89.31 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Creech Jones | 25,027 | 50.11 | ||
Conservative | Harry Hylton-Foster | 17,097 | 34.23 | ||
Liberal | Eric Robinson | 7,820 | 15.66 | ||
Majority | 7,930 | 15.88 | |||
Turnout | 49,944 | 80.39 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Creech Jones | 16,102 | 36.0 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Percy Guy Illingworth | 11,595 | 25.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Thomas Howarth | 10,998 | 24.6 | −39.4 | |
Ind. Conservative | James Lockwood | 6,025 | 13.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,507 | 10.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,720 | 77.5 | −2.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Lockwood | 27,304 | 64.0 | +32.9 | |
Labour | William Albert Robinson | 14,725 | 34.5 | −7.8 | |
New Party | W.J. Leaper | 601 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,579 | 29.5 | +18.3 | ||
Turnout | 42,630 | 79.7 | −5.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Lockwood | 15,238 | 36.0 | +4.9 | |
Labour | William Albert Robinson | 13,537 | 32.1 | −10.2 | |
Liberal | Arthur Davy | 12,785 | 30.2 | +3.6 | |
Communist | Willie Gallacher | 701 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,665 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,261 | 80.0 | −5.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Mackinder | 18,654 | 42.3 | +6.3 | |
Unionist | Robert Clough | 13,693 | 31.1 | −3.1 | |
Liberal | Francis Hirst | 11,712 | 26.6 | −3.2 | |
Majority | 4,961 | 11.2 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,059 | 85.0 | −1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Mackinder | 11,862 | 36.0 | −2.4 | |
Unionist | Thomas Plumer | 11,266 | 34.2 | +5.6 | |
Liberal | John Pybus | 9,800 | 29.8 | −3.2 | |
Majority | 596 | 1.8 | −3.6 | ||
Turnout | 32,928 | 86.4 | +3.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Mackinder | 11,918 | 38.4 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | John Pybus | 10,262 | 33.0 | +20.8 | |
Unionist | Richard Garnett | 8,872 | 28.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,656 | 5.4 | 8.8 | ||
Turnout | 31,052 | 82.7 | +1.0 | ||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Liberal | Norman Rae | 12,201 | 40.6 | −34.0 | |
Labour | William Mackinder | 11,160 | 37.2 | +11.8 | |
Liberal | Arthur Davy | 6,674 | 12.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 1.041 | 3.4 | −45.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,035 | 81.7 | +18.7 | ||
National Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Norman Rae | 16,700 | 74.6 | N/A |
Labour | Tom Snowden | 5,690 | 25.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,010 | 49.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 22,390 | 63.0 | N/A | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Oswald Partington | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Illingworth | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Illingworth | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Illingworth | 9,144 | 63.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Unionist | William Hewins | 5,369 | 37.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,775 | 26.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,507 | 88.9 | N/A | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Percy Illingworth | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | James Fortescue Flannery | 6,284 | 50.2 | −0.1 | |
Liberal | Percy Illingworth | 6,223 | 49.8 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 61 | 0.4 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 12,507 | 83.4 | +0.4 | ||
Registered electors | 14,990 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | -0.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | James Fortescue Flannery | 5,999 | 50.3 | +1.6 | |
Lib-Lab | William Byles | 5,921 | 49.7 | −1.6 | |
Majority | 78 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,920 | 83.0 | +7.0 | ||
Registered electors | 14,353 | ||||
Liberal Unionist gain from Lib-Lab | Swing | +1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | William Byles | 5,746 | 51.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Unionist | Theophilus Peel | 5,464 | 48.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 282 | 2.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,210 | 76.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 14,759 | ||||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Joseph Craven | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Joseph Craven | 7,022 | 59.3 | ||
Conservative | Laurence Hardy | 4,825 | 40.7 | ||
Majority | 2,197 | 18.6 | |||
Turnout | 11,847 | 84.2 | |||
Registered electors | 14,067 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
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