Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wakefield
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Wakefield in West Yorkshire
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Location of West Yorkshire within England
County West Yorkshire
Electorate 70,509 (December 2019) [1]
Major settlements Wakefield, Ossett
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of Parliament Simon Lightwood (Labour)
SeatsOne
1832–1997
SeatsOne
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Created from Yorkshire

Wakefield is a constituency created in 1832, represented by Simon Lightwood of the Labour Party since 2022.

Contents

The seat is due to be abolished for the next general election. [2]

Boundaries

Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1885-1918: The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the parish of Sandal Magna as lies to the north-east of the Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, being the portion known as Belle Vue. [3]

1918–1950: The County Borough of Wakefield.

1950–1955: The County Borough of Wakefield, the Urban District of Horbury, and part of the Rural District of Wakefield. [4]

1955–1983: The County Borough of Wakefield, the Urban Districts of Horbury and Royston, and part of the Rural District of Wakefield. [5]

1983–1997: The City of Wakefield wards of Horbury, Wakefield Central, Wakefield East, Wakefield North, Wakefield Rural, and Wakefield South.

1997–2010: The City of Wakefield wards of Wakefield Central, Wakefield East, Wakefield North, and Wakefield Rural, and the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees wards of Denby Dale and Kirkburton.

2010–present: The City of Wakefield wards of Horbury and South Ossett, Ossett, Wakefield East, Wakefield North, Wakefield Rural, and Wakefield West.

Latest boundary changes

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which altered this constituency for the 2010 general election, removing all three rural wards from the neighbouring borough of Kirklees that reached far to the south-west [n 1] and instead adding wards from the abolished Normanton constituency to the immediate west, since which time the seat has comprised three-quarters of the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield along with Ossett, Horbury and small outlying settlements.

The far eastern suburbs of the city and its southern part falls within the Wakefield South ward and this is in the Hemsworth seat, the largest towns of which are, by a small margin, the towns of South Elmsall and South Kirkby, which form a contiguous settlement 7 miles (11 km) to the east. [6] [7]

Proposed abolition

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished for the next general election, with its contents split in two: [2]

History

Predecessor seats

Electors of the area, since five years before the Model Parliament of 1295 until 1826 had entitlement to vote for the two representatives for Yorkshire, the largest county in the country. Parliament legislated for, from an unusual disfranchisement in 1826 of a Cornish rotten borough, two additional MPs. [n 2] From April 1784 until September 1812, one of the two members elected was William Wilberforce, internationally recognised as a leading figure in abolitionism (the anti-slavery movement). The large county was given far greater representation by the Reform Act 1832: Belle Vue's electors until 1885, alongside other Forty Shilling Freeholders non-resident in the Parliamentary Borough of Wakefield itself but owning such property in any part of the county division could elect the two members for that division: this became the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1832 until 1865 (which had its polling place in this city), after which, the relevant county subdivision became the Southern West Riding until 1885.

Creation

Wakefield became a county division under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, drawing in, as an extension, the Belle Vue area of the parish of Sandal Magna. [8]

Summary of results

Wakefield returned Labour MPs from 1932 to 2017. The size of majority had fluctuated between absolute and marginal. [n 3] The 2015 result gave the seat the 27th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [9] In 2019, Wakefield lost the Labour majority and returned the first Conservative MP in 87 years.

The seat was represented from 2019 to 2022 by Imran Ahmad Khan, who was elected as a member of the Conservative Party. Ahmad Khan was found guilty in 2022 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008 serving an 18 month jail term [10] resulting in his resignation as an MP. This triggered a by-election. His resignation became effective on 3 May 2022, when he was appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. [11] A by-election was held on 23 June to replace him. Looked on as a key "Red Wall" seat, Labour regained the constituency with a substantial 12.7% swing.

Opposition parties

From 1923 until 2019 the runner-up candidate was a Conservative. Six non-Labour candidates stood in 2015 of whom two, those which were Conservative and from UKIP won more than 5% of the vote, keeping their deposits.

Prominent frontbenchers

Rt Hon Arthur Greenwood was succeeded by Clement Attlee as leader of the Opposition in 1945, a few months before the party's landslide election victory. He had been from 1929 to 1931 the Minister of Health in the Second MacDonald ministry. In this role he successfully steered the Housing Act 1930 through both Houses of Parliament under the minority government, which expended more significant subsidies for slum clearance, allowing more affordable, spacious housing to be built for residents of slums. When the wartime coalition government was formed, Winston Churchill appointed him to the British War Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio in 1940. He was generally seen in such a role as of little wartime legislative effect, but in May 1940 he emerged as Churchill's strongest and most vocal supporter in the lengthy War Cabinet debates on whether to accept or reject a peace offer from Germany. [12] Without the vote in favour of fighting on by Greenwood and Clement Attlee, Churchill would not have had the slim majority he needed to do so. [13]

Rt Hon Arthur Creech Jones was Secretary of State for the Colonies from October 1946 until February 1950, appropriately given that in June 1936 he pressed the Government, who were encouraging Colonies to set up memorials to King George V, to follow the example of Uganda and set up a technical educational institution. [14] The Labour Party nominated him to the Colonial Office's Educational Advisory Committee in 1936, on which he served for nine years. In 1937, he was a founding member of the Trades Union Congress Colonial Affairs Committee, and in 1940 he founded the Fabian Colonial Bureau.

Mary Creagh held various shadow cabinet posts between 2010 and 2015. [15] She resigned her post following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour party leader. [16]

Turnout

Turnout in general elections since 1918 has ranged between 54.5% in 2001 and 87.3% in 1950.

Constituency profile

The constituency has a rolling landscape with villages surrounding the city of Wakefield which is well connected to West Yorkshire in particular Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield, however also via two junctions of the M1 to the west, to South Yorkshire such as Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield. The small city itself has a large central trading and industrial estate, a central park, Clarence Park which includes a national athletics training squad, a Rugby League major team, Wakefield Trinity and its own Cathedral. Wakefield Europort employs approximately 3,000 people, a major rail-motorway hub for Northern England imports and exports with EU countries. Horbury and Ossett and towns in the low foothills of the Pennines. In the far west of the constituency, there is the National Coal Mining Museum for England, on the site of the old Caphouse Colliery.

Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 slightly higher than the regional average of 4.9%, at 5.3% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian , which is also higher than the national average of 3.8%. [17]

Of the council wards, the Wakefield East and Wakefield North areas regularly return Labour councillors, whereas the others are marginal. The Ossett ward is particularly unpredictable, and has elected Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and UKIP councillors since 2005. The other wards are contested between Labour and Conservative. Between 1997 and 2010 the constituency included the wards of Denby Dale and Kirkburton, generally Conservative-voting suburbs of Huddersfield in the neighbouring Kirklees borough. These joined Dewsbury, in the same borough, in 2010.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [18] Party
1832 Daniel Gaskell Radical [19]
1837 William Lascelles Conservative [19]
1841 Joseph Holdsworth Whig [19] [20] [21]
1842 by-election William Lascelles Conservative [19]
1847 George Sandars Conservative
1857 John Charlesworth Conservative
1859 William Henry Leatham Liberal
1862 by-election John Dalrymple-Hay Conservative
1865 William Henry Leatham Liberal
1868 Somerset Beaumont Liberal
1874 Edward Green Conservative
1874 by-election Thomas Kemp Sanderson Conservative
1880 Robert Bownas Mackie Liberal
1885 by-election Edward Green Conservative
1892 Albany Charlesworth Conservative
1895 William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Conservative
1902 by-election Edward Brotherton Conservative
1910 (December) Arthur Marshall Liberal
1918 Edward Brotherton Conservative
1922 Robert Ellis Conservative
1923 George Sherwood Labour
1924 Geoffrey Ellis Conservative
1929 George Sherwood Labour
1931 George Hillman Conservative
1932 by-election Arthur Greenwood Labour
1954 by-election Arthur Creech Jones Labour
1964 Walter Harrison Labour
1987 David Hinchliffe Labour
2005 Mary Creagh Labour
2019 Imran Ahmad Khan Conservative
June 2021 [22] Independent
2022 by-election Simon Lightwood Labour

Elections

Results over time

Elections in the 2020s

2022 Wakefield by-election [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Simon Lightwood 13,166 47.9 +8.1
Conservative Nadeem Ahmed8,24130.0−17.3
Independent Akef Akbar2,0907.6New
Yorkshire David Herdson1,1824.3+2.4
Green Ashley Routh5872.1New
Reform UK Chris Walsh5131.9New
Liberal Democrats Jamie Needle5081.8−2.1
Britain First Ashlea Simon3111.1New
Freedom AllianceMick Dodgson1870.7New
Monster Raving Loony Sir Archibald Stanton Earl 'Eaton1710.6New
CPA Paul Bickerdike1440.5New
English Democrat Therese Hirst1350.5New
UKIP Jordan Gaskell1240.5New
NIP Christopher Jones840.3New
Independent Jayda Fransen 230.1New
Majority4,92517.9N/A
Turnout 27,46639.5−24.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +12.7

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Wakefield [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Imran Ahmad Khan 21,283 47.3 +2.3
Labour Mary Creagh 17,92539.8−9.9
Brexit Party Peter Wiltshire2,7256.1New
Liberal Democrats Jamie Needle1,7723.9+1.9
Yorkshire Ryan Kett8681.9−0.6
Independent Stephen Whyte4541.0New
Majority3,3587.5N/A
Turnout 45,02764.1−1.7
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +6.1
General election 2017: Wakefield [25] [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Creagh 22,987 49.7 +9.4
Conservative Antony Calvert20,81145.0+10.8
Yorkshire Lucy Brown1,1762.5New
Liberal Democrats Finbarr Cronin9432.0−1.5
Independent Wajid Ali3670.8New
Majority2,1764.7−1.4
Turnout 46,28465.8+4.9
Labour hold Swing −0.7
General election 2015: Wakefield [27]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Creagh 17,301 40.3 +1.0
Conservative Antony Calvert14,68834.2−1.4
UKIP Alan Hazelhurst7,86218.3New
Liberal Democrats Finbarr Cronin1,4833.5−12.8
Green Rebecca Thackray1,0692.5+0.5
TUSC Mick Griffiths2870.7New
CISTA Elliot Barr2830.7New
Majority2,6136.1+2.4
Turnout 42,97360.9−1.8
Labour hold Swing +1.3
General election 2010: Wakefield [28] [29]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Creagh 17,454 39.3 −4.8
Conservative Alex Story 15,84135.6+9.1
Liberal Democrats David Smith7,25616.3−2.5
BNP Ian Senior2,5815.8+2.7
Green Miriam Hawkins8732.0−1.0
Independent Mark Harrop4391.0New
Majority1,6133.7−8.6
Turnout 44,44462.7+1.3
Labour hold Swing −6.9

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Wakefield [30]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mary Creagh 18,802 43.3 −6.6
Conservative Alec Shelbrooke 13,64831.5+0.9
Liberal Democrats David Ridgway7,06316.3+3.9
BNP Grant Rowe1,3283.1New
Green Derek Hardcastle1,2973.0+0.4
UKIP John Upex4671.1−0.5
English Democrat Adrian McEnhill3560.8New
Socialist Alternative Mick Griffiths3190.7New
Socialist Labour Linda Sheridan1010.2−1.3
Majority5,15411.8−7.5
Turnout 43,38159.3+4.8
Labour hold Swing −3.7
General election 2001: Wakefield [31]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Hinchliffe 20,592 49.9 −7.5
Conservative Thelma Karran12,63830.6+2.1
Liberal Democrats Dale Douglas5,09712.4+1.2
Green Sarah Greenwood1,0752.6New
UKIP Janice Cannon6771.6New
Socialist Labour Abdul Aziz6341.5New
Socialist Alliance Mick Griffiths5411.3New
Majority7,95419.3−9.6
Turnout 41,25454.5−14.6
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Wakefield [32]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Hinchliffe 28,977 57.4 +6.8
Conservative Jonathan Peacock14,37328.5−9.8
Liberal Democrats Douglas Dale5,65611.2+0.1
Referendum Simon Shires1,4802.9New
Majority14,60428.9+16.6
Turnout 50,48668.9−7.3
Labour hold Swing
General election 1992: Wakefield [33] [34]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Hinchliffe 26,964 50.6 +4.0
Conservative David P. Fanthorpe20,37438.3−3.0
Liberal Democrats Tim J. Wright5,90011.1−1.0
Majority6,59012.3+7.0
Turnout 53,23876.2+0.6
Labour hold Swing +3.5

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Wakefield [35]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Hinchliffe 24,509 46.6 +4.2
Conservative Norman Hazell21,72041.3+1.7
SDP Lutfe Kamal6,35012.1−7.2
Majority2,7895.3
Turnout 52,57975.6
Labour hold Swing
General election 1983: Wakefield [36]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 19,166 40.4
Conservative Norman Hazell18,80640.0
SDP David Carlton9,16619.3
BNP V Parker2950.6New
Majority3600.4
Turnout 47,43369.33
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 27,124 50.90
Conservative J Sheard19,57136.73
Liberal N Collins-Tooth6,05911.37
National Front A Cooper5300.99New
Majority7,55314.17
Turnout 53,28475.57
Labour hold Swing
General election October 1974: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 25,616 54.82
Conservative EJL Koops12,81027.41
Liberal A Fussey8,30417.77
Majority12,80627.41
Turnout 46,73070.23
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 27,032 51.34
Conservative EJL Koops15,61429.65
Liberal A Fussey10,00919.01
Majority11,41821.69
Turnout 52,65579.87
Labour hold Swing
General election 1970: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 27,352 58.08
Conservative Dale Smith15,66833.27
Liberal Nancy Seear 4,0718.64New
Majority11,68424.81
Turnout 47,08172.65
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 28,907 65.39
Conservative Ron Benson 15,29934.61
Majority13,60830.78
Turnout 44,20673.38
Labour hold Swing
General election 1964: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Walter Harrison 26,315 55.45
Conservative John Spence 14,38530.31
Liberal John M. Collins6,75314.23New
Majority11,93025.14
Turnout 47,45377.97
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Creech Jones 29,705 59.63
Conservative Michael Jopling 20,11440.37
Majority9,59119.26
Turnout 49,81981.95
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Creech Jones 28,180 60.45
Conservative Denton Hinchcliffe18,43539.55
Majority9,74520.90
Turnout 46,61577.92
Labour hold Swing
By-election 21 October 1954: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Creech Jones 21,822 58.14 −0.14
Conservative Maurice Macmillan 15,71441.86+0.14
Majority6,10816.28−0.28
Turnout 37,536
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Greenwood 27,100 58.28
Conservative Maurice Grant19,39841.72
Majority7,70216.56
Turnout 46,49885.27
Labour hold Swing
General election 1950: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Greenwood 25,996 55.38
Conservative Harry Watson15,92533.92
Liberal Stanley Berwin 5,02210.70
Majority10,07121.46
Turnout 46,94387.31
Labour hold Swing

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Greenwood 14,378 54.75
Conservative Harry Watson8,26831.49
Liberal George Leonard Jack Oliver3,61313.76New
Majority6,11023.26
Turnout 26,25980.37
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Greenwood 15,804 56.03
Conservative AE Greaves12,40043.97
Majority3,40412.06
Turnout 28,20484.91
Labour hold Swing
1932 Wakefield by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Greenwood 13,586 50.6 +8.0
Conservative A. E. Greaves13,24249.4−8.0
Majority3441.2N/A
Turnout 26,82883.0−2.5
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General election 1931: Wakefield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Hillman 15,88157.43
Labour George Sherwood 11,77442.57
Majority4,10714.86N/A
Turnout 27,65585.53
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1929: Wakefield [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Sherwood 13,393 48.8 +0.9
Unionist Geoffrey Ellis 10,18037.1−15.0
Liberal Leonard Parish3,87514.1New
Majority3,21311.7N/A
Turnout 27,44885.6+5.8
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +7.9
General election 1924: Wakefield [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Geoffrey Ellis 11,086 52.1 +15.3
Labour George Sherwood 10,19247.9+8.0
Majority8944.2N/A
Turnout 21,27884.8+3.9
Unionist gain from Labour Swing +3.6
General election 1923: Wakefield [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour George Sherwood 7,966 39.9 −8.6
Unionist Geoffrey Ellis 7,34536.8−14.7
Liberal Eric John Lassen4,64023.3New
Majority6213.1N/A
Turnout 19,95180.9−3.5
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +3.0
General election 1922: Wakefield [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Geoffrey Ellis 10,416 51.5 −0.8
Labour Albert Bellamy 9,79848.5+14.8
Majority6183.0−15.6
Turnout 20,21484.4+12.3
Unionist hold Swing −7.8

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Wakefield [37]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Edward Brotherton 9,12852.3
Labour Albert Bellamy 5,88233.7New
Liberal Arthur Marshall 2,44814.0
Majority3,24618.6N/A
Turnout 17,45872.1
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

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Arthur Marshall
General election December 1910: Wakefield [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Arthur Marshall 2,837 51.7 New
Conservative Edward Brotherton 2,65148.3-6.2
Majority1863.4N/A
Turnout 5,488
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing N/A
General election January 1910: Wakefield [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Brotherton 3,121 54.5 +13.7
Labour Stanton Coit 2,60245.5+8.6
Majority5199.0+5.1
Turnout 5,72390.5+2.0
Conservative hold Swing +2.5

Elections in the 1900s

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Coit
General election 1906: Wakefield [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Brotherton 2,285 40.8 N/A
Labour Repr. Cmte. Stanton Coit 2,06836.9N/A
Liberal Thomas Snape 1,24722.3New
Majority2173.9N/A
Turnout 5,60088.5N/A
Registered electors 6,326
Conservative hold Swing N/A
1902 Wakefield by-election [39] [38]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Brotherton 2,960 59.9 N/A
Labour Repr. Cmte. Philip Snowden 1,97940.1New
Majority98119.8N/A
Turnout 4,93980.9N/A
Registered electors 6,103
Conservative hold Swing N/A
General election 1900: Wakefield [38] [40]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Unionist William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Unopposed
Liberal Unionist hold

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1895: Wakefield [40] [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 2,864 56.9 +2.7
Liberal Henry Smithson Lee Wilson2,16543.1−2.7
Majority69913.8+5.4
Turnout 5,02987.5−2.8
Registered electors 5,748
Conservative hold Swing +2.7
General election 1892: Wakefield [40] [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Albany Charlesworth 2,582 54.2 +0.5
Liberal Thomas Young Strachan [42] 2,17845.8−0.5
Majority4048.4+1.0
Turnout 4,19990.3+2.8
Registered electors 5,274
Conservative hold Swing +0.5

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1886: Wakefield [40] [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Green 2,253 53.7 0.0
Liberal John James Cousins [43] 1,94646.30.0
Majority3077.40.0
Turnout 4,19987.5−4.6
Registered electors 4,801
Conservative hold Swing 0.0
General election 1885: Wakefield [40] [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Green 2,374 53.7 +8.7
Liberal Wentworth Beaumont [44] 2,04946.3−8.7
Majority3257.4N/A
Turnout 4,42392.1+2.0
Registered electors 4,801
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +8.7
By-election, 4 July 1885: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Green 1,918 53.6 +8.6
Liberal William Hartley Lee [46] 1,66146.4−8.6
Majority2577.2N/A
Turnout 3,57988.9−1.2
Registered electors 4,026
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +8.6
General election 1880: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Robert Bownas Mackie 2,194 55.0 +7.6
Conservative Thomas Kemp Sanderson 1,79645.0−7.6
Majority39810.0N/A
Turnout 3,99090.1+3.2
Registered electors 4,430
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +7.6

Elections in the 1870s

By-election, 6 May 1874: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Thomas Kemp Sanderson 1,814 52.7 +0.1
Liberal Robert Bownas Mackie 1,62747.3−0.1
Majority1875.4+0.2
Turnout 3,44188.5+1.6
Registered electors 3,889
Conservative hold Swing +0.1
General election 1874: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Green 1,779 52.6 +3.3
Liberal Robert Bownas Mackie 1,60047.4−3.3
Majority1795.2N/A
Turnout 3,37986.9+2.3
Registered electors 3,889
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +3.3

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1868: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Somerset Beaumont 1,557 50.7 −1.9
Conservative Thomas Kemp Sanderson 1,51249.3+1.9
Majority451.4−3.8
Turnout 3,06984.6−4.2
Registered electors 3,627
Liberal hold Swing −1.9
General election 1865: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Henry Leatham 507 52.6 +2.4
Conservative John Dalrymple-Hay 45747.4−2.4
Majority505.2+4.8
Turnout 96488.8−2.9
Registered electors 1,086
Liberal hold Swing +2.4
By-election, 28 February 1862: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Dalrymple-Hay 455 51.6 +1.8
Liberal Richard Smethurst [48] 42648.4−1.8
Majority293.2N/A
Turnout 88185.5−6.2
Registered electors 1,086
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +1.8

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1859: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Henry Leatham 406 50.2 New
Conservative John Charlesworth 40349.8N/A
Majority30.4N/A
Turnout 80991.7N/A
Registered electors 882
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing N/A
General election 1857: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Charlesworth Unopposed
Registered electors 906
Conservative hold
General election 1852: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Sandars 359 52.4 −7.9
Whig William Henry Leatham [50] 32647.6+7.9
Majority334.8−15.8
Turnout 68589.4−5.9
Registered electors 766
Conservative hold Swing −7.9

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1847: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Sandars 392 60.3 +12.5
Radical George William Alexander [51] [52] 25839.7−12.5
Majority13420.6N/A
Turnout 65095.3+11.6
Registered electors 682
Conservative gain from Whig Swing +12.5

On petition, Holdsworth was disqualified due to also being the returning officer at the election, and Lascelles was declared elected on 21 April 1842. [53]

General election 1841: Wakefield [45]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig Joseph Holdsworth 328 52.2 N/A
Conservative William Lascelles 30047.8−4.4
Majority284.4N/A
Turnout 62883.7−0.1
Registered electors 750
Whig gain from Conservative Swing N/A

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1837: Wakefield [45] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Lascelles 307 52.2 +7.9
Radical Daniel Gaskell 28147.8−7.9
Majority264.4N/A
Turnout 58883.8+3.2
Registered electors 702
Conservative gain from Radical Swing +7.9
General election 1835: Wakefield [45] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Radical Daniel Gaskell 277 55.7
Conservative William Lascelles 22044.3
Majority5711.4
Turnout 49780.6
Registered electors 617
Radical hold
General election 1832: Wakefield [45] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Radical Daniel Gaskell Unopposed
Registered electors 726
Radical win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The wards of: Denby Dale and large parts of Almondbury, and Kirkburton
  2. ↑ This Cornish seat was a 19th-century byword for corruption, Grampound.
  3. ↑ The Labour majority in 1966 was the greatest at 30.8% of the vote; that in 1983 was the narrowest since 1932, at 360 votes, see incumbent MP Walter Harrison (Lab) who did not stand for re-election in 1987.

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