Cross Gates and Whinmoor (ward)

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Cross Gates and Whinmoor
Leeds UK ward map highlighting Cross Gates and Whinmoor.svg
Cross Gates and Whinmoor highlighted within Leeds
Population18,287 (2023 electorate)
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
UK Parliament
Councillors
  • James Gibson [1] (Labour)
  • Pauleen Grahame [2] (Labour)
  • Jessica Lennox [3] (Labour)
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire

Cross Gates and Whinmoor is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the outer city suburb areas of Cross Gates, Manston, Swarcliffe and Whinmoor. Austhorpe is also shared with Temple Newsam ward to the south.

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Councillors

ElectionCouncillorCouncillorCouncillor
2004 Suzi Armitage (Lab) [lower-alpha 1] [4] Pauleen Grahame (Lab) [lower-alpha 2] Peter Gruen (Lab) [lower-alpha 3] [5]
2006 Suzi Armitage (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2007 Suzi Armitage (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2008 Suzi Armitage (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2010 Suzi Armitage (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2011 Suzi Armitage (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2012 Suzi Armitage (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2013 by-election Debra Coupar (Lab) [lower-alpha 4] [8] Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2014 Debra Coupar (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2015 Debra Coupar (Lab) [lower-alpha 5] Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2016 Janette Walker (Lab) [lower-alpha 6] [9] Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
February 2017Janette Walker (ELI) [lower-alpha 7] Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2018 Jessica Lennox (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2019 Jessica Lennox (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)Peter Gruen (Lab)
2021 Jessica Lennox (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)James Gibson (Lab) [lower-alpha 8]
2022 Jessica Lennox (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)James Gibson (Lab)
2023 Jessica Lennox (Lab)Pauleen Grahame (Lab)James Gibson (Lab)
2024 Jessica Lennox* (Lab)Pauleen Grahame* (Lab)James Gibson* (Lab)

  indicates seat up for re-election.   indicates seat up for election following resignation or death of sitting councillor.   indicates councillor defection. * indicates incumbent councillor.

Elections since 2010

May 2024

2024
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Gibson* 2,865 53.2 -0.4
Conservative Max Holley1,16421.6-7.9
Reform UK Graham Sunley4618.6New
Yorkshire Howard Dews3145.8New
Green Martin Hemingway2965.5-0.2
Liberal Democrats Noah Allerton2885.3+0.9
Majority1,70131.6+2.8
Turnout 5,41830.0+1.2
Labour hold Swing +3.8

May 2023

2023
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jess Lennox* 2,823 53.6 +2.4
Conservative John Kennedy1,55729.5-4.4
Independent Mark Nicholson3396.4N/A
Green Martin Hemingway3025.7-1.3
Liberal Democrats Patricia Cooper2334.4-3.0
Majority1,26624.0+6.7
Turnout 5,27128.8-2.0
Labour hold Swing

May 2022

2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pauleen Grahame* 2,915 51.2 +7.9
Conservative John Kennedy1,92933.9-7.3
Liberal Democrats Benjamin Wood4217.4+5.2
Green Martin Hemingway4017.0+1.2
Majority98617.3+15.2
Turnout 5,68830.8-4.4
Labour hold Swing

May 2021

2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Gibson 2,826 43.3 -0.5
Conservative Philip Moore2,68741.2+20.4
Green Keith Hale3785.8-2.4
Independent Mark Nicholson2864.4N/A
UKIP Harvey Alexander1572.4-17.7
Liberal Democrats Aqila Choudhry1452.2-3.8
SDP Jack Newcombe210.0-1.2
Majority1392.1-20.9
Turnout 6,53035.2+8.8
Labour hold Swing

May 2019

2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jessica Lennox* 2,095 43.8 +7.4
Conservative Paula Hayes99520.8+1.6
UKIP Harvey Alexander96020.1+12.9
Green Ben Goldthorp3918.2+1.6
Liberal Democrats Roderic Parker2866.0+1.6
SDP David Creasser581.2+1.2
Majority1,10023.0+6.3
Turnout 4,82326.4-5.4
Labour hold Swing +2.9

May 2018

2018
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pauline Grahame* 2,815 36.4 -12.2
Labour Peter Gruen* 2,501
Labour Jessica Lennox 2,175
East Leeds Independents Janette Walker*1,52519.7N/A
Conservative Dorothy Schofield1,48519.2+1.6
Conservative Paula Hayes1,340
Conservative Andrew Martin1,142
Green Elizabeth Fellows557
UKIP Harvey Alexander5197.2-18.0
UKIP Peter Morgan414
Liberal Democrats Thomas Shakespeare3404.4+0
Democrats and Veterans Mark Maniatt2613.4N/A
For Britain Stuart Nicholson2383.1N/A
Majority1,29016.7-6.7
Turnout 18,24731.8-0.6
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016

2016
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Janette Walker 2,789 48.6 +2.8
UKIP Mark Maniatt1,44625.2+3.6
Conservative Matthew Gale1,08818.8-5.6
Liberal Democrats Kate Langwick2454.3+0.6
Green Florence Scott1653.1-1.4
Majority1,34323.4+2.0
Turnout 5,73332.4
Labour hold Swing

May 2015

2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pauleen Grahame* 5,012 45.8 -11.1
Conservative David Schofield2,66924.4+1.5
UKIP Darren Oddy2,36321.6+13.7
Green Ben Goldthorpe4894.5+0.6
Liberal Democrats Kate Langwick4003.7-0.5
Majority2,34321.4-12.6
Turnout 10,93361.5
Labour hold Swing -6.3

May 2014

2014
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Gruen* 2,555 44.6
UKIP Darren Oddy1,80831.6
Conservative Elizabeth Hayes90715.8
Green Ben Goldthorp3195.6
Liberal Democrats Richard Morris1362.4
Majority747
Turnout 572533.11
Labour hold Swing

May 2013 by-election

2 May 2013
replacing Suzi Armitage (deceased) [12] [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Debra Coupar 2,481 49.4 -20.4
UKIP Darren Oddy1,58231.5+19.5
Conservative William Flynn58711.7+5.4
Green Martin Hemingway2294.6-0.1
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman1452.9-0.9
Majority89917.9-39.9
Turnout 5,024
Labour hold Swing

May 2012

2012
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Suzi Armitage* 3,597 69.8 +12.9
UKIP Darren Oddy61912.0+4.1
Conservative Dorothy Flynn3236.3-16.7
Green Ben Goldthorp2434.7+0.8
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman1953.8-0.4
English Democrat John Ashton1763.4+3.4
Majority2,97857.8+23.8
Turnout 5,153
Labour hold Swing +4.4

May 2011

2011
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pauleen Grahame* 3,653 56.9 +10.9
Conservative Patrick Hennigan1,47222.9-4.7
UKIP Darren Oddy5107.9+7.9
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman2714.2-13.7
Independent David Hudson2574.0+4.0
Green Ben Goldthorp2533.9+3.9
Majority2,18134.0+15.6
Turnout 6,41637
Labour hold Swing +7.8

May 2010

2010
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Gruen* 4,921 46.1 +9.2
Conservative Caroline Anderson2,95527.7-7.1
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman1,91517.9+9.0
BNP Michael Mee8958.4-6.8
Majority1,96618.4+16.3
Turnout 10,68662.1+24.1
Labour hold Swing +8.1

See also

Notes

  1. Armitage had been a councillor for Whinmoor ward since 1988.
  2. Grahame had been a councillor for Whinmoor ward since 2002.
  3. Gruen had been a Conservative councillor for Roundhay ward from 1983 to 1995 and, after switching parties, became a Labour councillor for Whinmoor ward after a 1997 by-election to replace Elaine Pickard.
  4. The by-election was called following the death of Suzi Armitage in February 2013. Coupar, a former councillor for Middleton Park and Morley South wards, replaced Armitage as the Labour candidate. [6] [7]
  5. For the next election in 2016, Coupar did not seek re-selection as the Labour candidate for the ward, standing successfully as their candidate for Temple Newsam ward.
  6. Walker had been a councillor for Headingley ward since 2012.
  7. Walker resigned the Labour whip to run under a new East Leeds Independents banner at the upcoming 2018 election. The Yorkshire Evening Post quoted Walker saying, "there is a toxic atmosphere of mistrust, bullying, cronyism, whispers and unfairness endemic within the controlling elite of the Leeds Labour Group" and it had forced her decision. At the time, she was subject to an internal group disciplinary investigation "over inappropriate social media postings" and her claims were dismissed by the group as “completely fanciful”. Walker stated "she was facing “sanctions” for publicly criticising fellow councillors who had failed to pay their council tax”. [10]
  8. Gibson was previously a councillor for Weetwood ward from 2018 to 2019. [11]

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