Leeds North West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Yorkshire (West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974) |
Electorate | 67,741 (December 2019)[1] |
Major settlements | Yeadon, Otley and Headingley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of Parliament | Alex Sobel (Labour Co-op) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Leeds Central and Leeds North |
Leeds North West is a constituency[n 1] in the City of Leeds which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Alex Sobel, of Labour Co-op.[n 2]
1950–1951: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Far Headingley, Hyde Park, and Kirkstall.
1951–1955: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Far Headingley, Hyde Park, Kirkstall, and Meanwood.[2]
1955–1974: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Far Headingley, Hyde Park, Kirkstall, Meanwood, and Moortown.
1974–1983: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Cookridge, Headingley, Kirkstall, Moortown, and Weetwood.
1983–2010: The City of Leeds wards of Cookridge, Headingley, Otley and Wharfedale, and Weetwood.
2010–present: The City of Leeds wards of Adel and Wharfedale, Headingley, Otley and Yeadon, and Weetwood.
The constituency covers the north western part of the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire. It stretches from Yeadon in the north west and Otley in the north east to Headingley in the south in terms of major settlements.
Following the boundary changes of 2023, the Leeds North West constituency at the next general election will consist of the wards of Adel and Wharfedale, Guiseley and Rawdon, Horsforth, and Otley and Yeadon.
The constituency was created in 1950, as Leeds North-West; the name was changed by dropping the hyphen in 1955. Before the 1950 general election, Leeds was represented by the constituencies of: Leeds Central, Leeds North, Leeds South, Leeds West, (all created 1885); Leeds North-East and Leeds South-East (both created 1918). There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley (created 1918) and Pudsey and Otley (created 1918 replacing Pudsey). Leeds North West was created before the 1950 election, and at the same time the Pudsey and Otley constituency was abolished, re-creating the Pudsey constituency and moving Otley into the Ripon constituency. The Leeds North West boundary was revised prior to the 1983 general election, bringing in Otley and the nearby villages of Bramhope, Pool-in-Wharfedale and Arthington from the abolition of the Ripon constituency.
The constituency was held for the Conservative Party by Donald Kaberry from its creation in 1950 until his retirement in 1983, and then by Keith Hampson (1983–1997), who had previously been MP for Ripon. It was taken for Labour in the 1997 general election by Harold Best, who was re-elected in the 2001 general election. Best retired at the 2005 general election. The seat was contested for Labour by Judith Blake (at that time Deputy Leader of the Labour Group on Leeds City Council, and later also Labour's candidate in the 2010 general election), but it was taken for the Liberal Democrats by Greg Mulholland. Mulholland was re-elected in 2010 and 2015. Alex Sobel regained the seat for Labour in the 2017 general election,[3] and was re-elected in 2019.[4]
This constituency has one of the biggest student populations in the country at over a quarter of the electorate;[5] it comprises outer Leeds suburbs that are professional, middle-to-high income and residential.[6]
It was within the Yorkshire and the Humber European Parliament constituency, which from 2019 to 2020 when the UK left the EU was represented by three Brexit Party, one Labour, one Liberal Democrat and one Green Party MEPs.
Election | Member[7] | Party | |
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1950 | Sir Donald Kaberry | Conservative | |
1983 | Keith Hampson | Conservative | |
1997 | Harold Best | Labour | |
2005 | Greg Mulholland | Liberal Democrat | |
2017 | Alex Sobel | Labour Co-op |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Alex Sobel | 23,971 | 48.6 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | Stewart Harper | 13,222 | 26.8 | +7.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kamran Hussain | 9,397 | 19.1 | -15.9 | |
Green | Martin Hemingway | 1,389 | 2.8 | +1.5 | |
Brexit Party | Graeme Webber | 1,304 | 2.7 | New | |
Majority | 10,749 | 21.8 | +12.7 | ||
Turnout | 49,283 | 73.0 | +5.1 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Alex Sobel | 20,416 | 44.1 | +14.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Greg Mulholland | 16,192 | 35.0 | -1.8 | |
Conservative | Alan Lamb | 9,097 | 19.7 | +1.1 | |
Green | Martin Hemingway | 582 | 1.3 | -5.7 | |
Majority | 4,224 | 9.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,287 | 67.9 | -2.1 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +7.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Greg Mulholland | 15,948 | 36.8 | -10.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Alex Sobel | 13,041 | 30.1 | +9.1 | |
Conservative | Alex Story | 8,083 | 18.6 | -8.0 | |
Green | Tim Goodall | 3,042 | 7.0 | +5.8 | |
UKIP | Julian Metcalfe | 2,997 | 6.9 | +5.5 | |
Yorkshire First | Bob Buxton | 143 | 0.3 | New | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Mike Davies | 79 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |
Above and Beyond | Mark Flanagan | 24 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,907 | 6.7 | -14.2 | ||
Turnout | 43,357 | 70.0 | +3.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | -9.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Greg Mulholland | 20,653 | 47.5 | +10.6 | |
Conservative | Julia Mulligan | 11,550 | 26.6 | -0.3 | |
Labour | Judith Blake | 9,132 | 21.0 | -10.9 | |
BNP | Geoffrey Bulmer | 766 | 1.8 | New | |
UKIP | Mark Thackray | 600 | 1.4 | New | |
Green | Martin Hemingway | 508 | 1.2 | -1.5 | |
English Democrat | Alan Procter | 153 | 0.4 | -1.0 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Trevor Bavage | 121 | 0.3 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 9,103 | 20.9 | |||
Turnout | 43,484 | 66.5 | +3.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Greg Mulholland | 16,612 | 37.2 | +10.3 | |
Labour | Judith Blake | 14,735 | 33.0 | −8.9 | |
Conservative | George Lee | 11,510 | 25.7 | −3.9 | |
Green | Martin Hemingway | 1,128 | 2.5 | New | |
English Democrat | Adrian Knowles | 545 | 1.2 | New | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Jeannie Sutton | 181 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 1,877 | 4.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,711 | 62.4 | +4.2 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | +9.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harold Best | 17,794 | 41.9 | +2.0 | |
Conservative | Adam Pritchard | 12,558 | 29.6 | −2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Hall-Matthews | 11,431 | 26.9 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Simon Jones | 668 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 5,236 | 12.3 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 42,451 | 58.2 | −11.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Harold Best | 19,694 | 39.9 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | Keith Hampson | 15,850 | 32.1 | -10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Barbara Pearce | 11,689 | 23.7 | -4.1 | |
Referendum | Sean Emmett | 1,325 | 2.7 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Roger Lamb | 335 | 0.7 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | Robert Toome | 251 | 0.5 | New | |
Ronnie the Rhino | Daniel Duffy | 232 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 3,844 | 10.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,084 | 69.7 | -2.8 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +11.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Keith Hampson | 21,750 | 43.0 | −0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Barbara Pearce | 14,079 | 27.8 | −5.7 | |
Labour | Sue Egan | 13,782 | 27.3 | +5.6 | |
Green | David Webb | 519 | 1.0 | −0.3 | |
Liberal | Noel Nowosielski | 427 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 7,671 | 15.2 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 50,557 | 72.5 | −3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Keith Hampson | 22,480 | 43.5 | -3.1 | |
Liberal | Barry Peters | 17,279 | 33.5 | +4.5 | |
Labour | Judith Thomas | 11,210 | 21.7 | -0.5 | |
Green | A. Stevens | 663 | 1.3 | New | |
Majority | 5,201 | 10.07 | -7.5 | ||
Turnout | 51,632 | 75.7 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Keith Hampson | 22,579 | 46.6 | -0.9 | |
SDP | Norman Jones | 14,042 | 29.0 | New | |
Labour | John Battle | 10,757 | 22.2 | -12.9 | |
Ecology | A. Laurence | 673 | 1.4 | -0.3 | |
Ind. Conservative | C. Haygreen | 437 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 8,537 | 17.6 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,488 | 71.3 | -1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 23,837 | 47.48 | ||
Labour | Peter O'Grady | 17,623 | 35.10 | ||
Liberal | Laurence Keates | 7,899 | 15.73 | ||
Ecology | K. Rushworth | 847 | 1.69 | New | |
Majority | 6,214 | 12.38 | +3.05 | ||
Turnout | 50,206 | 73.08 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 19,243 | 44.62 | ||
Labour | I.G.K. Fenwick | 15,216 | 35.29 | ||
Liberal | David Rolfe | 8,663 | 20.09 | ||
Majority | 4,027 | 9.33 | |||
Turnout | 43,122 | 66.28 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 21,995 | 44.73 | ||
Labour | I.G.K. Fenwick | 15,324 | 31.16 | ||
Liberal | S. Waldenburg | 11,853 | 24.11 | ||
Majority | 6,671 | 13.57 | |||
Turnout | 49,172 | 76.22 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 29,227 | 52.13 | ||
Labour | Kenneth Woolmer | 20,795 | 37.09 | ||
Liberal | J.R.W. Worrall | 6,048 | 10.79 | New | |
Majority | 8,432 | 15.04 | |||
Turnout | 56,070 | 69.82 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 30,168 | 55.65 | ||
Labour | C.J. Morgan | 24,044 | 44.35 | ||
Majority | 6,124 | 11.30 | |||
Turnout | 54,212 | 73.07 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 29,859 | 51.97 | ||
Labour | Dennis Burrill Matthews | 18,862 | 32.83 | ||
Liberal | R.H.J. Rhodes | 8,728 | 15.19 | New | |
Majority | 10,997 | 19.14 | |||
Turnout | 57,449 | 77.20 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 35,210 | 65.55 | ||
Labour | Dennis Burrill Matthews | 18,508 | 34.45 | ||
Majority | 16,702 | 31.10 | |||
Turnout | 53,718 | 77.58 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 31,923 | 65.80 | ||
Labour | Dennis Burrill Matthews | 16,594 | 34.20 | ||
Majority | 15,329 | 31.60 | |||
Turnout | 48,517 | 75.64 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 25,873 | 62.55 | ||
Labour | Marian Veitch | 15,490 | 37.45 | ||
Majority | 10,383 | 25.10 | |||
Turnout | 41,363 | 82.42 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Kaberry | 24,161 | 57.80 | ||
Labour | Victor Mishcon | 14,562 | 34.84 | ||
Liberal | Joseph Owen Hogley | 3,078 | 7.36 | ||
Majority | 9,599 | 22.96 | |||
Turnout | 41,801 | 85.52 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |