Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Bradford South Borough constituency |
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| Bradford South shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1918 |
| MP: | Gerry Sutcliffe |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | West Yorkshire |
| EP constituency: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Bradford South is a borough constituency in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament by the first past the post system of election.
It was a Liberal-held seat in the 1920s and 1930s, but since the 1945 general election Bradford South has returned Labour MPs, although the Conservatives came very close to gaining the seat in the 1980s.
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[edit] Members of Parliament
| Elction | Name | Party | |
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| 1918 | Francis Vernon Willey | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Herbert Harvey Spencer | Liberal | |
| 1924 | William Hirst | Labour | |
| 1931 | Herbert Holdsworth | Liberal | |
| 1945 | Meredith Farrer Titterington | Labour | |
| 1949 by-election | George Craddock | Labour | |
| 1970 | Thomas Torney | Labour | |
| 1987 | Bob Cryer | Labour | |
| 1994 by-election | Gerry Sutcliffe | Labour | |
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Bradford South | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Bob Cryer | 25,185 | 47.6 | +6.2 | |
| Conservative | A. S. Popat | 20,283 | 38.4 | −2.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | B. J. Boulton | 7,243 | 13.7 | −4.1 | |
| Islamic Party | M. Naseem | 156 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,902 | 9.3 | +8.7 | ||
| Turnout | 52,867 | 75.6 | +2.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Bradford South by-election, 1994 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gerry Sutcliffe | 17,014 | 55.3 | +7.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Wright | 7,350 | 23.9 | +10.2 | |
| Conservative | R. Farley | 5,475 | 17.8 | −20.6 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | David Sutch | 727 | 2.4 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | N. Laycock | 197 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,664 | 31.4 | +22.1 | ||
| Turnout | 30,763 | 44.1 | −31.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2001: Bradford South | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gerry Sutcliffe | 19,603 | 55.8 | -0.9 | |
| Conservative | Graham Tennyson | 9,941 | 28.3 | +0.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alexander Wilson-Fletcher | 3,717 | 10.6 | -0.7 | |
| UK Independence | Peter North | 783 | 2.2 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Tony Kelly | 571 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Socialist Alliance | Ateeq Siddique | 302 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Defend The Welfare State Against Blairism | George Riseborough | 220 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,662 | 27.5 | |||
| Turnout | 35,137 | 51.3 | -14.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 2005: Bradford South | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gerry Sutcliffe | 17,954 | 49.0 | -6.8 | |
| Conservative | Geraldine Carter | 8,787 | 24.0 | -4.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Mike Doyle | 5,334 | 14.6 | +4.0 | |
| British National | James Lewthwaite | 2,862 | 7.8 | +7.8 | |
| Green | Derek Curtis | 695 | 1.9 | +1.9 | |
| UK Independence | Jason Smith | 552 | 1.5 | -0.7 | |
| Veritas | Therese Muchewicz | 421 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
| Majority | 9,167 | 25.0 | |||
| Turnout | 36,605 | 54.2 | 2.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -1.2% | |||
[edit] See also
- Bradford South by-election, 1994
- Bradford South by-election, 1949
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
| Bradford Constituencies: |
| Bradford North | Bradford West | Bradford South | Keighley | Shipley |
