Dewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Dewsbury County constituency |
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| Dewsbury shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1868 |
| MP: | Shahid Malik |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | West Yorkshire |
| EP constituency: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Dewsbury is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It has normally elected Labour MPs since the 1940s, although it is currently a fairly marginal seat with the Conservatives.
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[edit] Boundaries
This constituency covers the town of Dewsbury. The seat has a large Muslim population and now has a Muslim MP, Shahid Malik. Aside from 1983, the seat has been Labour since 1945, although sometimes by narrow margins. In the light of increasing concern of Muslim extremism, Mr Malik has enjoyed a fairly large public media profile since his victory in 2005 in various TV appearances and interviews, strongly denouncing believers and adherents of such views; however, much of his vote was taken by the British National Party,who obtained their largest UK vote and one of their largest percentage shares in Britain in the last General Election,and they also have a substantial vote at local level, especially in Heckmondwike where they now hold two of three council seats.
For the purposes of the next General Election, Dewsbury has lost the traditionally Labour-voting ward of Heckmondwike, but gained the more Conservative-voting ward of Denby Dale, a move which is set to increase the chances of a Conserative victory.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1868 | Sir John Simon | ||
| 1886 | Mark Oldroyd | ||
| 1902 | Walter Runciman | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Emil William Pickering | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Benjamin Riley | Labour | |
| 1923 | Thomas Edmund Harvey | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Benjamin Riley | Labour | |
| 1931 | Walter Russell Rea | Liberal | |
| 1935 | Benjamin Riley | Labour | |
| 1945 | Will Paling | Labour | |
| 1959 | David Ginsburg | Labour | |
| 1981 | Social Democrat | ||
| 1983 | John Whitfield | Conservative | |
| 1987 | Ann Taylor | Labour | |
| 2005 | Shahid Malik | Labour | |
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Dewsbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Shahid Malik | 15,807 | 41.0 | −9.5 | |
| Conservative | Sayeeda Warsi | 11,192 | 29.0 | −1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Kingsley Hill | 5,624 | 14.6 | +2.6 | |
| British National Party | David Exley | 5,066 | 13.1 | +8.6 | |
| Green | Brenda Smithson | 593 | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
| Independent | Alan Girvan | 313 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,615 | 12.0 | |||
| Turnout | 38,595 | 62.0 | +3.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 2001: Dewsbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ann Taylor | 18,524 | 50.5 | +1.1 | |
| Conservative | Robert Cole | 11,075 | 30.2 | +0.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ian Cuthbertson | 4,382 | 12.0 | +1.7 | |
| British National Party | Russell Smith | 1,632 | 4.5 | -0.7 | |
| Green | Brenda Smithson | 560 | 1.5 | +0.6 | |
| UK Independence | David Peace | 478 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 7,449 | 20.3 | |||
| Turnout | 36,651 | 58.8 | -11.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1906: Dewsbury | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Walter Runciman | 6,764 | 54.8 | +6.6 | |
| Conservative | W.B. Boyd-Carpenter | 2,954 | 24.0 | -14.2 | |
| Labour | Ben Turner | 2,629 | 21.2 | +7.6 | |
| Turnout | 12,347 | 89 | +1 | ||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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