| Bradford East | |
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| Borough constituency | |
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Boundary of Bradford East in West Yorkshire. |
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Location of West Yorkshire within England. |
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| County | West Yorkshire |
| Electorate | 66,718 (December 2010)[1] |
| Major settlements | Bradford |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | David Ward (Liberal Democrat) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Bradford North |
| 1885–1974 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
| Created from | Bradford |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Bradford East is the name of a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency originally existed from 1885 to 1974 and was recreated for the 2010 general election, electing one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Following a review of parliamentary boundaries in West Yorkshire in the 2000s, the Boundary Commission for England re-shaped the Bradford North constituency to such a degree that the name change was felt necessary.
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Bradford was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1847, covering the parishes of Bradford, Horton and Manningham. It became a county borough with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888. The county borough was granted city status by Letters Patent in 1897. Bradford was expanded in 1882 to include Allerton, Bolton, Bowling, Heaton, Thornbury and Tyersall. In 1899 it was further expanded by adding North Bierley, Eccleshill, Idle, Thornton, Tong and Wyke. Clayton was added in 1930.
From 1973 the county borough was merged with the Borough of Keighley, the Urban Districts of Baildon, Bingley, Denholme, Cullingworth, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with part of Queensbury and Shelf Urban District and part of Skipton Rural District by the Local Government Act 1972.
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was divided into three single-member constituencies from the 1885 general election. Bradford East was the eastern third of Bradford and was approximately rectangular in shape. It bordered on Pudsey to the east, Elland in the south, Bradford Central to the west and Shipley in the north.
1918-1950: In this period the constituency comprised the local government wards of Bradford Moor, East Bowling, Tong, and West Bowling. It was located in the south-east corner of the city of Bradford.
1950-1955: The constituency was expanded to the south-west, into territory formerly in the Bradford South seat. The Bradford Moor area, in the north of the old East division, was transferred to Bradford Central. The wards allocated to the East division from 1950 were East Bowling, Little Horton, North Bierley East, Tong, and West Bowling.
1955-1974: The redistribution removed the western part of the old East division and expanded the new seat north. North Bierley East and West Bowling wards were transferred to the Bradford South constituency. The East seat, from 1955, comprised the East Bowling, Exchange, Listerhills, Little Horton, South, and Tong wards.
In 1974 the East seat disappeared. The city had been re-warded since the 1955 redistribution, but it is clear that parts of the division were distributed to each of the three Bradford seats which existed from 1974. The Bowling area became part of Bradford North; Tong joined Bradford South; and Little Horton became part of Bradford West.
From 2010: The new Bradford East is the successor seat to the Bradford North constituency, which was created for the 1918 general election. The report into the boundary review says;
The wards in this new constituency are entirely within Bradford city boundaries:
| Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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| 2010 | David Ward | Liberal Democrats | |
The original constituency had its first contest at the 1885 general election and its last at the 1970 general election.
| General Election 2010: Bradford East[3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | David Ward | 13,637 | 33.7 | +3.9 | |
| Labour | Terry Rooney | 13,272 | 32.8 | −11.3 | |
| Conservative | Mohammad Riaz | 10,860 | 26.8 | +9.4 | |
| BNP | Neville Poynton | 1,854 | 4.6 | −1.0 | |
| Independent | Raja Hussain | 375 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Independent | Peter Shields | 237 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| National Front | Gerry Robinson | 222 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 365 | 0.9 | |||
| Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | 7.6 | |||
| Turnout | 40,457 | 62.1 | +8.0 | ||
| General Election 1906: Bradford East | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | William Edward Briggs Priestley | 6,185 | 45.64 | ||
| Conservative | V H Caillard | 4,277 | 31.56 | ||
| Social Democratic Federation | Edward Hartley | 3,090 | 22.80 | ||
| Majority | 1,908 | 14.08 | |||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
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