Shipley (UK Parliament constituency)

Shipley
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Shipley in West Yorkshire.
Location of West Yorkshire within England.
County	West Yorkshire
Electorate	68,129 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Shipley, Bingley, Baildon
Current constituency
Created	1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament	Philip Davies (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Northern West Riding of Yorkshire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Shipley is a county 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 voting system.

Boundaries

Shipley is composed of the following wards within the City of Bradford: Bingley Rural, Bingley, Shipley, Baildon, Wharfedale and Windhill and Wrose

Recent politics

Shipley was for a long time the seat of ex-Chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, Sir Marcus Fox. He held the seat for almost 30 years between the 1970 and 1997 General Elections.

At the 1997 general election, the young Labour candidate Chris Leslie won the seat from Sir Marcus Fox, becoming the youngest MP of that parliament. He held the seat at the 2001 election and went on to become a junior minister. A number of traditional Labour supporters considered Leslie to be an ardent Blairite, though he was in fact equally close to Gordon Brown, one of whose staff he married, and whose campaign for election as Labour leader he helped run.

Leslie narrowly lost the seat in the 2005 election, when the Conservative candidate Philip Davies scored a narrow victory and won by 400 votes. He was re-elected in the May 2010 General Election.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[2]	Party
1885	Joseph Craven	Liberal
1892	William Pollard Byles	Lib-Lab
1895	James Fortescue Flannery	Liberal Unionist
1906	Percy Holden Illingworth	Liberal
1915 by-election	Oswald Partington	Liberal
1918	Henry Norman Rae	Liberal
1923	William Mackinder	Labour
1930 by-election	James Horace Lockwood	Conservative
1935	Arthur Creech Jones	Labour
1950	Geoffrey Hirst	Conservative
1970	Marcus Fox	Conservative
1997	Chris Leslie	Labour
2005	Philip Davies	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Shipley^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Davies	24,002	48.6	+9.7
	Labour	Susan Hinchcliffe	14,058	28.4	-9.4
	Liberal Democrat	John Harris	9,890	20.0	+4.8
	Green	Kevin Warnes	1,477	3.0	-0.4
Majority			9,944	20.1
Turnout			49,427	73.0	+4.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.6

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Davies	18,608	39.0	−1.9
	Labour	Chris Leslie	18,186	38.2	−5.8
	Liberal Democrat	John Briggs	7,018	14.7	+3.8
	BNP	Tom Linden	2,000	4.2	N/A
	Green	Quentin Deakin	1,665	3.5	+0.5
	Iraq War. Not In My Name	David Crabtree	189	0.4	N/A
Majority			422	0.9
Turnout			47,666	80.0	+13.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	2.0

General Election 2001: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Chris Leslie	20,243	44.0	+0.6
	Conservative	David Senior	18,815	40.9	+3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Helen Wright	4,996	10.9	−4.2
	Green	Martin Love	1,386	3.0	N/A
	UKIP	Walter Whitaker	580	1.3	N/A
Majority			1,428	3.1
Turnout			46,020	66.2	−10.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Chris Leslie	22,962	43.3	+14.8
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	19,996	37.8	-12.6
	Liberal Democrat	John Cole	7,984	15.1	-4.9
	Referendum Party	S Ellams	1,960	3.7
Majority			2,966	4.3
Turnout			69,281	76.3	-5.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+13.8

General Election 1992: Shipley^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	28,463	50.4	+0.9
	Labour	Annie Lockwood	16,081	28.5	+5.2
	Liberal Democrat	John Cole	11,288	20.0	-6.3
	Green	C M Harris	680	1.2	+0.3
Majority			12,382	21.9	-0.3
Turnout			56,512	82.1	+2.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.2

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	26,941	49.5	-0.2
	Liberal	William Wallace	14,311	26.3	-1.4
	Labour	Christopher Butler	12,699	23.3	+1.7
	Green	C M Harris	507	0.9	-0.1
Majority			12,630	23.2	+1.2
Turnout			54,428	79.2	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.6

General Election 1983: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	25,866	49.7	-2.8
	Liberal	William Wallace	14,421	27.7	+14.5
	Labour	Martin Leathley	11,218	21.6	-11.6
	Ecology	S Shepherd	521	1.0	-0.1
Majority			11,445	22.0	+2.7
Turnout			52,026	77.0	-3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	22,641	52.5	+8.5
	Labour	P R Ward	14,281	33.2	-3.6
	Liberal	G G Roberts	5,673	13.2	-6.0
	Ecology	D R Pedley	486	1.1
Majority			8,360	19.3	+12.1
Turnout			43,081	80.5	-0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election, October 1974: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	18,518	44.0	+0.9
	Labour	M J Wedgeworth	15,482	36.8	+2.9
	Liberal	G G Roberts	8,094	19.2	-3.4
Majority			3,036	7.2	-2.0
Turnout			42,094	81.0	+6.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election, February 1974: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marcus Fox	19,439	43.1
	Labour	M J Wedgeworth	15,284	33.9
	Liberal	G G Roberts	10,158	22.6
	Independent Democratic Alliance	C G Campion	192	0.4
Majority			4,155	9.2
Turnout			45,073	87.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Shipley^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	Henry Norman Rae	16,700	74.6
	Labour	Thomas Snowden	5,690	25.4
Majority			11,010	49.2
Turnout			35,566	63.0
	Coalition Liberal hold		Swing

Shipley by-election, 1915: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Oswald Partington	unopposed

General Election December 1910: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth	unopposed

Ministerial by-election, 10 March 1910
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth	unopposed

General Election January 1910: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth	9,144	63.0
	Liberal Unionist	W A S Hewins	5,369	37.0
Majority			3,775	26.0
Turnout			12,507	88.9
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth

General Election 1900: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Fortescue Flannery	6,284	50.2	-0.1
	Liberal	Percy Holden Illingworth	6,223	49.8	+0.1
Majority			61	0.4	-0.2
Turnout			12,507	83.4	+0.4
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Fortescue Flannery	5,999	50.3	+1.6
	Lib-Lab	William Pollard Byles	5,921	49.7	-1.6
Majority			78	0.6
Turnout			11,920	83.0
	Liberal Unionist gain from Lib-Lab		Swing

General Election 1892: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	William Pollard Byles	5,746	51.3	-8.0
	Liberal Unionist	T Peel	5,464	48.7	+8.0
Majority			282	2.6	-16
Turnout			11,210	76.0
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1886: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Craven

General Election 1885: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Craven	7,022	59.3
	Conservative	L Hardy	4,825	40.7
Majority			2,197	18.6
Turnout			11,847	84.2

Notes and references

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
^ http://www.bradford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3A54D630-3052-42B9-AD2D-F3CA087C1C5A/0/ShipleyStatementofPersonsNominated.pdf
^ "UK > England > Yorkshire & the Humber > Shipley". Election 2010. BBC. 7 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d99.stm. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
^ Wharfedale & Airedale Observer, Friday 3rd January 1919

Sources

Election results, 1997 - 2005
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1974 - 1979

Bradford Constituencies

Current	Bradford East Bradford West Bradford South Keighley Shipley

Historic	Bradford (1832–1885) Bradford Central (1885–1955) Bradford North (1918–2010)

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (54)

Labour (31)	Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Bradford South Bradford West Don Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster North Great Grimsby Halifax Hemsworth Huddersfield Hull East Hull North Hull West and Hessle Leeds Central Leeds East Leeds North East Leeds West Morley and Outwood Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Rother Valley Scunthorpe Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East Wakefield Wentworth and Dearne York Central

Conservative (19)	Beverley and Holderness Brigg and Goole Calder Valley Cleethorpes Colne Valley Dewsbury East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Keighley Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Scarborough and Whitby Selby and Ainsty Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton York Outer

Liberal Democrats (3)	Bradford East Leeds North West Sheffield Hallam

Independent (1)	Rotherham

Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Liberal Democrats (2) Conservative (1) Labour (1) UKIP (1) British National Party (1)