Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency)

Bradford East
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Bradford East in West Yorkshire.
Location of West Yorkshire within England.
County	West Yorkshire
Population	113,820 (2011 census)^[1]
Electorate	66,718 (December 2010)^[2]
Major settlements	Bradford
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Imran Hussain (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Bradford North
1885–1974
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Bradford North
Created from	Bradford
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Bradford East is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Labour's Imran Hussain. ^{[n 2]}

History

The constituency originally existed from 1885 to 1974. Following a 2007–2009 review of parliamentary boundaries in West Yorkshire by the Boundary Commission for England, the Bradford North constituency was abolished and Bradford East created for the 2010 general election.

Boundaries

Municipal boundaries of Bradford

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 and Undercliffe, 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 1974 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.

Parliamentary boundaries of Bradford East

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 consisted of the wards of Bradford Moor, East, East Bowling, South, and West Bowling. It bordered 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 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, to include 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 1955 redistribution removed the western part of the old East division and expanded the seat north. North Bierley East and West Bowling wards were transferred to Bradford South. The East seat from 1955 comprised the wards of East Bowling, Exchange, Listerhills, Little Horton, South, and Tong.

In 1974 the East seat disappeared. 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;

"5. The Assistant Commissioner reported that he was also called upon to consider alternative names submitted for Bradford East. He rejected a number of alternatives...as he considered they did not have any merit...He also rejected the submissions that proposed that the name Bradford North should be retained...."

The wards in this new constituency are entirely within the Bradford city boundaries:

Bolton and Undercliffe, Bowling and Barkerend, Bradford Moor, Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley and Little Horton

Members of Parliament

MPs 1885–1974

	Member^[3]	Party
1885	Sir Angus Holden, later Baron Holden	Liberal
1886	Henry Byron Reed	Conservative
1892	William Sproston Caine	Liberal
1895	Henry Byron Reed	Conservative
1896 by-election	Ronald Henry Fulke Greville	Conservative
1906	Sir William Edward Briggs Priestley	Liberal
1918	Charles Edgar Loseby	Coalition National Democratic
1922	Frederick William Jowett	Labour
1924	Thomas Davis Fenby	Liberal
1929	Frederick William Jowett	Labour
1931	Joseph Hepworth	Conservative
1945	Frank McLeavy	Labour
1966	Edward Lyons	Labour
Feb 1974	constituency abolished

MPs since 2010

	Member^[4]	Party
2010	David Ward	Liberal Democrats
Jul 2013		Independent
Oct 2013		Liberal Democrats
2015	Imran Hussain	Labour

Elections

The original constituency had its first contest at the 1885 general election and its last at the 1970 general election.

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Bradford East^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Imran Hussain	19,312	46.6	+13.8
	Liberal Democrat	David Ward	12,228	29.5	-4.2
	Conservative	Iftikhar Ahmed	4,682	11.3	-15.5
	UKIP	Owais Rajput	4,103	9.9	+9.9
	Green	David Stevens	871	2.1	+2.1
	British Democratic	James Lewthwaite	210	0.5	+0.5
Majority			7,084	17.1	+16.2
Turnout			41,406	62.6	+0.5
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	+9.0

General Election 2010: Bradford East^[6]^[7]
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
Turnout			40,457	62.1	+8.0
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing	7.6^{[n 3]}

Election in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Lyons	17,346	66.17
	Conservative	Christopher J Barr	8,208	31.31
	Liberal	Ghulam Musa	660	2.52
Majority			9,138	34.86
Turnout				64.75
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Lyons	18,435	69.50
	National Liberal	Henry Sissling	8,091	30.50
Majority			10,344	39.00
Turnout				65.12
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McLeavy	17,945	61.84
	National Liberal	D Trevor Lewis	11,075	38.16
Majority			6,870	23.67
Turnout				66.84
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McLeavy	20,056	57.99
	National Liberal	Desmond A Dagleish	14,529	42.01
Majority			5,527	15.98
Turnout				72.79
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McLeavy	23,588	61.59
	National Liberal	George C Barber	14,713	38.41
Majority			8,875	23.17
Turnout				74.44
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McLeavy	28,796	62.88
	National Liberal	F W Howard Cook	16,999	37.12
Majority			11,797	25.76
Turnout				84.28
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Bradford East^[8] Electorate 54,730
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McLeavy	27,694	59.8
	National Liberal	Geoffrey F Greenbank	12,527	27.0
	Liberal	Joseph Stanley Snowden	5,565	12.0
	Communist	H Green	543	1.2
Majority			15,167	32.7
Turnout				84.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bradford East^[9] Electorate 44,305
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McLeavy	15,743	45.0
	Conservative	William Johnson Taylor	9,109	26.1
	Ind. Labour Party	William Ballantine	5,105	14.6
	Liberal	Joseph Stanley Snowden	5,010	14.3
Majority			6,634	19.0
Turnout				78.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Hepworth	11,131	32.98
	Ind. Labour Party	Rt Hon. Frederick William Jowett	8,983	26.61
	Labour	Wilfred Lanceley Heywood	7,329	21.71
	Liberal	Thomas Davies Fenby	6,312	18.70
Majority			2,148	6.36
Turnout				73.04
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Bradford East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Hepworth	22,532	58.81
	Ind. Labour Party	Rt Hon. Frederick William Jowett	15,779	41.19
Majority			6,753	17.63
Turnout				82.40
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Election in the 1920s

Thomas Fenby

General Election 1929: Bradford East ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Frederick William Jowett	21,398	54.7	+4.8
	Liberal	Thomas Davies Fenby	17,701	45.3	-4.8
Majority			3,697	9.4	9.6
Turnout				83.4	+18.5
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+4.8

General Election 1924:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Davies Fenby	15,240	50.1
	Labour	Rt Hon. Frederick William Jowett	15,174	49.9
Majority			66	0.2
Turnout			30,414	64.9
	Liberal gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 6 December 1923: Bradford East ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Frederick William Jowett	13,579	48.1	+2.7
	Liberal	Eckersley Mitchell	8,017	28.4	+7.0
	Unionist	James Clare	6,622	23.5	n/a
Majority			5,562	19.7	+7.5
Turnout				75.6	-5.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.2

Elections in the 1900s

William Priestley

General Election 1906: Bradford East
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
Turnout

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
↑ Based on notional 2005 results by ward

References

↑ "Bradford East: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "Hansard 1803–2005". Bradford East 1885–1974. UK Parliament. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
↑ "Bradford East". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
↑ http://www.bradford.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/24631AFB-BCDB-4306-9C0A-5905FD1EF7C3/0/BradfordEastStatementofPersonsNominated.pdf
↑ "Election 2010: Bradford East". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
↑ British parliamentary election results 1950–1970, Craig, F.W.S.
↑ British parliamentary election results 1918–1949, Craig, F.W.S.
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig

Sources

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)

External links

nomis Constituency Profile for Bradford East — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.

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 (33)	Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Bradford East Bradford South Bradford West Dewsbury 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 Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Rother Valley Rotherham 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 East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Keighley Morley and Outwood Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Scarborough and Whitby Selby and Ainsty Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton York Outer

Liberal Democrats (2)	Leeds North West Sheffield Hallam

Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Conservative (2) Labour (2) UKIP (2)

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