Leeds West (UK Parliament constituency) (original) (raw)

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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–2024

Leeds West
Former borough constituencyfor the House of Commons
Outline map2010–2024 boundary of Leeds West in West Yorkshire
Outline mapLocation of West Yorkshire within England
County West Yorkshire(West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974)
Electorate 67,727 (December 2019)[1]
1885–2024
Seats One
Created from Leeds
Replaced by Leeds South West and Morley, & Leeds West and Pudsey

Leeds West was a borough constituency covering the western part of the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. With the exception of the Parliament of 1983–87, the seat was held by Labour since 1945.

The seat was abolished for the 2024 general election and replaced primarily by Leeds West and Pudsey.[2]

Map

Map of boundaries 2010–2024

1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Leeds wards of Armley and Wortley, Holbeck, and New Wortley, and part of Bramley ward.

1918–1950: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Armley and Wortley, and Bramley, and part of New Wortley ward.

1950–1951: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Bramley, Farnley and Wortley, and Upper Armley.

1951–1955: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, Stanningley, and Wortley.[3]

1955–1974: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, Stanningley, Wellington, and Wortley.

1974–1983: The County Borough wards of Armley and Castleton, Bramley, Stanningley, and Wortley.

1980–1983: The City of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, and Wortley.

1983–2010: The City of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, Kirkstall, and Wortley.

2010–2024: The City of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley and Stanningley, Farnley and Wortley, and Kirkstall. Unusually for a Parliamentary seat, the boundaries did not correspond exactly to the wards' boundaries. The seat included small areas of the wards for Calverley and Farsley, and Morley North, but also excluded a very small area of Farnley and Wortley, which fell under Leeds Central.[4]

The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was first used in the general election of that year. Leeds had previously been represented by two MPs (1832–1868) and three MPs (1868–1885). From 1885 it was represented by five single-member constituencies: Leeds Central, Leeds East, Leeds North, Leeds South and Leeds West. The constituencies of Morley, Otley and Pudsey were also created in 1885.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished for the 2024 general election, with its contents distributed to three new constituencies:[2]

Members of Parliament

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Leeds prior to 1885

Year Member[5] Party
1885 Herbert Gladstone
1910 Edmund Harvey
1918 John Murray
1922 Liberal
1923 Thomas Stamford
1931 Vyvyan Adams
1945 Thomas Stamford
1949 Charles Pannell
1974 Joe Dean
1983 Michael Meadowcroft
1987 John Battle
2010 Rachel Reeves
2024 Constituency abolished

Election results 1885–2024

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Elections in the 1880s

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H. Gladstone

Charles Williams

Elections in the 1890s

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Gladstone is appointed First Commissioner of Works, requiring a by-election.

J.T. North

Elections in the 1900s

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H. Gladstone

Elections in the 1910s

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Edmund Harvey

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

* Chapman was supported by the three local branches of National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers and Comrades of the Great War.

Elections in the 1920s

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Elections in the 1930s

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Elections in the 1940s

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Elections in the 1950s

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Elections in the 1960s

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Elections in the 1970s

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Elections in the 1980s

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Elections in the 1990s

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Elections in the 2000s

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Elections in the 2010s

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Rachel Reeves, Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010

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