Английская Википедия:Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bradford West is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Naz Shah of the Labour Party.

Constituency profile

Bradford West covers the Bradford city centre, Manningham, Allerton and Clayton. It has a significant Pakistani population and a majority of Muslim voters.

History

Before 1974, the Labour and Conservative Parties held the seat marginally in various years, since which time the Labour Party always won the seat, with the exception of the 2012 Bradford West by-election. In 1981, however, Edward Lyons, the sitting Bradford West MP, joined the newly established Social Democratic Party, consequently losing the seat at the 1983 general election.

In 1997, the seat was one of only two Labour seats in the country, the other being Bethnal Green and Bow in London, to have seen a swing towards the Conservatives away from Labour. This was attributed to the local party association selecting a Sikh, Marsha Singh to stand when the majority of the seat's population is Muslim. In 2010, however, Singh retained his seat with a swing in his favour, against the national result.

George Galloway of the Respect Party won the seat in the 2012 Bradford West by-election with 55.9% of the votes cast; his 30.9% majority was at the time the largest majority in the history of the modern constituency, but he lost the seat in 2015 to the new Labour candidate Naz Shah by a substantial (28.3%) margin. Despite Galloway's threats to contest the result, he neither launched a legal challenge nor stood again in 2017, in which Shah surpassed his record by winning a majority of 48.1%, the largest margin for a Bradford West MP in any incarnation of the seat. Despite Galloway not standing, his former Respect colleague Salma Yaqoob did stand as an Independent, garnering 6,345 votes (13.9%), not far behind the second-placed Conservative candidate.

At the 2019 general election Shah increased her vote share by 11.5%. This was easily the highest increase in the Labour Party's vote share in any constituency in the United Kingdom, in an election where Labour's vote share decreased in all but 13 constituencies. This means that Bradford West has bucked the national trend thrice, as it also did in 1997 and 2010. Bradford West, since 2019, is the safest seat in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber for Labour.

Boundaries

Шаблон:Maplink 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Bolton, Great Horton, Heaton, and Manningham.

1955–1974: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Great Horton, Heaton, Manningham, and Thornton.

1974–1983: The County Borough of Bradford wards of Allerton, Heaton, Little Horton, Manningham, Thornton, and University.

1983–2010: The City of Bradford wards of Clayton, Heaton, Little Horton, Thornton, Toller, and University.

2010–present: The City of Bradford wards of City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham, Thornton and Allerton, and Toller.

Members of Parliament

The constituency was originally created in 1885, but was abolished in 1918. For the 1955 general election the constituency was recreated, following a boundary review.

Election	Member	Party
1885	Alfred Illingworth	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1895	Ernest Flower	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1906	Fred Jowett	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1918	constituency abolished
1955	constituency recreated
	Arthur Tiley	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1966	Norman Haseldine	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1970	John Wilkinson	Шаблон:Party name with colour
Feb 1974	Edward Lyons	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1981		Шаблон:Party name with colour
1983	Max Madden	Шаблон:Party name with colour
1997	Marsha Singh	Шаблон:Party name with colour
2012 by-election	George Galloway	Шаблон:Party name with colour
2015	Naz Shah	Шаблон:Party name with colour
Apr 2016		Шаблон:Party name with colour
July 2016		Шаблон:Party name with colour

Elections

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Bradford West election results

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

External links

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