Shipley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Shipley County constituency
Shipley shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Philip Davies
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Shipley is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Recent politics 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results (2000 onwards) 4 Election results (historic) 4.1 Elections in the 1990s 4.2 Elections in the 1980s 4.3 Elections in the 1970s 4.4 Elections in the 1960s 4.5 Elections in the 1950s 4.6 Elections in the 1940s 4.7 Elections in the 1930s 4.8 Elections in the 1920s 4.9 Elections in the 1910s 4.10 Elections in the 1900s 4.11 Elections in the 1890s 4.12 Elections in the 1880s 5 See also 6 Sources

[edit] Boundaries

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

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[edit] Recent politics

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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 Christopher 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. Davies has proved to be a controversial figure on the right wing of the Conservative party, attacking "political correctness" and calling for Britain to leave the European Union and NATO.

[edit] Members of Parliament

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

[edit] Election results (2000 onwards)

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Phillip Davies
	Liberal Democrat	John Harris
	Labour	Susan Hinchcliffe
	Green	Kevin Warnes

General Election 2005: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Davies	18,608	39.0	−1.9
	Labour	Christopher Leslie	18,186	38.2	−5.8
	Liberal Democrat	John Briggs	7,018	14.7	+3.8
	British National	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	Christopher 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
	UK Independence	Walter Whitaker	580	1.3	N/A
Majority			1,428	3.1
Turnout			46,020	66.2	−10.2
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Election results (historic)

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Shipley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher 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
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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

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

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

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

[edit] Sources

• Historical list of MPs
• Election results, 1997 - 2005
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1974 - 1979

1. ^ Shipley, UKPollingReport

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