Bradford West is a borough constituency in England

England

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 which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

. It elects one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

It covers the western part of the city of Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

 in West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

.

Boundaries 1997–2010

From 1997 to 2010, the constituency comprised six complete wards of the City of Bradford: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham

Manningham, Bradford

Manningham is an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, approximately a mile north of the city centre and is seen as the centre of the city's south Asian population.- Geography :...

, Thornton and Allerton

Thornton and Allerton

Thornton and Allerton is a Ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the villages of Thornton and Allerton around which it is drawn....

, Toller

Toller

Toller is a ward in the City of Bradford metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England.Councillor Imran Hussain is one of the current representatives for this ward. He is a Labour councillor and Deputy Leader of Bradford Council's Labour Group. He was first elected in 2002 with a majority of...

. It also included a part of Little Horton

Little Horton

Little Horton is a Ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the de -Horton family,who were once Lords of the Manor....

 ward.

However, the Boundary Commission provisionally recommended in 2004 that the Little Horton ward should cease to be divided between three constituencies and should become part of the Bradford North

Bradford North (UK Parliament constituency)

Bradford North was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Until it was abolished for the 2010 general election, it elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

 constituency, which would be renamed Bradford East

Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency)

Bradford East is the name of a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency originally existed from 1885 to 1974 and was recreated for the 2010 general election, electing one Member of Parliament by the first past the post...

. Following objections from the Liberal Democrats, a public enquiry was held in July 2005. However, the Liberal Democrats did not attend to support their case, leading the Commission to uphold the proposal and describe the inquiry as "a quite unnecessary waste of public money".

Boundaries from 2010

As and from the 2010 general election, the constituency consists of six wards: City, Clayton and Fairweather Green, Heaton, Manningham

Manningham, Bradford

Manningham is an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, approximately a mile north of the city centre and is seen as the centre of the city's south Asian population.- Geography :...

, Thornton and Allerton

Thornton and Allerton

Thornton and Allerton is a Ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the villages of Thornton and Allerton around which it is drawn....

, and Toller

Toller

Toller is a ward in the City of Bradford metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England.Councillor Imran Hussain is one of the current representatives for this ward. He is a Labour councillor and Deputy Leader of Bradford Council's Labour Group. He was first elected in 2002 with a majority of...

.

MPs 1885–1918

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...	Alfred Illingworth Alfred Illingworth Alfred Illingworth , was an English worsted spinner and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1868 and 1895....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	MP for Knaresborough Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency) Knaresborough was a parliamentary constituency which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1868, and then one MP until its abolition in 1885.-Before the Great Reform Act:...  1868–1874, for Bradford Bradford (UK Parliament constituency) Bradford was a parliamentary constituency in Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until it was abolished for the 1885 general election....  1880–1885
	1895 United Kingdom general election, 1895 The United Kingdom general election of 1895 was held from 13 July - 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery...	Ernest Flower Ernest Flower Sir Ernest Francis Swan Flower was a British Conservative Party politician.At the 1895 general election Flower was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bradford West, winning the seat from the Liberal Party on his second attempt, after unsuccessfully contesting the seat in 1892...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	Knighted 1904
	1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...	Fred Jowett	Labour Party Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	MP for Bradford East Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency) Bradford East is the name of a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency originally existed from 1885 to 1974 and was recreated for the 2010 general election, electing one Member of Parliament by the first past the post...  1922–24, 1929–31
	1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...	constituency abolished

MPs since 1955

New constituency created for the 1955 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1955

The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...

, following a boundary review.

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1955 United Kingdom general election, 1955 The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...	Arthur Tiley Arthur Tiley Arthur Tiley was a British Conservative and National Liberal politician. Upon the re-creation of the Bradford West constituency in 1955, Tiley was elected as its Member of Parliament. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1966 general election by Labour's Norman Haseldine.- External links :...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	Defeated in 1966
	1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected a mere 17 months previously in 1964 had an unworkably small majority of only 4 MPs...	Norman Haseldine Norman Haseldine Norman Haseldine was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Born in Sheffield, he served as Member of Parliament for Bradford West from 1966 until his defeat at the 1970 general election by the Conservative candidate John Wilkinson.Married Georgette Elise Michelle Bernard , four sons, Michael...	Labour Co-operative Labour Co-operative Labour and Co-operative describes those candidates in British elections standing on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party, based on a national agreement between the two parties....	Defeated in 1970
	1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on 18 June 1970, and resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward Heath, who defeated the Labour Party under Harold Wilson. The election also saw the Liberal Party and its new leader Jeremy Thorpe lose half their...	John Wilkinson	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...	Defeated in Feb 1974. MP for Ruislip-Northwood Ruislip-Northwood (UK Parliament constituency) Ruislip-Northwood was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...  1979–2005
	Feb 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...	Edward Lyons Edward Lyons Edward Lyons, QC was a British politician.Lyons was educated at Roundhay High School and Leeds University. Following World War II, he worked as a Russian interpreter in Germany attached to the Control commission...	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	Elected as a Labour MP, joined SDP in 1981. Defeated at the 1983 election
	1981		Social Democratic Social Democratic Party (UK) The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...
	1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945...	Max Madden Max Madden Maxwell Francis "Max" Madden is a British journalist and Labour Party politician.Madden was elected as Member of Parliament for Sowerby at the February 1974 election, which he lost to the Conservatives in 1979....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	MP for Sowerby Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency) Sowerby was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.-History:...  1974–1979. Replaced as Labour candidate for the 1997 general election.
	1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	Marsha Singh Marsha Singh Marsha Singh is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bradford West since 1997....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

Elections since 1955

Elections 1885–1918