Pudsey
2010 Results:
Conservative: 18874 (38.45%)
Labour: 17215 (35.07%)
Liberal Democrat: 10224 (20.83%)
BNP: 1549 (3.16%)
UKIP: 1221 (2.49%)
Majority: 1659 (3.38%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 19687 (45.2%)
Conservative: 14936 (34.3%)
Liberal Democrat: 7783 (17.9%)
Other: 1195 (2.7%)
Majority: 4751 (10.9%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 15391 (33.1%)
Labour: 21261 (45.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 8551 (18.4%)
UKIP: 1241 (2.7%)
Majority: 5870 (12.6%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 16091 (35.6%)
Labour: 21717 (48.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 6423 (14.2%)
UKIP: 944 (2.1%)
Majority: 5626 (12.5%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 19163 (36.3%)
Labour: 25370 (48.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 7375 (14%)
Referendum: 823 (1.6%)
Majority: 6207 (11.8%)
Boundary changes: loses Yeadon, gains a small part of Rawdon and a sliver of Horsforth.
Profile: A long spindly seat between Leeds and Bradford, stretching from Hawksworth Moor in the North to include the town of Guiseley (the site of Harry Ramsden`s first restaurant and still home to the largest fish and chip restaurant in the world), the Leeds suburb of Horsforth, the rural village of Calverley and the town of Pudsey itself to the South. The constituency is mostly an affluent residential area for Leeds and Bradford commuters. It had been solidly Conservative up until 1997, when it was won by Labour`s Paul Truswell.
Current MP: Stuart Andrew (Conservative) Leeds councillor.
Stuart Andrew (Conservative) Leeds councillor.
Jamie Hanley (Labour) Born 1973, Leeds. Educated at Hull University. Solicitor, specialising in personal injury.
Jamie Matthews (Liberal Democrat) Educated at Cardiff university. Leeds councillor since 2008.
David Dews (UKIP) Born 1948, Huddersfield. Educated at Belle Vue Boys Grammar and London University. Chartered civil engineer.
Ian Gibson (BNP) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 87286
Male: 48.1%
Female: 51.9%
Under 18: 21.3%
Over 60: 21.5%
Born outside UK: 3.9%
White: 96.1%
Black: 0.2%
Asian: 2.5%
Mixed: 0.7%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 74.3%
Muslim: 0.8%
Sikh: 1.3%
Full time students: 3.6%
Graduates 16-74: 21.7%
No Qualifications 16-74: 25.9%
Owner-Occupied: 78.1%
Social Housing: 14.6% (Council: 13.3%, Housing Ass.: 1.3%)
Privately Rented: 4.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 18.6%
It is interesting that there has been quite a discussion on the Pudsey page about good Christians etc – perhaps this came about from the church organised hustings.
If this is important to other constituents they may find the “Westminster 2010 Declaration of Christian Conscience” of interest. Do a Google search – and then check which of our local candidates have signed up to it.
You say that Liberal democrat Voters are quisings.. and that you don’t realise you are being partisan.
I politely suggest you seek more self knowledge
Bring back Jenny Whitmann…
Difficult one. I think in the end another seat where Labour will suffer through not being able to get the incumbent to the starting gate. CON GAIN
With a heavy heart, I’d say this looks like a Tory Gain.
I live here and really don’t know.. I’ve been assuming a Con gain but I think it will be close… the Tories expected to win here last time and actually fell backwards
I’d take a LD gain …. if we get a hung parliament with a tiny Con majority and UKIP breakthrough in at least one seat followed by within a few months another election … and a chance to boot him back out.
..that’s the LibDemmer … not the UKIPer!
headline of the morning from The Sun…………”Right Wing Vote Brings UKIP Down” [& Nigel Farage's plane]…
What to do?! Beaten by the BNP who didn’t even try…
There’s many a heart with UKIP PB, just look at the Euro farce. But, in the end we had to try and head off the mess of a ‘hung parliament’ that we are now staring at. Every Tory seat was necessary – pity we could not have made it just a small majority to give more weight to the ‘right wing’. Now, it’s the left wing who will call the shots. Keep fighting.
Good to see a band of ‘sensible’ voting in our part of the world. From Keighley and Shipley to Leeds North West and Harrogate.
Congratulations, Stuart, the hard work now begins
For the attention of Jenny Whitman and Mick from the Drop:
In case you missed the General Election results for the Pudsey Constituency declared at 4.30am on Friday 7th May 2010 in the John Charles Sports Centre, they were as follows:
Stuart James Andrew (Conservative) 18874
Jamie Hanley (Labour) 17215
Jamie Matthews (Liberal Democrat) 10224
Ian Gibson (British National Party) 1549
David Dews (UKIP) 1221
…and that the said Stuart James Andrew is duly elected as Member of Parliament for the Pudsey Constituency.
I will add nothing more – I think the results speak for themselves.
Now Labour needs to squeeze the LD vote down again. One to watch for next time.
Which should be a relatively easy task in a northern seat next time….
Except Yorkshire isn’t Merseyside.
No one knows what the score will be in five years time… or if it will be that long.
I will say the Lib Dem Vote, squeezed down in 97 and stagnant in 2001, has been slowly recovering since. This year I did suspect we’d be squeezed; we weren’t
2011 local election results with change on 2010
Lab 39.8% (+9.0%)
Con 38.5% (+4.8%)
LD 14.0% (-13.2%)
Oth 7.6% (-0.6%)
Dispite winning the most votes, Labour only took 1 ward with the Conservatives winning the other 3. Labour piled up a big majority in Pudsey itself, whilst the wards of Calverley & Farsley, Guiseley & Rawdon and Horsforth all gave the Tories smallish wins (over Labour in the first two, over the Lib Dems in the third)
Surprised to see no comments on the proposed boundary changes in Leeds and Bradford.
The proposed new Guiseley and Yeadon seat looks like a Liberal/Tory marginal with 4 (!) sitting MPs fighting over it (Pudsey, Shipley, Bradford E, Leeds NW) none of whom seem to have any better alternatives.
@John Chanin
I imagine that the tories will try and push for a Bradford N and Shipley seat similar to what was proposed in the democratic audit model so that Davies can hang on as an MP.
The Bradford E MP will probably just contest the successor seat (however it’s drawn) and Andrew and Mulholland will go head to head here.
I hope the commission has the sense to allow a few split wards in Leeds and Bradford because it’s impossible otherwise!
Davies could go for Bradford West which should be a Tory marginal?
Not as good as his current seat but should be Tory as long as the Tories stay in government
Agree that if these boundaries stand Davies will go for Bradford West. However also agree with A Cairns that there will be an attempt to preserve a Shipley & Bradford N seat.
I would strongly support splitting wards in Birmingham and Leeds to generate more sensible seats, even if the Commission insist on avoiding this elsewhere. Leeds wards average 16,400 and Birmingham wards average 18,150. As a result wards do not reflect natural communities as they do in most parts of the country.
Guiseley and Yeadon looks interesting. It would currently be Lib Dem by 160 votes but the Conservatives will feel optimistic should the Lib Dems’ woes continue. Then again, a total Lib Dem collapse might be problematic for the Conservatives because Labour is only 7000 votes behind- not that far at all. Therefore what appears to be a Tory-Lib Dem marginal could become a three-way marginal or ultimately even a Tory-Labour marginal!
Once upon a time, this was a place where the Liberals came close on a few occasions against the Conservatives, even as late as 1987. But since then, Labour have established themselves as the main opponents to the Tories here, and the Lib Dem challenge has therefore faltered.
Truswell must have been a rather popular MP because he increased his majority in percentage terms twice, albeit very narrowly. He might have held this had he nood stood down.
Lib Dem challenge has indeed faltered but they are still strong locally in Horsforth.