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Batley and Spen was a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The most recent MP was Kim Leadbeater, a Labour politician, who waa elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin. The seat had returned Labour MPs since the 1997 general election.
Batley and Spen has been represented by a Labour MP since 1997. [9] [10] Elizabeth Peacock has been the constituency's only Conservative MP, serving from 1983 to 1997.Brabin had held the seat since the 2016 Batley and Spen by-election, which was called after the murder of Jo Cox, the seat's incumbent MP.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election , held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections .
Spen Valley: 1 Jul 2021: 1 May 1976: Elected at the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election. 281 Louie French: Con Old Bexley and Sidcup: 2 Dec 2021: 14 Feb 1988: Elected at the 2021 Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election. 282 Helen Morgan: LD North Shropshire: 16 Dec 2021: 9 Apr 1975: Elected at the 2021 North Shropshire by-election. 283
MP for the predecessor seat of Batley and Spen: St Albans: Liberal Democrats: Daisy Cooper: Liberal Democrats: St Austell and Newquay: Conservative: Noah Law: Labour: Defeated incumbent, Steve Double: St Helens North: Labour: David Baines: Labour: Previous incumbent, Conor McGinn, did not stand St Helens South and Whiston: Labour: Marie Rimmer ...
Elsewhere, Batley and Spen, and Dewsbury were realigned to form Dewsbury and Batley, and Spen Valley, and Leeds West and Pudsey were abolished, with parts of each forming Leeds West and Pudsey. Leeds Central effectively became Leeds South and a new constituency named Leeds Central and Headingley was created.
Kim Michele Leadbeater [1] MBE (/ ˈ l ɛ d b iː t ə (r)/; born 1 May 1976) [2] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spen Valley, formerly Batley and Spen, since 2021.
Batley and Spen § by-elections: Rob Roberts: 25 May 2021: Conservative: Independent: Delyn: Suspended from Parliament for six weeks after an independent panel found he sexually harassed a member of staff. [65] Imran Ahmad Khan: 18 June 2021: Conservative: Independent: Wakefield: Charged with sexual assault on a 15-year-old boy. [66] Resigned ...