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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.
Kim Leadbeater was born on 1 May 1976 in Dewsbury, to parents Jean and Gordon Leadbeater. [2] She is the younger sister of former MP Jo Cox (1974–2016). Leadbeater attended Heckmondwike Grammar School, and says that she has lived in "every little bit of" the local area. [3]
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine West Yorkshire with North Yorkshire as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of two new cross-county boundary constituencies: Selby which comprises the ...
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.
Michael Roy Wood (born 3 March 1946) is a British Labour politician who was Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen from 1997 to 2015. He was a member of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group . Early life
Batley and Spen: Lab Co-op: Election as Mayor of West Yorkshire. 3 May 2022 [99] Imran Ahmad Khan: Wakefield: Con: Criminal conviction for sexual assault. Elected as Conservative in 2019, suspended from the party in June 2021 pending a trial. Expelled after he was convicted in April 2022. [100] [101] 21 October 2022 [102] Christian Matheson ...
It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election, formed primarily from the (abolished) constituency of Batley and Spen. [1]
Dewsbury and Batley is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, represented since 2024 by Iqbal Mohamed, an Independent. [1] It was created following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and first contested in the 2024 general election. [2] The constituency is located in the borough of Kirklees in West ...