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Spen Valley is a parliamentary constituency in the valley of the River Spen in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
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 was elected in a 2021 by-election by a 323-vote margin. The seat had returned Labour MPs since the 1997 general election.
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.
The MP for Spen Valley told the Commons: “Former police officer James waved his mum off as she embarked on her final trip to Dignitas. She had terminal vasculitis.
Other towns in the Spen Valley part of the constituency include Birstall, Birkenshaw, Cleckheaton, Liversedge and Gomersal. These are generally more suburban and Conservative areas, with the exception of Cleckheaton, which has Liberal Democrat councillors. In the 2016 EU referendum, Batley and Spen voted 60% in favour of Brexit. [8]
The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first-past-the-post) voting system, ordinarily every five years.
Spen Valley CC: 72,169 West Yorkshire Kirklees Thirsk and Malton CC: 76,623 North Yorkshire North Yorkshire Wakefield and Rothwell BC: 73,968 West Yorkshire Leeds / Wakefield Wetherby and Easingwold CC: 71,455 North Yorkshire / West Yorkshire North Yorkshire / Leeds York Central BC: 74,854 North Yorkshire York: York Outer CC: 72,720 North ...
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 ...