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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 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 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.
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.
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
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
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]
Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's 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).