Huddersfield is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Harpreet Uppal of the Labour Party.
Constituency profile
This constituency covers the urban centre and east of the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield, the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. The town grew out of the former woollen industry, and is now a primarily residential market town with some light industry remaining in the town such as Syngenta and Cummins, and a growing number of students at the University of Huddersfield. The town is economically diverse with some deprived inner-city council estates, such as Deighton, and better-off areas on the outskirts, such as Fixby, which contains exclusive detached stone houses in leafy roads.
However, the town's western suburbs such as Golcar and the middle-class suburb of Lindley are actually in the neighbouring Colne Valley constituency.
Apart from four years tenure as MP by Geoffrey Dickens for Huddersfield West (1979–1983), the area (including its divided halves for the 33 years to 1983) has returned a Labour Party MP since 1945.
The constituency is currently held by the Labour Party, although the Liberal Democrats made inroads by coming second in the 2005 general election, and in the 2010 general election Karen Tween of the Conservative Party narrowed the incumbent's lead to a relatively average 4,472 votes and the new Liberal Democrat candidate slipped into third place. There are currently Green Party councillors in Newsome, and some Tory and Liberal Democrat councillors in Almondbury, but the remaining wards are safely Labour. The Dalton ward also includes the village of Kirkheaton, separated by a green buffer, and the Almondbury ward includes the small village of Lepton, West Yorkshire.
Boundaries
1983–2010: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Almondbury, Birkby, Dalton, Deighton, Newsome, and Paddock.
2010–2024: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Almondbury, Ashbrow, Dalton, Greenhead, and Newsome.
2024–present: The Borough of Kirklees wards of Almondbury, Ashbrow, Crosland Moor and Netherton, Dalton (majority), Greenhead, and Newsome.
:Under the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, the Crosland Moor and Netherton ward was transferred from Colne Valley in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range. To partly compensate, a small part of the Dalton ward, including the village of Kirkheaton was transferred to the re-established constituency of Spen Valley.
Members of Parliament
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|1832 || Lewis Fenton || Whig
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|1834 by-election || John Blackburne || Whig
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|1857 || Edward Akroyd || Whig
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|1859 || Edward Leatham || Liberal
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|1865 || Thomas Crosland || Liberal
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|1868 || Edward Leatham ||Liberal
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|1886 || William Summers || Liberal
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|1893 by-election || Sir Joseph Crosland || Conservative
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|1895 || Sir James Woodhouse || Liberal
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|1906 by-election || Arthur Sherwell || Liberal
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|1918
|rowspan="2" | Sir Charles Sykes
| Coalition Liberal
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| Jan 1922
| National Liberal
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|Nov 1922 || Sir Arthur Marshall || Liberal
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|1923 || James Hudson || Labour
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|1931 || William Mabane || National Liberal
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|1945 || Joseph Mallalieu || Labour
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|colspan="2" align="left" |1950
|colspan="2"| constituency abolished: see Huddersfield East and Huddersfield West
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|colspan=2 align="left" |1983
|colspan="2"| constituency reconstituted
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|1983 || Barry Sheerman || Labour Co-operative
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|2024 || Harpreet Uppal || Labour
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Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
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! colspan="4" | 2019 notional result
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! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party
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! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %
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| Labour ||align=right| 25,386 ||align=right| 51.4
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| Conservative ||align=right| 17,945 ||align=right| 36.4
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| Liberal Democrats ||align=right| 2,449 ||align=right| 5.0
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| Green ||align=right| 1,884 ||align=right| 3.8
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| Brexit Party ||align=right| 1,696 ||align=right| 3.4
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|colspan="2"|Turnout
|align=right|49,360
|align=right|64.9
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|colspan="2"|Electorate
|align=right|76,044
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Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939–40:
Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal National: William Mabane
- Labour: Joseph Mallalieu
- Liberal: Elliott Dodds
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1920s
thumb|120px|Arthur Marshall
Elections in the 1910s
thumb|120px|Sykes
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Arthur Sherwell
- Unionist:
- Socialist: Harry Snell (candidature not approved by Labour Party National Executive)
thumb|120px|Harry Snell
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1860s
- Caused by Stansfield's election being declared void on petition due to bribery and treating which "prevailed to a great extent".