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Historic Seat

Dewsbury

🗳️ Election History

4
Elections
68.6%
Avg Turnout
2
Times Changed
2010
Current Party Since
Conservative Mark Eastwood Gain from Labour
Majority 1,561
Turnout 69.4% ↓0.1pp
Total Votes 56,389
Winner Swing ↓4.5pp
✓ Mark Eastwood
Conservative
26,179 46.4%
↑1.3pp
Paula Sherriff
Labour
24,618 43.7%
↓7.3pp
John Rossington
Liberal Democrats
2,406 4.3%
↑2.1pp
Philip James
—
1,874 3.3%
—
Simon Cope
Green Party
1,060 1.9%
↑0.1pp
Archibald Stanton
—
252 0.5%
—
Labour Paula Sherriff Hold
Majority 3,321
Turnout 69.5% ↑2.3pp
Total Votes 56,545
Winner Swing ↑9.2pp
✓ Paula Sherriff
Labour
28,814 51.0%
↑9.2pp
Beth Prescott
Conservative
25,493 45.1%
↑6.0pp
Ednan Hussain
Liberal Democrats
1,214 2.2%
↓1.4pp
Simon Cope
Green Party
1,024 1.8%
↓0.7pp
Labour Paula Sherriff Gain from Conservative
Majority 1,451
Turnout 67.2% ↓1.2pp
Total Votes 53,630
Winner Swing ↑6.8pp
✓ Paula Sherriff
Labour
22,406 41.8%
↑9.6pp
Simon Reevell
Conservative
20,955 39.1%
↑4.1pp
Mark Thackray
—
6,649 12.4%
—
Ednan Hussain
Liberal Democrats
1,924 3.6%
↓13.4pp
Adrian Cruden
Green Party
1,366 2.6%
↑1.0pp
Richard Carter
—
236 0.4%
—
Steve Hakes
—
94 0.2%
—
Conservative Simon Reevell Hold
Majority 1,526
Turnout 68.4%
Total Votes 54,008
✓ Simon Reevell
Conservative
18,898 35.0%
↑3.3pp
Shahid Malik
Labour
17,372 32.2%
↓8.4pp
Andrew Hutchinson
Liberal Democrats
9,150 16.9%
↑3.2pp
Khizar Iqbal
—
3,813 7.1%
—
Roger Roberts
—
3,265 6.1%
↓5.2pp
Adrian Cruden
Green Party
849 1.6%
↓0.5pp
Michael Felse
—
661 1.2%
—

Turnout Trend

68.4%
'10
67.2%
'15
69.5%
'17
69.4%
'19

👥 Demographics

🌍 Ethnicity
White
78.4%
Asian or Asian British
19.4%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
1.5%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.4%
Other ethnic group
0.3%
📊 Age
45 to 64
25.3%
Under 18
24.2%
30 to 44
20.2%
18 to 29
15.4%
65 and over
15.0%
⛪ Religion
Christian
53.8%
No religion
20.9%
Muslim
18.5%
Religion not stated
6.0%
Other religion
0.3%
Sikh
0.2%
Hindu
0.2%
Buddhist
0.1%
Jewish
0.0%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency
MP Name Party From To
Mark Eastwood Conservative 2019-12-12 2024-05-30
Paula Sherriff Labour 2015-05-07 2019-11-06
Simon Reevell Conservative 2010-05-06 2015-03-30
Mr Shahid Malik Labour 2005-05-05 2010-05-06
John Whitfield Conservative 1983-06-09 1987-06-11
David Ginsburg Social Democratic Party 1959-10-08 1983-06-09