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Revision as of 01:49, 6 April 2017
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Pontefract and Castleford | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Pontefract and Castleford in West Yorkshire for the 2005 general election | |
![]() Location of West Yorkshire within England | |
County | West Yorkshire |
1974–2010 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Pontefract |
Replaced by | Normanton, Pontefract & Castleford |
Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 2010 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Castleford and Pontefract, and the Urban District of Featherstone.
1983-2010: The City of Wakefield wards of Castleford Ferry Fryston, Castleford Glasshoughton, Castleford Whitwood, Knottingley, Pontefract North, and Pontefract South.
The constituency covered the West Yorkshire towns of Pontefract and Castleford. It was a very safe Labour seat, made up of former mining towns and villages. The MP from 1997 until its abolition in 2010, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, is married to former fellow Labour MP, former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the number of seats in West Yorkshire were reduced by one due to population decline by the Boundary Commission for England. A new, geographically larger, constituency called Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was created in 2010 including the whole of this constituency.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Feb 1974 | Joe Harper | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1978 by-election | Sir Geoffrey Lofthouse | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1997 | Yvette Cooper | Labour |
2010 | Constituency abolished: see Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford |
Elections
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Yvette Cooper | 20,973 | 63.7 | −6.0 | |
Conservative | Simon Jones | 5,727 | 17.4 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Wesley Paxton | 3,942 | 12.0 | +4.6 | |
BNP | Suzy Cass | 1,835 | 5.6 | K.A. | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Bob Hague | 470 | 1.4 | K.A. | |
Majority | 15,246 | 46.3 | |||
Turnout | 32,947 | 53.3 | +3.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Yvette Cooper | 21,890 | 69.7 | −6.0 | |
Conservative | Pamela Singleton | 5,512 | 17.6 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Wesley Paxton | 2,315 | 7.4 | +0.1 | |
UKIP | John Burdon | 739 | 2.4 | K.A. | |
Socialist Labour | Trevor Bolderson | 605 | 1.9 | K.A. | |
Socialist Alliance | John Gill | 330 | 1.1 | K.A. | |
Majority | 16,378 | 52.1 | |||
Turnout | 31,391 | 49.7 | −16.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Yvette Cooper | 31,339 | 75.7 | +5.8 | |
Conservative | Adrian John Flook | 5,614 | 13.6 | −7.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Wesley Paxton | 3,042 | 7.4 | −1.8 | |
Referendum | Richard Wood | 1,401 | 3.4 | K.A. | |
Majority | 25,725 | 62.1 | |||
Turnout | 41,396 | 66.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Geoffrey Lofthouse | 33,546 | 69.9 | +3.0 | |
Conservative | AGM Rockall | 10,051 | 20.9 | 0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | DL Ryan | 4,410 | 9.2 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 23,495 | 48.9 | +3.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,007 | 74.3 | +0.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.6 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Geoffrey Lofthouse | 31,656 | 66.9 | ||
Conservative | Julian Henry Mallins | 10,051 | 21.2 | ||
Alliance | Michael Francis Taylor | 5,334 | 11.3 | ||
Red Front | Daniel McFarlane. Lees | 295 | 0.6 | ||
Majority | 21,626 | 45.7 | |||
Turnout | 47,315 | 73.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Geoffrey Lofthouse | 24,990 | 57.1 | ||
Conservative | Barry Howell | 11,299 | 25.8 | ||
Alliance | D. Dale | 7,452 | 17.1 | ||
Majority | 13,691 | 31.3 | |||
Turnout | 43,741 | 67.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Geoffrey Lofthouse | 30,566 | 68.1 | −2.3 | |
Conservative | Hugo Page | 10,665 | 23.8 | +7.6 | |
Liberal | Leslie Marsh | 3,616 | 8.0 | −4.3 | |
Majority | 19,901 | 44.4 | −9.8 | ||
Turnout | 73.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Geoffrey Lofthouse | 19,508 | 65.8 | −4.6 | |
Conservative | Hugo Page | 8,080 | 27.3 | +11.1 | |
Liberal | Leslie Marsh | 2,054 | 6.9 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 11,428 | 38.6 | −15.6 | ||
Turnout | 29,642 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joseph Harper | 30,208 | 70.4 | −4.4 | |
Conservative | I. Bloomer | 6,966 | 16.2 | −6.9 | |
Liberal | S. Galloway | 5,259 | 12.3 | K.A. | |
Workers Revolutionary | T. Parsons | 457 | 1.1 | −1.1 | |
Majority | 23,242 | 54.2 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 42,890 | 71.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Joseph Harper | 34,409 | 74.8 | K.A. | |
Conservative | Richard Needham | 10,605 | 23.1 | K.A. | |
Workers Revolutionary | B. Lavery | 991 | 2.2 | K.A. | |
Majority | 23,804 | 51.8 | K.A. | ||
Turnout | 46,005 | 77.1 | K.A. | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.