Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)

Bradford South Borough constituency

Bradford South shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created:	1918
MP:	Gerry Sutcliffe
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Bradford South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is strongly inclined to elect Labour MPs, although the Conservatives came very close to gaining the seat in the 1980s.

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	Name	Party
1918	Francis Vernon Willey	Coalition Conservative
1922	Herbert Harvey Spencer	Liberal
1924	William Hirst	Labour
1931	Herbert Holdsworth	Liberal
1945	Meredith Farrer Titterington	Labour
1949	George Craddock	Labour
1970	Thomas Torney	Labour
1987	Bob Cryer	Labour
1994	Gerry Sutcliffe	Labour

General Election 2005: Bradford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gerry Sutcliffe	17,954	49.0	-6.8
	Conservative	Geraldine Carter	8,787	24.0	-4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Doyle	5,334	14.6	+4.0
	British National	James Lewthwaite	2,862	7.8	+7.8
	Green	Derek Curtis	695	1.9	+1.9
	UK Independence	Jason Smith	552	1.5	-0.7
	Veritas	Therese Muchewicz	421	1.2	+1.2
Majority			9,167	25.0
Turnout			36,605	54.2	2.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.2%

General Election 2001: Bradford South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gerry Sutcliffe	19,603	55.8	-0.9
	Conservative	Graham Tennyson	9,941	28.3	+0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander Wilson-Fletcher	3,717	10.6	-0.7
	UK Independence	Peter North	783	2.2	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Tony Kelly	571	1.6	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Ateeq Siddique	302	0.9	N/A
	Defend The Welfare State Against Blairism	George Riseborough	220	0.6	N/A
Majority			9,662	27.5
Turnout			35,137	51.3	-14.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Bradford Constituencies:

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber
Labour	Barnsley Central \| Barnsley East and Mexborough \| Barnsley West and Penistone \| Batley and Spen \| Bradford North \| Bradford South \| Bradford West \| Brigg and Goole \| Calder Valley \| City of York \| Cleethorpes \| Colne Valley \| Dewsbury \| Don Valley \| Doncaster Central \| Doncaster North \| Elmet \| Great Grimsby \| Halifax \| Hemsworth \| Huddersfield \| Keighley \| Hull East \| Hull North \| Hull West and Hessle \| Leeds Central \| Leeds East \| Leeds North East \| Leeds West \| Morley and Rothwell \| Normanton \| Pontefract and Castleford \| Pudsey \| Rother Valley \| Rotherham \| Scunthorpe \| Selby \| Sheffield, Attercliffe \| Sheffield, Brightside \| Sheffield Central \| Sheffield, Heeley \| Sheffield, Hillsborough \| Wakefield \| Wentworth
Conservative	Beverley and Holderness \| East Yorkshire \| Haltemprice and Howden \| Richmond (Yorks) \| Ryedale \| Scarborough and Whitby \| Shipley \| Skipton and Ripon \| Vale of York
Liberal Democrat	Harrogate and Knaresborough \| Leeds North West \| Sheffield Hallam
Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Labour (2) \| Conservative (2) \| Liberal Democrats (1) \| UKIP (1)