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 ElectionMemberParty1832 Lewis Fenton Whig1834 by-election John Blackburne Whig1837 by-election Edward Ellice Whig1837 William Crompton-Stansfield Whig1853 by-election Viscount Goderich Whig1857 Edward Akroyd Whig1859 Edward Leatham Liberal1865 Thomas Crosland Liberal1868 Edward Leatham Liberal 1886 William Summers Liberal1893 by-election Sir Joseph Crosland Conservative1895 Sir James Woodhouse Liberal1906 by-election Arthur Sherwell Liberal1918 Sir Charles Sykes Coalition Liberal Jan 1922 National LiberalNov 1922 Sir Arthur Marshall Liberal1923 James Hudson Labour1931 William Mabane National Liberal1945 Joseph Mallalieu Labour1950 constituency abolished: see Huddersfield East and Huddersfield West1983 constituency reconstituted1983 Barry Sheerman Labour Co-operative2024 Harpreet Uppal Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result Party Vote % Labour 25,386 51.4 Conservative 17,945 36.4 Liberal Democrats 2,449 5.0 Green 1,884 3.8 Brexit Party 1,696 3.4Turnout49,36064.9Electorate76,044

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

Elections in the 1910s

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)

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1890s

Caused by Summers' death.

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1860s

Caused by Crosland's death.

Elections in the 1850s

Caused by Stansfield's election being declared void on petition due to bribery and treating which "prevailed to a great extent".

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1830s

Caused by Blackburne's death

Caused by Fenton's death. While Ramsden was not a candidate, a local spirit merchant, Paul Hirst, voted for him.

See also List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire List of parliamentary constituencies in the Yorkshire and the Humber (region)

Notes

References

External links Huddersfield UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK Huddersfield UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK Huddersfield UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK