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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom (1885–2024)

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::summary Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom (1885–2024) ::

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Field	Value
name	Leeds West
parliament	uk
image	[[File:LeedsWest2007Constituency.svg
caption	2010–2024 boundary of Leeds West in West Yorkshire
map2	EnglandWestYorkshire
map_entity	West Yorkshire
year	1885
abolished	2024
type	Borough
previous	Leeds
next	Leeds South West and Morley, & Leeds West and Pudsey
electorate	67,727 (December 2019)
region	England
county	West Yorkshire
(West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974)
elects_howmany	One
::

|name = Leeds West |parliament = uk |image = [[File:LeedsWest2007Constituency.svg|120px|alt=Outline map]] |caption = 2010–2024 boundary of Leeds West in West Yorkshire |map2 = EnglandWestYorkshire |map_entity = West Yorkshire |year = 1885 |abolished = 2024 |type = Borough |previous = Leeds |next = Leeds South West and Morley, & Leeds West and Pudsey |electorate = 67,727 (December 2019) |region = England |county = West Yorkshire (West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974) |elects_howmany = One Leeds West was a borough constituency covering the western part of the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. With the exception of the Parliament of 1983–87, the seat was held by Labour from 1945 until its abolition.

The seat was abolished for the 2024 general election and replaced primarily by Leeds West and Pudsey.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Leeds wards of Armley and Wortley, Holbeck, and New Wortley, and part of Bramley ward.

1918–1950: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Armley and Wortley, and Bramley, and part of New Wortley ward.

1950–1951: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Bramley, Farnley and Wortley, and Upper Armley.

1951–1955: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, Stanningley, and Wortley.

1955–1974: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, Stanningley, Wellington, and Wortley.

1974–1983: The County Borough wards of Armley and Castleton, Bramley, Stanningley, and Wortley.

1980–1983: The City of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, and Wortley.

1983–2010: The City of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley, Kirkstall, and Wortley.

2010–2024: The City of Leeds wards of Armley, Bramley and Stanningley, Farnley and Wortley, and Kirkstall. Unusually for a Parliamentary seat, the boundaries did not correspond exactly to the wards' boundaries. The seat included small areas of the wards for Calverley and Farsley, and Morley North, but also excluded a very small area of Farnley and Wortley, which fell under Leeds Central.

History

The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was first used in the general election of that year. Leeds had previously been represented by two MPs (1832–1868) and three MPs (1868–1885). From 1885 it was represented by five single-member constituencies: Leeds Central, Leeds East, Leeds North, Leeds South and Leeds West. The constituencies of Morley, Otley and Pudsey were also created in 1885.

Abolition

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished for the 2024 general election, with its contents distributed to three new constituencies:

Armley, Bramley and Stanningley to Leeds West and Pudsey
Farnley and Wortley to Leeds South West and Morley
Kirkstall to Leeds Central and Headingley

Members of Parliament

Leeds prior to 1885

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Year	Member	Party
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1885
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1910
Coalition Liberal}}"		1918
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1922
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1923
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1931
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1945
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1949
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1974
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1983
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1987
Labour Party (UK)}}"		2010
	2024	Constituency abolished
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Election results 1885–2024

Elections in the 1880s

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Herbert_Gladstone.jpg" caption="H. Gladstone"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Sketch_of_Charles_Frederick_Williams.jpg" caption="Charles Williams"] ::

Elections in the 1890s

|party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Herbert Gladstone |winner = Liberal Party (UK) Gladstone is appointed First Commissioner of Works, requiring a by-election.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/John_Thomas_North.jpeg" caption="J.T. North"] ::

Elections in the 1900s

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Herbert_John_Gladstone.jpg" caption="H. Gladstone"] ::

Elections in the 1910s

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Edmund_Harvey.jpg" caption="Edmund Harvey"] ::

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: Edmund Harvey
Unionist:

Chapman was supported by the three local branches of National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers and Comrades of the Great War.

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1980s

|title=General election 1983: Leeds West}} |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Michael Meadowcroft |votes = 17,908 |percentage = 38.4 |change = |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Joseph Dean |votes = 15,860 |percentage = 34.0 |change = |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Jocelyn Keeble |votes = 12,515 |percentage = 26.9 |change = |party = British National Party |candidate = A. Braithwaite |votes = 334 |percentage = 0.7 |change = New |votes = 2,048 |percentage = 4.4 |change = N/A |votes = 46,617 |percentage = 69.0 |change = |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |loser = Labour Party (UK) |swing =

|title=General election 1987: Leeds West}} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = John Battle |votes = 21,032 |percentage = 43.2 |change = +9.2 |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Michael Meadowcroft |votes = 16,340 |percentage = 33.6 |change = −4.8 |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Philip Allott |votes = 11,276 |percentage = 23.2 |change = −3.7 |votes = 4,692 |percentage = 9.6 |change = N/A |votes = 48,648 |percentage = 73.3 |change = +4.3 |winner = Labour Party (UK) |loser = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = +7.0

Elections in the 1990s

|title=General election 1992: Leeds West}} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = John Battle |votes = 26,310 |percentage = 55.1 |change = +11.9 |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Paul Bartlett |votes = 12,482 |percentage = 26.2 |change = +3.0 |party = Liberal Democrats (UK) |candidate = George Howard |votes = 4,252 |percentage = 8.9 |change = −24.7 |party = Liberal Party (UK, 1989) |candidate = Michael Meadowcroft |votes = 3,980 |percentage = 8.3 |change = New |party = Green Party of England and Wales |candidate = Alison M. Mander |votes = 569 |percentage = 1.2 |change = New |party = National Front (UK) |candidate = Robert I. Tenney |votes = 132 |percentage = 0.3 |change = New |votes = 13,828 |percentage = 29.0 |change = +19.4 |votes = 47,725 |percentage = 71.2 |change = −2.1 |winner = Labour Party (UK) |swing = +4.5

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 2010s

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Official_portrait_of_Rachel_Reeves_crop_3.jpg" caption="2010"] ::

| title = Leeds West | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000781 | publisher = BBC News | access-date = 13 May 2015}} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Rachel Reeves |votes = 18,456 |percentage = 48.0 |change = +5.7 |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Alex Pierre-Traves |votes = 7,729 |percentage = 20.1 |change = +0.4 |party = UK Independence Party |candidate = Anne Murgatroyd |votes = 7,104 |percentage = 18.5 |change = +15.6 |party = Green Party of England and Wales |candidate = Andrew Pointon |votes = 3,217 |percentage = 8.4 |change = +3.7 |party = Liberal Democrats (UK) |candidate = Laura Coyle |votes = 1,495 |percentage = 3.9 |change = −20.3 |party = Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol |candidate = Matthew West |votes = 217 |percentage = 0.6 |change = New |party = Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition |candidate = Ben Mayor |votes = 205 |percentage = 0.5 |change = New |votes = 10,727 |percentage = 27.9 |change = +9.8 |votes = 38,423 |percentage = 59.2 |change = +1.7 |winner = Labour Party (UK) |swing = +2.65

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