Dewsbury and Batley | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Yorkshire |
Major settlements | Batley, Dewsbury, Kirkburton, Thornhill |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Batley and Spen & Dewsbury |
Dewsbury and Batley is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested in the 2024 general election. [2] The constituency will be located in the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. [3]
The constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise the following areas of Kirklees: [5]
Areas | Kirklees Borough Council Wards | Former Constituency |
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Batley | Batley East and Batley West | Batley and Spen |
Dewsbury | Dewsbury East, Dewsbury South and Dewsbury West | Dewsbury |
Flockton / Grange Moor | Kirkburton (minority) | Dewsbury (plus 30 voters from Huddersfield) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Workers Party | Arshad Ali [6] | ||||
Independent | Ammar Anwar [7] | ||||
Green | Simon Cope [8] | ||||
Labour | Heather Iqbal [9] | ||||
Conservative | Lalit Suryawanshi [10] | ||||
Reform UK | Jonathan Thackray [11] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
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