Browse around the widget or type in a postcode for area-specific stats on how many votes each candidate received. In Wakefield, teams are preparing to accelerate our inoculation strategy with the opening of the large-scale #vaccination centre at Spectrum Community Health CIC, Navigation Walk on Monday 25th January. Our. ", James Vincent, BBC Yorkshire Political Editor. Updated Friday, 13th December 2019, 3:45 pm. VideoThe scars left by a school bombing, 'Women need to hear ‘you are not alone’' Video'Women need to hear ‘you are not alone’', How 'Auntie Deb' made Native American history, My vaccine side effects and what they mean. NHS warns of 'significant reduction' in vaccines, EU plans rollout of Covid travel form by summer, The scars left by a school bombing. Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play. Wakefield Council Wakefield One PO Box 700 Wakefield WF1 2EB. In some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Ian White reports from Wakefield on General Election result 2019 The video will auto-play soon … The ballot boxes and tables have been put away at the Leeds Arena ready for tonight's gig, a nostalgia night called We Love the Nineties. Your number won't be shared with anyone else in the group. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions. Across West Yorkshire, the Conservative Party held five seats while Labour defended 13. He said: "It's not a good night for the Labour Party nationally. She later said she would not serve in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet. Further details Published and promoted by Mary Creagh, 20-22 Cheapside, Wakefield, WF1 2TF Now the waiting is over for Horbury and South Ossett, Ossett, Wakefield East, Wakefield North, Wakefield Rural and Wakefield West. Ms Creagh, who had been the MP for Wakefield since 2005, said she feared the impact of a hard Brexit on the city. Click here to join and follow the instructions on your phone. You can unsubscribe at any time. The seat has been held by Imran Ahmad Khan (Conservative) since December 2019. Are the US and China in a new 'Cold War'? As such, we must do all we can to … By Holly Gittins. He appeared on television show University Challenge in 2001 … Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan (born 6 September 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield since 2019. Polls closed across the UK at 10pm on December 12, and a count has been underway ever since. The new Conservative MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, Aaron Bell, is used to the spotlight. Profile. Labour have lost Wakefield after 87 years on what has been described as a "disastrous night" for the party. The December 12 election returned results on a Friday the 13th the party will never forget. 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But not anymore. Friday, 13th December 2019, 2:22 pm. They don’t respect democracy. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Please tell us why this page was or wasn’t useful for you. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Read about our approach to external linking. Plastic Scene Wakefield. People in parts of Rotherham and Doncaster now have a Conservative MP for the first time in their constituency's history. Wakefield has its first Conservative MP since 1931, after a shock general election result. Voters in Wakefield have gone to the ballot box to elect their MP in the General Election 2019. The West Yorkshire seats were always going to be tough. 0345 8 506 506. The seat of Wakefield has a new Member of Parliament. © 2021 BBC. Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election. The scars left by a school bombing. Your contact details will never be published. The polls closed across the UK at 10pm on December 12. Yorkshire Labour supporters might be forgiven for desperately hoping they could go back to victories like 1997. A new Member of Parliament is being elected for the constituency, which includes the areas of Pontefract, Knottingley, Featherstone, Castleford and Normanton. Wakefield has its first Conservative MP since 1931, after a shock general election result. Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan calls for Denby Dale bypass between Wakefield and Kirklees Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan has called for a new road to be built between the city and Kirklees. Three MPs represent the Wakefield Metropolitan District. Wakefield is a constituency in Kirklees, in the Yorkshire and The Humber of England. The following were elected at the general election held on 12 December 2019: Hemsworth constituency. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Jon Trickett MP Tel: 01977 655695 (Office) Web: www.jontrickett.org.uk 10:37, 30 DEC 2019 The inside story of how Labour lost Wakefield for the first time since the 1930s at the 2019 General Election The last time Wakefield elected a Conservative MP, George V was King of England, Hollywood great James Dean was a baby and Manchester United and Leeds had just been relegated from English football’s top division. After Imran Ahmad Khan became MP for Wakefield, he made worldwide headlines for allegedly being the first ‘out gay Muslim MP in the world’. Former Labour MP for Wakefield. As well as try to clean up our city. I now want to get Brexit out of the way. The sitting MP before the election was Labour's Mary Helen Creagh. Saying Labour did badly here doesn't really cut it. "The perception of the party as a whole, the perception of our leadership, all of these things came up and we're going to have to reflect very seriously.". Use the form below to send us your questions and we could be in touch. She said it had been a "disastrous night" for Labour and the party had to listen to the voters. Who has been elected constituency MP and how people voted in Wakefield, Get the latest news from all parts of our city - sign up for our free email newsletter. Wakefield parliamentary constituency - Election 2019 - BBC News. Read about our approach to external linking. Labour's Barry Sheerman retained his Huddersfield seat in what has been his closest election fight for years. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The United Kingdom has now administered over 5 million coronavirus vaccines thanks to a tremendous national effort. Was this page useful? Mr Trickett said: "There are people in our party who are determined to attempt to reverse the decision of the people, that was a mistake and we've been punished for it.". She said: "There's been some very talented and hard working MPs, including Mary Creagh in Wakefield, who we've lost and that is a deep shame. The vaccine is our way out of this pandemic. 74,001 (December 2019) Major settlements: South Wakefield, Hemsworth and Featherstone: Current constituency; Created: 1918: Member of Parliament: Jon Trickett (Labour) Number of members: One: Created from: Barnsley, Normanton and Osgoldcross "We owe it to the British public to do that because without a strong Labour Party, Boris Johnson and his nationalist, populist ideas will do great damage to our country.". Updated Tuesday, 19th February 2019, 9:27 am. He won 21,283 votes and ended Ms Creagh's 14 years as the city's MP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency) Maybe Brexit has contributed to that. The table below shows some political and demographic numerical indicators for the Wakefield constituency, the 'Yorks/Humber' area and nation. Video Loading. Tuesday, 19th February 2019, 8:21 am. These were Labour areas. Ed Balls joins Dani Dyer, Shirley Ballas and Alexander Armstrong to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief 2019 Former Wakefield MP Ed Balls will join a team of celebrities to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in honour of Comic Relief. The political measures include the three axes: Economic (Left/Right), National (Global/National) and Social (Liberal/Conservative). 2019 Gagan Mohindra: Conservative: Roger Godsiff: Birmingham Hall Green: 1992: 2019 Tahir Ali: Labour: Dominic Grieve: Beaconsfield: Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee 1997: 2019 Joy Morrissey: Conservative: Anne Milton: Guildford: Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships (2017-2019) 2005: 2019 Angela Richardson: Conservative: Gavin Shuker: Luton South: 2010: 2019 Four of them went. And it’s not just about Brexit. Before this year's election, the sitting MP was Labour's Mary Creagh. Mr Trickett, who has previously come out in support of a "Labour Brexit", held Hemsworth with a majority of 1,180 - down from 10,174 in 2017. But Parliament has betrayed 17.4 million of us. However a fourth constituency includes parts of the district and details of that MP are also shown below. Despite the wind and the rain, voters throughout Wakefield have made their voices heard at the polls to elect their MP in the 2019 General Election. Paula Sherriff, who pleaded with Boris Johnson to refrain from using "dangerous" words like "surrender" during a heated debate in the Commons in September, lost her seat in Dewsbury. This is a disaster. (what does this mean). Investigators say the suspect admitted to the attack, but denied that he was motivated by racism. When Imran Ahmad Khan was elected as the Conservative MP for Wakefield he made news worldwide for allegedly becoming the first openly gay Muslim to be elected in the UK. "We've lost a lot of votes, we've lost a lot locally, we've lost a lot nationally and the reason that matters so much is because I think there are people who really need a strong Labour Party and a Labour government and they've been let down. Wakefield : Political and Demographic indicators. Mary Creagh lost the traditionally 'safe' seat to Tory Imran Nasir Ahmad-Khan in a disastrous night for the Labour Party. If you want to find out the results for other constituencies as they are announced elsewhere in Yorkshire and the rest of the UK, use the interactive map below. customerservices@wakefield.gov.uk. But further south three more communities kicked Labour out. Mary Creagh was the Labour MP for Wakefield from 2005 until 2019. Ms Creagh was involved in the 2015 Labour leadership race but pulled out. If you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic. Catch up on the election results across England, General election 2019 in Yorkshire: As it happened, Police identify victims of Atlanta spa shootings. Wakefield had been under Labour control since 1932 but Tory Imran Ahmad-Khan defeated Mary Creagh by 3,358 votes. The Conservatives also took Dewsbury, Keighley and Colne Valley but long-standing Labour MPs Yvette Cooper and Jon Trickett held their seats. Polls closed across the UK at 10pm on December 12, and a count has been underway ever since. Something went wrong, please try again later. Mr Ahmad-Khan said: "The first thing we must do is to keep faith in the people of Wakefield and...get Brexit done.". Contact information for Imran Ahmad Khan - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament Imran Ahmad Khan MP Imran Ahmad Khan is the Conservative MP for Wakefield, and has been an MP continuously since 12 … EU plans rollout of Covid travel form by summer1, Police identify victims of Atlanta spa shootings2, NHS warns of 'significant reduction' in vaccines3, Demi Lovato says she was raped as a teenager4, Airline removes boy with autism over mask policy5, Brazil health service in its 'worst crisis ever'6, 'Grave concerns' over drugs at summer festivals7, Former racing driver and Top Gear presenter Schmitz dies aged 518, Teen 'mastermind' pleads guilty to Twitter hack9, Countries around world celebrate St Patrick's Day10. She was seen leaving the declaration in tears after the seat was taken by Conservative candidate Mark Eastwood. Posted at 10:51 13 Dec 2019 10:51 13 Dec 2019 'I won't let you down' - Rotherham Labour MP Labour's Sarah Champion has thanked the people of Rotherham for re-electing her. 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Mr Eastwood paid tribute to Ms Sherriff for being a hard-working MP for the town and said there had never been a bad word between them, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. In 2019 a court heard how Renshaw, 23, from Skelmersdale, had wanted to 'replicate' the murder of Jo Cox by killing Labour MP Rosie Cooper. She lost her seat to Tory candidate Imran Ahmad-Khan at the 2019 general election. Left the House of Commons on 6 November 2019 — Dissolved for election. Don Valley surrounds the town where railway workers created the Labour movement. This Brexit election turned things around. Mary Helen Creagh FCIL (born 2 December 1967) is a British politician who served as chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee from 2016 to 2019. If you cannot see the graphic above, click here. By Holly Gittins. The view here on the Labour leadership also made the party feel less connected to its roots. Print page. Now the waiting is over for Horbury and South Ossett, Ossett, Wakefield East, Wakefield North, Wakefield Rural and Wakefield West. The new MP is Conservative Imran Ahmad-Khan, The Brexit Party: Peter Wiltshire - 2,725. He said: "There has been quite a lot of unpleasantness in politics. Not accurate Hard to understand Didn't answer my query. I was born, live and work in Wakefield. The seat of Wakefield has a new Member of Parliament. Like 62.8% of the residents of Wakefield, Horbury, Ossett & Rural Villages, I voted to leave the EU in 2016. By 2016 National Action had been banned after it glorified terrorism and celebrated the horrific murder of Yorkshire MP Jo Cox by a white supremacist terrorist. He said he had warned Labour about Brexit but the party had "failed to understand" the result of the 2016 EU Referendum. 291 likes. LeedsLive has launched a WhatsApp group to keep you up to date with the latest news! Adoption threat for Poland's LGBT parents, China's online 'skinny fad' sparks body image concern, Divers risk danger to feed hunger for sea cucumbers. explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Voters in Wakefield have gone to the ballot box to elect their MP in the General Election 2019. Rother Valley is made of former mining villages - it had been Labour since 1918. A Conservative election candidate has stepped down over historic social media posts about a Labour MP and Colonel Gaddafi. "I would like to see politics be a bit nicer in the future. This group hopes to highten awareness and help avoid plastics getting into our streams, rivers and sea. Yes No . Before this year's election, the sitting MP was Labour's Mary Creagh. For decades mainstream parties have failed our constituency. "Now we have got to go away, lick our wounds, find out what went wrong and in a sensible and comradely way put things right. What happens to your body in extreme heat? Ms Creagh, who had been the MP for Wakefield since 2005, said she feared the impact of a hard Brexit on the city.