Pontefract_and_Castleford

Pontefract and Castleford
Pontefract and Castleford
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Pontefract and Castleford in West Yorkshire for the 2005 general election
	Location of West Yorkshire within England
County	West Yorkshire
1974–2010
Seats	One
Created from	Pontefract
Replaced by	Normanton, Pontefract & Castleford

Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1974–2010

Quick Facts County, 1974 (1974)–2010 ...

Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 2010 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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	Member^[1]	Party
Feb 1974	Joe Harper	Labour
1978 by-election	Sir Geoffrey Lofthouse	Labour
1997	Yvette Cooper	Labour
2010	Constituency abolished: see Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Yvette Cooper	20,973	63.7	−6.0
	Conservative	Simon Jones	5,727	17.4	−0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Wesley Paxton	3,942	12.0	+4.6
	BNP	Suzy Cass	1,835	5.6	New
	Alliance for Green Socialism	Bob Hague	470	1.4	New
Majority			15,246	46.3	-5.8
Turnout			32,947	53.3	+3.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Yvette Cooper	21,890	69.7	−6.0
	Conservative	Pamela Singleton	5,512	17.6	+4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Wesley Paxton	2,315	7.4	0.0
	UKIP	John Burdon	739	2.4	New
	Socialist Labour	Trevor Bolderson	605	1.9	New
	Socialist Alliance	John Gill	330	1.1	New
Majority			16,378	52.1	-10.0
Turnout			31,391	49.7	−16.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Yvette Cooper	31,339	75.7	+5.8
	Conservative	Adrian Flook	5,614	13.6	−7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Wesley Paxton	3,042	7.4	−1.8
	Referendum	Richard Wood	1,401	3.4	New
Majority			25,725	62.1	+13.1
Turnout			41,396	66.3	-8.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Geoffrey Lofthouse	33,546	69.9	+3.0
	Conservative	Anthony George Mortimer Rockall	10,051	20.9	-0.3
	Liberal Democrats	David Lawrence Ryan	4,410	9.2	−2.1
Majority			23,495	49.0	+3.3
Turnout			48,007	74.3	+0.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.6

Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)

Pontefract and Castleford
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Pontefract and Castleford in West Yorkshire for the 2005 general election
Location of West Yorkshire within England
County	West Yorkshire
1974 (1974)–2010
Seats	One
Created from	Pontefract
Replaced by	Normanton, Pontefract & Castleford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Geoffrey Lofthouse	31,656	66.9	+9.8
	Conservative	Julian Malins	10,051	21.2	-4.6
	Alliance	Michael Taylor	5,334	11.3	-5.8
	Red Front	Daniel McFarlane-Lees	295	0.6	New
Majority			21,626	45.7	+14.4
Turnout			47,315	73.5	+7.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Geoffrey Lofthouse	24,990	57.1
	Conservative	Barry Howell	11,299	25.8
	Alliance	Douglas Dale	7,452	17.1
Majority			13,691	31.3
Turnout			43,741	67.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Geoffrey Lofthouse	30,566	68.1	-2.3
	Conservative	Hugo Page	10,665	23.8	+7.6
	Liberal	Leslie Marsh	3,616	8.0	-4.3
Majority			19,901	44.3	-9.9
Turnout			44,837	73.9	+2.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Geoffrey Lofthouse	19,508	65.8	-4.6
	Conservative	Hugo Page	8,080	27.3	+11.1
	Liberal	Leslie Marsh	2,054	6.9	-5.4
Majority			11,428	38.5	-15.7
Turnout			29,642
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Harper	30,208	70.4	-4.4
	Conservative	I. Bloomer	6,966	16.2	-6.9
	Liberal	S. Galloway	5,259	12.3	New
	Workers Revolutionary	T. Parsons	457	1.1	-1.1
Majority			23,242	54.2	+2.4
Turnout			42,890	71.1	-6.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joseph Harper	34,409	74.8
	Conservative	Richard Needham	10,605	23.1
	Workers Revolutionary	B. Lavery	991	2.2
Majority			23,804	51.8
Turnout			46,005	77.1
	Labour win (new seat)