Beeston and Holbeck (ward)

Summary

Beeston and Holbeck is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the inner city areas and urban suburbs of Beeston, Cottingley and Holbeck to the south of the city centre.

Beeston and Holbeck
Beeston and Holbeck highlighted within Leeds
Population18,712 (2023 electorate)
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
UK Parliament
Councillors
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire

Councillors edit

Election Councillor Councillor Councillor
2004 Angela Gabriel (Lab)[a][4] Adam Ogilvie (Lab)[b][5] David Congreve (Lab)[c][6]
2006 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2007 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2008 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2010 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2011 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2012 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2014 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2015 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2016 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Adam Ogilvie (Lab) David Congreve (Lab)
2018 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Gohar Almass (Lab) Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2019 Angela Gabriel (Lab) Gohar Almass (Lab) Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2021 Angela Gabriel (Lab)[d] Gohar Almass (Lab) Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2022 Annie Maloney (Lab) Gohar Almass (Lab) Andrew Scopes (Lab)
2023 Annie Maloney* (Lab) Gohar Almass* (Lab) Andrew Scopes* (Lab)

  indicates seat up for re-election. * indicates incumbent councillor.

Elections since 2010 edit

May 2023 edit

2023[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andrew Scopes* 2,494 62.9 +15.7
Green Mariana Polucciu 662 16.7 -5.5
Conservative Muhammad Azeem 450 11.3 -5.6
Liberal Democrats Peter Andrews 209 5.3 +1.2
SDP Nigel Perry 107 2.7 -3.0
TUSC Katherine Gwyther 44 1.1 N/A
Majority 1,832 46.2 +21.1
Turnout 3,996 21.4 -2.6
Labour hold Swing

May 2022 edit

2022[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Annie Maloney 2,070 47.2 -5.6
Green Mariana Polucciu 971 22.2 +8.0
Conservative Natalia Armitage 740 16.9 -2.0
SDP Nigel Perry 250 5.7 N/A
Liberal Democrats Peter Andrews 179 4.1 +1.9
NIP Emily Reaney 147 3.4 N/A
Majority 1,099 25.1 -8.8
Turnout 4,382 24.0 -5.4
Labour hold Swing

May 2021 edit

2021[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gohar Almass* 2,777 52.8 +5.3
Conservative Andrew Martin 996 18.9 +11.3
Green Becky Kellett 748 14.2 +7.1
Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents Francesca Robinson 468 8.8 -16.4
Liberal Democrats Robert Jaques 117 2.2 -2.2
Freedom Alliance. No Lockdowns. No Curfews. Bill Palfreman 82 1.6 N/A
TUSC Jay Slayton-Joslin 34 0.1 N/A
Majority 1,781 33.9 +11.6
Turnout 5,260 29.4 +4.2
Labour hold Swing

May 2019 edit

2019[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andrew Scopes* 2,033 47.5 -5.8
Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents Laura Walton 1,079 25.2 -1.1
UKIP Bill Palfreman 349 8.2 +8.2
Conservative Robert Winfield 326 7.6 -2.6
Green Alaric Hall 302 7.1 +0.1
Liberal Democrats Jarrod Gaines 187 4.4 +0.4
Majority 954 22.3 -4.7
Turnout 4,293 25.2 -3.6
Labour hold Swing -2.4

May 2018 edit

2018[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Angela Gabriel* 2,593 53.3 -8.1
Labour Gohar Almass 2,471
Labour Andrew Scopes 2,257
Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents Bill Birch 1,281 26.3 N/A
Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents Laura Walton 1,269
Save Our Beeston and Holbeck Independents Sean Sturman 1,250
Conservative Robert Winfield 495 10.2 -0.1
Conservative Lyn Buckley 464
Conservative Ian Robertson 395
Green Owen Brear 343 7.0 +1.4
Liberal Democrats Jarrod Gaines 197 4.0 +2.0
Liberal Democrats Robert Durdin 159
Majority 1,312 27.0 -13.3
Turnout 16,927 28.8 +0.5
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016 edit

2016[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Angela Gabriel* 2,547 61.4 +8.3
UKIP Luke Barry Senior 833 20.1 -2.9
Conservative Robert Winfield 429 10.3 -3.9
Green Adam David John Dent 232 5.6 -0.3
Liberal Democrats Kathryn Elizabeth Gagen 84 2.0 -0.4
TUSC Kevin Michael Pattison 26 0.6 -0.9
Majority 1,714 +40.3 +10.2
Turnout 4,151 28.3
Labour hold Swing

May 2015 edit

2015[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Adam Ogilvie* 4,335 53.1 -8.2
UKIP Tony Roberts 1,876 23.0 +13.9
Conservative Robert Winfield 1,158 14.2 -3.6
Green Emma Jaynes 480 5.9 -0.7
Liberal Democrats Kathryn Gagen 200 2.4 -2.8
TUSC Amy Cousens 119 1.5 +1.5
Majority 2,459 30.1 -13.4
Turnout 8,168 53.7
Labour hold Swing -11.1

May 2014 edit

2014[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Congreve* 2,063 48.4
UKIP Tony Roberts 1,288 30.2
Conservative Robert Winfield 499 11.7
Green David Smith 284 6.7
Liberal Democrats Victoria Bishop-Rowe 130 3.0
Majority 775
Turnout 4,264 28.72
Labour hold Swing

May 2012 edit

2012[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Angela Gabriel* 2,389 62.1 +0.8
Conservative Robert Winfield 443 11.5 -6.3
UKIP Wilfred Woodhouse 349 9.1 +0.0
English Democrat Ian Gibson 298 7.7 +7.7
Green David Smith 256 6.7 +0.1
Liberal Democrats Rory Laing 113 2.9 -2.3
Majority 1,946 50.6 +7.1
Turnout 3,848
Labour hold Swing +3.5

May 2011 edit

2011[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Adam Ogilvie* 2,880 61.3 +13.9
Conservative Robert Winfield 838 17.8 -1.8
UKIP Wilfred Woodhouse 425 9.1 +4.8
Green David Smith 308 6.6 +4.2
Liberal Democrats Paul Swain 245 5.2 -10.2
Majority 2,042 43.5 +15.8
Turnout 4,696 31
Labour hold Swing +7.8

May 2010 edit

2010[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Congreve* 3,934 47.4 +5.7
Conservative Robert Winfield 1,632 19.7 -3.0
Liberal Democrats Alex Tyson 1,283 15.5 +5.0
BNP Dean Taylor 902 10.9 -4.2
UKIP Wilfred Woodhouse 355 4.3 -0.4
Green Colin Johnston 192 2.3 -3.1
Majority 2,302 27.7 +8.7
Turnout 8,298 57.0 +28.5
Labour hold Swing +4.3

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Gabriel had been a Beeston ward councillor since the by-election held in November 1996 to replace Jon Trickett following his election as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth.
  2. ^ Ogilvie had served as a Beeston ward councillor since 1999.
  3. ^ Congreve had been a Beeston ward councillor since 1990.
  4. ^ In December 2021, Gabriel was deselected by her local Constituency Labour Party and not allowed to stand as the Labour candidate for the next council election. Annie Maloney was chosen as the party's candidate instead and elected in May 2022.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Councillor Gohar Almass". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Councillor Annie Maloney". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Councillor Andrew Scopes". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Councillor Angela Gabriel". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Councillor Adam Ogilvie". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Councillor David Congreve". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  7. ^ Morton, Jeremy (14 December 2021). "Councillor Angela Gabriel in deselection shock". southleedslife.com. South Leeds Life.
  8. ^ Morton, Jeremy (5 May 2023). "Labour lose another South Leeds seat as SDP win in Middleton Park". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  9. ^ Morton, Jeremy (6 May 2022). "Changing of the guard in local elections". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  10. ^ Jeremy Morton, 'No change as Labour hold three South Leeds wards', South Leeds Life (8 May 2021).
  11. ^ "Election results – local – Data Mill North". Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Beeston & Holbeck Ward - South Leeds Life : South Leeds Life". 4 June 2018. Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  13. ^ Morton, Jeremy (6 May 2016). "2016 Council election results". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  14. ^ leeds11 (8 May 2015). "2015 South Leeds Council election results". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ leeds11 (23 May 2014). "Elections 2014: local election results for South Leeds". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ leeds11 (4 May 2012). "Council Election: Labour hold three South Leeds wards - Updated with mayor result". South Leeds Life. Retrieved 8 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Election results – local – Data Mill North". Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  18. ^ "Election results – local – Data Mill North". Retrieved 8 May 2023.