County West Yorkshire Created 1955 Created from Leeds Number of members 1 | Electorate 64,742 (December 2010) Type of constituency Borough constituency Member of parliament Richard Burgon | |
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Created from Leeds South East and Leeds North East Replaced by Leeds, Leeds South East, Leeds North East | ||
Leeds East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Richard Burgon of the Labour Party.
Contents
The most notable of past MPs was Denis Healey who represented the constituency from 1955 to 1992. Healey was a very senior Labour politician, and was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Leeds ward of East, and parts of the wards of Central, North, and North East.
1955-1974: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Burmantofts, Crossgates, Halton, Harehills, and Osmondthorpe.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Leeds wards of Gipton, Halton, Osmondthorpe, Seacroft, and Whinmoor.
1983-2010: The City of Leeds wards of Burmantofts, Halton, Harehills, and Seacroft.
2010–present: The City of Leeds wards of Crossgates and Whinmoor, Gipton and Harehills, Killingbeck and Seacroft, and Temple Newsam.
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.
The constituency was abolished in 1918. After the 1918 general election, Leeds was represented by Leeds Central, Leeds North, Leeds North-East (created 1918), Leeds South, Leeds South-East (created 1918), and Leeds West.
The constituency was recreated in 1955. After the 1955 general election Leeds was represented by Leeds East (created 1885, abolished 1918, recreated 1955), Leeds North East, Leeds North West (created 1950), Leeds South and Leeds South East. There were also constituencies of Batley and Morley (created 1918) and Pudsey and Otley (created 1918, replacing Pudsey).
Labour's Denis Healey held the seat for 37 years (1955–1992) and was Chancellor of the Exchequer during part of this time.