Bramley and Stanningley (ward)

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Bramley and Stanningley
Bramley and Stanningley highlighted within Leeds
Population17,176 (2023 electorate)
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
UK Parliament
Councillors
  • Caroline Gruen[1] (Labour)
  • Tom Hinchcliffe (Labour)
  • Kevin Ritchie[2] (Labour)
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire

Bramley and Stanningley is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in west Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the former industrial area of Bramley and district of Stanningley.

Councillors since 1980[edit]

Election Councillor Councillor Councillor
Bramley (until 2004)
1980 Eric Atkinson (Lab)[a] Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)[b][4]
1982 Eric Atkinson (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1983 Eric Atkinson (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1984 Andrew Siantonas (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1986 Andrew Siantonas (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1987 Andrew Siantonas (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1988 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1990 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1991 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Arthur Miller (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1992 by-election Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Stephen Pollard (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1992 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Stephen Pollard (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1994 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Stephen Pollard (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1995 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Angus Ross (Lab)[c] Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1996 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Angus Ross (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1998 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Angus Ross (Lab) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1998 by-election Cherrill Cliff (Lab) David Revett (LD) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
1999 Cherrill Cliff (Lab) Ian Howell (LD) Denise Atkinson (Lab)
2000 Linda Sullivan (LD) Ian Howell (LD) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)[d]
2002 Linda Sullivan (LD) Ian Howell (LD) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
2003 Linda Sullivan (LD) Ted Hanley (Lab)[6][7] Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
Bramley and Stanningley (2004 to present)
2004 Neil Taggart (Lab)[e][8] Ted Hanley (Lab)[f][9][10] Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
2006 Neil Taggart (Lab) Ted Hanley (Lab) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
2007 Neil Taggart (Lab) Ted Hanley (Lab) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
2008 Neil Taggart (Lab) Ted Hanley (Lab) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
2010 Neil Taggart (Lab) Ted Hanley (Lab) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)
2011 Neil Taggart (Lab) Ted Hanley (Lab) Denise Atkinson MBE (Lab)[g]
2012 Neil Taggart (Lab)[h] Ted Hanley (Lab) Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2014 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Ted Hanley (Lab) Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2015 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Julie Heselwood (Lab)[14] Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2016 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Julie Heselwood (Lab) Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2018 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Julie Heselwood (Lab) Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2019 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Julie Heselwood (Lab) Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2021 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Julie Heselwood (Lab) Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2022 Kevin Ritchie (Lab) Julie Heselwood (Lab)[i] Caroline Gruen (Lab)
2023 Kevin Ritchie* (Lab) Tom Hinchcliffe* (Lab) Caroline Gruen* (Lab)

  indicates seat up for re-election.   indicates seat up for election following resignation or death of sitting councillor. * indicates incumbent councillor.

Elections since 2010[edit]

May 2023[edit]

2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Hinchcliffe 2,662 62.2 -6.0
Conservative Adam Cook 696 16.3 -1.0
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Bee 479 11.2 +4.1
Green Keith Whittaker 384 9.0 +2.9
SDP Richard Riley 62 1.4 +1.3
Majority 1,966 45.9 -5.0
Turnout 4,319 25.1 -2.5
Labour hold Swing

May 2022[edit]

2022
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Kevin Ritchie* 3,230 68.2 +15.3
Conservative Adam Cook 819 17.3 -8.2
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Bee 338 7.1 -3.8
Green Keith Whittaker 290 6.1 -2.7
SDP Daniel Whetstone 36 0.1 -0.7
Majority 2,411 50.9 +23.6
Turnout 4,734 27.6 -2.9
Labour hold Swing

May 2021[edit]

2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Caroline Gruen* 2,779 52.9 +4.3
Conservative Adam Cook 1,342 25.5 +15.1
Liberal Democrats Liz Bee 571 10.9 +1.2
Green Clive Lord 461 8.8 +0.0
SDP Daniel Whetstone 40 0.8 N/A
Majority 1,437 27.3 -6.8
Turnout 5,255 30.5 +6.6
Labour hold Swing

May 2019[edit]

2019
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Julie Heselwood* 1,942 48.6 -6.2
UKIP David Woodhead 581 14.5 +14.5
Conservative Alex Nancolas 417 10.4 -4.2
Liberal Democrats Liz Bee 387 9.7 -0.3
Green Clive Lord 351 8.8 -2.0
For Britain Anne Murgatroyd 218 5.4 -3.8
English Democrat Dean Locke 109 2.7 +2.7
Majority 1,361 34.1 -6.1
Turnout 4,033 23.9 -2.3
Labour hold Swing +10.4

May 2018[edit]

2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Kevin Ritchie* 2,905 54.8 +3.6
Labour Caroline Gruen* 2,560
Labour Julie Heselwood* 2,529
Conservative Ovidiu Caprariu 772 14.6 +4.1
Conservative Alexander Nancolas 710
Conservative Neil Hunt 692
Green Clive Lord 573 10.8 +1.0
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Bee 528 10.0 +6.3
For Britain Anne Murgatroyd 489 9.2 N/A
Majority 2,133 40.2 +13.9
Turnout 16,923 26.2 -3.0
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016[edit]

2016
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Caroline Gruen* 2,370 51.2 +5.4
UKIP Anne Murgatroyd 1,152 24.9 +2.3
Conservative Alex Nancolas 484 10.5 +7.8
Green Kate Bisson 453 9.8 -1.3
Liberal Democrats Serena Samantha Glover 171 3.7 +0.5
Majority 1,218 26.3 +3.1
Turnout 4,630 29.2
Labour hold Swing

May 2015[edit]

2015
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Julie Heselwood 4,267 45.8 -15.0
UKIP Anne Murgatroyd 2,103 22.6 +22.6
Conservative Alexander Nancolas 1,708 18.3 -1.9
Green Kate Bisson 791 8.5 -1.5
Liberal Democrats Serena Glover 389 4.2 -4.8
TUSC Kevin Pattison 60 0.6 +0.6
Majority 2,164 23.2 -17.3
Turnout 9,318 57.3
Labour hold Swing -18.8

May 2014[edit]

2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Kevin Ritchie 2,092 43.9
UKIP Anne Murgatroyd 1,600 33.6
Conservative Alexander Nancolas 454 9.5
Green Kate Bisson 358 7.5
Liberal Democrats Serena Glover 219 4.6
TUSC Kevin Pattison 44 0.9
Majority 492
Turnout 4,767 29.98
Labour hold Swing

May 2012[edit]

2012
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Caroline Gruen 2,343 55.1 -5.7
UKIP Anne Murgatroyd 655 15.4 +15.4
Conservative Mohammed Rahman 323 7.6 -12.7
Liberal Democrats Nathan Fossey 323 7.6 -1.4
English Democrat Dean Loke 307 7.2 +7.2
Green Kate Bisson 304 7.1 -2.9
Majority 1,688 39.7 -0.8
Turnout 4,255
Labour hold Swing -10.5

May 2011[edit]

2011
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ted Hanley* 3,121 60.8 +19.7
Conservative Alistair McDowall 1,040 20.2 +1.1
Green Kate Bisson 514 10.0 +6.8
Liberal Democrats Nathan Fossey 462 9.0 -14.9
Majority 2,081 40.5 +23.4
Turnout 5,137 31
Labour hold Swing +9.3

May 2010[edit]

2010
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Neil Taggart* 3,846 41.0 -1.2
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Bee 2,242 23.9 +12.6
Conservative Philip Smith 1,790 19.1 -3.3
BNP Sharon Knight 812 8.7 -4.5
UKIP Jeff Miles 379 4.0 +4.0
Green Kate Bisson 302 3.2 -2.0
Majority 1,604 17.1 -2.8
Turnout 9,371 56.8 +27.9
Labour hold Swing -6.9

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Eric Atkinson was first elected to represent the ward in 1946.
  2. ^ Denise Atkinson was first elected to represent the ward in 1971.[3]
  3. ^ Ross had previously served as a councillor for Pudsey North ward from 1990 to 1994.
  4. ^ Atkinson was awarded an MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours.[5]
  5. ^ Taggart had previously been a Chapel Allerton ward councillor since 1980 until his election for Bramley and Stanningley ward in 2004.
  6. ^ Hanley had served as a Bramley ward councillor since 2003.
  7. ^ Atkinson retired from the council at the 2012 election.[11]
  8. ^ In October 2013, the Labour Party announced Taggart had not been re-selected as the party candidate for the 2014 council election. In July 2017, Taggart was convicted of offences relating to indecent images of children. A June 2017 report by The Yorkshire Post stated, "Labour did not comment why it chose to deselect the long-serving councillor but, it was reported at the time, it came after "a difficult time in his personal life." It was reported that he had been absent from many council meetings since the previous summer and had been fighting cancer."[12][13]
  9. ^ Heselwood did not run for re-election in Bramley and Stanningley ward. She successfully stood in Weetwood instead.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Councillor Caroline Gruen". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Councillor Kevin Ritchie". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  3. ^ Baron, John (7 April 2016). "Denise Atkinson: Tributes paid to former Bramley councillor". West Leeds Dispatch. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Councillor Denise Atkinson". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  5. ^ "New Years Honours: MBE civil (A - C)". BBC News. 31 December 1999. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Meeting attendance of Councillor Ted Hanley". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Tributes to former Leeds councillor who died aged 71". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Councillor Neil Taggart". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Meeting attendance of Councillor Ted Hanley". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Tributes to former Leeds councillor who died aged 71". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  11. ^ "Leeds: Bramley councillor steps down after 40 years". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Former Lord Mayor of Leeds distributed indecent images of children". The Yorkshire Post. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Ex-Lord Mayor Neil Taggart jailed over indecent child images". BBC News. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  14. ^ "Councillor Julie Heselwood". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
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