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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Yorkshire and the Humber
73,968 electors
Active Seat

Wakefield and Rothwell

Current MP
Simon Lightwood
Simon Lightwood

🗳️ Election History

1
Elections
54.2%
Avg Turnout
0
Times Changed
2024
Current Party Since
Labour Simon Lightwood Hold
Majority 9,346
Turnout 54.2%
Total Votes 40,656
✓ Simon Lightwood
Labour
17,773 43.7%
↑4.2pp
David Dews
Reform UK
8,427 20.7%
↑17.5pp
Arnold Cravan
Conservative
7,322 18.0%
↓26.9pp
Stewart Golton
Liberal Democrats
3,249 8.0%
↓2.9pp
Ash Routh
Green Party
2,389 5.9%
↑4.9pp
Keith Mason
Workers Party of Britain
705 1.7%
—
Brent Hawksley
—
606 1.5%
—
Nicholas Sanders
Social Democratic Party
185 0.5%
—

👥 Demographics

▲▼ changes shown vs 2021 Census
📊 Age
0 to 17
21.6%
35 to 49
20.9%
50 to 64
19.3%
65 and over
17.4% ▲0.0pp
25 to 34
14.1%
18 to 24
6.8%
🌍 Ethnicity
White
86.4%
Asian or Asian British
7.9%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
2.3%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
2.0%
Other
1.5%
📊 Age
Under 18
21.6%
30 to 44
20.9%
18 to 29
20.9%
45 to 64
19.3%
65 and over
17.4%
⛪ Religion
Christian
45.8%
No religion
39.2%
Muslim
7.7%
Not answered
5.6%
Hindu
0.7%
Other religion
0.4%
Buddhist
0.3%
Sikh
0.2%
Jewish
0.1%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency
📚
No previous MPs found
No historic membership records available for this constituency