BBC Profile:
Bradford East is mainly made up of wards from the old Bradford North seat, with part-wards coming from the other Bradford constituencies as well as Shipley.
To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional or estimated result below.

The old Bradford North constituency was held by Sir William Taylor for the Conservatives from 1950 until 1964 when Ben Ford won for Labour and represented the seat for nearly 20 years. In the early 1980s Ford was de-selected in favour of Pat Wall. In 1983 Ford stood as an independent, splitting the vote, which allowed the Conservative Geoffrey Lawler to win.

In 1987 Wall narrowly won the seat back for Labour, but he died in 1990 after a long illness. At the by-election Terry Rooney won with a majority of more than 9,500 to become Britain's first Mormon MP.

He held the seat in 1992 and increased his majority to nearly 13,000 in 1997. In 2001 there was a small swing against him, but the Conservatives continued to decline and the Liberal Democrats were the main beneficiaries. In 2005 Labour's lead was slashed with a 9.8% swing to the Liberal Democrats who had regained second place here.

This newly recreated seat reshapes much of the old Bradford North constituency, snaking down the east of the city along the border with Pudsey. A large percentage of the population come from ethnic minorities, mostly Asian. The constituency includes the wards of Bolton and Under

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BBC Profile:
Bradford East is mainly made up of wards from the old Bradford North seat, with part-wards coming from the other Bradford constituencies as well as Shipley.
To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional or estimated result below.

The old Bradford North constituency was held by Sir William Taylor for the Conservatives from 1950 until 1964 when Ben Ford won for Labour and represented the seat for nearly 20 years. In the early 1980s Ford was de-selected in favour of Pat Wall. In 1983 Ford stood as an independent, splitting the vote, which allowed the Conservative Geoffrey Lawler to win.

In 1987 Wall narrowly won the seat back for Labour, but he died in 1990 after a long illness. At the by-election Terry Rooney won with a majority of more than 9,500 to become Britain's first Mormon MP.

He held the seat in 1992 and increased his majority to nearly 13,000 in 1997. In 2001 there was a small swing against him, but the Conservatives continued to decline and the Liberal Democrats were the main beneficiaries. In 2005 Labour's lead was slashed with a 9.8% swing to the Liberal Democrats who had regained second place here.

This newly recreated seat reshapes much of the old Bradford North constituency, snaking down the east of the city along the border with Pudsey. A large percentage of the population come from ethnic minorities, mostly Asian. The constituency includes the wards of Bolton and Undercliffe, Bowling and Barkerend, Bradford Moor, Eccleshill, Idle and Thackley, and Little Horton.

The new constituency consists of mixed housing and a relatively high level of owner-occupancy, from the slightly more middle-class neighbourhoods in the north to the typical Victorian terraced streets and council estates nearer the city centre.

As the centre of the Yorkshire woollen industry, Bradford once processed two-thirds of the nation's wool and the main industries are still textiles and engineering, mostly by small firms. But both industries have been hit hard in recent times and unemployment in the area is above the national average.

Bradford East covers the wards east of the city centre, including Bowling and Bradford Moor - where there is a non-white majority, with Sikhs, Hindus and Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims in roughly equal numbers.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
Lab 16,172 (44.06%)
LD 10,945 (29.82%)
C 6,392 (17.41%)
Others 2,535 (6.91%)
Green 661 (1.80%)

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