General Election July 2024
Labour Win Calder Valley Josh Fenton-Glynn has won our Calder Valley parliamentary at his 4th attempt, having previously campaigned in 2015, 2017 and 2019, with a thumping 9000 majority. 5 July, 5.15am
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab) 22046 elected
Vanessa Lee (Cons)13055
Donald Walmsley (Reform) 7644
Kieran Turner (Green) 3701
Donal O'Hanlon (Lib Dem) 2587
James Vasey (Yorks Party) 404
Jim McNeill (SDP) 171
SEVEN CANDIDATES for the Calder Valley constituency - Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab), Vanessa Lee (Con), Jim McNeill (SDP), Donal O'Hanlon (LD), Kieran Turner (Gn), James Vasey, (YP) and Donald Walmsley (RP)
KEY MARGINAL: The Calder Valley constituency was Labour from 1997 until 2010 with Christine McCafferty as MP, and then Conservative from 2010 until 2024 with Craig Whittaker.
Five of the seven candidates have addresses in Calderdale, the Yorkshire Party candidate lives in Bradford and the Reform Party candidate lives in Bexhill, Sussex.
General Election - proxy vote. New applications to vote by proxy at this election had to reach the Electoral Registration Officer at the council by 5pm on Wednesday 26 June 2024. More info 20 June
Climate Hustings: took place ons on Thursday, 27 June. Candidates were asked questions about how they intend to respond at this critical moment for all humankind. See HebWeb What's On for more info
With the call for a 4 July General Election, the HebWeb has revived its General Election site here at www.caldervalley.org.uk.
If you have information for this page, please email the HebWeb
General Election Education Question Time took place on Weds 19 June, at Calder Learning Trust in Mytholmroyd. Called by Calderdale Against School Cuts. More info
General Election, Dec 2019 result:
Craig Whittaker (Cons) 29981 - elected
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab) 24207
Javed Bashir (LD) 2884
Richard Phillips (Lib) 721
Tories increase majority by 5000.
MP for the Calder Valley since 2010, Craig Whittaker is not standing in 2024. Nor is Holly Lynch in Halifax
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Kate Alexandra Dearden (Lab) has been elected MP for the Halifax constituency.
General Election Turnout in the Calder Valley constituency was 64.37% compared with 72.9% in 2019. 5 July, 4am
The HebWeb has information on each of the seven general election candidates for the Calder Valley Constituency - read about the candidates
The Irish Times visits Hebden Bridge: Reporter Mark Paul, in town to write a feature about the election, hears busker James Bragg singing The Foggy Dew, an Irish rebel song. The singer tells him he'll be voting Green. "Labour under Keir Starmer was too neo-liberal for him and not focused enough on left-wing issues." Read Irish Times article 26 June
DISCUSSION
General Election - Child Poverty - "A question for Josh Fenton-Glynn, our Calder Valley Labour parliamentary candidate"
- Allen Keep
Thursday 20 June 2024 - June Eaton
Tuesday 18 June 2024 - Alan Truman
Tuesday 18 June 2024 - June Eaton
Tuesday 18 June 2024
Labour's Cruelty:
Allen Keep 9 June 2024
Simon David Stewart. 5 June
Voting Registration closed for the general election. Deadline: Midnight Tuesday 18 June
See the HebWeb's December 2019 General Election site for the Calder Valley
Labour under fire as councillors blocked from Calder Valley election. See Yorkshire Live report from Nov 2023
Watch this space as we develop this election website to provide details of candidates, links and news related to the 2024 General as it affects the Calder Valley constituency.
Discussion: use our HebWeb Forum.
Previous general elections on the HebWeb
For much of the 1980s and 1990s, Donald Thompson held Calder Valley for the Tories.
Labour's Christine McCafferty took the seat in 1997 and held it until 2010 when she retired.
Craig Whittaker won for the Tories in 2010 and won again in 2015 and 2017.
2005 General Election - see who was the Conservative candidate!
1997 General Election - hardly anyone was at this time using the Internet for political coverage and discussion. The HebWeb was among the first websites to do this. We wrote: "The Hebden Bridge Web invites you to join its experiment in online democracy."