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The constituency was established in 2010.

It is a rural area with farming its principal occupation but over the centuries mining, wool textiles and the leather industry have featured. Garforth, Rothwell and Kippax are dormitory suburbs for Leeds commuters, the Harewood estate boasts Harewood House whilst Wetherby has been a market town since 1240. The population is mainly made up of white owner-occupiers with only 10 per cent requiring social housing. Some 40 per cent of the population are employed professionally, managerially or in technical occupations, about 25 per cent are in retail and manufacturing, whilst 28 per cent hold a university degree or higher qualification. The constituency is named after the pre-Anglian British kingdom of Elmet and Rothwell, originally the Danish town of Rodewell.

 

 

BOUNDARIES

2010– : The constituency was created from Garforth and Swillington Ward, Harewood Ward, Kippax and Methley Ward, Rothwell Ward, and Wetherby Ward.

 

TURNOUT

For elections after 1929 when universal suffrage had been granted

	Electorate	Turnout	Turnout
2010	77,724	55,789	71.78%
2015	79,143	57,797	73.03%
2017	80,291	59,542	74.16%
2019	80,957	58,225	71.92%

 

HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES RECORDED BY A WINNING CANDIDATE
2019 A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 33,726

LOWEST NUMBER OF VOTES RECORDED BY A WINNING CANDIDATE
2010 A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 23,778

HIGHEST MAJORITY RECORDED BY A WINNING CANDIDATE
2019 A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 17,353

LOWEST MAJORITY RECORDED BY A WINNING CANDIDATE
2010 A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 4,521

 

RESULTS

 

Boundary Commission 2010

2010 - 6th May

Elmet & Rothwell
A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 23,778
J. Lewis (Labour) 19,257
S. Golton (Liberal Democrat) 9,109
S. M. Clayton (British National) 1,802
D. P. Oddy (United Kingdom Independence) 1,593
C. Nolan (Independent) 250

2015 - 7th May

Elmet & Rothwell
A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 27,978
V. King (Labour) 19,488
P. Spivey (United Kingdom Independence) 6,430
S. Golton (Liberal Democrat) 2,640
D. Brooks (Green) 1,261

 

2017 - 8th June

Elmet & Rothwell
A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 32,352
D. P. Nagle (Labour) 22,547
S. Golton (Liberal Democrat) 2,606
M. Clover (Yorkshire) 1,042
D. Brown (Green) 995

 

2019 - 12th December

Elmet & Rothwell
A. Shelbrooke (Conservative) 33,726
D. P. Nagle (Labour) 16,373
S. Golton (Liberal Democrat) 5,155
P. Stables (Green) 1,775
M. Clover (Yorkshire) 1,196