Dewsbury and Batley
Yorkshire and The Humber · Borough constituency · Kirklees
About the Dewsbury and Batley constituency
Dewsbury and Batley is a borough constituency in Yorkshire and The Humber. The sitting MP is Iqbal Mohamed (Independent), MP since July 2024. At the 2024 general election, Iqbal Mohamed (Independent) won with 41.1% to 22.9% for Labour, a majority of 6,934 votes on a 53.1% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has other parties on 29.2% and Reform UK on 23.4%, a margin of 5.8 points.
Who lives in Dewsbury and Batley? Constituency demographics
From the 2021 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did Dewsbury and Batley vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?
2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.
2024 general election
Current projection
Map of Dewsbury and Batley
Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from the 2021 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›
Dewsbury and Batley within Kirklees
Dewsbury and Batley sits entirely within Kirklees Council. The figures below are from the council elections held on 7 May 2026. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat | 2026 election |
|---|---|---|
| Kirklees | 100% | 2026 result › |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council winner per ward - May 2026 results where the council voted, otherwise the most recent result with vote counts available. How this table is sourced ›
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council winner | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batley East | Others 44.0%vs Labour 22.6% | May 2026 Others 47.7%vs Reform 16.7% | Others→Others +45.8pp | 38.4% |
| Batley West | Others 39.1%vs Labour 23.6% | May 2026 Others 34.4%vs Reform 24.0% | Others→Others +36.8pp | 37.5% |
| Dewsbury East | Others 33.6%vs Labour 23.9% | May 2026 Reform 39.8%vs Lib Dem 19.1% | Others→Reform +26.3pp | 36.4% |
| Dewsbury South | Others 41.3%vs Labour 23.4% | May 2026 Others 40.9%vs Reform 24.1% | Others→Others +41.1pp | 42.0% |
| Dewsbury West | Others 43.6%vs Labour 23.3% | May 2026 Others 38.4%vs Labour 29.1% | Others→Others +41.0pp | 45.5% |
| Kirkburton | Conservative 30.2%vs Labour 25.9% | May 2026 Conservative 38.5%vs Reform 30.4% | Conservative share +8.3pp | 48.9% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for Dewsbury and Batley at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won Dewsbury and Batley at past elections?
2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010predecessor | Con gain from Lab | Simon Reevell Dewsbury MP | 32.2% | 35.0% | 16.9% | 1,526 | 68.4% |
| 2015predecessor | Lab gain from Con | Paula Sherriff Dewsbury MP | 41.8% | 39.1% | 3.6% | 1,451 | 67.2%-1.2 |
| 2016by-election | Lab hold | Tracy Brabin Batley and Spen MP | 85.8% | - | - | 16,537 | 25.6% |
| 2017predecessor | Lab hold | Paula Sherriff Dewsbury MP | 51.0% | 45.1% | 2.1% | 3,321 | 69.5%+2.3 |
| 2019notional | Labour winner | Tracy Brabin Batley and Spen MP, pre-review boundary | 59.1% | 28.7% | 2.5% | 14,009 | 65.6% |
| 2021by-election | Lab hold | Kim Leadbeater Batley and Spen MP | 35.3% | 34.4% | 3.3% | 323 | 47.5% |
| 2024 | Ind gain from Lab | Iqbal Mohamed | 22.9% | 11.0% | 3.5% | 6,934 | 53.1%-12.5 |
Dewsbury and Batley was created or substantially redrawn by the 2023 boundary review. Pre-2024 rows below are for the predecessor seat Dewsbury (the seat that covered most of this area), so vote shares and majorities aren’t directly comparable to the post-2024 figures. By-election rows for Batley and Spen are for a former seat that covered part of this area. By-elections are on the boundaries in force at the time and usually have much lower turnout than a general election.
Constituencies most like Dewsbury and Batley
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to Dewsbury and Batley. Politics shown for context.
- ↑No quals27.9 / 26.7vs 18.0
- ↓Graduate22.5 / 25.5vs 33.7
- ↓Age 65+16.9 / 17.2vs 22.7
- ↓Graduate22.5 / 21.9vs 33.7
- ↑No quals27.9 / 28.7vs 18.0
- ↓Age 65+16.9 / 14.7vs 22.7
- ↓Graduate22.5 / 23.6vs 33.7
- ↑No quals27.9 / 27.6vs 18.0
- ↓Age 65+16.9 / 16.3vs 22.7
- ↓Graduate22.5 / 20.4vs 33.7
- ↑No quals27.9 / 29.5vs 18.0
- ↓Age 65+16.9 / 16.6vs 22.7
- ↓Graduate22.5 / 22.9vs 33.7
- ↑No quals27.9 / 26.7vs 18.0
- ↓Employed52.4 / 51.3vs 57.3
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Sources
Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›
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- 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
- Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
- Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
- Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
- May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
- Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
- Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
- EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
- MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
- Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
- Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic model at the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls, built from the British Election Study Internet Panel (Fieldhouse et al.), Census 2021 (ONS) and Scotland's Census 2022 (NRS). The trajectory was recalculated with the current model, introduced in autumn 2026.
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