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Roundhay
Roundhay highlighted within Leeds
Population17,684 (2023 electorate)
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Roundhay is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in north east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the suburb of the same name, Gledhow and Oakwood.

The ward's boundaries run the A6120 Leeds Outer Ring Road to the north and the A58 Wetherby Road to the south and east. The boundary also follows Gledhow Valley Road to the west before heading north-east to the A6120.[4]

Councillors since 1980[edit]

Election Councillor Councillor Councillor
1980 Patrick Crotty OBE (Con)[a][5] J. Challenor (Con)[b] Peggy White CBE (Con)[c][6]
1982 Patrick Crotty OBE (Con) J. Challenor (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1983 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con)[d] Peter Gruen (Con)[8] Peggy White CBE (Con)
1984 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1986 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1987 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1988 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1990 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1991 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1992 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con) Peter Gruen (Con) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1994 Patrick Crotty OBE KCSG (Con)[e] Peter Gruen (Con)[f] Peggy White CBE (Con)
1995 Jean White (Lab) Doreen Lewis (Lab) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1996 Jean White (Lab) Doreen Lewis (Lab) Peggy White CBE (Con)
1998 Jean White (Lab) Doreen Lewis (Lab) Peter Harrand (Con)[g][10]
1999 Jean White (Lab) Michael Fox (Lab) Peter Harrand (Con)
2000 Ann Castle (Con)[h][11] Michael Fox (Lab) Peter Harrand (Con)
2002 Ann Castle (Con) Michael Fox (Lab) Peter Harrand (Con)
2003 Ann Castle (Con)[i] Matthew Lobley (Con) Peter Harrand (Con)[j]
2004 Valerie Kendall (Con)[12] Matthew Lobley (Con) Paul Wadsworth (Con)[13]
2006 Valerie Kendall (Con) Matthew Lobley (Con) Paul Wadsworth (Con)
2007 Valerie Kendall (Con) Matthew Lobley (Con) Paul Wadsworth (Con)
2008 Valerie Kendall (Con) Matthew Lobley (Con) Paul Wadsworth (Con)[k]
2010 Valerie Kendall (Con)[l] Matthew Lobley (Con) Ghulam Hussain (Lab)[15]
2011 Christine MacNiven (Lab)[16] Matthew Lobley (Con) Ghulam Hussain (Lab)
2012 Christine MacNiven (Lab) Bill Urry (Lab)[17] Ghulam Hussain (Lab)
2014 Christine MacNiven (Lab) Bill Urry (Lab) Ghulam Hussain (Lab)
2015 Christine MacNiven (Lab) Bill Urry (Lab) Ghulam Hussain (Lab)
2016 Christine MacNiven (Lab) Eleanor Tunnicliffe (Lab)[18] Ghulam Hussain (Lab)
2018 Angela Wenham (Lab)[19] Eleanor Tunnicliffe (Lab) Jacob Goddard (Lab)[20]
2019 Angela Wenham (Lab)[m] Eleanor Tunnicliffe (Lab) Jacob Goddard (Lab)
2021 Lisa Martin (Lab) Zara Hussain (Lab) Jacob Goddard (Lab)
2022 Lisa Martin* (Lab) Zara Hussain* (Lab) Jordan Bowden* (Lab)
2023 Lisa Martin* (Lab) Zara Hussain* (Lab) Jordan Bowden* (Lab)

  indicates seat up for re-election.   indicates seat up for election following resignation or death of sitting councillor.   indicates councillor vacancy. * indicates incumbent councillor.

Elections since 2010[edit]

May 2023[edit]

2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Jordan Bowden* 3,758 55.7 -5.0[n]
Green Paul Ellis 1,475 21.9 -2.2
Conservative Shazar Ahad 992 14.7 -6.0
Liberal Democrats Darren Finlay 482 7.1 -6.6
Majority 2,283 33.9 -2.8
Turnout 6,742 38.1 -1.1
Labour hold Swing

May 2022[edit]

2022
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Zara Hussain* 4,165 60.7 +4.6
Labour Jordan Bowden 3,898 56.8 -1.4
Green Paul Ellis 1,650 24.1 +7.7
Conservative Elayna Cohen 1,418 20.7 -0.5
Conservative Spencer Weiner 1,261 18.4 -1.5
Liberal Democrats Jon Hannah 942 13.7 +1.1
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 400 5.8 +0.9
Majority 2,515 36.7 -0.4
Turnout 6,859 39.2 -8.3
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2021[edit]

2021 (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lisa Martin 4,357 58.2 +14.3
Labour Zara Hussain 4,198 56.1 +12.2
Conservative Elayna Cohen 1,583 21.2 +8.5
Conservative Spencer Weiner 1,486 19.9 +7.2
Green Richard Miles Wilson 1,225 16.4 +4.7
Liberal Democrats Tony Quinn 941 12.6 -1.1
Liberal Democrats Kavi Norris 575 7.7 -0.7
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 363 4.9 +3.7
SDP Max Partington 106 1.4 N/A
Freedom Alliance. No Lockdowns. No Curfews. Darryl Bickler 98 1.3 N/A
SDP Paul Whetstone 30 0.4 N/A
Majority 2,774 37.1 +6.9
Turnout 7,481 47.5 +7.8
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2019[edit]

2019
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jacob Goddard* 3,021 43.9 -0.4
Independent Tony Quinn 945 13.7 -0.5
Conservative Elayna Cohen 876 12.7 -4.8
Green Paul Ellis 807 11.7 +1.1
Liberal Democrats Jon Hannah 575 8.4 -1.0
Women's Equality Hannah Barham-Brown 365 5.3 +5.3
UKIP Tony Roberts 212 3.0 +3.0
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 80 1.2 -2.9
Majority 2,076 30.2 -2.2
Turnout 6,900 39.7 -5.4
Labour hold Swing -0.1

May 2018[edit]

2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Eleanor Tunnicliffe* 4,203 44.3 -13.4
Labour Angela Wenham 4,165
Labour Jacob Goddard 4,131
Conservative Elayna Cohen 1,661 17.5 -4.5
Conservative Farzana Arif 1,612
Independent Tony Quinn 1,348 14.2 N/A
Conservative Aftab Khan 1,318
Green Paul Ellis 1,007 10.6 +4.2
Liberal Democrats Jon Hannah 888 9.4 +3.6
Liberal Democrats Rory Mason 621
Liberal Democrats Najeeb Iqbal 598
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 390 4.1 +1.4
Majority 2,542 32.4 -3.3
Turnout 7,849 45.1 +3.3
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016[edit]

2016
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Eleanor Tunnicliffe 4,161 57.7 +8.1
Conservative Michael Lowry 1,584 22.0 -6.1
Green Paul Ellis 461 6.4 +1.8
Liberal Democrats Najeeb Iqbal 417 5.8 +0.2
UKIP Steven Leslie Benjamin Bell 395 5.5 +0.7
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 196 2.7 +0.5
Majority 2,577 35.7 +14.3
Turnout 7,214 41.8
Labour hold Swing

May 2015[edit]

2015
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Christine MacNiven* 6,178 49.6 -0.7
Conservative Andy Paraskos 3,506 28.1 -5.2
Green Paul Ellis 1,021 8.2 +1.5
UKIP Warren Hendon 773 6.2 +6.2
Liberal Democrats Najeeb Iqbal 702 5.6 -1.1
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 277 2.2 -1.0
Majority 2,672 21.4 +4.4
Turnout 12,457 71.5
Labour hold Swing +2.3

May 2014[edit]

2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ghulam Hussain* 3,229
Conservative Andy Paraskos 1,952
Liberal Democrats Richard Whelan 528
Green Paul Ellis 820
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 355
Majority 1,277
Turnout 40.96
Labour hold Swing

May 2012[edit]

2012
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Bill Urry 3,556 52.4 +2.2
Conservative Andy Paraskos 1,965 29.0 -4.3
Liberal Democrats Michael Hurley 487 7.2 +0.4
Green Paul Ellis 486 7.2 +0.6
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Scott 288 4.2 +1.1
Majority 1,591 23.5 +6.5
Turnout 6,782
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +3.2

May 2011[edit]

2011
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Christine MacNiven 4,307 50.3 +11.6
Conservative Valerie Kendall* 2,850 33.3 -0.3
Liberal Democrats Adam Douglas 578 6.7 -14.7
Green Paul Ellis 559 6.5 +6.5
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Scott 273 3.2 -0.4
Majority 1,457 17.0 +11.8
Turnout 8,567 49
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +5.9

May 2010[edit]

2010
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ghulam Hussain 4,769 38.7 +8.5
Conservative Paul Wadsworth* 4,134 33.6 -13.4
Liberal Democrats Adam Douglas 2,647 21.5 +10.0
Alliance for Green Socialism Malcolm Christie 446 3.6 -0.3
BNP Bernadette Herbert 320 2.6 -0.6
Majority 635 5.2 -11.6
Turnout 12,316 72.3 +30.9
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +10.9

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Crotty was previously a councillor for Harehills ward between 1949 and 1954 and again from 1959 until then serving Harehills and Roundhay ward from 1973 to 1980. He was awarded an OBE in 1972.
  2. ^ Challenor was previously a councillor for the Roundhay ward from 1970 and then Harehills and Roundhay ward from 1973 to 1980.
  3. ^ White was previously a councillor for Whinmoor ward from 1968 to 1972 and then Harehills and Roundhay ward from 1973 to 1980. She was awarded a CBE in 1978.
  4. ^ Crotty was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great (KCSG) by the Holy See in 1982.[7]
  5. ^ Paddy Crotty died in office in January 1995.[9]
  6. ^ Gruen stepped down at the next election in 1995 and, after leaving the Conservatives to join Labour, was elected for Whinmoor ward in an August 1997 by-election. He currently serves as a Cross Gates and Whinmoor ward councillor.
  7. ^ Harrand had previously been a councillor for North ward from 1990 until losing his seat in 1996.
  8. ^ Castle had previously been a councillor for Weetwood ward from 1988 until losing her seat in 1996.
  9. ^ Castle stood successfully for Harewood ward at the next election in 2004.
  10. ^ Harrand stood successfully for Alwoodley ward at the next election in 2004.
  11. ^ Wadsworth lost his seat at the next election in 2010 and then won the October 2010 by-election to fill the vacancy for Guiseley and Rawdon ward following the resignation of Stuart Andrew.
  12. ^ Kendall lost her seat at the next election in 2011 and is now an Eden District Councillor.[14]
  13. ^ The Yorkshire Evening Post reported both Eleanor Tunnicliffe and Angela Wenham resigned from their offices "over the weekend" of 20 and 21 March 2021. Tunnicliffe's term was due to expire in 2022, whereas Wenham resigned prior to the expiry of her term at the 2021 council election. In October 2019, Zara Hussain had previously been selected over Wenham by the Leeds North East Constituency Labour Party and Wenham was also unable to recontest her seat as the Labour candidate in 2021.[21][22]
  14. ^ Change from highest-placed Labour candidate (Zara Hussain) in 2022. Jordan Bowden decreased his personal share of the vote by 1.1%.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Councillor Jordan Bowden". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Councillor Zara Hussain". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Councillor Lisa Martin". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ^ Leeds Metropolitan Ward Boundaries Archived 31 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Patrick Crotty". beemeadowcroft.uk. Michael Meadowcroft & Liz Bee. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Peggy White". beemeadowcroft.uk. Michael Meadowcroft & Liz Bee. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  7. ^ Michael Meadowcroft. "Patrick Crotty". beemeadowcroft.uk. Michael Meadowcroft & Liz Bee. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Councillor Peter Gruen". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Yorkshire Diary: Leeds Catenians celebrate centenary". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  10. ^ "Councillor Peter Harrand". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Councillor Ann Castle". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Councillor Valerie Kendall". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Councillor Paul Wadsworth". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  14. ^ "Councillor Valerie Kendall". democracy.eden.gov.uk. Eden District Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  15. ^ "Councillor Ghulam Hussain". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  16. ^ "Councillor Christine MacNiven". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  17. ^ "Councillor Bill Urry". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  18. ^ "Councillor Eleanor Tunnicliffe". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  19. ^ "Councillor Angela Wenham". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  20. ^ "Councillor Jacob Goddard". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  21. ^ Beecham, Richard (22 March 2021). "Two Leeds Labour councillors resign from city council". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  22. ^ "LabourLeedsBAME". twitter.com. LabourLeedsBAME. 17 October 2019.
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