Temple Newsam (ward)

Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam highlighted within Leeds
Population16,730 (2023 electorate)
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Temple Newsam is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the outer city suburbs of Colton, Halton, Halton Moor and Whitkirk. Austhorpe is also shared with Cross Gates and Whinmoor ward, whilst the current civil parish boundaries of Austhorpe see its eastern half lie in the western tip of Garforth and Swillington ward.

The ward population at the 2011 Census was 21,543 and ward itself is named after the Temple Newsam estate.[4]

Boundaries

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The Temple Newsam ward includes the civil parish of Austhorpe (west half).

Councillors since 1973

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Judith Cummins represented Temple Newsam ward (2012-2016). Member of Parliament for Bradford South since 2015.
Election Councillor Councillor Councillor
Halton (1951 to 2004)
1973 Martin Dodgson (Con)[a] Bill Hyde (Con)[b] Doreen Wood (Con)[c]
1975 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1976 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1978 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1979 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1980 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1982 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1983 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1984 Martin Dodgson (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1986 David Schofield (Con)[d][5] Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1987 David Schofield (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1988 Donald Townsley (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Doreen Wood (Con)
1990 Donald Townsley (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) John Sully (Lab)[e]
1991 Donald Townsley (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) John Sully (Lab)
1992 David Schofield (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) John Sully (Lab)[f]
1994 David Schofield (Con) Bill Hyde (Con) Lee Benson (Lab)
1995 David Schofield (Con) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
1996 Randolph Haggerty (Lab) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
1998 Randolph Haggerty (Lab) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
1999 Randolph Haggerty (Lab) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
2000 Bill Hyde (Con) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
2002 Bill Hyde (Con) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
2003 Bill Hyde (Con) Doris McGee (Lab) Lee Benson (Lab)
Temple Newsam (2004 to present)
2004 Bill Hyde (Con) David Schofield (Con) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)[g][8]
2006 Bill Hyde (Con) David Schofield (Con) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2007 Bill Hyde (Con) Jacqueline Langdale (Lab)[9] Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2008 Bill Hyde (Con) Jacqueline Langdale (Lab)[h] Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2009 by-election Bill Hyde (Con) David Schofield (Con) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2010 Bill Hyde (Con) David Schofield (Con) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2011 Bill Hyde (Con) Katherine Mitchell (Lab) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2012 Judith Cummins (Lab)[i][11] Katherine Mitchell (Lab) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2014 Judith Cummins (Lab) Katherine Mitchell (Lab) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2015 Judith Cummins (Lab)[j] Helen Hayden (Lab) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2016 Debra Coupar (Lab)[k] Helen Hayden (Lab) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2018 Debra Coupar (Lab) Helen Hayden (Lab) Michael Lyons OBE (Lab)
2019 Debra Coupar (Lab) Helen Hayden (Lab) Nicole Sharpe (Lab)
2021 Debra Coupar (Lab) Helen Hayden (Lab) Nicole Sharpe (Lab)
2022 Debra Coupar (Lab) Helen Hayden (Lab) Nicole Sharpe (Lab)
2023 Debra Coupar (Lab) Helen Hayden (Lab) Nicole Sharpe (Lab)
2024 Debra Coupar* (Lab) Helen Hayden* (Lab) Nicole Sharpe* (Lab)

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

Elections since 2010

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May 2024

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2024
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Helen Hayden* 2,760 52.4 +0.6
Conservative Cormac Trigg 1,237 23.5 −8.9
Reform UK David Dresser 543 10.3 New
Green Nicola Dos Santos 379 7.2 +0.7
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 319 6.1 −1.3
SDP Wendy Whetstone 33 0.6 −0.6
Majority 1,523 28.9 +9.5
Turnout 5,317 31.8 +1.5
Labour hold Swing +4.8

May 2023

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2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nicole Sharpe* 2,632 51.8 +2.2
Conservative Cormac Trigg 1,647 32.4 −7.5
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 376 7.4 +2.2
Green Geraldine Turver 331 6.5 +1.7
SDP Wendy Whetstone 61 1.2 N/A
Majority 985 19.4 +9.7
Turnout 5,077 30.3 −5.0
Labour hold Swing

May 2022

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2022
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Debra Coupar* 2,920 49.6 +5.1
Conservative Jonathan Firth 2,350 39.9 −4.4
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 305 5.2 −0.2
Green Shahab Adris 281 4.8 −0.3
Majority 570 9.7 +9.7
Turnout 5,885 35.3 −2.1
Labour hold Swing

May 2021

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2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Hayden* 2,785 44.5 +5.8
Conservative Jonathan Firth 2,773 44.3 +13.5
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 338 5.4 −1.2
Green Shahab Saqib Adris 320 5.1 −2.3
Majority 12 0.0 −7.9
Turnout 6,256 37.4 +6.7
Labour hold Swing

May 2019

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2019
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nicole Sharpe 1,947 38.7 −5.3
Conservative Liz Hayes 1,549 30.8 −4.4
UKIP Ian Greenberg 702 14.0 +14.0
Green Shahab Saqib Adris 373 7.4 −2.8
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 330 6.6 −1.4
For Britain Billy Baldwin 126 2.5 +2.5
Majority 398 7.9 0.9
Turnout 5,068 30.7 −4.5
Labour hold Swing -1.0

May 2018

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2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Debra Coupar* 2,641 44.0 −2.6
Labour Helen Hayden* 2,603
Labour Mick Lyons* 2,482
Conservative Elizabeth Hayes 2,113 35.2 +10.4
Conservative Neale Deacon 2,062
Conservative Robert Hayes 1,739
Green Fiona Love 610 10.2 +7.1
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 478 8.0 +4.3
Majority 528 8.8 −13.0
Turnout 6,002 36.2 +0.2
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016

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2016
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Debra Coupar 2,690 46.6 +3.7
Conservative David Schofield 1,430 24.8 −4.4
UKIP Phil Moore 1,259 21.8 +1.8
Liberal Democrats Keith Cecil Norman 216 3.7 −0.3
Green Sarah Ann Crossland 179 3.1 −0.7
Majority 1,260 21.8 +8.1
Turnout 5,774 36.0
Labour hold Swing

May 2015

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2015
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Hayden 4,493 42.9 −11.5
Conservative Elizabeth Hayes 3,059 29.2 −9.6
UKIP Bruce Naylor 2,097 20.0 +20.0
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 420 4.0 −2.8
Green Nathan Allen 401 3.8 +3.8
Majority 1,434 13.7 −1.8
Turnout 10,470 63.6
Labour hold Swing -1.0

May 2014

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2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mick Lyons* 2,294
UKIP Bruce Naylor 1,599
Conservative David Schofield 1,377
Green Nathan Allen 335
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 148
Majority 695
Turnout 35.38
Labour hold Swing

May 2012

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2012
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Judith Cummins 3,137 53.6 −0.8
Conservative Bill Hyde* 1,505 25.7 −13.1
Independent David Rudge 654 11.2 +11.2
English Democrat Jordan Fawcett 370 6.3 +6.3
Liberal Democrats Ian Dowling 192 3.3 −3.5
Majority 1,632 27.9 +12.4
Turnout 5,858
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +6.1

May 2011

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2011
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Katherine Mitchell 3,707 54.4 +16.8
Conservative David Schofield* 2,648 38.8 +11.0
Liberal Democrats Ian Dowling 464 6.8 −7.3
Majority 1,059 15.5 +5.7
Turnout 6,819 42
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +2.9

May 2010

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2010
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mick Lyons* 4,098 37.6 +8.0
Conservative Elizabeth Hayes 3,032 27.8 −6.1
Liberal Democrats Ian Dowling 1,538 14.1 +6.7
Independent David Gale 1,072 9.8 +2.9
BNP Ian Gibson 1,041 9.5 −12.6
Alliance for Green Socialism Gareth Christie 126 1.2 +1.2
Majority 1,066 9.8 +5.5
Turnout 10,907 67.9 +23.9
Labour hold Swing +7.0

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Dodgson had served as a Halton councillor since 1968.
  2. ^ Hyde had served as a Halton councillor since 1973.
  3. ^ Wood had represented Osmondthorpe ward between 1968 and 1973.
  4. ^ Schofield previously represented Garforth and Swillington ward between 1982 and 1986.
  5. ^ Sully represented Burley ward between 1971 and 1973.
  6. ^ Sully stood unsuccessfully for North ward in 1994. He was later elected to represent the ward between 1995 and 1999.
  7. ^ Lyons, previously a councillor for Richmond Hill ward from 1980, was awarded an OBE in the 2003 Birthday Honours.[6][7]
  8. ^ Langdale resigned from the council for personal reasons in February 2009, triggering an April 2009 by-election. It was subsequently won by the Conservatives. In October 2008, the Daily Express had reported Langdale had been involved in an extramarital affair with the 2008 Labour candidate for Temple Newsam, Jeff Coupar. Coupar was also married to Middleton Park and later Temple Newsam ward councillor, Debra Coupar.[10]
  9. ^ Cummins was previously a Bradford City Councillor for Royds ward from 2004 to 2007.
  10. ^ Cummins was elected as Member of Parliament for Bradford South on the same day as the 2015 council election. She stood down from the council at the 2016 council election.
  11. ^ Cross Gates and Whinmoor ward councillor Coupar replaced Judith Cummins. She had previously represented Morley South ward from 2003 to 2004, Middleton Park ward between 2006 and 2010 and Cross Gates and Whinmoor since 2013.

References

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  1. ^ "Councillor Debra Coupar". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Councillor Helen Hayden". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Councillor Nicole Sharpe". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  4. ^ "City of Leeds ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Councillor David Schofield". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  6. ^ "OBEs L-Z". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 13 June 2003. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  7. ^ "The Queen and I – by Councillor Mick". Yorkshire Evening Post. 1 November 2003. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Councillor Michael Lyons OBE". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Councillor Jacqueline Langdale". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  10. ^ "Facing the sack, JP caught cavorting with a councillor". Daily Express. 29 October 2008.
  11. ^ "Councillor Judith Cummins". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
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