2004 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election

Elections to City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election following boundary changes. The council stayed under no overall control.^[1][2]

Map of the results of the 2004 Bradford Council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberal Democrats in yellow, Green in green and BNP in navy blue.

Election result

Bradford Local Election Result 2004^[1]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	38	0	0		42.2	31.7	54,339	N/A
	Labour	29	0	0		32.2	26.9	46,135	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	15	0	0		16.7	23.3	40,012	N/A
	Green	4	0	0		4.4	7.1	12,250	N/A
	BNP	4	0	0		4.4	7.0	12,079	N/A
	Independent	0	0	0		0.0	3.0	5,170	N/A
	UKIP	0	0	0		0.0	0.9	1,487	N/A

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:

Party		Previous council	New council
	Conservative	36	38
	Labour	36	29
	Liberal Democrat	14	15
	Green	3	4
	BNP	4	4
	Independent	1	0
Total		90	90
Working majority		-18	-14

Ward results

Baildon^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Malcolm Charles Cole	2,948	44.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	John Briggs	2,482
	Conservative	Valerie Margaret Townend	2,343	35.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Betty Briggs	2,314
	Conservative	Roger L'Amie	2,178
	Conservative	Michael George Ellis	1,908
	Labour	Miranda Elizabeth Vasey	751	11.4	N/A
	Labour	James Robert Flood	676
	Green	John Patrick William Foster	549	8.3	N/A
	Labour	George Pope	539
Majority			29	9.2	N/A
Turnout			6,115	52.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Bingley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Colin Mathew Gill	3,229	46.5	N/A
	Conservative	Robin Ernest Owens	2,962
	Conservative	David Heseltine	2,941
	Labour	Eileen Mary Sinclair	1,551	22.4	N/A
	Labour	Frank Roy Needham	1,529
	Labour	Michael Swales	1,385
	Liberal Democrats	John Robert Watmough	1,211	17.4	N/A
	Green	Arthur Albert John Arnold	947	13.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Valerie Whelan	759
	Liberal Democrats	David Nicholas Lerner	642
Majority			1,390	24.2	N/A
Turnout			6,371	51.5	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Bingley Rural^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ellen Margaret Eaton	3,526	54.1	N/A
	Conservative	Andrew Simon Cooke	3,199
	Conservative	Juliette Margaret Kinsey	3,081
	Labour	James Albert Newton	1,139	17.5	N/A
	Labour	Lawrence William Cooper	1,089
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Jane Cole	1,019	15.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Helen Fielden	936
	Green	Brian Newham	829	12.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Karl Spracklen	784
	Labour	Ranjit Kaur Arora	707
Majority			1,942	36.6	N/A
Turnout			6,155	47.7	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Bolton and Undercliffe^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Christopher Hargreaves	2,326	51.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Howard Middleton	2,247
	Liberal Democrats	David Weston Gray	2,244
	Conservative	Richard Brodowski	881	19.4	N/A
	Labour	Rita Maria Goulden	867	19.1	N/A
	Conservative	Peter Benson	772
	Labour	Jagtar Singh Deol	766
	Conservative	John Antony Robertshaw	699
	Labour	Mohammad Yaqoob	675
	Green	Steven Schofield	472	10.4	N/A
Majority			1,363	31.8	N/A
Turnout			4,656	42.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Bowling and Barkerend^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rupert Oliver	2,448	44.6	N/A
	Conservative	Mohammed Jamil	1,827	33.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mukhtar Ali	1,810
	Liberal Democrats	Ghulam Rabani Chaudhury	1,770
	Conservative	Zameer Hussain Shah	1,679
	Conservative	Dawood Ismail Karim	1,545
	Labour	Raymond Bage	1,212	22.1	N/A
	Labour	Anthony Niland	1,196
	Labour	Shofiqul Islam	977
Majority			131	11.3	N/A
Turnout			5,759	49.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Bradford Moor^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Riaz Ahmed	2,508	40.0	N/A
	Labour	Ghazanfer Khaliq	2,396	38.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Diloar J Ali	2,091
	Labour	Shakeela Jan Lal	1,887
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Aziz	1,519
	Labour	Taj Mubarik Salam	1,472
	Conservative	Habib-Ur Rehman	1,373	21.9	N/A
	Conservative	Mohammed Aslam Choudary	1,362
	Conservative	Shafiquddin Chohan	1,040
Majority			204	1.8	N/A
Turnout			6,150	55.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

City^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sajawal Hussain	2,501	35.7	N/A
	Conservative	Jamshed Khan	2,141	30.6	N/A
	Conservative	Khadam Hussain	1,930
	Labour	Munir Ahmed	1,704
	Liberal Democrats	Arshad Mansoor Haider Raja	1,546	22.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Sharaz Akhtar	1,529
	Labour	Evelyne Godfrey	1,439
	Green	John Edward Robinson	810	11.6	N/A
	Conservative	Joyce Audrey Green	622
Majority			226	5.1	N/A
Turnout			6,203	57.1	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Clayton & Fairweather Green^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elaine Byrom	2,039	37.5	N/A
	Conservative	Charles Malcolm Sykes	1,572
	Conservative	David John Servant	1,509
	Liberal Democrats	Lorna Mary Ruth Leeming	1,230	22.6	N/A
	Labour	Mohammed Latif Darr	1,124	20.6	N/A
	BNP	Stuart George Kilminster	1,049	19.3	N/A
	Labour	Mohammed Abdus Salam	979
	Labour	Mohammed Shafiq	879
	Liberal Democrats	James Emile Mangeolles	780
Majority			279	14.9	N/A
Turnout			4,773	43.6	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Craven^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Robert Emmott	3,014	43.6	N/A
	Conservative	Michael John Kelly	2,726
	Conservative	Andrew Charles Mallinson	2,646
	Independent	Christopher Micheal Atkinson	1,408	20.4	N/A
	Labour	Francis Melvyn Harrison	1,281	18.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Wells	1,207	17.5	N/A
	Labour	Lorraine Margaret Harding	1,200
	Liberal Democrats	Hamish Gordon Hay	1,198
	Labour	Garrath Julian Earnshaw	848
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Tarek Ahmadi	563
Majority			1,238	23.2	N/A
Turnout			6,152	50.3	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Eccleshill^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Dorothy Ann Wallace	1,359	32.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Beardmore	1,352
	Labour	Anne-Marie Benson	1,237	29.6	N/A
	Labour	Robert Sowman	1,223
	Liberal Democrats	Alun Owen Griffiths	1,206
	Labour	James O'Neill	1,161
	Conservative	James Ralph Ryder	1,088	26.0	N/A
	Conservative	Harry Lycett	1,036
	Conservative	Dorothy Ward	1,006
	Green	Joan Audrey Foulds	498	11.9	N/A
Majority			31	2.9	N/A
Turnout			4,347	38.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Great Horton^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul John Flowers	2,089	37.2	N/A
	Conservative	Intkhab Alam	1,640	29.2	N/A
	Labour	John Derek Godward	1,617
	Labour	Elizabeth Mary Devlin	1,341
	Liberal Democrats	Mansha Maqsood	1,251	22.3	N/A
	Conservative	Richard Milczanowski	1,228
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Isabel Chadwick	1,028
	Liberal Democrats	John Robert Saul	994
	Conservative	Mohammed Sadiq	755
	Green	Derek Curtis	641	11.4	N/A
Majority			366	8.0	N/A
Turnout			5,409	49.3	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Heaton^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Stanley King	1,816	29.8	N/A
	Green	David Michael Ford	1,531	25.1	N/A
	Conservative	Mohammad Masood	1,355
	Labour	Andrew Craig Pitts	1,280	21.0	N/A
	Conservative	Paul Trevor Smith	1,251
	Liberal Democrats	Tariq Mahmood	1,127	18.5	N/A
	Green	Parvez Darr	1,119
	Labour	Mark Fielding	1,069
	Labour	Gillian Margaret Thornton	943
	Green	Mohammed Hanif Qureshi	892
	Liberal Democrats	Farhan Hussain Khokhar	631
	Liberal Democrats	Ansar Ali Mirza	591
	Independent	Alan Hugh Carling	342	5.6	N/A
Majority			285	4.7	N/A
Turnout			5,357	54.4	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Green win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Idle and Thackley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Lesley Ozolins	2,581	46.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jeanette Sunderland	2,525
	Liberal Democrats	David Ward	2,384
	Conservative	Anthony James Nigel Wood	1,042	18.6	N/A
	Conservative	Joan Marie Small	958
	Conservative	Edward Christopher Ward	954
	BNP	Stewart Paul Williams	877	15.7	N/A
	Labour	Anthony Devaney	636	11.4	N/A
	Labour	Helen Josephine Difiori	610
	Labour	Folayemi Olaniyi Adisa-Adesina	456
	Green	Judith Wever	454	8.1	N/A
Majority			1,342	27.5	N/A
Turnout			5,303	46.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Ilkley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Gillian Hawkesworth	3,775	60.6	N/A
	Conservative	Brian Martin Smith	3,359
	Conservative	Colin George Powell	3,290
	Liberal Democrats	Richard William Quayle	1,302	20.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Samuel Edwin Harris	1,230
	Labour	Christopher James Ramage	1,153	18.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Tomasz John Pierscionek	1,080
	Labour	Peter Cheney	1,075
	Labour	James William Pressley	938
Majority			1,988	39.7	N/A
Turnout			6,140	55.7	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Keighley Central^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Khadim Hussain	2,626	45.9	N/A
	Labour	Lynne Joyce	2,231
	Labour	John Morris Prestage	1,850
	Conservative	Javaid Akhtar	1,584	27.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher John Campbell Brown	1,512	26.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Kaneez Akthar	1,417
	Conservative	Arshed Majeed	1,397
	Conservative	Amran Ali	1,255
	Liberal Democrats	Javed Bashir	1,086
Majority			266	18.2	N/A
Turnout			6,018	55.9	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Keighley East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Slater	2,037	30.1	N/A
	Conservative	Dorothy Clamp	1,687	24.9	N/A
	Conservative	Mark Francis Startin	1,632
	Labour	Maxine Anne Hepworth	1,464
	BNP	Victor William Collier	1,407	20.8	N/A
	Conservative	John Anthony Carroll	1,368
	Labour	Andrew Peter Alan Dundas	1,243
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Brooksbank	1,002	14.8	N/A
	Green	John Francis Love	634	9.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Ali Akbar	628
	Liberal Democrats	James Stewart Main	550
Majority			168	5.2	N/A
Turnout			5,662	50.4	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Keighley West^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Angela Clarke	1,659	29.1	N/A
	Labour	Irene Ellison-Wood	1,417	24.8	N/A
	Labour	Catherine Mary Rowen	1,354
	Conservative	John Rennie Philip	1,142	20.0	N/A
	Conservative	Lucy Wilkinson	1,108
	Labour	Eileen McNally	1,073
	Independent	Brian Hudson	903	15.8	N/A
	Conservative	David John Herdson	895
	Independent	Anthony Wright	584
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Roger Beaumont	582	10.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	James Francis Keeley	399
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Pierscionek	345
Majority			212	4.2	N/A
Turnout			5,009	45.6	N/A
	BNP win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Little Horton^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Greenwood	2,436	51.4	N/A
	Labour	Sher Khan	2,415
	Labour	Naveeda Ikram	2,129
	Conservative	Asad Mercury Malik	922	19.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	John Brian Massen	785	16.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Rahmat Ullah	770
	Conservative	Zubeda Begum	762
	Green	John Charles McKenny	598	12.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Tahir Mahmood	588
	Conservative	Mohammed Afzal	488
Majority			1,207	31.9	N/A
Turnout			5,094	50.1	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Manningham^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Ishrat Mirza	2,415	38.2	N/A
	Labour	Choudhary Rangzeb	2,104	33.2	N/A
	Conservative	Reis Khan	1,810	28.6	N/A
	Conservative	Raza Ghalib Hussain	1,731
	Labour	Susanne Rooney	1,700
	Labour	Shabir Hussain	1,637
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Rafiq Sehgal	1,596
	Conservative	Mohammed Ashraf Miah	1,198
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Shafiq-Ul Islam	1,150
Majority			79	4.9	N/A
Turnout			6,922	66.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Queensbury^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Walls	1,827	31.3	N/A
	Conservative	Stuart Hanson	1,823
	Conservative	Tracey McNulty	1,648
	BNP	Paul Gregory Smith Cromie	1,411	24.2	N/A
	BNP	Lynda Jane Cromie	1,259
	Labour	David Warburton	1,140	19.6	N/A
	Labour	Alan Frederick Wainwright	1,051
	Labour	Graham Vincent Mahony	1,036
	Independent	Andrew Stephen Smith	992	17.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Wright	458	7.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Cedric Wilson	430
Majority			237	7.1	N/A
Turnout			5,085	47.9	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Royds^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Thornton	1,795	39.1	N/A
	Labour	Judith Mary Black	1,784
	Labour	Valerie Slater	1,608
	BNP	David Roy Midgley	1,258	27.4	N/A
	Conservative	Robert James Stead	1,038	22.6	N/A
	Conservative	Margaret Christine Jordan	965
	Conservative	Jacqueline Lesley Walls	876
	Liberal Democrats	Edward John Hallmann	498	10.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Colleen Middleton	496
Majority			350	11.7	N/A
Turnout			4,401	40.5	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Shipley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Martin John Love	2,497	41.9	N/A
	Green	Kevin Robert Warnes	2,010
	Green	Hawarun Nessa Hussain	1,801
	Conservative	Geraldine Whelan	1,585	26.6	N/A
	Conservative	Keith Jepson	1,504
	Conservative	Andrew Tuppen	1,355
	Labour	Mark Richard Blackburn	1,112	18.6	N/A
	Labour	Gareth David Logan	926
	Labour	Barry Kenneth Thorne	911
	Liberal Democrats	Alexander John Cole	771	12.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Joan McCree Edbury	629
	Liberal Democrats	Carl John Dickerson	561
Majority			216	15.3	N/A
Turnout			5,532	52.2	N/A
	Green win (new seat)
	Green win (new seat)
	Green win (new seat)

Thornton and Allerton^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clive Thomas Richardson	1,993	32.0	N/A
	Conservative	Michael Evan McCabe	1,851
	Conservative	Valerie Binney	1,770
	UKIP	Melanie Jane Milnes	1,487	23.9	N/A
	Labour	John Jevon Samuel	1,047	16.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Elizabeth Fletcher	874	14.0	N/A
	Green	Michael Anthony Rawnsley	832	13.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	David George Weston	819
	Labour	Aurang Zeb Khan	545
	Labour	Hassan Uzzaman Khan	527
Majority			283	8.1	N/A
Turnout			4,903	44.1	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Toller^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arshad Hussain	2,926	40.9	N/A
	Labour	Amir Hussain	2,825	39.5	N/A
	Conservative	Amjad Hussain	2,537
	Labour	Imran Hussain	2,457
	Liberal Democrats	Mahmood Hussain	1,398	19.6	N/A
	Labour	Olayemi Fagborun	1,185
	Conservative	Qurban Hussain Malik	1,044
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Reid	1,035
	Liberal Democrats	Zubair Hussain	806
Majority			80	1.4	N/A
Turnout			7,089	65.3	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Tong^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Johnson	1,714	55.1	N/A
	Labour	John Ruding	1,683
	Labour	James Anthony Cairns	1,478
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Collins	713	22.9	N/A
	Conservative	Derek Ernest Green	684	22.0	N/A
	Conservative	Garry Robert Walls	672
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Margaret Blenkey	667
	Liberal Democrats	Colin George McPhee	650
	Conservative	Afaq Alam	502
Majority			765	32.2	N/A
Turnout			3,574	32.6	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Wharfedale^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dale Smith	2,028	44.0	N/A
	Conservative	Matthew James Steven Palmer	2,004
	Conservative	Christopher Ian Greaves	1,984
	Liberal Democrats	Vernon Patrick Harcourt Whelan	1,313	28.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Francis Rowland Dale	858
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Sykes	804
	Labour	Elaine Christine Cooper	706	15.3	N/A
	Labour	Ronda Lesley Christensen	668
	Labour	Lorraine Colette Kirkwood	657
	Green	Julie Jane Cowdery	562	12.2	N/A
Majority			671	15.5	N/A
Turnout			4,961	55.7	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)

Wibsey^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Michael Adam Green	1,460	30.8	N/A
	Labour	Ralph David Ritchie Berry	1,426
	BNP	Arthur Collins Redfearn	1,355	28.6	N/A
	Conservative	Dorothy Craven	1,341	28.3	N/A
	Labour	Lynne Eleanor Smith	1,331
	Conservative	Richard Ian Sheard	1,279
	Conservative	Mark Holden	1,234
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Moore	581	12.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Hafeez	380
Majority			14	2.2	N/A
Turnout			4,620	43.5	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	BNP win (new seat)

Windhill and Wrose^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Phillip Thornton	1,572	34.7	N/A
	Labour	Tony Miller	1,423
	Labour	Vanda Greenwood	1,268
	Liberal Democrats	Ronald Craig	1,137	25.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	John Hall	960
	Liberal Democrats	Marian Hughes Taylor	911
	Conservative	Derek Taylor	884	19.5	N/A
	Conservative	Deborah Gail Davies	856
	Conservative	David James	804
	Independent	Michael Breen	542	12.0	N/A
	Green	Robert Minter Nicholls	396	8.7	N/A
Majority			131	9.6	N/A
Turnout			4,151	39.2	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

Worth Valley^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kristan Frederick Hopkins	1,734	26.7	N/A
	Conservative	Peter Henry Hill	1,651
	BNP	Christopher Neil Kirby	1,480	22.8	N/A
	Conservative	Glen William Miller	1,473
	Labour	Mark Bernard Curtis	1,227	18.9	N/A
	Labour	Trevor Lindley	1,109
	Liberal Democrats	John Hopkinson	1,074	16.5	N/A
	Independent	David Samuels	983	15.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Glynis Gumbley	940
	Labour	Carolyn Gibbons Lowing	881
Majority			7	3.9	N/A
Turnout			5,372	52.9	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)
	Conservative win (new seat)
	BNP win (new seat)

Wyke^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Alexander Robinson	1,700	30.7	N/A
	BNP	James Graham Lewthwaite	1,583	28.6	N/A
	Labour	Max Cummins	1,421
	Conservative	Paul Steven Jordan	1,420	25.6	N/A
	Labour	Rosemary Watson	1,363
	Conservative	John Arthur Stead	1,194
	Conservative	Gordon Johnson	1,060
	Liberal Democrats	David Andrew Christie	836	15.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Anthony Hall	621
Majority			1	2.1	N/A
Turnout			4,962	46.4	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)
	BNP win (new seat)
	Labour win (new seat)

By-elections between 2004 and 2006

Craven By-Election 16 March 2006^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Naylor	1,304	57.0	+13.4
	Labour	Steven Carter	669	29.2	+10.7
	Liberal Democrats	Frances McAulay	315	13.8	−3.7
Majority			635	27.8	+4.6
Turnout			2,288	18.7	−31.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.3

Keighley West By-Election 23 March 2006^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Sinfield	1,819	47.0	+22.2
	BNP	Ian Dawson	1,216	31.4	+2.3
	Conservative	Lionel Lockley	627	16.2	−3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Salmons	208	5.4	−4.8
Majority			603	15.6	+11.4
Turnout			3,870	35.1	−10.5
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing	+9.9