Yorkshire and The Humber · England · 77,516Boundary · 2023

Halifax

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Apr 2026

Represented by Lab since 2024. Covers Halifax, Shelf and Northowram and Sowerby Bridge. Population 109,711. Median income £25K (below average).

A government minister making a visible local impact, Kate Dearden has attracted attention recently for successfully lobbying Yorkshire Water's CEO to bring forward critical infrastructure works in Sowerby Bridge by two years -- a win attributed directly to her organising a public meeting and surveying 500 constituents. Beyond constituency work, she is publicly leading two ministerial briefs: Consumer Protection, where she is championing updates to product safety law for online marketplaces, and Employment Rights, where she has promoted April's minimum wage increases affecting an estimated 260,000 workers across Yorkshire and the Humber.

At 90% voting participation -- above the Commons average -- Dearden has voted with Labour on every recorded division, making her a 100% party-line voter with no rebel votes to date. Her stance profile reflects her ministerial portfolio: strongly aligned with workers' rights (90%) and progressive taxation (97%), while sitting well below Labour's average on pro-business measures (12%). Her speech activity -- 148 contributions across 37 debates -- is dominated by economy and jobs, labour market, and cost-of-living themes. Notably, she scores 50% on parliamentary scrutiny votes against a party average of just 10%, a meaningful deviation suggesting some appetite for holding the executive to account even while serving within it.

456
Commons votes
This parliament
£25k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
77.5k
Electorate
2024 GE

Lab held for 5 consecutive elections.

Current Member of Parliament

Kate Dearden

Kate Dearden

Labour and Co-operative Party

Kate Dearden is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Halifax, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. She currently holds the Government post of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade).

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Voting at a Glance

Represented by Lab since 2024. Covers Halifax, Shelf and Northowram and Sowerby Bridge. Population 109,711. Median income £25K (below average).

2024 General Election

§ 06This week in Westminster.Live · today’s sittingOrder Paper · refreshed daily

Dearden’s scheduled Commons activity this week — whipped divisions, oral questions, debates — drawn from the House of Commons Order Paper.

§ 07The record, at a glance.456 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Dearden has cast the most ballots — a proxy for engagement, not direction. Notable votes are the moments where the whip was free or where they broke ranks.

Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted · cumulative this Parliament
Taxation
95
Economy
90
Employment
52
Education
41
Crime & Policing
36
Constitution and Democracy
30
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip

No rebellions or free votes recorded yet.

§ 08The local picture.9 wards

Constituencies are not uniform. Below — the local council make-up, key facts worth knowing, and the neighbouring seats on either side.

WardCouncillorVotesParty
Illingworth MixendenShane David Taylor1,168Labour P
Northowram ShelfElaine Hey2,275Green Pa
OvendenDanielle Durrans919Labour P
ParkShakir Saghir1,643Workers
RyburnLeah Elizabeth Webster1,554Labour P
SkircoatAnn Kingstone1,932Labour P
Sowerby BridgeAdam David Wilkinson1,702Labour P
TownKelly Thornham1,160Labour P
WarleyAshley John Richard Evans1,153Liberal
Population (2021 Census)
109,711
Electorate 77,516 · 2024 register
Median income
£25,000
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
22.3%
England average 20.0%
Schools
54
37 primary · 6 secondary
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