General Election 2010: Calder Valley in focus

Apr 27 2010 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THE CONSTITUENCY

The boundary of the Calder Valley constituency has been altered slightly since the last election, with around 250 voters moving into the Halifax constituency and about 140 coming the other way. Calder Valley consists of nine Calderdale Council wards: Brighouse, Rastrick, Elland, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe; Greetland and Stainland; Calder, Ryburn, Luddendenfoot and Todmorden.

IN NUMBERS

Population: 97,649

Under-18: 22.9%

Over-60: 20.6%

Born outside UK: 3.5%

White: 97.5%

Black: 0.2%

Asian: 1.4%

Christian: 71.5%

Muslim: 1.2%

Figures taken from most recent census in 2001

PAST RESULTS

2005

Chris McCafferty, Labour: 18,426 38.6%

Elizabeth Truss, Conservative: 17,059 35.7%

Liz Ingleton, Lib Dem: 9,027 18.9%

John Gregory, BNP: 1,887 4%

Paul Palmer, Green: 1,371 2.9%

Turnout: 67%