Cross Gates and Whinmoor (ward)

Cross Gates and Whinmoor
Cross Gates and Whinmoor highlighted within Leeds
Population18,287 (2023 electorate)
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
UK Parliament
Councillors
  • James Gibson[1] (Labour)
  • Pauleen Grahame[2] (Labour)
  • Jessica Lennox[3] (Labour)
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire

Cross Gates and Whinmoor is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the outer city suburb areas of Cross Gates, Manston, Swarcliffe and Whinmoor. Austhorpe is also shared with Temple Newsam ward to the south.

Councillors

Election Councillor Councillor Councillor
2004 Suzi Armitage (Lab)[a][4] Pauleen Grahame (Lab)[b] Peter Gruen (Lab)[c][5]
2006 Suzi Armitage (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2007 Suzi Armitage (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2008 Suzi Armitage (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2010 Suzi Armitage (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2011 Suzi Armitage (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2012 Suzi Armitage (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2013 by-election Debra Coupar (Lab)[d][8] Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2014 Debra Coupar (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2015 Debra Coupar (Lab)[e] Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2016 Janette Walker (Lab)[f][9] Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
February 2017 Janette Walker (ELI)[g] Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2018 Jessica Lennox (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2019 Jessica Lennox (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) Peter Gruen (Lab)
2021 Jessica Lennox (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) James Gibson (Lab)[h]
2022 Jessica Lennox (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) James Gibson (Lab)
2023 Jessica Lennox (Lab) Pauleen Grahame (Lab) James Gibson (Lab)
2024 Jessica Lennox* (Lab) Pauleen Grahame* (Lab) James Gibson* (Lab)

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

Elections since 2010

May 2024

2024
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Gibson* 2,865 53.2 −0.4
Conservative Max Holley 1,164 21.6 −7.9
Reform UK Graham Sunley 461 8.6 New
Yorkshire Howard Dews 314 5.8 New
Green Martin Hemingway 296 5.5 −0.2
Liberal Democrats Noah Allerton 288 5.3 +0.9
Majority 1,701 31.6 +2.8
Turnout 5,418 30.0 +1.2
Labour hold Swing +3.8

May 2023

2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jess Lennox* 2,823 53.6 +2.4
Conservative John Kennedy 1,557 29.5 −4.4
Independent Mark Nicholson 339 6.4 N/A
Green Martin Hemingway 302 5.7 −1.3
Liberal Democrats Patricia Cooper 233 4.4 −3.0
Majority 1,266 24.0 +6.7
Turnout 5,271 28.8 −2.0
Labour hold Swing

May 2022

2022
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Pauleen Grahame* 2,915 51.2 +7.9
Conservative John Kennedy 1,929 33.9 −7.3
Liberal Democrats Benjamin Wood 421 7.4 +5.2
Green Martin Hemingway 401 7.0 +1.2
Majority 986 17.3 +15.2
Turnout 5,688 30.8 −4.4
Labour hold Swing

May 2021

2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Gibson 2,826 43.3 −0.5
Conservative Philip Moore 2,687 41.2 +20.4
Green Keith Hale 378 5.8 −2.4
Independent Mark Nicholson 286 4.4 N/A
UKIP Harvey Alexander 157 2.4 −17.7
Liberal Democrats Aqila Choudhry 145 2.2 −3.8
SDP Jack Newcombe 21 0.0 −1.2
Majority 139 2.1 −20.9
Turnout 6,530 35.2 +8.8
Labour hold Swing

May 2019

2019
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jessica Lennox* 2,095 43.8 +7.4
Conservative Paula Hayes 995 20.8 +1.6
UKIP Harvey Alexander 960 20.1 +12.9
Green Ben Goldthorp 391 8.2 +1.6
Liberal Democrats Roderic Parker 286 6.0 +1.6
SDP David Creasser 58 1.2 +1.2
Majority 1,100 23.0 +6.3
Turnout 4,823 26.4 −5.4
Labour hold Swing +2.9

May 2018

2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Pauline Grahame* 2,815 36.4 −12.2
Labour Peter Gruen* 2,501
Labour Jessica Lennox 2,175
East Leeds Independents Janette Walker* 1,525 19.7 N/A
Conservative Dorothy Schofield 1,485 19.2 +1.6
Conservative Paula Hayes 1,340
Conservative Andrew Martin 1,142
Green Elizabeth Fellows 557
UKIP Harvey Alexander 519 7.2 −18.0
UKIP Peter Morgan 414
Liberal Democrats Thomas Shakespeare 340 4.4 +0
Democrats and Veterans Mark Maniatt 261 3.4 N/A
For Britain Stuart Nicholson 238 3.1 N/A
Majority 1,290 16.7 −6.7
Turnout 18,247 31.8 −0.6
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

May 2016

2016
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Janette Walker 2,789 48.6 +2.8
UKIP Mark Maniatt 1,446 25.2 +3.6
Conservative Matthew Gale 1,088 18.8 −5.6
Liberal Democrats Kate Langwick 245 4.3 +0.6
Green Florence Scott 165 3.1 −1.4
Majority 1,343 23.4 +2.0
Turnout 5,733 32.4
Labour hold Swing

May 2015

2015
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Pauleen Grahame* 5,012 45.8 −11.1
Conservative David Schofield 2,669 24.4 +1.5
UKIP Darren Oddy 2,363 21.6 +13.7
Green Ben Goldthorpe 489 4.5 +0.6
Liberal Democrats Kate Langwick 400 3.7 −0.5
Majority 2,343 21.4 −12.6
Turnout 10,933 61.5
Labour hold Swing -6.3

May 2014

2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Gruen* 2,555 44.6
UKIP Darren Oddy 1,808 31.6
Conservative Elizabeth Hayes 907 15.8
Green Ben Goldthorp 319 5.6
Liberal Democrats Richard Morris 136 2.4
Majority 747
Turnout 5725 33.11
Labour hold Swing

May 2013 by-election

2 May 2013
replacing Suzi Armitage (deceased)[12][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Debra Coupar 2,481 49.4 −20.4
UKIP Darren Oddy 1,582 31.5 +19.5
Conservative William Flynn 587 11.7 +5.4
Green Martin Hemingway 229 4.6 −0.1
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 145 2.9 −0.9
Majority 899 17.9 −39.9
Turnout 5,024
Labour hold Swing

May 2012

2012
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Suzi Armitage* 3,597 69.8 +12.9
UKIP Darren Oddy 619 12.0 +4.1
Conservative Dorothy Flynn 323 6.3 −16.7
Green Ben Goldthorp 243 4.7 +0.8
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 195 3.8 −0.4
English Democrat John Ashton 176 3.4 +3.4
Majority 2,978 57.8 +23.8
Turnout 5,153
Labour hold Swing +4.4

May 2011

2011
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Pauleen Grahame* 3,653 56.9 +10.9
Conservative Patrick Hennigan 1,472 22.9 −4.7
UKIP Darren Oddy 510 7.9 +7.9
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 271 4.2 −13.7
Independent David Hudson 257 4.0 +4.0
Green Ben Goldthorp 253 3.9 +3.9
Majority 2,181 34.0 +15.6
Turnout 6,416 37
Labour hold Swing +7.8

May 2010

2010
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Gruen* 4,921 46.1 +9.2
Conservative Caroline Anderson 2,955 27.7 −7.1
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman 1,915 17.9 +9.0
BNP Michael Mee 895 8.4 −6.8
Majority 1,966 18.4 +16.3
Turnout 10,686 62.1 +24.1
Labour hold Swing +8.1

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Armitage had been a councillor for Whinmoor ward since 1988.
  2. ^ Grahame had been a councillor for Whinmoor ward since 2002.
  3. ^ Gruen had been a Conservative councillor for Roundhay ward from 1983 to 1995 and, after switching parties, became a Labour councillor for Whinmoor ward after a 1997 by-election to replace Elaine Pickard.
  4. ^ The by-election was called following the death of Suzi Armitage in February 2013. Coupar, a former councillor for Middleton Park and Morley South wards, replaced Armitage as the Labour candidate.[6][7]
  5. ^ For the next election in 2016, Coupar did not seek re-selection as the Labour candidate for the ward, standing successfully as their candidate for Temple Newsam ward.
  6. ^ Walker had been a councillor for Headingley ward since 2012.
  7. ^ Walker resigned the Labour whip to run under a new East Leeds Independents banner at the upcoming 2018 election. The Yorkshire Evening Post quoted Walker saying, "there is a toxic atmosphere of mistrust, bullying, cronyism, whispers and unfairness endemic within the controlling elite of the Leeds Labour Group" and it had forced her decision. At the time, she was subject to an internal group disciplinary investigation "over inappropriate social media postings" and her claims were dismissed by the group as “completely fanciful”. Walker stated "she was facing “sanctions” for publicly criticising fellow councillors who had failed to pay their council tax”.[10]
  8. ^ Gibson was previously a councillor for Weetwood ward from 2018 to 2019.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Councillor James Gibson". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Councillor Pauleen Grahame". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Councillor Jessica Lennox". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  4. ^ "Councillor Suzi Armitage". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Councillor Peter Gruen". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Labour hold Leeds council seat in by-election". BBC. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Results of Leeds City Council by-election for Cross Gates & Whinmoor". Leeds City Council. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Councillor Debra Coupar". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Councillor Janette Walker". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  10. ^ Staff writer (22 February 2017). "Leeds council in turmoil? Third councillor walks out on ruling Labour group claiming "bullying and a toxic atmosphere"". Yorkshire Evening Post.
  11. ^ "Councillor James Gibson". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Labour hold Leeds council seat in by-election". BBC. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  13. ^ "Results of Leeds City Council by-election for Cross Gates & Whinmoor". Leeds City Council. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.