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BURGON, Colin

Elmet Labour
 

Member for Elmet since 1997. Committees: Vice-Chair, All- Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba. Profession/Trade: Former teacher. Affiliations: Chair, Labour Friends of Venezuela Group; led Campaign Against Open Cast Mining in Elmet; Member, Amnesty International. Hobbies: Football (Leeds United); walking; the countryside; reading; history (especially military history and the American Civil War). b. 22 April 1948.

 
  2005     2001  
LAB HOLD Votes % +/- % Votes %
Labour 22,260 47.2 -0.8 22,038 48
Conservative 17,732 37.6 -1.3 17,867 38.9
Lib Dem 5,923 12.6 1.7 5,001 10.9
BNP 1,231 2.6      
UKIP       1,031 2.2
Majority 4,528 9.6   4,171 9.1
Turnout 47,146 68.8 3.2 45,937 65.6