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MALIK, Shahid |
Dewsbury |
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 Member for Dewsbury since 2005. Committees: Member, Labour Party's National Executive Committee 2000-05; Member, Economic Policy Commission; Vice-Chair, NEC Women, Race and Equalities Committee; Chair, Labour Party's Ethnic Minority Forum. Political career: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister for Schools Jim Knight; 22 years Labour Party Membership; Member, Labour Party Development Taskforce; Advisor, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Advisor, Community Cohesion Unit, Home Office. Special political interests: Race relations (got hit on the head by Lancashire police during Burnley riots in 2001 - police apologised); crime reduction, social justice, human rights. Languages spoken: Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi. Affiliations: Fellow, Institute of Management; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts. b. 24 November 1967, Burnley.
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2005 |
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2001 |
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Votes |
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+/- % |
Votes |
% |
| Labour |
15,807 |
41.0 |
-9.6 |
18,524 |
50.5 |
| Conservative |
11,192 |
29 |
1.2 |
11,075 |
30.2 |
| Lib Dem |
5,624 |
14.6 |
2.6 |
4,382 |
12 |
| BNP |
5,066 |
13.1 |
8.7 |
1,632 |
4.5 |
| Green |
593 |
1.5 |
0.0 |
560 |
1.5 |
| UKIP |
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478 |
1.3 |
| Independent |
313 |
0.8 |
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| Majority |
4,615 |
11.9 |
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7,449 |
20.3 |
| Turnout |
38,595 |
62.0 |
3.2 |
36,651 |
58.8 |
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