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Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	Yorkshire and the Humber
Ceremonial county:	West Yorkshire
Historic county:	Yorkshire (West Riding)
Area: - Total	Ranked 131st 363.92 km²
Admin. HQ:	Halifax
ONS code:	00CY
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 68th 195,300 537 / km²
Ethnicity:	93.0% White 5.7% S.Asian
Politics
Calderdale Council http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Leader:	Councillor Ann Mcallister
Executive:	TBA (council NOC)
MPs:	Christine McCafferty, Linda Riordan

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History

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the county borough of Halifax, the boroughs of Brighouse, Todmorden and the urban districts of Elland, Hebden Royd, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, and part of Queensbury and Shelf urban district, and also Hepton Rural District. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ... Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of about 82,000. ... Brighouse Coat of Arms Brighouse is the second largest town in the metropolitan district of Calderdale in the county of West Yorkshire, England,The 2001 census gave the towns population as 32,198. ... Todmorden c. ... Elland is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Halifax, England, by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation. ... Hebden Royd is a civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. ... Ripponden is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Halifax, on the River Ryburn. ... Sowerby Bridge is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, southwest of Halifax, at the junction between the Rochdale Canal and the Calder and Hebble Navigation, and on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ... Queensbury and Shelf was an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1937 to 1974. ... Hepton was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. ...

Locations

Other places in Calderdale include:

• Boothtown, Beechwood, Brighouse
• Chiserley, Copley, Cornholme, Cragg Vale
• Elland
• Gauxholme, Greetland
• Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Hipperholme,Holywell Green
• Illingworth
• Lightcliffe, Luddenden, Luddendenfoot
• Midgley, Mill Bank, Mixenden, Mount Tabor, Mytholm, Mytholmroyd
• Northowram
• Ogden, Old Town, Ovenden
• Pellon, Portsmouth
• Ripponden, Rishworth
• Savile Park, Skircoat Green, Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge, Sowood Green, Stainland
• Todmorden, Triangle
• Wainstalls, Walsden, Warley Town, West Vale, Wholestone Hill

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Local government

The borough is divided into 17 wards and each is represented on the borough council by three councillors. Each councillor is normally elected on a first past the post basis for a four-year period which is staggered with the other councillors of that ward so that only one councillor per ward is up for election at any one time. Exceptions to this include by-elections and ward boundary changes. A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods... An example of a plurality ballot. ... A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ...

The table below summarises the results of the 2007 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered.

The seventeen wards in Calderdale are: Brighouse; Calder; Elland; Greetland and Stainland; Hipperholme and Lightcliffe; Illingworth and Mixenden; Luddendenfoot; Northowram and Shelf; Ovenden; Park; Rastrick; Ryburn; Skircoat; Sowerby Bridge; Todmorden; Town; and Warley

2007 election

The table below summarises the results of the 2007 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered. 17 of the 51 seats were up for re-election.

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2006 election

The table below summarises the results of the 2006 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered. 17 of the 51 seats were up for re-election. Although these are the results after the election, the number of seats per party changed later that year. Councillor Paul Rogan was returned by the Rastrick ward in this election for four years as a Conservative councillor and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below. However, after the 2006 election, he left the party and joined the English Democrats Party. Also this year, Councillor Nicholas Yates, who had been returned by the Brighouse ward in the 2004 election for four years and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below, left the party to continue his tenure as an Independent. This left the Conservatives with 18 seats, 1 held by the English Democrats and 4 held by Independents. In December 2006, Illingworth and Mixenden ward Councillor Tom McElroy (Labour) died suddenly, leaving Labour with nine seats. The by-election to succeed him took place on 22 February 2007, with Labour holding the ward.

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External Resources

• Calderdale Council website
• MyCalderdale Community Forum
• Your online guide to Calderdale