Keighley and Ilkley.
Conservative and Unionist Party MP Robbie Moore holds the seat on 40.3% of the vote.
1 Jun 2026
Robbie Moore made headlines in March 2026 by using Freedom of Information requests -- in his role on the Home Affairs Committee -- to expose a seven-month Home Office delay that may have led to the destruction of evidence related to grooming gang investigations in Bradford. The intervention drew national coverage and put direct pressure on ministers to account for the failure. Separately, he secured a banking hub for Ilkley after all high street branches closed, lobbying Treasury officials directly and calling for legislation to help Keighley achieve the same. His one rebel vote in the current Parliament came in March 2025, when he backed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill at Third Reading against his party's majority.
At 65% voting participation -- below the Commons average -- Moore is not among the most active voters, but his 99.7% party-line record makes him one of the more loyal Conservatives when he does turn up. His speeches cluster around economy and jobs, local government, environment, agriculture, and crime. On stances, he sits notably above his party average on opposing assisted dying and on climate action, and above average on civil liberties -- a modest but consistent divergence from the Conservative mainstream.
His Home Affairs Committee membership explains the grooming gangs scrutiny work directly; it is a pattern rather than a one-off. The Petitions Committee role adds a further constituency-facing dimension. Local news coverage is dominated by culture and sport stories (largely neutral in tone), with economy and jobs generating the most positive sentiment -- consistent with the banking hub campaign. Speech data and voting records are available; news sentiment covers the past 90 days only.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craven | Neil Charles Whitaker | 2,455 | Bradford Lab | May 2024 |
| Ilkley | Ros Brown | 2,414 | Bradford Lab | May 2024 |
| Keighley Central | Mohsin Hussain | 2,902 | Bradford Lab | May 2024 |
| Keighley East | Fulzar Ahmed | 1,561 | Bradford Lab | May 2024 |
| Keighley West | Joe O'Keeffe | 1,238 | Bradford Lab | May 2024 |
| Worth Valley | Russell Brown | 2,327 | Bradford Lab | May 2024 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The seat’s population is concentrated in Keighley (50,532), with Ilkley (15,035) as the second pole. Total population across named built-up areas: 99,381.
Source · ONS Built-Up Areas · Census 2021
| Settlement | Pop. | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Keighley | 50,532 | large town |
| Ilkley | 15,035 | town |
| Silsden | 8,708 | town |
| Steeton | 5,209 | town |
| Haworth | 4,983 | village |
| Oakworth | 4,770 | village |
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment rate | 54.6% | 57.1% | -4% |
| Owner-occupied | 70.0% | 63.1% | +11% |
| Private rented | 19.9% | 20.0% | -1% |
| Social rented | 10.0% | 16.8% | -40% |
Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £281m |
| Taxpayers | 46,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,690 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £6,170 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
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Headline rate.
By category.
Source · data.police.uk · 3-month rate per 1,000 pop
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robbie MooreWON | Con | 18,589 | 40.3 |
| John Grogan | Lab | 16,964 | 36.7 |
| Andrew Judson | Ref | 4,782 | 10.3 |
| John Wood | Grn | 2,447 | 5.3 |
| Vaz Shabir | Ind | 2,036 | 4.4 |
| Chris Adams | LD | 970 | 2.1 |
| Dominic Atlas | Ind | 398 | 0.9 |
Turnout 46,186
Prior contests.
Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo