Election candidates 1945-2024: Yorkshire region
The region has been home to an impressive gallery of party personalities, several of whom receive extended entries. The spirited independence with respect to LPO HQ in London which the Yorkshire Regional Party has often demonstrated, and the relatively strong direction it has exerted over its constituency associations, would account for the formidable challenge maintained in the Region at successive general elections, even in the direst years of party fortunes. Yorkshire appears to have been rather less willing in 1950 to heed to the dictates of the Martell Plan than other regions. Even so, until the 1970s there were several Labour-held mining and industrial constituencies where the Party always declined to fight. Information on many candidates remains sparse. SDP candidates particularly, over 1983-87, seem to have been an anonymous battalion indeed.
Lionel King