Karen Tweed has been selected to stand in Huddersfield at the next general election.
She is a former deputy chairman of Colne Valley Conservative Association and is a former council candidate for the Colne Valley ward on Kirklees council.
She said on her selection:
"I am proud and honoured to have been selected as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Huddersfield. I have lived in the Huddersfield area for over 25 years and I look forward to speaking up for Huddersfield in the months to come. Across Kirklees you can see the results of 12 years of neglect from a Labour Government with unemployment on the rise, businesses struggling and development schemes being scrapped. I will be setting out the Conservatives vision for change and listening to the views of people across Huddersfield."
The seat has been held for Labour since 1983 by Barry Sheerman (who was MP for Huddersfield West between 1979 and 1983), who will defend a notional majority (after minor boundary changes) of 7,883 over the Liberal Democrats, according to the Rallings and Thrasher figures. The Conservatives start in third place on a notional 21% of the vote, 3% behind the Lib Dems.
Jonathan Isaby