Yorkshire Party
Yorkshire Party | |
|---|---|
| Chair | Richard Honnoraty |
| Co-leader | Bob Buxton |
| Co-Leader | Rowan Halstead |
| Founded | April 2014 |
| Headquarters | 9 Fern Bank St. Johns Place Wakefield WF1 3UL |
| Ideology | Regionalism Social democracy Devolution |
| Political position | Centre to centre-left |
| European affiliation | European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Sky blue |
| House of Commons (Yorkshire seats) | 0 / 54 |
| Local government in Yorkshire | 3 / 1,139 |
| Directly elected mayors in Yorkshire | 0 / 4 |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Yorkshire Party is a regionalist political party in Yorkshire, a historic county of England. Founded in 2014, it campaigns for the establishment of a devolved Yorkshire Parliament within the United Kingdom, with powers over education, environment, transportation and housing.
It describes itself as a centrist party built on social-democratic principles and believes that "changing the way the UK political system works is the best way to address the everyday issues faced by people living in Yorkshire".
The party has parish, town, district and county councillors. It stood 21 candidates at the 2017 general election, and secured 8.6% of the vote in the 2018 Sheffield City Region mayoral election. It fielded 28 candidates at the 2019 general election. As at 8 January 2024 it has 3 local councillors.
In the 2021 West Yorkshire mayoral election it received nearly 60,000 votes (nearly 10% of the vote share) in the first round and third overall, behind the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. The party came third behind Labour and the Conservatives in the first round of the 2022 South Yorkshire mayoral election, with a higher vote share of 13.4%, only 3.1% away from beating the Conservatives into the second round.