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{{Short description|British politician}}
{{Current person|date=July 2024|3=recent election}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mark Sewards
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| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| birth_date = 6 January 1990 (age 34)
| birth_place = Leeds, England United Kingdom
| children = 1
| spouse = Alice Smart
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'''Mark Sewards''' is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament for [[Leeds South West and Morley (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds South West and Morley]] since 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leeds South West & Morley {{!}} General Election 2024 |url=https://election.news.sky.com/elections/general-election-2024/leeds-south-west-and-morley-358 |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Labour dominate West Yorkshire but Gaza "an issue" |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8863z5epndo}}</ref> He has also served as a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] Councillor for the [[Leeds City Council]] ward of [[Farnley and Wortley (ward)|Farnley and Wortley]] since [[2022 local elections|2022]]. In the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017]] and [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 UK general elections]], Sewards campaigned in the [[Harrogate and Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency)|Harrogate and Knaresborough]] constituency, where he was defeated by the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] on both occasions.
 
His wife, Alice Smart, has been a Labour councillor for Armley since 2014. Mark also has a son, Oscar Theodore Sewards, who was born on 11 October 2021.