Morecambe and Lunesdale (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 54°05′20″N 2°49′26″W / 54.089°N 2.824°W / 54.089; -2.824

Morecambe and Lunesdale
County constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of Morecambe and Lunesdale in Lancashire.

Outline map

Location of Lancashire within England.
County Lancashire
Electorate 69,254 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements Morecambe, Heysham, Carnforth and Skerton
Current constituency
Created 1950
Member of parliament David Morris (Conservative)
Number of members One
Created from Lonsdale
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency North West England

Morecambe and Lunesdale is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by David Morris, a Conservative.[n 2]

Constituency profile

Since 1979 the constituency has been a bellwether and includes the seaside town and many villages as well as the north bank of the City of Lancaster, which is largely Skerton. This seat brings together northern semi-rural reaches of Lancashire bisected by the M6, including seaside Silverdale and Carnforth south of the Cumbria border, the seaside resort of Morecambe and the nuclear power station/ferry port village of Heysham which provides a direct east-west service to Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. Separating Morecambe from Lancaster is a narrow belt of parkland, houses and the White Lund industrial estate.[2]

Boundaries

The constituency was formerly Morecambe and Lonsdale and gained a new name and adjusted boundaries in 1983. Before 1950, Morecambe was in the Lancaster constituency. For the General Election of that year, sections of the constituency removed to be united with the former county of Westmorland in the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency. For the 1983 election the electoral wards used in the creation of the new seat were:

In boundary changes in the 2000s, only minor adjustments were made. Parliament approved the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies recommendations in respect of this area, enacting only minor boundary alterations. The constituency has City of Lancaster electoral wards:

History

Once a safe Conservative seat, Morecambe followed its neighbour and fellow seaside town, Blackpool, by voting Labour in the 1997 General Election. The results in the general elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005 had remarkably similar majorities with virtually no swing to the Conservatives. The Conservatives gained the seat at the 2010 General Election with an above average swing.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[4] Party
1950 constituency created as "Morecambe and Lonsdale"
1950 Ian Fraser Conservative
1958 by-election Basil de Ferranti Conservative
1964 Alfred Hall-Davis Conservative
1979 Mark Lennox-Boyd Conservative
1983 constituency renamed as "Morecambe and Lunesdale" after boundary changes
1983 Mark Lennox-Boyd Conservative
1997 Geraldine Smith Labour
2010 David Morris Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Morecambe and Lunesdale[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Thomas Morris 19,691 45.5 +4.0
Labour Amina Lone 15,101 34.9 −4.6
UKIP Steven Ogden 5,358 12.4 +8.1
Liberal Democrat Matthew Severn 1,612 3.7 −9.6
Green Phil Chandler 1,395 3.2 +1.8
Independent Michael Dawson 85 0.2 +0.2
Majority 4,590 10.6 +8.6
Turnout 43,242 65.0 +2.9
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 2010: Morecambe and Lunesdale[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Thomas Morris 18,035 41.5 +4.2
Labour Geraldine Smith 17,169 39.5 −9.5
Liberal Democrat Les Jones 5,791 13.3 −0.3
UKIP Nigel Brown 1,843 4.2 N/A
Green Chris Coates 598 1.4 N/A
Majority 866 2.0 −9.5
Turnout 43,436 62.1 +0.7
Conservative gain from Labour Swing −6.9

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Morecambe and Lunesdale[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Geraldine Smith 20,331 48.8 −0.8
Conservative James Airey 15,563 37.4 +0.1
Liberal Democrat Alex Stone 5,741 13.8 +4.6
Majority 4,768 11.5
Turnout 41,635 61.4 +0.3
Labour hold Swing −0.4
General Election 2001: Morecambe and Lunesdale[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Geraldine Smith 20,646 49.6 +0.7
Conservative David Nuttall 15,554 37.3 +0.6
Liberal Democrat Christopher Cotton 3,817 9.2 −2.2
UKIP Greg Beaman 935 2.2 N/A
Green Cherith Adams 703 1.7 N/A
Majority 5,092 12.3
Turnout 41,655 61.1 −11.2
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Morecambe and Lunesdale[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Geraldine Smith 24,061 48.9 N/A
Conservative Mark Lennox-Boyd 18,096 36.7 N/A
Liberal Democrat June Greenwell 5,614 11.4 N/A
Referendum Ian Ogilvie 1,313 2.7 N/A
Natural Law David Walne 165 0.3 N/A
Majority 5,965 12.1 N/A
Turnout 49,249 72.3 N/A
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +19.1
General Election 1992: Morecambe and Lunesdale[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mark Lennox-Boyd 22,507 50.9 −1.8
Labour Ms Jean Elizabeth Yates 10,998 24.9 +2.4
Liberal Democrat Anthony John Saville 9,584 21.7 −3.2
Morecambe Bay Independent Mark Anthony Turner 916 2.1 N/A
Natural Law Richard Malcolm Marriott 205 0.5 N/A
Majority 11,509 26.0 −1.8
Turnout 44,210 78.3 +2.2
Conservative hold Swing −2.1

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Morecambe and Lunesdale[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mark Lennox-Boyd 22, 327 52.7 −3.9
Social Democratic June Greenwell 10,542 24.9 −0.3
Labour David Smith 9, 535 22.5 +4.8
Majority 11,785 27.7
Turnout 42,404 76.1
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Morecambe and Lunesdale[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mark Lennox-Boyd 21,968 56.6 N/A
Social Democratic Tom Clare 9,774 25.2 N/A
Labour Abbott Clifton Bryning 6,882 17.7 N/A
Independent Irene Woods 208 0.5 N/A
Majority 12,194 31.4 N/A
Turnout 38,832 72.9 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)

Morecambe and Lonsdale election results, 1950-79

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
References
  1. ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "OpenStreetMap". openstreetmap.org.
  3. ↑ Crewe, Ivor (1983). British Parliamentary constituencies - a statistical compendium. faber and faber. ISBN 0-571-13236-7.
  4. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
  5. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Morecambe & Lunesdale". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
  13. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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