Lancaster_and_Fleetwood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Lancaster and Fleetwood (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010 onwards
Lancaster and Fleetwood is a constituency[n 1] created in 2010 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Cat Smith of the Labour Party.
| Lancaster and Fleetwood | |
|---|---|
| County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Lancaster and Fleetwood in Lancashire for the 2010 general election | |
Location of Lancashire within England | |
| County | Lancashire |
| Electorate | 67,305 (December 2010)[1] |
| Major settlements | Lancaster, Fleetwood |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Cat Smith (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Blackpool North and Fleetwood Lancaster and Wyre |
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished, with the majority being included in the re-established constituency of Lancaster and Wyre, to be first contested at the next general election. Fleetwood will be included in the re-established Blackpool North and Fleetwood seat.[2]
- Creation
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire, the Boundary Commission created a new Wyre and Preston North constituency, contested first at the 2010 general election, which split the previous linking of Lancaster and Wyre. As a consequence, Lancaster and the coastal town of Fleetwood have been attached for parliamentary purposes.
- Summary of results to date
In 2010 the winning candidate was Eric Ollerenshaw, a Conservative. He lost in the 2015 general election to Labour's Cat Smith. The 2015 result gave the seat the 16th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[3] Ollerenshaw attempted to regain the seat at the 2017 general election but Smith won again, significantly increasing her majority to over 6,500. At the 2019 general election, Smith's majority declined to 2,380.
The new seat of Lancaster and Fleetwood was subject to public consultation following the decision to create a new seat in Lancashire in the run-up to the 2010 United Kingdom general election, which caused major consequential changes to the central and southern parts of the county. During the consultation process, the Wyre ward of Cabus was moved from Lancaster and Fleetwood to Wyre and Preston North.
The seat has electoral wards:
- Bulk, Castle, Duke's, Ellel, John O'Gaunt, Lower Lune Valley, Marsh, Scotforth East, Scotforth West and University in the City of Lancaster
- Mount, Park, Pharos, Pilling, Preesall, Rossall, Warren and Wyresdale in the borough of Wyre
| Election | Member[4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Eric Ollerenshaw | Conservative | |
| 2015 | Cat Smith | Labour | |
Elections in the 2010s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cat Smith | 21,184 | 46.8 | ―8.3 | |
| Conservative | Louise Thistlethwaite | 18,804 | 41.6 | +1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Jackson | 2,018 | 4.5 | +2.0 | |
| Brexit Party | Leanne Murray | 1,817 | 4.0 | New | |
| Green | Caroline Jackson | 1,396 | 3.1 | +1.4 | |
| Majority | 2,380 | 5.2 | ―9.3 | ||
| Turnout | 45,219 | 64.5 | ―3.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ―4.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cat Smith | 25,342 | 55.1 | +12.8 | |
| Conservative | Eric Ollerenshaw | 18,681 | 40.6 | +1.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Robin Long | 1,170 | 2.5 | ―0.8 | |
| Green | Rebecca Novell | 796 | 1.7 | ―3.3 | |
| Majority | 6,661 | 14.5 | +11.4 | ||
| Turnout | 45,989 | 68.7 | +0.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +5.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cat Smith | 17,643 | 42.3 | +7.0 | |
| Conservative | Eric Ollerenshaw | 16,378 | 39.2 | +3.1 | |
| UKIP | Matthew Atkins | 4,060 | 9.7 | +7.3 | |
| Green | Chris Coates | 2,093 | 5.0 | +0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Robin Long | 1,390 | 3.3 | ―15.8 | |
| Northern | Harold Elletson | 174 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 1,265 | 3.1 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 41,738 | 68.6 | +7.5 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.9 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Eric Ollerenshaw | 15,404 | 36.1 | +2.5 | |
| Labour | Clive Grunshaw | 15,071 | 35.3 | ―7.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Langhorn | 8,167 | 19.1 | +3.5 | |
| Green | Gina Dowding | 1,888 | 4.4 | ―1.4 | |
| UKIP | Fred McGlade | 1,020 | 2.4 | ―0.1 | |
| BNP | Debra Kent | 938 | 2.2 | New | |
| Independent | Keith Riley | 213 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 333 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 42,701 | 61.1 | +1.6 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +4.8 | |||
- A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer). As with all current seats, its electorate elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
- "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – North West | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- "Labour Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018.
- "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- "Lancaster & Fleetwood". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.