Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)

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Morley and Outwood
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
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2010–2024 boundary of Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire
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Location of West Yorkshire within England
County West Yorkshire
Electorate 78,803 (December 2019) [1]
2010–2024
SeatsOne
Created from
Replaced by Leeds South West and Morley

Morley and Outwood was a constituency [n 1] in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. [n 2]

Contents

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished. Subject to boundary changes - losing the City of Wakefield wards, incorporating the district of Outwood and gaining the City of Leeds ward of Farnley and Wortley - it will be reformed as Leeds South West and Morley, to be first contested at the 2024 general election. [2]

History

Forerunners and boundaries

The Morley and Outwood constituency was first contested in 2010. It consisted of the town of Morley, in the City of Leeds metropolitan district, and around Outwood in the City of Wakefield district. It was largely a successor to the previous Morley and Rothwell seat, which existed from 1997 until 2010; Rothwell was transferred to a new Elmet and Rothwell seat, while Outwood was previously part of the abolished Normanton constituency. At the same time, the Leeds suburb of Middleton was transferred to Leeds Central. The remainder of the former Normanton constituency was divided between the Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford constituency and the Wakefield constituency.

Political history

At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by Ed Balls of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Andrea Jenkyns which was described by Larry Elliott of The Guardian as a "Portillo moment". [3] The 2015 general election result gave the Conservatives that year their sixth-most marginal majority of their 331 seats won, by percentage of majority. [4] Third parties have not polled strongly in the seat to date — the combined votes of the two largest UK parties' candidates exceeded 72.9% of the total in 2010 and 2015, 97.4% in 2017, and 91.7% in 2019.

Boundaries

Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

Parliament approved the recommendation of the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies to create this new ("cross-border") constituency as a consequence of West Yorkshire losing one parliamentary seat following more rapid population increase in other regions. [5]

The constituency contained the following electoral wards:

Members of Parliament

Andrea Jenkyns, Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood since 2015 Official portrait of Mrs Andrea Jenkyns MP crop 3.jpg
Andrea Jenkyns, Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood since 2015
ElectionMember [7] Party
Created from Morley and Rothwell and Normanton
2010 Ed Balls Labour Co-op [8]
2015 Andrea Jenkyns Conservative
2024 Constituency abolished

Election results 2010–2024

Election Results for the Morley and Outwood UK Parliamentary constituency at General Elections between 2010 and 2019 Morley & Outwood Results.png
Election Results for the Morley and Outwood UK Parliamentary constituency at General Elections between 2010 and 2019

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2010: Morley and Outwood [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Ed Balls 18,365 37.6 −8.4
Conservative Antony Calvert17,26435.3+10.3
Liberal Democrats James Monaghan8,18616.8+6.7
BNP Chris Beverley3,5357.2−0.6
UKIP David Daniel1,5053.1New
Majority1,1012.3−18.7
Turnout 48,85565.8
Labour Co-op win (new seat)
General election 2015: Morley and Outwood [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrea Jenkyns 18,776 38.9 +3.6
Labour Co-op Ed Balls 18,35438.0+0.4
UKIP David Dews7,95116.5+13.4
Liberal Democrats Rebecca Taylor 1,4263.0−13.8
Green Martin Hemingway1,2642.6New
Yorkshire First Arnie Craven4791.0New
Majority4220.9N/A
Turnout 48,25063.3−2.5
Conservative gain from Labour Co-op Swing +1.6
General election 2017: Morley and Outwood
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrea Jenkyns 26,550 50.7 +11.8
Labour Co-op Neil Dawson24,44646.7+8.7
Liberal Democrats Craig Dobson1,3612.6−0.4
Majority2,1044.0+3.1
Turnout 52,35768.0+4.7
Conservative hold Swing +1.6
General election 2019: Morley and Outwood [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrea Jenkyns 29,424 56.7 +6.0
Labour Deanne Ferguson18,15735.0−11.7
Liberal Democrats Craig Dobson2,2854.4+1.8
Green Chris Bell1,1072.1New
Yorkshire Dan Woodlock9571.8New
Majority11,26721.7+17.7
Turnout 51,93065.9−2.1
Conservative hold Swing +8.8

See also

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.

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References

  1. ↑ "Morley and Outwood Parliamentary constituency". BBC. 12 December 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – Yorkshire and the Humber | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  3. ↑ Elliott, Larry (8 May 2015). "Defeat of Ed Balls gives Tories their 'Portillo moment'". The Guardian .
  4. ↑ "Conservative Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
  6. ↑ 2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
  7. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
  8. ↑ "Ed Balls (MP for Morley & Outwood)". Co-operative Party . Retrieved 6 July 2010.[ permanent dead link ] Note that other sources and the "Statement of persons nominated" refer to Balls as "Labour".
  9. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Morley & Outwood". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Morley & Outwood Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
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