Rossendale and Darwen | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Lancashire |
Electorate | 73,443 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Darwen, Entwistle, Rossendale |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Jake Berry (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Rossendale, Darwen and Heywood & Royton [2] |
Rossendale and Darwen is a constituency [n 1] in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Jake Berry, the former Chairman of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
1983 to 1997: The Borough of Rossendale, and the Borough of Blackburn wards of Earcroft, Marsh House, North Turton, Sudell, Sunnyhurst, and Whitehall.
1997 to 2010: All the wards of the Borough of Rossendale except the Greenfield and Worsley wards, and the Borough of Blackburn wards of Earcroft, Marsh House, North Turton, Sudell, Sunnyhurst, and Whitehall.
2010 to present: The Borough of Rossendale wards of Cribden, Eden, Facit and Shawforth, Goodshaw, Greensclough, Hareholme, Healey and Whitworth, Helmshore, Irwell, Longholme, Stacksteads, and Whitewell, and the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen wards of Earcroft, East Rural, Fernhurst, Marsh House, North Turton with Tockholes, Sudell, Sunnyhurst, and Whitehall.
Darwen Ward Changes At the 2018 local elections the Darwen electoral wards were changed and re named. They are now known as Darwen West, Darwen East, Darwen South and West Pennine. Fernhurst ward is now part of Blackburn South and Lower Darwen which is part of the Blackburn constituency.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Minor changes to align with the revised ward boundaries in Blackburn with Darwen.
The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of two local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is close to the national average but varying reliance upon social housing in relative terms to the national average. [4] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 3.5% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.2%. [5]
The borough of Rossendale that contributes to the bulk of the population has a 21.5% of its population without a car, whereas this is 30.5% in Blackburn and outside of the seat in Burnley is 32.3%. A relatively high 24% of Rossendale's population were in 2001 without qualifications and a high 25.1% were with level 4 qualifications or above. A higher share, 28.7% of Blackburn's population lacked qualifications, however 19.8% of its population had Level 4 qualifications or above.
In terms of tenure 69.6% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census across the Rossendale district; this compares to a similar 63.7% across Blackburn. Whereas in Ribble Valley to the north 76.6% of homes fall within this category, in Leeds the figure is 58.2% and in Manchester just 37.8%. [6]
This constituency was created in 1983 and has alternated between the two largest parties' MPs during this time; since 1997 the constituency has been a bellwether of the national result.
Election | Member [7] | Party | |
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1983 | David Trippier | Conservative | |
1992 | Janet Anderson | Labour | |
2010 | Jake Berry | Conservative | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Bob Bauld [8] | ||||
Labour | Andy MacNae [9] | ||||
Reform UK | Daniel Matchett [10] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jake Berry | 27,570 | 56.5 | +5.7 | |
Labour | Alyson Barnes | 18,048 | 37.0 | ―7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Valentine | 2,011 | 4.1 | +1.0 | |
Green | Sarah Hall | 1,193 | 2.4 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 9,522 | 19.5 | +13.1 | ||
Turnout | 48,822 | 67.1 | ―2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jake Berry | 25,499 | 50.8 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Alyson Barnes | 22,283 | 44.4 | +9.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sean Bonner | 1,550 | 3.1 | +1.5 | |
Green | John Payne | 824 | 1.6 | ―0.5 | |
Majority | 3,216 | 6.4 | ―5.1 | ||
Turnout | 50,156 | 69.2 | +2.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―2.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jake Berry | 22,847 | 46.6 | +4.8 | |
Labour | Will Straw | 17,193 | 35.1 | +2.9 | |
UKIP | Clive Balchin | 6,862 | 14.0 | +10.6 | |
Green | Karen Pollard-Rylance | 1,046 | 2.1 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Afzal Anwar | 806 | 1.6 | ―16.5 | |
Independent | Kevin Scranage | 122 | 0.2 | New | |
TUSC | Simon Thomas | 103 | 0.2 | New | |
Northern | Shaun Hargreaves | 45 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,654 | 11.5 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 49,024 | 66.4 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jake Berry | 19,691 | 41.8 | +7.1 | |
Labour | Janet Anderson | 15,198 | 32.2 | ―10.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Sheffield | 8,541 | 18.1 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | David Duthie | 1,617 | 3.4 | +1.8 | |
National Front | Kevin Bryan | 1,062 | 2.3 | New | |
English Democrat | Michael Johnson | 663 | 1.4 | New | |
Impact | Tony Melia | 243 | 0.5 | New | |
Independent | Mike Siveri | 113 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 4,493 | 9.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,128 | 64.6 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +8.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Janet Anderson | 19,073 | 42.9 | ―5.9 | |
Conservative | Nigel Adams | 15,397 | 34.6 | ―1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Carr | 6,670 | 15.0 | +0.3 | |
BNP | Anthony Wentworth | 1,736 | 3.9 | New | |
Green | Kenneth McIver | 821 | 1.8 | New | |
UKIP | David Duthie | 740 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 3,676 | 8.3 | ―4.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,437 | 61.5 | +2.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ―1.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Janet Anderson | 20,251 | 49.0 | ―4.6 | |
Conservative | George Lee | 15,281 | 36.7 | +4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Dunning | 6,079 | 14.7 | +4.1 | |
Majority | 5,223 | 12.7 | ―8.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,358 | 58.7 | ―14.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ―4.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Janet Anderson | 27,470 | 53.6 | +9.7 | |
Conservative | Patricia Buzzard | 16,521 | 32.3 | ―11.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Dunning | 5,435 | 10.6 | ―0.7 | |
Referendum | Roy Newstead | 1,108 | 2.2 | New | |
BNP | Andrew Wearden | 674 | 1.3 | New | |
Majority | 10,949 | 21.3 | +21.1 | ||
Turnout | 51,208 | 73.0 | ―10.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Janet Anderson | 28,028 | 43.9 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | David Trippier | 27,908 | 43.7 | ―2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kevin Connor | 7,226 | 11.3 | ―3.8 | |
Green | James Gaffney | 596 | 0.9 | New | |
Natural Law | Peter Gorrod | 125 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 120 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 63,883 | 83.0 | +2.7 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Trippier | 28,056 | 46.6 | ―0.4 | |
Labour | Janet Anderson | 23,074 | 38.3 | +6.5 | |
Liberal | Peter John Hulse | 9,097 | 15.1 | ―6.1 | |
Majority | 4,982 | 8.3 | ―6.9 | ||
Turnout | 60,227 | 80.3 | +2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―3.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Trippier | 27,214 | 47.0 | ||
Labour | Christopher Robinson | 18,393 | 31.8 | ||
Liberal | Michael Taylor | 12,246 | 21.2 | ||
Majority | 8,821 | 15.2 | |||
Turnout | 57,853 | 77.8 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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