West Lancashire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Lancashire |
Electorate | 73,028 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Ormskirk, Skelmersdale and Burscough |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Ashley Dalton (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ormskirk and Ince |
West Lancashire is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Following the resignation of Labour MP Rosie Cooper on 30 November 2022, the seat was won by the party's candidate Ashley Dalton in the by-election held on 9 February 2023.
The constituency is located in southern Lancashire, and borders Merseyside to the south and west and Greater Manchester to the east. Skelmersdale is the largest town, followed by Ormskirk and Burscough. The constituency shares its boundaries with the southern part of the borough of West Lancashire, while the northern part of the borough is in the South Ribble constituency.
Farming is a significant industry in the constituency, with much of the farmland classed as grade 1 or grade 2. [2] The entirety of the constituency is within the North West Green Belt. [3]
West Lancashire is home to a significant proportion of those working at managerial and professional levels and an above average retired age quotient. [4] Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.5% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [5]
1983–1997: Aughton Park, Aughton Town Green, Bickerstaffe, Birch Green, Burscough, Derby, Digmoor, Downholland, Halsall, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Knowsley, Lathom, Moorside, Newburgh, North Meols, Rufford, Scarisbrick, Scott, Skelmersdale North, Skelmersdale South, Tanhouse, Tarleton, Upholland North, and Upholland South.
1997–2010: Aughton Park, Aughton Town Green, Bickerstaffe, Birch Green, Burscough, Derby, Digmoor, Downholland, Halsall, Knowsley, Lathom, Moorside, Newburgh, Parbold, Scarisbrick, Scott, Skelmersdale North, Skelmersdale South, Tanhouse, Upholland North, Upholland South, and Wrightington.
2010–2023: Ashurst, Aughton and Downholland, Aughton Park, Bickerstaffe, Birch Green, Burscough East, Burscough West, Derby, Digmoor, Halsall, Knowsley, Moorside, Newburgh, Parbold, Scarisbrick, Scott, Skelmersdale North, Skelmersdale South, Tanhouse, Upholland, and Wrightington. The constituency boundaries remained unchanged.
2023–present: Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [6] [7] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the Borough of West Lancashire:
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency (based on the ward structure which existed on 1 December 2020) will be unchanged from the next general election (due by January 2025). [9]
The seat was established under the third periodic review of Westminster constituencies of 1983.
The new seat took in parts of Ormskirk and Ince, both abolished in the review. Ince had elected Labour MPs since 1906, but Ormskirk had a mixed and longer history as a more marginal seat. Both seats were represented by Labour MPs when they were abolished.
The seat's first member, Ken Hind, held the seat for two terms as a Conservative, winning the first election in the landslide Conservative result of 1983. In 1992 the seat was won by Colin Pickthall of the Labour Party, who was succeeded by Rosie Cooper in 2005. The 2010 result was more marginal, with a 9.0% majority, but was not within the 50 most narrowly won seats for Cooper's party. [10]
In September 2022 Rosie Cooper announced she had accepted a new role as Chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and would therefore resign as MP, triggering a by-election. [11]
Election | Member [12] | Party | |
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1983 | Ken Hind | Conservative | |
1992 | Colin Pickthall | Labour | |
2005 | Rosie Cooper | Labour | |
2023 by-election | Ashley Dalton | Labour | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Mike Prendergast [13] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ashley Dalton | 14,068 | 62.3 | +10.2 | |
Conservative | Mike Prendergast | 5,742 | 25.4 | -10.9 | |
Reform UK | Jonathan Kay | 997 | 4.4 | +0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jo Barton | 918 | 4.1 | -0.8 | |
Green | Peter Cranie | 646 | 2.8 | +0.5 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Howling Laud Hope | 210 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 8,326 | 36.9 | +21.0 | ||
Turnout | 22,639 | 31.4 | -40.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rosie Cooper | 27,458 | 52.1 | –6.8 | |
Conservative | Jack Gilmore | 19,122 | 36.3 | –1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Thomson | 2,560 | 4.9 | +2.9 | |
Brexit Party | Marc Stanton | 2,275 | 4.3 | New | |
Green | John Puddifer | 1,248 | 2.4 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 8,336 | 15.8 | –5.7 | ||
Turnout | 52,663 | 72.0 | –2.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –2.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rosie Cooper | 32,030 | 58.9 | +9.6 | |
Conservative | Samuel Currie | 20,341 | 37.4 | +5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jo Barton | 1,069 | 2.0 | –0.6 | |
Green | Nate Higgins | 680 | 1.3 | –1.9 | |
War Veterans Pro-Traditional Family | David Braid | 269 | 0.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 11,689 | 21.5 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 54,103 | 74.4 | +4.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rosie Cooper | 24,474 | 49.3 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Paul Greenall | 16,114 | 32.4 | –3.8 | |
UKIP | Jack Sen1 | 6,058 | 12.2 | +8.5 | |
Green | Ben Basson | 1,582 | 3.2 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Daniel Lewis | 1,298 | 2.6 | –11.0 | |
Independent | David Braid | 150 | 0.3 | –0.1 | |
Majority | 8,360 | 16.9 | +7.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,676 | 70.0 | +6.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.9 | |||
1: After nominations were closed, Sen was suspended from UKIP after sending an allegedly anti-semitic tweet to Liverpool Wavertree Labour candidate Luciana Berger. His name still appeared on ballot papers with the UKIP party name. [18]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rosie Cooper | 21,883 | 45.1 | –2.9 | |
Conservative | Adrian Owens | 17,540 | 36.2 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Gibson | 6,573 | 13.6 | –0.5 | |
UKIP | Damon Noone | 1,775 | 3.7 | +1.6 | |
Green | Peter Cranie | 485 | 1.0 | New | |
Clause 28 | David Braid | 217 | 0.4 | –0.3 | |
Majority | 4,343 | 8.9 | –5.2 | ||
Turnout | 48,473 | 63.8 | +6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –2.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rosie Cooper | 20,746 | 48.1 | –6.4 | |
Conservative | Alf Doran | 14,662 | 34.0 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Kemp | 6,059 | 14.0 | +2.4 | |
UKIP | Alan Freeman | 871 | 2.0 | New | |
English Democrat | Stephen Garrett | 525 | 1.2 | New | |
Clause 28 | David Braid | 292 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 6,084 | 14.1 | –8.4 | ||
Turnout | 43,155 | 57.7 | –1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Colin Pickthall | 23,404 | 54.5 | –5.8 | |
Conservative | Jeremy Myers | 13,761 | 32.0 | +2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Thornton | 4,966 | 11.6 | +4.4 | |
Independent | David Hill | 523 | 1.2 | +0.5 | |
Independent | David Braid | 317 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 9,643 | 22.5 | –8.7 | ||
Turnout | 42,971 | 58.8 | –15.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –4.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Colin Pickthall | 33,022 | 60.3 | +10.9 | |
Conservative | Chris J. Varley | 15,903 | 29.1 | –13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Arthur R. Wood | 3,938 | 7.2 | +0.2 | |
Referendum | Michael Carter | 1,025 | 1.9 | New | |
Natural Law | John D. Collins | 449 | 0.8 | +0.3 | |
Independent | David Hill | 392 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 17,119 | 31.2 | +24.4 | ||
Turnout | 54,729 | 74.6 | –8.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Colin Pickthall | 30,128 | 47.1 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | Ken Hind | 28,051 | 43.9 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter F. Reilly | 4,884 | 7.6 | –7.2 | |
Green | Philip J. Pawley | 546 | 0.9 | New | |
Natural Law | Bevin H. Morris | 336 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 2,077 | 3.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 63,945 | 82.6 | +2.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +2.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ken Hind | 26,500 | 43.7 | –2.6 | |
Labour | Colin Pickthall | 25,147 | 41.5 | +7.7 | |
SDP | Robert Jermyn | 8,972 | 14.8 | –5.2 | |
Majority | 1,353 | 2.2 | –10.3 | ||
Turnout | 60,619 | 79.7 | +5.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | –5.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ken Hind | 25,458 | 46.3 | ||
Labour | Josie Farrington | 18,600 | 33.8 | ||
SDP | Andrew D. Sackville | 10,983 | 20.0 | ||
Majority | 6,858 | 12.5 | |||
Turnout | 55,041 | 74.4 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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