Lancaster and Fleetwood | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
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 |
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.
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]
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.
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:
Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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2010 | Eric Ollerenshaw | Conservative | |
2015 | Cat Smith | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | |||
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