West Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)
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West Lancashire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of West Lancashire in Lancashire.
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Location of Lancashire within England.
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County | Lancashire |
Electorate | 73,028 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Rosie Cooper (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Ormskirk and Ince |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | North West England |
West Lancashire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Rosie Cooper, a member of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency covers the borough of the same name except for the northern parishes,[n 3] which are in the South Ribble constituency. The main towns in the constituency are the historic market town of Ormskirk and the new town of Skelmersdale. The third largest settlement is Burscough which is also surrounded by rural townships and villages and is close to the resort of Southport, just outside the modern administrative county.
Since 1997 the seat has electoral wards:
- Ashurst, Aughton and Downholland, Aughton Park, Bickerstaffe, Birch Green, Burscough East and West wards, Derby, Digmoor, Halsall, Knowsley, Moorside, Newburgh, Parbold, Scarisbrick, Scott, Skelmersdale North, Skelmersdale South, Tanhouse, Upholland, and Wrightington in the West Lancashire District
History
The seat was established under the third periodic review of Westminster constituencies of 1983 following the first such review, after the Representation of the People Act 1918, in 1945. The new seat took in parts of the former ones of Ormskirk[n 4] and Ince.
- Political history
Both forerunner seats were last represented by Labour MPs, with Ince having been served by only four such members since 1906, however with Ormskirk having a mixed and longer history as a more marginal seat.
The first member, Ken Hind held the seat for two terms and was 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 then gained a majority of 17,119 votes in 1997 and was succeeded by Rosie Cooper in 2005. The 2010 result was more marginal, a 9.0% majority, but not within the 50 most narrowly won seats for Cooper's party.[2]
Constituency profile
As outlined in geography in the boundaries section above, the seat is primarily green-buffered settlements. West Lancashire is home to a significant proportion of those working at managerial and professional levels and an above average retired age quotient,[3] as such the local economy is allied to the international successes of nearby industrial and world trading sectors, primarily Liverpool and its trading estates in Merseyside as well as the economy of Greater Manchester. The new town of Skelmersdale is strongly Labour, whereas Ormskirk and the surrounding rural and agricultural towns and villages are more inclined to vote Conservative.[4] Since 2012, both jurisdictions have seen UKIP making substantial electoral gains. Although UKIP only had paper candidates in Aughton and Ormskirk in the 2010 general election, they finished second behind Labour in two Skelmersdale council elections, as well as second behind only the Conservatives in Aughton.[5]
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.[6]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[7] | Party | |
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1983 | Ken Hind | Conservative | |
1992 | Colin Pickthall | Labour | |
2005 | Rosie Cooper | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rosie Cooper | 24,474 | 49.3 | +4.1 | |
Conservative | Paul Greenall | 16,114 | 32.4 | −3.7 | |
UKIP | Jack Sen1 | 6,058 | 12.2 | +8.5 | |
Green | Ben Basson | 1,582 | 3.2 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Daniel Lewis | 1,298 | 2.6 | −10.9 | |
Independent | David Braid | 150 | 0.3 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 8,360 | 16.8 | |||
Turnout | 49,676 | 70.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
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.[10]
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 Democrat | John Gibson | 6,573 | 13.6 | −0.5 | |
UKIP | Damon Noone | 1,775 | 3.7 | +1.6 | |
Green | Peter Cranie | 485 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Clause 28 | David Braid | 217 | 0.4 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 4,343 | 9.0 | |||
Turnout | 48,473 | 63.8 | +6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.6 |
Elections in the 2000s
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 Democrat | Richard Kemp | 6,059 | 14.0 | +2.4 | |
UKIP | Alan Freeman | 871 | 2.0 | N/A | |
English Democrats | Stephen Garrett | 525 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Clause 28 | David Braid | 292 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 6,084 | 14.1 | |||
Turnout | 43,155 | 57.7 | −1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Colin Pickthall | 23,404 | 54.5 | −5.8 | |
Conservative | Jeremy Myers | 13,761 | 32.0 | +2.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Lestock Thornton | 4,966 | 11.6 | +4.4 | |
Independent | David Hill | 523 | 1.2 | +0.5 | |
Independent | David Braid | 317 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,643 | 22.4 | |||
Turnout | 42,971 | 58.8 | −15.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.4 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Colin Pickthall | 33,022 | 60.3 | +13.2 | |
Conservative | Chris J. Varley | 15,903 | 29.1 | −14.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Arthur R. Wood | 3,938 | 7.2 | −0.4 | |
Referendum | Michael Carter | 1,025 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Natural Law | John D. Collins | 449 | 0.8 | +0.3 | |
Independent | David Hill | 392 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,119 | 31.1 | |||
Turnout | 54,729 | 74.6 | −8.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Colin Pickthall | 30,128 | 47.1 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | Ken Hind | 28,051 | 43.9 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Peter F. Reilly | 4,884 | 7.6 | −7.2 | |
Green | Philip J. Pawley | 546 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Bevin H. Morris | 336 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,077 | 3.2 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 63,945 | 82.6 | +2.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +2.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ken Hind | 26,500 | 43.7 | −2.5 | |
Labour | Colin Pickthall | 25,147 | 41.5 | +7.7 | |
Social Democratic | 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 | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ken Hind | 25,458 | 46.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Josie Farrington | 18,600 | 33.8 | N/A | |
Social Democratic | Andrew D. Sackville | 10,983 | 20.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,858 | 12.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 55,041 | 74.4 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Tarleton, Rufford, Hesketh Bank and North Meols
- ↑ Its MPs had included twice Prime Minister Harold Wilson (Lab) (1945–1950) and Robert Kilroy-Silk (1974–1983) (after 1983 Kilroy-Silk won the western successor to the Ormskirk seat, Knowsley North).
Somewhat marginal, Ormkirk was served by four Conservatives in the intervening years.
- References
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- ↑ General Election Results from the Electoral Commission
- ↑ 2011 Census
- ↑ http://www.ukipwestlancashire.com
- ↑ UKIP West Lancs Website
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ UKIP candidate Jack Sen suspended over Jewish slur tweet - BBC News, 1 May 2015
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Sources
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Ormskirk
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- Politics of West Lancashire