Blackpool South (UK Parliament Constituency)
Coordinates: 53°46′01″N 2°54′50″W / 53.767°N 2.914°W / 53.767; -2.914
| Blackpool South | |
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| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Blackpool South in Lancashire. |
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Location of Lancashire within England. |
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| County | Lancashire |
| Electorate | 64,081 (December 2010) |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1945 (1945) |
| Member of Parliament | Gordon Marsden (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Blackpool |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Blackpool South is a borough constituency in Lancashire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and was created in 1945.
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Famous quotes containing the words south and/or parliament:
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the harbor, with their balls piled pyramid-wise between them,—there are said to be in all about one hundred and eighty guns mounted at Quebec,—all which were faithfully kept dusted by officials, in accordance with the motto, “In time of peace prepare for war”; but I saw no preparations for peace: she was plainly an uninvited guest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)