Morecambe and Lunesdale (UK Parliament Constituency) - Boundaries

Boundaries

The seat is similar to the Morecambe and Lonsdale constituency which existed until 1983. For the General Election of that year, sections of the constituency were united with the former county of Westmorland in the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency and the constituency name was changed to its current form.

This seat brings together the northern rural reaches of Lancashire, including Carnforth on the Cumbria border, and the seaside resort of Morecambe and the nuclear power station/ferry port village of Heysham.

In boundary changes in the 2000s, only minor adjustments were made to this seat. Once a safe Tory seat, Morecambe has followed its neighbour and fellow seaside town, Blackpool, by voting Labour since 1997; the results in the General Elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005 had remarkably similar majorities with virtually no swing to the Conservatives. However the Conservatives gained the seat at the 2010 General Election with an above average swing.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire in the run-up to the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England maintained the current seat of Morecambe and Lunesdale, with only minor boundary alterations. The electoral wards used to create the seat are entirely within the boundaries of the City of Lancaster

• Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth, Halton-with-Aughton, Harbour, Heysham Central, Heysham North, Heysham South, Kellet, Overton, Poulton, Silverdale, Skerton East, Skerton West, Slyne-with-Hest, Torrisholme, Upper Lune Valley, Warton and Westgate.