Wyre and Preston North (UK Parliament constituency)
Wyre and Preston North is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Created in the most recent fifth periodic review of constituencies by the Boundary Commission for England, it elects one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post voting system
It was formed of parts of the Ribble Valley, Fylde and Lancaster and Wyre constituencies
Contents
- 1 Boundaries
- 2 Members of Parliament
- 3 Elections
- 31 Elections in the 2010s
- 4 Alfie McKenzie
- 5 See also
- 6 Notes and references
Boundariesedit
It was created as the sixteenth seat of the county of Lancashire by the Boundary Commission for England prior to the 2010 general election It contains the Fulwood and rural areas of Preston and many small towns and villages of Wyre
The seat of Wyre and Preston North contains the Wyre towns of Thornton, Poulton-Le-Fylde, Garstang, St Michael's On Wyre and Catterall From Preston are added the suburban Fulwood area and the rural parishes such as Woodplumpton, Barton, Broughton, Goosnargh and Grimsargh The electoral wards used in the creation are:
- From Preston - Cadley, College, Garrison, Greyfriars, Preston Rural East, Preston Rural North, Sharoe Green
- From Wyre - Breck, Brock, Cabus, Calder, Carleton, Catterall, Garstang, Great Eccleston, Hambleton and Stalmine-with-Staynall, Hardhorn, High Cross, Norcross, Staina, Tithebarn
Members of Parliamentedit
Election | Member2 | Party | |
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2010 | Ben Wallace | Conservative |
Electionsedit
Elections in the 2010sedit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Ben Wallace | 30,684 | 583 | +51 | |
Labour | Michelle Heaton-Bentley | 18,438 | 350 | +102 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Potter | 2,551 | 48 | -06 | |
Green | Ruth Norbury | 973 | 18 | -16 | |
Majority | 12,246 | 233 | -51 | ||
Turnout | 52,646 | 728 | +22 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −26 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Ben Wallace | 26,528 | 532 | +08 | |
Labour | Ben Whittingham | 12,377 | 248 | +35 | |
UKIP | Kate Walsh | 6,577 | 132 | +84 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Potter | 2,712 | 54 | -161 | |
Green | Anne Power | 1,699 | 34 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,151 | 284 | -25 | ||
Turnout | 49,893 | 706 | -15 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ben Wallace | 26,877 | 524 | +104 | |
Liberal Democrat | Danny Gallagher | 11,033 | 215 | +54 | |
Labour | Cat Smith | 10,932 | 213 | -59 | |
UKIP | Nigel Cecil | 2,466 | 48 | +27 | |
Majority | 15,844 | 309 | |||
Turnout | 51,308 | 721 | +88 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Alfie McKenzieedit
The constituency hit the headlines after the May 2010 general election when it emerged that 14-year-old Alfie McKenzie had cast a vote there by dressing "as much like a Tory as he could manage: a trench coat, reading glasses, sharp shoes" He voted Liberal Democrat9
See alsoedit
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire
Notes and referencesedit
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England" 2011 Electorate Figures Boundary Commission for England 4 March 2011 Archived from the original on November 6, 2010 Retrieved 13 March 2011
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" part 5
- ^ UK Parliamentary elections June 2017 Wyre Borough Council
- ^ "Wyre & Preston North parliamentary constituency" BBC News
- ^ "Election Data 2015" Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 17 October 2015 Retrieved 17 October 2015
- ^ "Wyre & Preston North" BBC News Online Retrieved 8 May 2015
- ^ "Election Data 2010" Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 17 October 2015 Retrieved 17 October 2015
- ^ "Wyre & Preston North" BBC News Online Retrieved 2010-05-07
- ^ "Alfie McKenzie: It might have been illegal, but I voted with my conscience" The Guardian London 2010-05-09
Coordinates: 53°54′11″N 2°46′19″W / 53903°N 2772°W / 53903; -2772
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