Westmorland and Lonsdale

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Westmorland and Lonsdale

County constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale shown within Cumbria, and Cumbria shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Tim Farron
Party:	Liberal Democrat
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Cumbria
EP constituency:	North West England

Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency 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.

Boundaries

The constituency is based around the South Lakeland district of Cumbria. Important towns in the constituency include Kendal, Windermere and Kirkby Lonsdale.

It does not include the entire historic Westmorland, particularly lacking the county town Appleby-in-Westmorland.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the Boundary Commission for England have created a modified Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency, to deal with population changes.

The electoral wards used to create the modified seat, to be fought at the UK general election in 2009 or 2010 are entirely within the district of South Lakeland

• Arnside and Beetham, Burneside, Burton and Holme, Cartmel, Coniston, Crooklands, Grange, Hawkshead, Holker, Kendal Castle, Kendal Far Cross, Kendal Fell, Kendal Glebelands, Kendal Heron Hill, Kendal Highgate, Kendal Kirkland, Kendal Mintsfeet, Kendal Nether, Kendal Oxenholme, Kendal Parks, Kendal Stonecross, Kendal Strickland, Kendal Underley, Kirkby Lonsdale, Lakes Ambleside, Lakes Grasmere, Levens, Lyth Valley, Milnthorpe, Natland, Sedbergh, Staveley-in-Cartmel, Staveley-in-Westmorland, Whinfell, Windermere Applethwaite, Windermere Bowness North, Windermere Bowness South and Windermere Town

This removes Ulverston and Broughton-in-Furness from the constituency.

Members of Parliament

• Constituency renamed (1983)
• 1983 — 1997: Michael Jopling, Conservative
• 1997 — 2005: Tim Collins, Conservative
• 2005 — present: Tim Farron, Liberal Democrat

Election results

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

Constituencies in North West England
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Conservative	Altrincham and Sale West | Congleton | Eddisbury | Fylde | Lancaster and Wyre | Macclesfield | Penrith and The Border | Ribble Valley | Tatton
Liberal Democrat	Cheadle | Hazel Grove | Manchester Withington | Rochdale | Southport | Westmorland and Lonsdale
North West European constituency: Labour (3) | Conservative (3) | Liberal Democrats (2) | UKIP (1)

 

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