Lancaster and Wyre (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Lancaster and Wyre County constituency |
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| Lancaster and Wyre shown within Lancashire, and Lancashire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1997 |
| MP: | Ben Wallace |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Lancashire |
| EP constituency: | North West England |
Lancaster and Wyre is a parliamentary 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.
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[edit] Boundaries
This seat was created in for the 1997 general election and is set to be abolished at the next general election. Currently, Lancaster & Wyre contains the City of Lancaster and most of the Wyre borough.
The Boundary Commission for England proposals for parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire were completed in 2006. They proposed that this seat is split into two. Lancaster will be attached to another part of Wyre borough, over the River Wyre to the fishing port of Fleetwood. The new seat of Lancaster and Fleetwood would then be the first time the two places have been linked for parliamentary reasons for many years.
If the proposals are implemented the other seat would be the new Wyre and Preston North. This seat has never been created before, and the bringing together of Garstang, Thornton, Poulton-le-Fylde and the Fulwood and northern rural areas of Preston is unprecedented.
Lancaster and Wyre was the only seat gained by the Conservatives in the North West in the 2005 General Election.
[edit] Members of parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1997 | Hilton Dawson | Labour | |
| 2005 | Ben Wallace | Conservative | |
The seat of Lancaster and Wyre was created in time for the 1997 election. There have only been two Members of Parliament for this seat. Ben Wallace, current MP, has been selected to represent the Conservatives at the next election in the successor seat of Wyre and Preston North.
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Lancaster and Wyre | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Ben Wallace | 22,266 | 42.8 | +0.6 | |
| Labour | Anne Sacks | 18,095 | 34.8 | -8.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stuart Langhorn | 8,453 | 16.2 | +5.9 | |
| Green | Jon Barry | 2,278 | 4.4 | +1.4 | |
| UK Independence | John Mander | 969 | 1.9 | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 4,171 | 8.0 | |||
| Turnout | 52,061 | 64.5 | |||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
| General Election 2001: Lancaster and Wyre | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Hilton Dawson | 22,556 | 43.1 | +0.3 | |
| Conservative | Steve Barclay | 22,075 | 42.2 | +1.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Liz Scott | 5,383 | 10.3 | -1.3 | |
| Green | John Whitelegg | 1,595 | 3.0 | +1.7 | |
| UK Independence | John Whittaker | 741 | 1.4 | +0.2 | |
| Majority | 481 | 0.9 | |||
| Turnout | 52,350 | 65.9 | -8.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Lancaster and Wyre | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Hilton Dawson | 25,173 | 42.8 | +9.7 | |
| Conservative | K Mans | 23,878 | 40.6 | -11.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | J Humberstone | 6,802 | 11.5 | -2.4 | |
| Referendum Party | J Ivell | 1,516 | 2.6 | ||
| Green | J Barry | 795 | 1.3 | ||
| UK Independence | John Whittaker | 698 | 1.2 | ||
| Majority | 1,295 | 2.2 | |||
| Turnout | 74.8 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
