| Blackpool North and Cleveleys | |
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| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Blackpool North and Cleveleys in Lancashire for the 2010 general election. |
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Location of Lancashire within England. |
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| County | Lancashire |
| Electorate | 66,187 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Paul Maynard (Conservative) |
| Created from | Blackpool North and Fleetwood |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Blackpool North and Cleveleys is a borough 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.
The seat was created by the Boundary Commission for England following its review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire.
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Following the review of parliamentary boundaries, the previous seat of Blackpool North and Fleetwood was abolished. The new seat connects Blackpool's northern half with Cleveleys in Wyre.
The electoral wards used in the new seat are:
This new creation splits the twin Wyre communities of Thornton-Cleveleys between two constituencies. Cleveleys is the closer of the two to the Blackpool border, and encroaches onto near neighbour Poulton-le-Fylde, which moves to Wyre and Preston North.
As part of the nation-wide Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England has proposed reverting the creation of Blackpool North and Cleveleys. The replacement would be a modified form of the predecessor 'Blackpool North and Fleetwood' incorporating Thornton-Cleveleys and six electoral wards from Blackpool[2].
The current MP is Conservative Paul Maynard
| Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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| 2010 | Paul Maynard | Conservative | |
| General Election 2010: Blackpool North and Cleveleys[4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Paul Maynard | 16,964 | 41.8 | +4.5 | |
| Labour | Penny Martin | 14,814 | 36.5 | -9.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Bill Greene | 5,400 | 13.3 | -0.4 | |
| UKIP | Roy Hopwood | 1,659 | 4.1 | +0.7 | |
| BNP | James Clayton | 1,556 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Tony Davies | 198 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 2,150 | 5.3 | |||
| Turnout | 40,591 | 61.6 | +4.0 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +6.9 | |||