Morley and Outwood | |
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County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire. |
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Location of West Yorkshire within England. |
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County | West Yorkshire |
Electorate | 75,163 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Ed Balls (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Morley and Rothwell, Normanton |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Morley and Outwood is a county 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.
This is the successor seat to Morley and Rothwell, and was first contested in 2010. Rothwell is in a newly formed constituency of Elmet and Rothwell, and the suburb of Middleton has been transferred to Leeds Central. Outwood was previously in the abolished seat of Normanton, the remainder of which is now part of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford and part of Wakefield.
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Following their review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the Boundary Commission for England created this new cross-border constituency as a consequence of the county losing one parliamentary seat following population decline.
It is made up of three Leeds City Council wards:
and two Wakefield City Council wards:
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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2010 | Ed Balls | Labour Co-op[3] |
Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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General Election 2010 Electorate: 75,163 Turnout: 48,856 (65.8%) +7.4 |
Labour Co-op hold Majority: 1,101 (2.3%) -18.7 Swing: -9.3% from Labour Co-op to Con |
Ed Balls | Labour Co-op | 18,365 | 37.6 | -8.4 | ||
Antony Calvert | Conservative | 17,264 | 35.3 | +10.3 | ||||
James Monaghan | Liberal Democrat | 8,286 | 16.8 | +6.7 | ||||
Chris Beverley | BNP | 3,535 | 7.2 | +1.9 | ||||
David Daniel | UKIP | 1,505 | 3.1 | N/A |