Morley and Outwood is a

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represented in the

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of the

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since 2015 by

Andrea Jenkyns Andrea Marie Jenkyns (born 16 June 1974) is a British politician serving as Deputy Chairwoman of the European Research Group (ERG) since 2019. She was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood in West York ...

of the

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History

Forerunners and boundaries

The Morley and Outwood constituency was first contested in 2010. It consists of the town of

Morley Morley may refer to: Places England * Morley, Norfolk, a civil parish * Morley, Derbyshire, a civil parish * Morley, Cheshire, a village * Morley, County Durham, a village * Morley, West Yorkshire, a suburban town of Leeds and civil parish * M ...

, in the

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metropolitan district, and around Outwood in the

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district. It is largely a successor to the previous Morley and Rothwell seat, which existed from 1997 until 2010; Rothwell was transferred to a new

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seat, while Outwood was previously part of the abolished Normanton constituency. At the same time, the Leeds suburb of Middleton was transferred to Leeds Central. The remainder of the former Normanton constituency was divided between the Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford constituency and the

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constituency.

Political history

At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by

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of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's

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from 2011 to 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the 2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Andrea Jenkyns which was described by

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of ''

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'' as a " Portillo moment". The 2015 general election result gave the Conservatives that year their sixth-most marginal majority of their 331 seats won, by percentage of majority. Third parties have not polled strongly in the seat to date — the combined votes of the two largest UK parties' candidates exceeded 72.9% of the total in 2010 and 2015, 97.4% in 2017, and 91.7% in 2019.

Boundaries

Parliament approved the recommendation of the Boundary Commission's

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to create this new ("cross-border") constituency as a consequence of

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losing one parliamentary seat following more rapid population increase in other regions. The constituency comprises the following electoral wards: * From the City of Leeds: Ardsley and Robin Hood; Morley North; Morley South. * From the City of Wakefield: Stanley and Outwood East; Wrenthorpe and Outwood West.2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
/ref> In the September 2016 Boundary Commission constituency proposals, this seat was set to disappear and its territory split between two new constituencies: Batley and Morley; and Normanton, Castleford and Outwood.

Members of Parliament

Official portrait of Mrs Andrea Jenkyns MP crop 3

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morley And Outwood (Uk Parliament Constituency) Politics of Leeds Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010