Fylde (UK Parliament constituency)

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Fylde County constituency

Fylde shown within Lancashire, and Lancashire shown within England
Created:	1918, 1983
MP:	Michael Jack
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Lancashire
EP constituency:	North West England

Fylde 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Created for the 1983 General Election combining the constituencies of Fylde North and Fylde South. The current Fylde constituency includes the whole district council area of Fylde, plus parts of Wyre and Preston. The Wyre areas include village communities to the south and north of the M55 motorway, including St Michaels and Inskip. From Preston is included the communities of Lea, Cottam and Woodplumpton. Fylde itself has three main population centres, namely Kirkham, Lytham St Annes and Freckleton. Lytham and St Annes are comfortable seaside resorts, favoured by families and retired couples.

Fylde is a Conservative stronghold, and will remain so when the seat is fought with boundary changes following the recent review by the Boundary Commission for England. The seat will be drastically reduced, losing most of its elements from Wyre and Preston to the new seat of Wyre and Preston North. The Fylde constituency to be fought in the 2009 or 2010 general election will include the entire Fylde district and the Lea electoral ward from the city of Preston. This continues the link of Fylde with the semi-rural Lea and Cottam areas of western Preston.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1918	Wilfrid William Ashley	Conservative
1922	Lord Stanley	Conservative
1938	Claude Lancaster	Conservative
1950	Constituency split into Fylde North and Fylde South
1983	Sir Edward Gardner	Conservative
1987	Michael Jack	Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Fylde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Jack	24,287	53.4	+1.1
	Labour	William Parbury	11,828	26.0	-4.8
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Winlow	7,748	17.0	+2.2
	Liberal	Tim Akeroyd	1,647	3.6	+3.6
Majority			12,459	27.4
Turnout			45,510	60.1	-0.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.9

General Election 2001: Fylde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Jack	23,383	52.3	+3.4
	Labour	John Stockton	13,773	30.8	-0.9
	Liberal Democrats	John Begg	6,599	14.8	+0.1
	UK Independence	Lesley Brown	982	2.2	N/A
Majority			9,610	21.5
Turnout			44,737	60.9	-12.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Fylde
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Jack	25,443	48.87	-11.3
	Labour	John Garrett	16,480	31.65	+13.07
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Greene	7,609	14.61	-6.07
	Referendum Party	David Britton	2,372	4.56	N/A
	Natural Law	Terry Kerwin	163	0.31	N/A
Majority			8,963	17.21
Turnout			52,069	72.94
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

Constituencies in North West England
Labour	Ashton-under-Lyne \| Barrow and Furness \| Birkenhead \| Blackburn \| Blackpool North and Fleetwood \| Blackpool South \| Bolton North East \| Bolton South East \| Bolton West \| Bootle \| Burnley \| Bury North \| Bury South \| Carlisle \| Chorley \| City of Chester \| Copeland \| Crewe and Nantwich \| Crosby \| Denton and Reddish \| Eccles \| Ellesmere Port and Neston \| Halton \| Heywood and Middleton \| Hyndburn \| Knowsley North and Sefton East \| Knowsley South \| Leigh \| Liverpool Garston \| Liverpool Riverside \| Liverpool Walton \| Liverpool Wavertree \| Liverpool West Derby \| Makerfield \| Manchester Blackley \| Manchester Central \| Manchester Gorton \| Morecambe and Lunesdale \| Oldham East and Saddleworth \| Oldham West and Royton \| Pendle \| Preston \| Rossendale and Darwen \| Salford \| South Ribble \| St Helens North \| St Helens South \| Stalybridge and Hyde \| Stockport \| Stretford and Urmston \| Wallasey \| Warrington North \| Warrington South \| Weaver Vale \| West Lancashire \| Wigan \| Wirral South \| Wirral West \| Workington \| Worsley \| Wythenshawe and Sale East
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)