Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°44′56″N 1°36′07″W / 53.749°N 1.602°W

Morley and Outwood
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire.
Location of West Yorkshire within England.
County	West Yorkshire
Electorate	75,163 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Morley and Rothwell, Normanton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Morley and Outwood is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Andrea Jenkyns of the Conservative Party.^{[n 2]}

History

The Morley and Outwood constituency was first contested in 2010. It consists of the town of Morley, in the City of Leeds metropolitan district, and around Outwood in the City of Wakefield 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 Elmet and Rothwell 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 Wakefield constituency.

At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by Ed Balls of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 until 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the 2015 general election to Conservative Andrea Jenkyns which was described by Larry Elliott of The Guardian as the Portillo moment of the election.^[2]

Boundaries

Parliament approved the recommendation of the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies to create this new ("cross-border") constituency as a consequence of West Yorkshire losing one parliamentary seat following more rapid population increase in other regions.^[3]

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.^[4]

In the September 2016 Boundary Commission constituency proposals, this seat is set to disappear and its territory split between two new constituencies; Batley and Morley, & Normanton, Castleford and Outwood.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[5]	Party
	2010	Ed Balls	Labour Co-op[6]
	2015	Andrea Jenkyns	Conservative

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

General Election 2015: Morley and Outwood^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Andrea Jenkyns	18,776	38.9	+3.6
	Labour Co-op	Ed Balls	18,354	38.0	+0.4
	UKIP	David Dews	7,951	16.5	+13.4
	Liberal Democrat	Rebecca Taylor	1,426	3.0	−13.8
	Green	Martin Hemingway	1,264	2.6	N/A
	Yorkshire First	Arnie Craven	479	1.0	N/A
Majority			422	0.9	N/A
Turnout			48,250	63.3	-2.5
	Conservative gain from Labour Co-op		Swing	+1.6

General Election 2010: Morley and Outwood^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Ed Balls	18,365	37.6	N/A
	Conservative	Antony Calvert	17,264	35.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	James Monaghan	8,186	16.8	N/A
	BNP	Chris Beverley	3,535	7.2	N/A
	UKIP	David Daniel	1,505	3.1	N/A
Majority			1,101	2.3	N/A
Turnout			48,855	65.8	N/A
	Labour Co-op win (new seat)

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
• Leeds South East
• Morley and Leeds South
• Morley and Rothwell
• Elmet and Rothwell

Notes and references

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

1. "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
2. Elliott, Larry (8 May 2015). "Defeat of Ed Balls gives Tories their 'Portillo moment'". The Guardian. London.
3. 2011 census interactive maps
4. 2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
5. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
6. "Ed Balls (MP for Morley & Outwood)". The co-operative party. Retrieved 6 July 2010. Note that other sources and the "Statement of persons nominated" refer to Balls as "Labour".
7. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
8. "Morley & Outwood". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
9. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.